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wouldn t be a big deal a few decades ago anyone can cut plywood and try to make a thing that floats i saw a million articles about it in old popular mechanics and other sources it s only recent that we ve been trained everything is impossibly hard i resent that wood and water aren t mysterious heck neandertals made boats do not accept diminishment of the human spirit a person who frets over some dude knocking together a rowboat in his garage is exactly the kind that ll lose their shit over what they saw on the news that day lose too much spirit and you re just a crop on the vote farm i posted after it was a success in 2019 i thought it was good to post a happy story society was in full fledged paranoia at the time i believed it was a temporary condition and the world would snap out of it i was naïve society never did pull its head out of its ass it crawled in deeper it doesn t have to be that way i think mass hysteria got out of hand when weaponized social media was matched with smart phones i don t know for sure all i know is that i want nothing to do with it it s good to build anything it s bad to mutter that nothing can be done when i posted about my completed boat i expected to get pummeled it didn t happen it was already sailing so nobody bitched that it will sink or doesn t go fast they were super positive people commenting on the blog are of course awesome but i also got a lot of positivity in real life nobody who s seen my little brick crossing a lake has complained about it or told me i suck everyone likes it people step off tricked out bassboats and compliment a craft that costs less than their fishing gear campers amble to the waterfront from 80 000 rvs just to greet the dumb little boat as it beaches they re not greeting me they re greeting the cute little boat i once sailed a 7 mile lake to a restaurant and apparently was entertainment for the evening how cool is that i never expected a boat to charm people but it does it s a basket of puppies the design is a michael storer variant of the pdr called oz racer rv i discussed the pdr design in 2019 here s an old photo from his website here s a photo from my boat s 2019 blog unveiling you can find it in walkabouts spring 2019 isn t that the goofiest little craft you ve ever seen here the sail is reefed for rowing i ve beached it at an unnamed island i felt like tom sawyer here s the last photo of the boat s travels it was taken in fall 2022 why all this retrospective because life got ahead of me but the boat patiently waited it hasn t moved since 2022 sitting outside uncovered for several winters i feared it was rotten i built one so i can build another happily it looks sound whew in a few weeks i ll check in more detail and hopefully all it ll need is sanding and a coat of paint my first challenge is acquiring resurrecting a boat trailer i used to haul it with a utility trailer the trailer has been broke for a few years lucky me i ve got a junk pile that s really a resource pile today i pulled a long abandoned never much used boat trailer out of the weeds it had been moldering for a decade it s cheap and old it was built in 1982 i ve had it for ten years but never used it it s shot but repairable it s not configured for the hull shape of my boat but it s the right size i think i can figure something out so that s the plan i m aiming to rebuild the trailer repaint the boat and go sailing camping again i m low on cash but i might get by for the cost of a couple tires and a can of marine paint wish me luck posted in uncategorized 15 comments truck camping gear round up posted on june 5 2026 by adaptivecurmudgeon think of this as a long term review i ve been using the bulk of this stuff 6 years i ve tested it in the real world all of it is tough and useful none of my choices are particularly expensive car camping means that heavy gear is just fine it s a lot cheaper and often more comfortable than ultralight stuff note i call it car camping marketers generated the word overlanding it s not like the gear knows what vehicle you drive it s the same whether you re using a minivan or a lifted jeep the point is don t get ultralight stuff if you don t need it exception is the gazelle t4 which is fine in my truck but may be too big for a car things that are free free wood consider bringing your own wood to a campground but only if it s legal and appropriate it must be nail free kiln dried and chemical free don t be hauling around regular firewood it moves pathogens around i know it sounds like a conspiracy theory but it s true when a tree is milled and kiln dried it kills pathogens campers hauling regular firewood is part of how the invasive emerald ash borer rocketed around the eastern us that means you must camp dispersed where you can harvest local firewood buy the 7 bundles at the park or bring your own kiln dried debarked scrap wood i break down pallets it s even easier to scrounge cut ends of basic pine studs use common