New owners

Just returned from a 5700 mile out and back from Oregon to Wisconsin and return via warm weather. Dodge City, Kansas Santa Fe, NM, Sedona, Joshua Tree NP, LA, US 101, Berkeley- home...loved every minute of it..picking up the trailer in Necedah, wonderful, restful nights sleeping in our new home on wheels and incredible meals cooked on that great stove. Everything worked perfectly and exceeded our expectations from the tow vehicle to the trailer. I did not want to come home. Now we are back in the rain and the Classic is washed and snug in our garage poised to head south soon, or to the coast, or wherever! Marty, Polly and Jack the dog.

Thanks Camp-Inn. You have changed our lives!

 

Ahh, that first return—you said it best "poised to head south, or to the coast, or wherever!" Congratulations on your new CI and all the adventures that lie ahead!

 

You lucky ducks! Congratulations and glad you had a great journey home. We're about two months away from picking ours up and I can't get enough of these posts!

 

I love hearing about first trips. I'm almost as excited about mine as when I had my first baby. I don't get mine till spring but it is so much fun to hear the excitement of others. Have fun Marty, Polly and Jack the dog.

 

Welcome Marty, Polly, and Jack the Dog! Congrats on your new trailer and we hope to meet you at our next Northwest Roundup next summer! We have a great group and lots of fun!

Welcome to the forum too!

 

Heyya Marty, Polly and Dog.. heheh..

Welcome to your second home... don't give up on winter camping... coast is usually nice and not crowded which is important....

After the initial trip, I'm sure you have a better idea of what to get and what you can leave at home... that's half the fun of it...

Welcome back to your Second Home, your house, and keep the Primary House, the TD, up and ready to go.... and give it a name if you haven't already.. heheh, let the games begin...

See All Y'all (I think I got it right from Dan for Y'all heheh) on the road...

 

Thanks Frank, Yeah we like winter camping. The coast is usually best in the winter for weather and lack of tourists. We used to stay in the Yurts. M/P

 

Looking forward to it and visiting some of my Eastern Oregon favorites too.

 

Sounds like you had a great trip back to the west coast with your new baby. We are planning our trip back to the far west with our new CampInn, we hope our trip is as enjoyable as yours. Please consider attending the 4th annual NW Roundup, Sarah is right, a great bunch of folks.

Michael

 

Sieg good luck and congratulations with your new Camp Inn.

 

Tear drop women: Any advice on the kitchen-cooking ideas and what to pack, dinner thoughts, you know what I mean...
Polly/Pilar

 

Hi Marty, Polly and your buddy, Jack!

The owner of a CI told me to make sure I got a small crock pot. I was told they use it all the time when set-up with electric hook-up. They plug it in, put the hatch down and go for the day. Yummy dinner is ready when they get back to camp after a long day.

Question for you and others - would you feel comfortable having the crock pot plugged in with the hatch down all day? Also, do others on the forum feel it's worth taking a crock pot for the space it takes up?

Enjoy your travels Marty and Polly

 

Leaving the crock pot plugged in with the galley hatch down produces a lot of moisture droplets in the galley.

Granted nice to have a meal ready. Question is do you enjoy crock pot meals to dedicate the space?

Jean

 

How do you cook at home? How have you cooked while camping in the past?

I keep the meals simple, use the COBB for evening meals.
Breakfast: lately breakfast sandwhich
Lunch: sandwich
Supper: meat on COBB, vegetables from can heated on COBB.

 

I agree with Jean about the condensation issue. We tried the crockpot in the galley once, for some overnight oatmeal. In the morning, there was a lot of condensation collected in the closed galley. The oatmeal was delicious, but we won't be trying that again!

 

Thanks, that helps with that item staying home. Plus, for me, meal prep time is enjoyable/fun. Good question Jean, I rarely use a crock pot at home. I'm sure others forgetting about the condensation issue found the responses helpful too.

Enjoy the day!

Bev

 

Cooking and Camping: if you can make it at home, you can make it teardropping. As Jean mentioned, how do you cook at home? and is that cooking style @home what you want to prepare when camping?

If you (@home) prefer oven-baked meals, a Cobb or Green Egg--look into those. There are some people I know that simply adore their cast iron; and there are some really amazing recipes on the web.

Just think it through... what do you make and enjoy several times a month at home? whatever it is... you can make it camping.

 

Can't you just put it outside?? under the trailer?? plugged in?? secure the lid, Milk crate or something? I would guess the "De-humidifiers" wouldn't work too much probably??

Just a wandering mind, thinking out loud again... heheh..

 

I should actually be responding to this when I am more in the mood...but, when we are "camping" the last thing on my mind is chopping onions etc. to prepare a meal because I'd rather be relaxing and enjoying a beer or glass of wine (and I love to cook and my favorite store is the grocery store)!! So, I always plan and/or make our breakfasts' and dinners' at home a few days ahead. For example, after consulting with the weather channel, I freeze the chili or the beef stew or the burgers or the sausage/shrimp chowder or the stuffed peppers etc. for camping dinners and all I have to do is put it in a pot with a lid and warm it up 40 minutes on the stove or have the meal frozen in foil loaf pans wrapped up in foil and put it on the campfire. Our last trip out with bagels in the mornings was wonderful with the toaster oven!! We had cream cheese and salmon! Most times breakfast is an eggbeater ( carton is easy to transport in the cooler) omelet with bacon and cheese, but the toaster oven was GREAT!! Keep it as simple as you can when you are "on teardrop time" so you can really "enjoy" your trip.

 

The reason I check with the weather channel before a trip is because...
if it is going to be on the warm side in the evenings, I have discovered that a hot meal is not very appetizing. Pasta salads with veggies, cheese, olives, beans, cold meat and a dressing prepared at home a day or two ahead of the trip is alot better at 6pm after a hot day camping. Of course on cool nights stews and chili are great. Frozen is the way to go there. Oh, and at breakfast another nice item to have is Simply Potatoes hash browns. They come in a heavy plastic package that fits great in the cooler and they fry up nice with butter.