Show us your Post-Quarantine Campsite!!

jkjenn

ADRawli said:

jkjenn said:

Back in Walnut Creek

I’m sure we’re all prejudice to our own little T@Bs, but yours has to be just about the cutest one out there.  Love that plaid!

Thanks!!! I am quite smitten!!

Sharon_is_SAM

@jkjenn - you and Rocky are becoming Buckeyes!

jkjenn

Sharon_is_SAM said:

@jkjenn - you and Rocky are becoming Buckeyes!

Yes....i think I now understand what it feels like for a pilot to be grounded. The cycle is planned to be broken next month when we attempt to take out fall trip.

Sharon_is_SAM

Good luck with that trip!  We cancelled our 2 month adventure - but, we have an already planned trip in the bag for next yeat😁

jkjenn

Sharon_is_SAM said:

Good luck with that trip!  We cancelled our 2 month adventure - but, we have an already planned trip in the bag for next yeat😁

We were originally slated for Banff and East Glacier. Those locations aren't happening.

jkjenn

Really nice weather in central Ohio this week.

SubaruLou

BentoBoxLife said:

Our maiden voyage in our 2018 T@b 400 a couple weeks ago!  We traveled from Texas, up I-35 through the plains, then through the Badlands of South Dakota, and then into Montana, where we stayed for a week and visited Glacier National Park and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, then to Idaho and Wyoming to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, then back to Texas through Colorado. It was an amazing trip and we are so excited to be in the NuCamp family.  Here’s to many trips to come!

Well, hello there, fellow Texans! 😁 Nothing like jumping into the deep end right out of the gate! Welcome to the family. I would love to hear your thoughts on how the Ascent handled the 400. It tows my 320 S easily, although I’ve only gone back and forth from TX to AZ, so elevation changes have been gradual. Were you concerned about hitch weight or sway? TIA for any insights!

Gbertrand

Our river levels have been seasonally high this year, last couple weeks they are finally getting close to normal and dry fly fishing is finally in full swing.........traveled ~40 km up the St Mary River (S.E. British Columbia) on the FSR and found this great camp site less than 20m from the river. Weather was incredible, fishing was great, only seen 2 other people in 4 days, and wild raspberry's were everywhere😀😀

dfteason

This is my first time posting since we got our 2017 T@b 320 CS last fall.  We’ve managed to make four wonderful short trips since state parks began to reopen in the Northeast - I hope it's okay to show them all at once!  

June 14-16 at Promised Land State Park in Pennsylvania

July 8-10 American Legion State Forest, Austin Hawes Campground in Barkhamsted Connecticut -
only about an hour from our house!



July 19-25 A visit with family in northern Maine.  It was so great to have our own space.



August 2-4, Ricketts Glen State Park in Pennsylvania



One of 20 waterfalls we saw on the waterfall hike in Ricketts Glen



August 4-7, Watkins Glen State Park in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York -
absolutely beautiful landscapes



And another 20 waterfalls in the Watkins Glen Gorge!

ADRawli

Gbertrand said:

Our river levels have been seasonally high this year, last couple weeks they are finally getting close to normal and dry fly fishing is finally in full swing.........traveled ~40 km up the St Mary River (S.E. British Columbia) on the FSR and found this great camp site less than 20m from the river. Weather was incredible, fishing was great, only seen 2 other people in 4 days, and wild raspberry's were everywhere😀😀

Your post makes me want to cry.... mountains!, and fly fishing!  Somebody tell me again... why did I move to Texas 17 years ago?   Love the photos, of the camp, the scenery, and the gorgeous fish!  My heart is there, my head is there... now if I could just figure out how to get my life and my T@B there.  So awesome!

Sharon_is_SAM

@Gbertrand - that clear river looks lovely!  

Fergie

We finally got out of our home town of Palmer, AK for a trip this year! We visited Seward, AK on Resurrection Bay and camped for four days at the town's Waterfront RV Park. Just got back Thursday. We had not been there before and wanted to visit it when we could. It was a beautiful and dramatic scenic drive through the mountains in the Kenai Peninsula.

Visited the SeaLife Center, the only cold water facility of it's kind in the Northern Hemisphere, and also the Exit Glacier at Kenai National Park nearby as well as shopping and eating good seafood!

