Happy holidays! I love your videos! My wife and I own a teardrop trailer and have some of the things that you use on your adventures. One thing in particular that you mentioned was a propane fire pit. We love ours! We use it in our screen tent add on , on low setting of course and especially when it’s raining and we can’t have a wood fire. I’ll say though it can use a lot of propane if you run it much higher than it’s lowest setting. Some of the other items you mentioned like a collapsible bucket and folding change tents are other things we have a couldn’t live without them. Always looking forward to seeing your videos! Happy travels!
Playing with Sticks hello again! So I went to look for the brand/model of my propane fire pit on the unit and I couldn’t find any identification on it anywhere including the hose. I was very surprised, not even a serial number to be found. I can tell you this, we purchased it at Costco for approximately $120 C. I hope that you find it there. It looks very similar to the one in your video. By the way, it never smokes. Enjoy!
Yep. Most of our safety gadgets we carry with us never come out of the case. But it is the peace of mind they give you that makes the purchase worth it. As for the rope lights, they will be one of our 10,000 subscriber giveaways. Glad you liked the ideas Randi!
Hi! I'm running a little behind...like 4 yrs, but I'm here!☺️ It's May, 2024 and hubs and I are embarking on more outdoor adventures. We're starting w our state parks and just ordered and tested our pop up Gazelle tent in the backyard. The ants couldn't get in! They were so frustrated!🤣 Anyway, just wanted to thank you for the foam interlocking floor you suggested in a previous video that someone suggested to you. 6 4 packs, laid out (and numbered) inside is a game changer and we haven't even done our first outdoor outing yet! Last fall, we rented a cabin in the North GA Mtns and while exploring during the day, we kept seeing RVs, campers, & tents along pull offs nestled along the mountain roads. It was an epiphany to us that had we had even a tent, we wouldn't have had to head back pre sunset to find our nearly invisible turnoff back to the cabin. Then we looked at campers, but for now, it's out of range budget wise. Then the Eagle Scout & Cadette in us said, how 'bout a tent? So here we go! We'll be 'scouting' (pun intended 🤪) out locales this week to plan our summer adventures and see where the trails lead us. Love the channel! So glad we found it!
Happy Holidays everyone! let us know below if there are any gifts you would suggest for your fellow small camper enthusiast. Links for all the gift ideas are in the description below. 🎁
Merry Christmas to your family. I always enjoy the videos from this channel. They are informative, entertaining, show me beautiful outdoor areas, and seeing the family connections and memories being made make take it over the top for me. Thanks for doing what you do!
They really do give off a surprising amount of light. We also love the price of the basic ones. Pretty good price for a simple Christmas present. Merry Christmas Hollie!
got some great tips from your video. thanks. i got my travelodge on test trial to a nearby campsite but not for an overnighter. you can see my rigs tow by my 1964 Scout 80 on PART VIII: LOW BUDGET DIY MINI CAMPER. thanks for your time and sharing your adventure. bob
Thank you Michael! Happy holidays to you as well. We just wished we had the chance to try out a backup camera sooner. But, hey at least we now know what we like.
Congratulations 🎉 on your second boy! Great gift ideas, thanks! Awesome channel! Mom of 2 (now grown) boys here-it was an amazing journey to "travel". Enjoy every moment!! Enjoy the Christmas season! Mae you look amazing!
Thank you! Glad you liked the gift ideas as well. We can't imagine how much fun you had traveling with your boys. We are excited to follow in your footsteps. We can't even imagine how good it will feel to have 2 boys sitting around the fire! Mae says thank you for the compliment! She needed it, it was a long day!
The baby is out! We were hoping he would make an appearance this video, but he slept the entire way through. Glad you enjoyed the video! Happy Holidays!
