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Aug 062010
[slickr-flickr tag="wp:1371:t" size="small" link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gpaulson/tags/wp:1371:t/"] Leaving is always the hardest thing to do. Especially when you are leaving for a 10 day vacation in a 26′ travel trailer. We have found that rather than leaving in the morning, it is always best to leave the night before. It always takes an extra 2 hours to pack, [...]
Jul 312010
[slickr-flickr tag="wooten2010" link="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gpaulson/tags/wooten2010/"] Every year members of our church, Grace URC, go up to Camp Wooten for a relaxing retreat. Camp Wooten is located along the Tucannon River in the Blue Mountains, near Pomeroy. The campground can accommodate about 200 people though we never max it out. My teen age kids went up for the [...]
Aug 102008
It is time for our annual Paulson family reunion in Ocean Park, Washington. Once again we decide to pack up the travel trailer and head out of town the evening before. Instead of trying to head out early the next morning, we have found it much better to leave the night before — no matter [...]
May 292008
While camping over the Memorial Day weekend at Central Ferry State Park along the Snake River in Eastern Washington I took the boys out geocaching. My 17 year old son was given the opportunity to drive and when we came across the Highway 126 ‘shortcut’ between Dayton and Pomeroy, I just had to suggest we [...]
Sep 062006
After returning to camp from our hike up to Dege Peak we decided to see Silver Falls. You can walk from the Ohanapecosh Campground or park along Highway 123. The route from the campground is about a 3 mile loop, from the highway pullout it is less than half a mile. We decided that the [...]
Sep 052006
Some friends had reservations for the Ohanapecosh campground at Mount Rainier National Park for the Labor Day weekend but were unable to make it and offered us their reservation. We wanted to go somewhere but had made no plans so this was a real blessing. After getting some stuff done at the office, we headed [...]
Aug 182006
We have found that getting out of town is sometimes the hardest thing to do. There is always one more thing that needs to be done and so you always leave 2 hours or more later than you planned. To counter this we have started leaving the night before! We might get out late – [...]
Aug 132006
Just got back from a 10 day vacation. It was good to get away from everything and relax. Only had internet access for about an hour when Von and I found a closed coffee shop at 10pm that had wifi available in the parking lot. Caught up on some email and sent some photos to [...]
Jul 252006
I have been looking for some extension mirrors for the Expedition when we pull our 26′ Arctic Fox trailer. Our old van had truck-style mirrors that you could ‘flip out’ when needed and some of the Ford Pickups have power mirrors that you can extend, but not the Expedition. When pulling a trailer you need [...]
Jul 152006
We were headed to Portland last weekend to go camping (and attend my uncle’s funeral). We could wait and leave Saturday morning but decided that if we did we would not get down the road till late morning so it was better to get started out of town Friday night even though we could not [...]
Feb 212006
Activity choices are pretty limited in Walla Walla this time of year. The wineries would be open but 4 kids in tow probably would not make us welcome. We decided to do some geocaching. Von would be our chauffeur, I would be the navigator, and we would see how many caches we could do while [...]
Jan 152006
GPS Visualizer is a great online utility that can handle just about any mapping need you may have. It can create maps from GPS data, street addresses, or simple coordinates. It will take data from all kinds of digital sources as well as manually. GPS Visualizer can read data files from many different sources: GPX, [...]
Aug 312005
While looking for something else online after buying our trailer I ran across these Align-Quik Hitching Guides. The idea made sense. They are simply two metal poles angled just right with adjustable magnetic bases that you can attach to your hitch and trailer so that when you are perfectly lined up with the trailer the [...]