BIKEWAGN

June 28, 2019

BIKEWAGN does Disney

Vacation. It finally arrived. Most years we spend a week at the Outer Banks, but this year, we spent a few days in Orlando, Florida at Walt Disney World. It was a surprise for the kids, and a surprise to us that we were actually able to keep the surprise! My in-laws rented a 15…
June 15, 2019

Prinsu Cabrack: Initial Impressions

If you own a Toyota Tacoma, you have probably seen, heard of, or drooled over a Prinsu rack for the roof of your truck. The Prinsu isn’t cheap. Coming in the mid to upper $600 dollar range for the standard rack is raised even further by UPS ground shipping. Want the light bar mount or…
June 14, 2019

Visiting the Aurora Fossil Museum

One of Ray’s favorite hobbies (besides camping and fishing) is finding and collecting Shark Teeth. One of his greatest in his collection is a large Megladon tooth. So when my wife remembered she took a field trip in school to Aurora, North Carolina to visit the Aurora Fossil Museum, she knew that Ray needed to…
June 3, 2019

A Hike a Day keeps the “devices” away

June 1st is the start of the Scout year, and with my recent promotion to Cubmaster and my sons promotion to the Wolf Den, we had some new items we could work on towards his badge. After finishing up with his sister’s driveway-camping expedition, Ray wanted some Dad-time. We settled on taking a hike together…
June 2, 2019

Daddy Daughter Driveway Camp-Out

After my son had his opportunity to sleep in our roof top tent, my daughter who is turning 9 soon was anxious to get her turn. Between trips to the beach, horse shows, and unexpected 98 degree weather, it seemed as though she had lost out on her chance to catch some elevated camping time…
May 18, 2019

Driveway Camping

I’m curious if you’ve ever camped in your driveway? We picked up our tent a few weeks ago, and had plans to use our tent last weekend but some parenting had to be done, and unfortunately the tent camping had to be pulled as a consequence of growing up. But, after a really great week,…
May 16, 2019

The Story of Storing our Tent

A few years ago, I owned a 2014 Hydro Blue Jeep Wrangler Sahara Unlimited Altitude Edition. The Sahara has the option for dual tops, with the hardtop being color matched. I loved this Jeep and while owning it decided that I enjoyed taking the hard top on and off more than I enjoyed dealing with…
May 13, 2019

The first trip to the Outer Banks

This past weekend was so busy! It started Friday after work. When I got home, I picked Ray up from a neighbors house and we started mounting our CVT Tent to our KBVoodoo bed rack. I realized the bolts I had were a little too short to attach the tent the way I wanted, so…
May 11, 2019

A Quick Trip to Chattanooga

It was an amazing Friday in May when I received the email that we had a tent available for pick up. The awesome folks at Cascadia Vehicle Tents (@CVTTents) had set aside a Mt. Rainier Summit tent for us to pick up. So, after a very late night of working, I fell asleep at 11…
May 9, 2019

Starting a Fire

One of the most important things you can learn with regards to camping, is how to safely start a fire. A fire can offer warmth in the cold, a heat for cooking, light in the dark, and most importantly – is a key ingredient in the making of S’Mores! I’ve started my fair share of…