Well, first I have to say Happy Thanksgiving. Love the reindeers! Good "commercial interruption" - hehehe. For propane campfires, don't go with the cheapest. They're large and more often than not the rocks in it are not contained so unless you find a box or something to store the thing in for transport, those rocks are all over your car after bump #1. I bought the "little red campfire" from Camco. Right now - if you're a Good Sams/Campingworld member you can get it for $139. It's very small - about the size of a cake or hat carrier and it's completely self contained. Everything fits inside the lid - hose and all. You just need another propane bottle and you're good. Also keep in mind those things suck a lot of gas. On full it will empty a regular 5 gallon cylinder in about 6 hours - on a lower setting you can get about a week of evening campfires out of it if you don't expect to be super warm (great for summer fire bans - you want the fire for comfort/romance/smores but not necessarily for heat). I can highly recommend that firepit because it's easy to carry around, doesn't need much space and does the job quite nicely. For the projector - no, you're not weird. I bought one with built in battery years ago and we use it to this day - a lot. Took it to a houseboating trip on lake Shasta twice (bedsheets make great screens), always bring it to camping. It's the size of 2 cigarette boxes and works fine when it's really dark (sucks when it's too bright around because it doesn't put out a lot of light). I hook it into the speakers of the trailer and before that - or for backyard use - I bought little speakers that I can mount on our zero gravity lounge chairs at head height. That allows to have great stereo and doesn't require an amplifier plus the speakers are small (maybe 2 by 2 inches or so) Plus it doesn't disturb the neighbors when we use them for a long night in the backyard. Of course for backyard use I have a really nice projector screen thing, but for camping I just bring a large white sheet and some rope. Open air movies are fun - don't get me wrong, I love my silence and campfires out there, but if you go for 2 or 3 weeks it's fun to watch a movie once a week. Happy holidays!
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well Uwe! Thanks for the tip on the propane fire. We leaned towards the Camp Chefs after reading hundreds of reviews because it seemed like people really liked how the heat radiated off the rocks and just the overall look of the fire coming up through the rocks. However, we did have a bit of hesitation about the weight of the rocks. It adds like 15-20 lbs to the stove. We didn't even think about how to contain them while traveling. Thanks for the suggestion on the little red campfire. We just watched a couple review videos on it. Great height, weight, and overall quality. We originally passed on it because we thought the fake logs were kind of gimmicky looking. But, after seeing it in the videos it really is more about the nice flames it produces than the fake logs. And yes, we are pretty aware of the rapid rate of fuel consumption. We have a gas fire pit on our deck and like you said we most often use it at a lower setting for ambiance. Love the amount of heat it puts out at the high setting, but wow does it go through propane fast! Thank you also for the advice on the projector. We had heard that they may not work well in situations with too much light. And hearing it from you makes us even more confident that we have to do some more research on which one we should purchase. Due to the midnight sun up here it really is only in the fall camping season that we get low enough light and at that time of year it is pretty tough to stay outside for long amounts of time with the falling temperatures. Thanks as always Uwe for all the great advice! Happy holidays!
Fun video with some great gift suggestions for us campers. I have those same leveling blocks and they're great. A must have for any trailer. Looks like you could cook on that propane fireplace if you can find the right size grate to go over it. Once those lava rocks get hot it should hold a lot of heat without much of a flame. In reference to your fire starting skills, don't be discouraged brother. My wife's been correcting my best braggadocios claims (lies) for the last 45 years lol. Don't worry, it only gets worse ;) Have a safe and Merry Christmas. May the Lord Bless you and your family this holiday season.
We wish we would have stumbled onto them leveling blocks much earlier in our camping journey. Using the propane fire pits for cooking sound great. Most of them come with some basic skewers for roasting marshmallows and cooking hot dogs, but a grate sounds like a better idea. Love your comment on the fire starting skills. My wife does a great job of keeping me in check. She is pretty darn amazing! Merry Christmas to your family as well. God bless you as well and safe journeys.
Thank you for all the neat things you have on your Christmas list for all of us I really appreciate it there’s some cool stuff there. Wish you guys a very merry Christmas and a blessed and happy new year! Love your videos :-)
Thank you! Happy holidays to you too. Looks like you have a really fun channel there. Keep up the posts. Once UA-cam defines/understands your niche a little better you quickly grow a nice little community. It is really fun to have a community of like minded people on this platform. A little unsolicited advice for you. In the beginning stay focused on the niche (kites). This will quickly trigger the UA-cam algorithm to send kite lovers your way. What I find hurts a new channel fairly quickly is doing videos early on that are outside your niche. Sorry for the unsolicited advice, just thought it may help.
Playing with Sticks Thanks so much for the reply and advice as you can see I have lot to learn 🙄😀 I will take you advice on board and hopefully improve in 2020
Thanks for some great ideas and the shots of those reindeer, so cool and I'm so excited for your first Christmas with the new baby! Happy Holidays! 🇺🇲🇨🇦🦌
Thanks James glad you enjoyed it! So far the Christmas season has already been filled with warmth here in this growing household. By the way what does UMCA stand for? Happy Holidays to you and your family as well!
especially Christmas and new year around the corner. we heading up to Vancouver, Canada for a week and check out some property nearby. calif tax is way too high. Chinatown is just across the border where we might move in Blaine, Washington. a lot of boondocking sites up there. how is your newcomer doing? is it a girl or a boy? have a safe and wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Hope you find some good property up there. Sounds like a great place to live. Our little boy is now 3 months olds. He has a really calm spirit and is a joy to be around. We are still learning how to juggle to kids at the moment. Have a blessed New Year Bob!