The statue of the Gold Seeker and his dog is at the entrance of SeaLife and marks mile zero of the old Iditarod Trail that went from Seward to Nome. During the gold rush millions of dollars worth of gold traveled this trail. The statue was designed and cast by Pat Garly with help from another artist. We know Pat personally as he is involved with an arts group called Valley Arts Alliance that we jointed up here and has an art foundry and studio in Palmer. He organizes an event called "Art On Fire" each year in June (canceled this year due to Covid-19) where a furnace is set up at the Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry and people can arrange to have their own iron art casting made. Other "Fire Oriented" artists also are there demonstrating their skills such as glass blowing, blacksmithing, and ceramic firing as well as other art demonstrations and local music groups.









Great trip! Good to get out again in our T@B!

Fergie

Fergie

I misspelled Pat Garley's name. Apologies to Pat. His website is worth a look: Pat Garley (http://patrickgarley.com) He has quite a few significant works around Alaska.

morey000

9,500 Ft in the Pinaleño Mountains of Southeast Arizona.  Forest fire damage is from 3 years ago.  

cedarbendMN

  Took our T@B 320U to the Big Horn Mtns in Wyoming in June.  After years of camping in tents from car-camping to backpacking (and loving it), we decided we were ready for a camper.  We still haul a tent along when we bring the grandkids, but otherwise, it's pretty nice to sit inside when it's raining and play cribbage!  

ADRawli

Missing those Rocky mountains, big time.  Love the photos, and love the “inside when it’s raining playing cribbage” idea.  We always hope for the mountain storms.  Always loved how they seem to come up most, or at least many afternoons in the summer.  

BentoBoxLife

SubaruLou said:

BentoBoxLife said:

Our maiden voyage in our 2018 T@b 400 a couple weeks ago!  We traveled from Texas, up I-35 through the plains, then through the Badlands of South Dakota, and then into Montana, where we stayed for a week and visited Glacier National Park and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, then to Idaho and Wyoming to Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons, then back to Texas through Colorado. It was an amazing trip and we are so excited to be in the NuCamp family.  Here’s to many trips to come!

Well, hello there, fellow Texans! 😁 Nothing like jumping into the deep end right out of the gate! Welcome to the family. I would love to hear your thoughts on how the Ascent handled the 400. It tows my 320 S easily, although I’ve only gone back and forth from TX to AZ, so elevation changes have been gradual. Were you concerned about hitch weight or sway? TIA for any insights!

Howdy!   Thank you for the welcome. Our trip was 5k miles through mountains and plains and some dirt roads and back roads and highways and hills, wind and rain storms and sun and heat. So we really got to see how it functioned as a TV in almost every situation. Overall, I was very pleased with how the Ascent handled the 400. There were many times that I forgot the trailer was with us. The tongue weight was our biggest concern beforehand since the Ascent’s limit is 500lb. I think we were fine, the back end of the TV didn’t seem like it was weighed down and we were conscious about where we put weight in the car and in the trailer. Stopping and going were easy and it didn’t seem like the car was struggling. We had some wicked winds driving in the northeast corner of Wyoming on the hills and that’s when I was most worried we’d get sway, but the built in sway control in the suv did a great job of controlling the trailer and car and we had no issues.  The suv strained climbing up mountain passes but no more than you’d expect for a pass. The one area that definitely was affected was gas mileage. In the aforementioned corner of Wyoming, we started worrying about running out of gas since the stations up there are few and far between. We had averaged about 11 mpg through the plains but there, we were dropping to 8 or 9 avg mpg and as you know, the gas tank is about 19 gallons in size.  We bought a gas can just in case we got stranded. By the end of that week, we learned how to adapt our driving to maximize mpg (and also to fill the gas tank whenever we went through a town (again, this was back road Montana and Wyoming where there are long stretches of nothing)). By driving at lower than posted speeds (55-65) and accelerating/coasting down hills and trying not to accelerate up hills, we were able to keep the mileage up at 12-13 avg mpg and drove into a big national forest with a few mountains, away from services, without worrying about fuel.  I only have experience towing the 400 with the Ascent so I don’t know if those are things that people with a bigger engine on their TV with a bigger gas tank don’t have to worry about, but I love the Ascent for our everyday life and vacationing, and it did a great job towing the 400, and when we unhitched and drove on some rough roads to hiking or exploring, having the AWD Subaru with all its capabilities (and comfort was fun.  Hope that helps!  Let me know if you have any other questions.