sense don t burn pressure treated painted filled with nails plywood duh i carry it in a clean garbage can in my truck bed i ve been using the same plastic can for years free camp stove case i store my camp stove in a folgers container this only works for the make and model i ve got it s a perfect fit i explained this in a post in 2022 things i recommend tent i love my gazelle tent t4 i bought it in 2019 and have used it plenty to fully twist it it s a brick shithouse it sets up in a flash especially for one geezer it s very roomy you can stand up it in it barely fits the behemoth teton cot i love so much the only limitation is that it packs big measure your vehicle before you buy here s mine on its maiden voyage in nebraska sleep system i use a rocking combination that s super comfortable teton sports outfitter xxl camp cot teton sports outfitter xxl camp pad and teton sports celsius xl sleeping bag the combination is simply excellent note this stuff is bulky i m a solo camper who drives a truck so i don t care if you re taking 4 people in a subaru you ll have to scale back and suffer the lack of awesomeness screen tent i used to think a screen tent was only for wimps then in one extreme situation mosquitoes kicked my ass until i learned the error of my ways i bought a gazelle g5 screen tent just like it s big brother t4 it s tough and quick to setup i have side panels and they re worth the additional expense i occasionally sleep in the screen tent and don t bother with my regular tent camp stove for people who are archaic i love my coleman 553 warning the link may be overpriced comparison shop a camp stove of this type is old school however it works just as well as ever mine runs super clean on coleman fuel if you don t mind a smidge of soot it s fine on unleaded it doesn t saddle you with half used disposable propane or butane bottles it s bulletproof you can get fuel anywhere i once siphoned out of my motorcycle tank it s more rugged than most backpacking gear and it s smaller than 2 burner basecamp behemoths i ll admit it s a bit tinkery compared to propane or jetboil it is not as fast as a jetboil but it s close and you don t need a specific pot speaking of archaic percolators are sweeet a percolator is the slowest way to make the tastiest coffee if you re in a hurry get a jetboil with a french press or any one of a thousand alternatives but that brings me to a big question why if you re forced to go lightweight i get it but we ve already specified i m talking about car camping there s no point in anything but the best delicious coffee if your truck carried the weight are you in that much of a hurry that you ll drink lame coffee why if you drink instant just get a k cup at the office where you re still mentally residing i enjoy the contemplative rest while it does its thing and the coffee is amazing my camp coffee is legitimately better than the finest restaurant coffee any heat will do i ve used campfires wood in my folding firebox my coleman stove with both coleman gas and unleaded my antique woodstove and my kitchen stove the model i own has been replaced by a slightly different stanley percolator i m sure they re about the same i shouldn t have to say this but a percolator is also a great teakettle it s perfect to boil water for freeze dried meals or hot coca i ve made soup in mine too things you won t need at a campground luggable loo a luggable loo is a luxury worth having i first mentioned it in 2022 it s not necessary at a campground where there s a privy within walking distance but for dispersed camping it shines i know we ve all done it but crapping in a cathole pretty much sucks i line mine with double bag toilet waste bags they seal like a vault this is a moment when skimping is unwise you can roll the dice with pool noodles a 5 gallon bucket and a trash bag you can also have new and exciting experiences when the lid pops off or the bag breaks while bouncing around your truck bed outer bag sealed so tight it s like you re storing it for future generations a folding firebox i use the hell out of my redcamp wood burning folding camp stove i like everything about it i mentioned it most recently in 2024 it folds small and has a carrying bag a firebox makes cooking on a wood fire easier obviously it has a grill so you can just cook directly on it less obviously it makes more efficient use of wood facilitates a coal bed and gives precise control of the heat cooking on a regular campfire is a pain in the ass cooking on wood corralled in a box is way better if i m at a campground i tend to cook with my coleman campstove on the picnic table i reserve the fire ring for hanging out and relaxing when i m dispersed camping lacking a picnic table i prefer cooking on the firebox because it s a little off the ground sometimes i ll perch the firebox on a campsite s metal fire ring and cook from that so i can grill without having a dirty pan to clean like all the things i ve mentioned it s cheap and lasts for years they re