Glad you enjoyed them! We have got some great ideas from you as well. Thanks for turning us on to Fern the Camper. We wanted to see an HC1 camper in action. Looks like we found it.
Glad you enjoyed it Samantha. Sorry about not telling prices. We chose to only mention the price on the LED rope light because for almost every item we highlighted there are many different brands and many different prices. If you check in the description below we have links to all the products and prices and you will even see in the links for many of them we have two items because the prices are so different for the same type of item.
The list is really nice, but LOVED seeing and hearing about the reindeer. What a great Christmas tradition!
Glad you enjoyed the reindeer. That was our favorite part as well! Happy Holidays!
That rope light 💡 is so handy 👌
It really is. Funny though, we rarely get to use it all summer because it never gets dark here. I almost forgot we had it!
Happy holidays! I love your videos! My wife and I own a teardrop trailer and have some of the things that you use on your adventures. One thing in particular that you mentioned was a propane fire pit. We love ours! We use it in our screen tent add on , on low setting of course and especially when it’s raining and we can’t have a wood fire. I’ll say though it can use a lot of propane if you run it much higher than it’s lowest setting. Some of the other items you mentioned like a collapsible bucket and folding change tents are other things we have a couldn’t live without them. Always looking forward to seeing your videos! Happy travels!
Thank you for sharing. Out of curiosity what brand/model of propane fire pit do you travel with? Happy holidays to your family as well!
Playing with Sticks hello again! So I went to look for the brand/model of my propane fire pit on the unit and I couldn’t find any identification on it anywhere including the hose. I was very surprised, not even a serial number to be found. I can tell you this, we purchased it at Costco for approximately $120 C. I hope that you find it there. It looks very similar to the one in your video. By the way, it never smokes. Enjoy!
Great suggestions. Really like your videos. Thanks and happy holidays!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Happy Holidays to you and yours as well Al!
What a sweet family! I’m so glad I found your channel. Great content!
Thank you Madilyne. It is comments like these that really make our day!
I love the idea of not having to worry about getting stuck! Those are some awesomely fun rope lights! Super duper great ideas!
Yep. Most of our safety gadgets we carry with us never come out of the case. But it is the peace of mind they give you that makes the purchase worth it. As for the rope lights, they will be one of our 10,000 subscriber giveaways. Glad you liked the ideas Randi!
Hi! I'm running a little behind...like 4 yrs, but I'm here!☺️
It's May, 2024 and hubs and I are embarking on more outdoor adventures. We're starting w our state parks and just ordered and tested our pop up Gazelle tent in the backyard. The ants couldn't get in! They were so frustrated!🤣
Anyway, just wanted to thank you for the foam interlocking floor you suggested in a previous video that someone suggested to you.
6 4 packs, laid out (and numbered) inside is a game changer and we haven't even done our first outdoor outing yet!
Last fall, we rented a cabin in the North GA Mtns and while exploring during the day, we kept seeing RVs, campers, & tents along pull offs nestled along the mountain roads.
It was an epiphany to us that had we had even a tent, we wouldn't have had to head back pre sunset to find our nearly invisible turnoff back to the cabin.
Then we looked at campers, but for now, it's out of range budget wise. Then the Eagle Scout & Cadette in us said, how 'bout a tent? So here we go!
We'll be 'scouting' (pun intended 🤪) out locales this week to plan our summer adventures and see where the trails lead us.
Love the channel! So glad we found it!
Merry Christmas! Thanks for the suggestions.
Merry Christmas to you as well! Glad the suggestions were helpful in some way.
Happy Holidays everyone! let us know below if there are any gifts you would suggest for your fellow small camper enthusiast. Links for all the gift ideas are in the description below. 🎁
Merry Christmas!
Thank you Lisa. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well!
Brilliant ideas. Nice work
Thanks Mark. Glad you enjoyed them.
Merry Christmas to your family. I always enjoy the videos from this channel. They are informative, entertaining, show me beautiful outdoor areas, and seeing the family connections and memories being made make take it over the top for me. Thanks for doing what you do!
Merry Christmas to you too! It is comments like this that make this so worthwhile for our family. Thank you Ande.