SubaruLou

Thank you @BentoBoxLife for your thorough response! I’m content right now with the 320 S, but it is great to know if I needed to go bigger, the 400 is an option without having to give up the comforts and safety features of my Ascent!

rfuss928

Finally out of storage and the cobwebs blown off by a few hours on the highway.  Called to duty as extra bedroom at our ADK camp.  A week with my daughters family makes the additional room and escape pod welcome.  Sadly, probably the only trip SUNT@B will go on this year.

Gbertrand

Less than 110 km from our house is the head waters of the Flat Head River, great fishing this time of year, normally we only take the pickup and tent as it involves 60+ kms of pothole infested, washout ridden, dirty, dusty FSR, and all of our previous trailers would not have survived the trip in and out........however the scenery more than makes up for the long slow drive
This year with our new 400, we figured it would be a great test........well, the little T@B preformed better than we ever imagined, after ~125 kms (there and back), not one cabinet drawer came open, nothing out of place, very little dust in the cabin, the storage locker assessable from outside (under the bed) had next to no dust, the Nautilus compartment had some dust but that is due to the hose opening in the bottom of the compartment, and not a big deal as it was just rinsed out (today, I removed the access panel under the bed and even the Alde compartment had very little dust), oh and did I mention we travel with a full set of porcelain dinnerware & glass glasses and none were out of place or cracked. This now is our 3rd boondock trip (23 nights in total) since taking possession in early July, everything is working excellent ......could not be happier with our new purchase 

Had a great campsite right by the river, even had a small sand bar that fit the Walker tent perfectly, stayed 5 days, great fishing, every night was unimaginable "stargazing", and only seen 7 other vehicles the whole time.......had to come home as the wine 🍷 supply was dangerously low 😀😀😀😀😀😀

ADRawli

@Gbertrand. I can’t even begin to tell you how jealous I am.  Sooooo awesome!
I want my 400 there too!

BrianZ

It's weird that this was only our second camping trip this year, but it was good to get away and camp at yet another Virginia state park, our 20th, for the first time.  Here was our site at Kiptopeke State Park on Virginia's eastern shore..

We were fortunate to get a nice spot under the trees, as there are a lot of sites without any shade..

Google maps satellite view shows the location of our campsite A12.

Kiptopeke is on the Chesapeake Bay just 3 miles from the southern tip of Virginia's eastern shore, as indicated at the green arrow above, just across the 17 mile long bay bridge-tunnel (road in photo; $30 each way on a weekday).

Just across the bridge we visited the wildlife refuge from this access gate behind the visitors center.

We took a half mile hike towards the Atlantic side to this tidal marsh overlook, with Cape Charles light house about 3 miles in distance on a barrier island.  This area hosts many birds, especially during winter migrations.

We appreciated our visor when the late afternoon sun peeked around the tree line.  After getting set up, we took a short bike ride down to see the waterfront on the bay..

This was at the boat launch, looking west across the Chesapeake.  A large fishing pier is off to left & beach to right.  On the horizon is a line of 4 sunken ghost ships made of concrete, placed there about 60 years ago to serve as a breakwater to protect the pier which had served as a ferry terminal before the bridge-tunnel was built.

The park has 4 different boardwalks going over dunes to the sandy beaches, for access to fishing & swimming.  This one is farther south of the boat launch, where you can see this second line of 5 more concrete ships, about 300ft long each.

We brought our inflatable kayak, so we could go see the ships up close, but we had to wait until late morning for the 25 knot winds to die down.

Despite a bit of sunburn at midday, it was worth seeing these old ships up close.  I didn't even know they ever made ships of concrete, but after WWII, steel was in short supply.

Pelican colonies own these ships.  You can see all the exposed rebar inside the weathered concrete.

A nice sunset the first night.

It was a short bike ride to this northernmost boardwalk to the beach - my favorite for its elevation and more remote part of the beach.