about 30 things i don t recommend small tent that seemed nifty a vista 1 tent will sit right on your teton xxl cot it s ok like that but not great on the ground it s an insufferable coffin it was a cool idea that didn t work for me camp lighting i love but don t recommend the coleman powerhouse it s old technology the link is here but it s not cheap and you might find a better price if you shop around it runs clean on coleman fuel and ok on unleaded i wouldn t trade it for the world but that s my preference you tend to turn it on and leave it burning several hours while you putter around camp it s definitely can t go in your tent the average person would surely prefer a battery based gizmo electricity is lame and unromantic but it s safer and easier that said you d have to pry mine from my cold dead hands to take it posted in uncategorized 7 comments camping posted on june 4 2026 by adaptivecurmudgeon i had a fine overnight camp but objectively it wasn t much if you re looking for a ripping story about how i base jumped into a bolivian canyon feel free to skip this post life ebbs and flows i deliberately analyze the number and nature of my camping trips they mark levels of the self i couldn t otherwise fully perceive this is a metric for me and by me your personal yard stick s will be your own i see more variation than i once expected i theorize it s true of most but usually unnoticed how many of us carefully monitor our own situation i ve had decades when i had lots of hunting fun weeks long canoe treks and various other adventures conversely i ve had years when i barely manage a night in a tent two sides of the same coin strive but within reason if the odds aren t in your favor dial back to what can be done if i can t haul a backpack over a mountain i camp in a tent beside my truck even this has gradations start with a car at a reserved site in a summery public campground and maybe it ll scale up to a dispersed secluded spot on some crazy 4 4 track during a blizzard when my chips are really down i ll camp on my lawn it s better than nothing a few years ago i was on top of the world my little dirtbike and i rode solo across wyoming wybdr it was a heck of a good time i didn t have enough time to do the whole trail so i didn t even so i enjoyed myself nothing is permanent except change not long after that glorious ride i found myself ill and frantically bitching at an unconcerned bovine like medical bureaucracy something was wrong i waved a baseball hat i d bought in the bighorn mountains like a talisman i was tenting with a dirtbike in the mountains now i m struggling to cross a parking lot something is amiss it meant nothing to them it never does because of or despite medical ministrations i m recovering i ll be fine the biggest treatment was self directed suddenly and jarringly i retired that was a big fat hairy deal but it worked if you ve gotta dive out the window of a speeding car to stay healthy then do it roll when you hit the ground and be happy you had a diem to carpe some people die at their desk your careful plans won t mean shit if you re tits up i suck at being retired but i m learning i sense the options all my life i ve seen geezers camping in the middle of the week i ve always schlepped my ass back to work by sunday evening i want to be like the cool geezers comfortably retired beer in hand chilling out mid week also i was held back by fear i now use a cpap i don t resent darth vader s mask if it works it works but i was afraid of breaking it while outdoors i needed to get over that bullshit two weeks ago was the first hint of summer weather i didn t go camping i started hiking i ve become obsessed with trekking poles which i don t own are they goofy affectations are they limited to spandex clad terrain crossing athletes will they assist my fat ass eventually it was tuesday it was retired guy go time i was going to camp in the middle of the week my intended smooth launch was a disaster an unexpected appointment derailed my morning then a bunch of errands needed doing i hadn t gathered my long neglected camping gear the afternoon arrived and i was still faffing about the lawn grows ferociously this time of year i wished i could mow it and go camping mutually exclusive tasks vied for my time my grandmother had a saying for times like these shit or get off the pot around 4 pm i ignored everything but the goal of camping i haphazardly tossed gear in my truck it was less pack for camping than evacuate past me did me a solid i d carefully stored my truck camping gear right where i could find it i also thanked past me for long ago acquiring everything i need i m broke right now but all the gear i needed was patiently waiting i didn t spend a penny another miracle past me had assembled an awesome chuckbox i d almost forgotten about it i posted about it two years ago most chuckboxes are filled with plates and pots and shit maybe a few spices or whatnot i have all that but much more i cram mine with all the normal st...