Congratulations on your new baby..and Merry Christmas to You all.
Thank you Rebecca. Merry Christmas to you and your family as well!
Merry Christmas! I absolutely love Luci lights. They’re small, portable, rechargeable and give off a lot of light.
They really do give off a surprising amount of light. We also love the price of the basic ones. Pretty good price for a simple Christmas present. Merry Christmas Hollie!
Great gift ideas! For the ladies I would buy fairylights.
Great suggestion Maykou! Fairylights make it out on almost every one of our camping trips.
got some great tips from your video. thanks. i got my travelodge on test trial to a nearby campsite but not for an overnighter. you can see my rigs tow by my 1964 Scout 80 on PART VIII: LOW BUDGET DIY MINI CAMPER. thanks for your time and sharing your adventure. bob
Thanks Bob! We really need to catch up on your channel. We are so far behind.
Really, Happy Holidays!! Lots of great ideas! Back up cameras are one of those tools ya didnt know ya need til ya get one. Was for me.
Thank you Michael! Happy holidays to you as well. We just wished we had the chance to try out a backup camera sooner. But, hey at least we now know what we like.
Blessings!!! I enjoy your videos and family! Truly God’s Blessings!!!
Ahh thank you Mirna! Much appreciated. God's blessings to you and your family as well!
Love your channel! Merry Christmas!
Thank you Linda! Glad you enjoy the channel. These are the type of comments we love to hear. Merry Christmas!
Congratulations 🎉 on your second boy! Great gift ideas, thanks! Awesome channel! Mom of 2 (now grown) boys here-it was an amazing journey to "travel". Enjoy every moment!! Enjoy the Christmas season! Mae you look amazing!
Thank you! Glad you liked the gift ideas as well. We can't imagine how much fun you had traveling with your boys. We are excited to follow in your footsteps. We can't even imagine how good it will feel to have 2 boys sitting around the fire! Mae says thank you for the compliment! She needed it, it was a long day!
Baby!
Good Vid guys.
The baby is out! We were hoping he would make an appearance this video, but he slept the entire way through. Glad you enjoyed the video! Happy Holidays!
Merry Christmas!!!
Thank you Elizabeth. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you as well!
Well, first I have to say Happy Thanksgiving. Love the reindeers! Good "commercial interruption" - hehehe.
For propane campfires, don't go with the cheapest. They're large and more often than not the rocks in it are not contained so unless you find a box or something to store the thing in for transport, those rocks are all over your car after bump #1. I bought the "little red campfire" from Camco. Right now - if you're a Good Sams/Campingworld member you can get it for $139. It's very small - about the size of a cake or hat carrier and it's completely self contained. Everything fits inside the lid - hose and all. You just need another propane bottle and you're good. Also keep in mind those things suck a lot of gas. On full it will empty a regular 5 gallon cylinder in about 6 hours - on a lower setting you can get about a week of evening campfires out of it if you don't expect to be super warm (great for summer fire bans - you want the fire for comfort/romance/smores but not necessarily for heat). I can highly recommend that firepit because it's easy to carry around, doesn't need much space and does the job quite nicely.
For the projector - no, you're not weird. I bought one with built in battery years ago and we use it to this day - a lot. Took it to a houseboating trip on lake Shasta twice (bedsheets make great screens), always bring it to camping. It's the size of 2 cigarette boxes and works fine when it's really dark (sucks when it's too bright around because it doesn't put out a lot of light). I hook it into the speakers of the trailer and before that - or for backyard use - I bought little speakers that I can mount on our zero gravity lounge chairs at head height. That allows to have great stereo and doesn't require an amplifier plus the speakers are small (maybe 2 by 2 inches or so) Plus it doesn't disturb the neighbors when we use them for a long night in the backyard. Of course for backyard use I have a really nice projector screen thing, but for camping I just bring a large white sheet and some rope. Open air movies are fun - don't get me wrong, I love my silence and campfires out there, but if you go for 2 or 3 weeks it's fun to watch a movie once a week.
Happy holidays!