View south from the elevated boardwalk, looking over the main swim beach to the boat launch, parking lot & pier.  On horizon is the bay bridge tunnel & Atlantic beyond.

View north from same spot.  The Chesapeake looks a bit like the ocean that's only about a mile to the east on the other side of this eastern shore peninsula.

Last day sunrise view from bed.
We were lucky to have these two empty sites next to us for three days, though the campground was fairly full overall.  Most of our Virginia state park campgrounds are on lakes or rivers, but this is one of two near the ocean with an ocean beach feel. 
We did see a silver T@B Boondock edition while bike-riding through another loop, but didn't get the opportunity to meet them.
20 down & 3 more VA state parks left to visit, 2 of which are on/near the opposite side of the state, including Breaks Interstate Park, on the border with & jointly owned with Kentucky.  We had only been to a few and never camped at any of these state parks before getting our T@B 3 years ago.

KAR

We just got back from Blue Mountain Campground near Lake George, Colorado. If you ever go be sure to drive on County Road 77 - it's paved and absolutely gorgeous! There's "gold in them thar mountains"  already! Aspen are at various stages of changing. Gorgeous! Saw a moose on kenosha pass. Mountain lion had been in our campsite but we never saw or heard. Bears nearby but we didn't see them either. Saw pronghorn and a herd of buffalo on the way to Skinner Reservoir. Loved 11 Mile canyon and 11 Mile Reservoir as well as Tarryhall Reservoir. Florissant National Monument with the petrified redwoods that were in COLO ages ago are awesome to see and certainly worth learning about! Wore our masks whenever anyone approached on the trail or in the campground. Stayed healthy:) So lucky to live in COLO:) Now doing day two of cleanup - mostly laundry! But worth it!

Sharon_is_SAM

@BrianZ - Virginia has so many nice state parks!

CrabTab

Kiptopeke is our favorite VA State Park @BrianZ.

KAR

We drive a RAV 4 and pull a bright yellow t@b named tabby:) Happy camping!

ADRawli

@KAR Colorado has so many breathtaking places.  Last summer we took two of our 3 boys with us up near Monarch for a week and rented a cabin.  It was gorgeous.  Just too far to haul the T@B, but we were thinking the whole week how nice it will be someday to bring it there.  But only when we have time to stay a while.  It was about a 13 hour drive to get there at “non-towing” speeds, so probably 2 days each way if we wanted to bring the 400.  For a week long vacation, that only leaves about 3 days to enjoy being there, and that is just not enough.  Someday we’ll go and take a month.  Then move to another part of the state, and take another month.  Got to get rid of this pesky job first though.  Haha.  Retirement is a decade or so off still, but I count my blessings each day that I still get to work and prepare for it.  I want it to come on my own terms.  So many of my colleagues have found themselves taking it early, with little choice.  

Sorry, got sidetracked sharing my life story.  Back to the pictures.  Thanks so much to all of you for sharing.  I love this thread, and seeing how we all “get out” and enjoy this world.  Keep ‘em coming!

Fergie

Just got back from a weekend roundtrip from Palmer, AK to visit family in Valdez, AK.

The drive, first up the Glenn Highway to Glennallen and then down to Valdez on the Richardson Highway, is one of the most beautiful in the world! Did my usual photo tour of the boat harbor area. 

The new boat harbor, recently built to add to the capacity of the older one, has spectacular views and has it’s share of new art decorating the parking area as does the older harbor. They both were very busy with fishing visitors from all over the state as the “silvers” were coming in.

On the way home we stopped at a viewing spot on Willow Lake where you can see the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains in the far background in the nation’s largest National Park.

A fun, but short trip! Now that we are settled, plan on more trips to see this great state!

Fergie

dragonsdofly

Family property outside Harrison, Michigan.



Labor Day Weekend, spent felling dead, old growth oak trees.

1870's or 1880's log cabin. We've owned this property for over 60 years as a family. Hope our stewardship continues through the great grandchildren and their kids, as well.

Slackers

This was our first time boondocking at a neighbors property in southern Indiana.  The campsite was shaded but we parked our 320 CS-S on the access road. In the morning we enjoyed the distant clopping of horses pulling buggies of Amish families on their way to church.