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving as well Uwe! Thanks for the tip on the propane fire. We leaned towards the Camp Chefs after reading hundreds of reviews because it seemed like people really liked how the heat radiated off the rocks and just the overall look of the fire coming up through the rocks. However, we did have a bit of hesitation about the weight of the rocks. It adds like 15-20 lbs to the stove. We didn't even think about how to contain them while traveling. Thanks for the suggestion on the little red campfire. We just watched a couple review videos on it. Great height, weight, and overall quality. We originally passed on it because we thought the fake logs were kind of gimmicky looking. But, after seeing it in the videos it really is more about the nice flames it produces than the fake logs. And yes, we are pretty aware of the rapid rate of fuel consumption. We have a gas fire pit on our deck and like you said we most often use it at a lower setting for ambiance. Love the amount of heat it puts out at the high setting, but wow does it go through propane fast! Thank you also for the advice on the projector. We had heard that they may not work well in situations with too much light. And hearing it from you makes us even more confident that we have to do some more research on which one we should purchase. Due to the midnight sun up here it really is only in the fall camping season that we get low enough light and at that time of year it is pretty tough to stay outside for long amounts of time with the falling temperatures. Thanks as always Uwe for all the great advice! Happy holidays!
Fun video with some great gift suggestions for us campers. I have those same leveling blocks and they're great. A must have for any trailer. Looks like you could cook on that propane fireplace if you can find the right size grate to go over it. Once those lava rocks get hot it should hold a lot of heat without much of a flame. In reference to your fire starting skills, don't be discouraged brother. My wife's been correcting my best braggadocios claims (lies) for the last 45 years lol. Don't worry, it only gets worse ;) Have a safe and Merry Christmas. May the Lord Bless you and your family this holiday season.
We wish we would have stumbled onto them leveling blocks much earlier in our camping journey. Using the propane fire pits for cooking sound great. Most of them come with some basic skewers for roasting marshmallows and cooking hot dogs, but a grate sounds like a better idea. Love your comment on the fire starting skills. My wife does a great job of keeping me in check. She is pretty darn amazing! Merry Christmas to your family as well. God bless you as well and safe journeys.
Thank you for all the neat things you have on your Christmas list for all of us I really appreciate it there’s some cool stuff there. Wish you guys a very merry Christmas and a blessed and happy new year! Love your videos :-)
Thank you Annie! Glad you enjoyed the video. Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to your family as well!
Happy Holidays keep up the great videos
Thank you! Happy holidays to you too. Looks like you have a really fun channel there. Keep up the posts. Once UA-cam defines/understands your niche a little better you quickly grow a nice little community. It is really fun to have a community of like minded people on this platform. A little unsolicited advice for you. In the beginning stay focused on the niche (kites). This will quickly trigger the UA-cam algorithm to send kite lovers your way. What I find hurts a new channel fairly quickly is doing videos early on that are outside your niche. Sorry for the unsolicited advice, just thought it may help.
Playing with Sticks Thanks so much for the reply and advice as you can see I have lot to learn 🙄😀 I will take you advice on board and hopefully improve in 2020
Thanks for some great ideas and the shots of those reindeer, so cool and I'm so excited for your first Christmas with the new baby! Happy Holidays! 🇺🇲🇨🇦🦌
Thanks James glad you enjoyed it! So far the Christmas season has already been filled with warmth here in this growing household. By the way what does UMCA stand for? Happy Holidays to you and your family as well!
Great ideas! Happy holidays!
Thank you Ethel. Glad you enjoyed the small camper tips! Happy holidays to you and your family as well!
Merry xmas guys
Thank you Tristan! Merry Christmas to your and your family as well.
Happy Holidays!! Great ideas!
Thank you Glenn! Happy holidays to you too!
especially Christmas and new year around the corner. we heading up to Vancouver, Canada for a week and check out some property nearby. calif tax is way too high. Chinatown is just across the border where we might move in Blaine, Washington. a lot of boondocking sites up there. how is your newcomer doing? is it a girl or a boy? have a safe and wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Hope you find some good property up there. Sounds like a great place to live. Our little boy is now 3 months olds. He has a really calm spirit and is a joy to be around. We are still learning how to juggle to kids at the moment. Have a blessed New Year Bob!
HappyHolidays
You too Ben! Hope you had a great New Year's.
I hope you’re all having a good Christmas.
Thank you! You too!
great ideas :)
Glad you enjoyed them! We have got some great ideas from you as well. Thanks for turning us on to Fern the Camper. We wanted to see an HC1 camper in action. Looks like we found it.
Nice video! Happy Holidays!
Thank you much. Happy holidays to you and your family as well!
Like r ideas. Which u would give price as u talked about them.
Glad you enjoyed it Samantha. Sorry about not telling prices. We chose to only mention the price on the LED rope light because for almost every item we highlighted there are many different brands and many different prices. If you check in the description below we have links to all the products and prices and you will even see in the links for many of them we have two items because the prices are so different for the same type of item.