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Win Big With Ryobi Tools Camping Hack Giveaway

We’re at it again. Want some stuff for your deep woods or music festival campsite or around the yard or patio? How about a bunch of @ryobitoolsusa Camping Hack gear? Whether you have full hookups or are boondocking deep in the woods, battery and solar power simplify camping chores.

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This kit includes the a P747 18V ONE+ Dual Function Inflator/Declator, RYI14SP 14W Foldable Solar Panels, a P755 18V ONE+ Workshop Blower, and a P5453 18V ONE+ 8” Chainsaw Kit. 

A few deets on these goodies:

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Power Tool Time for RV and Tent Camping

 There’s a scene in the sitcom “Home Improvement” where Tim Allen’s character tells wife Jill, “You know why I like tools? Because they fix things. You tear down a motor, see the problem, it’s right there – boom; it’s fixed.” Hey, DIYers, workshop fixer-uppers and RV and tent campers, you nodding in agreement? Projects, renovations and “honey dos” pop up. Things – slides, awnings and other devices – break. The campsite could use a little boost in livability, whether speeding up raising and lowering scissor jacks or putting in or out the awning, or adding some stereo sound, extra light or a fan to cool the still air.

With battery-powered and cordless tools and accessories, you can make short work – or lasting improvements – to your RV, travel trailer, tent, or wherever you call home.

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Camping Memories Made Where You Park It

We were sitting in our backyard recently and I noticed something I’d never noticed before. Two of our palms were perfectly spaced to hang our hammock. A nearby was a spot perfect for a fire pit. Trees for the hammock, a safe spot for a fire pit, and plenty of room to sprawl. This is stuff I look for when camping. Why had I never thought of it in our own backyard?

So that got me thinking… How important is the site to the camping experience? When we called Camp Venice Retreat in November to book a week’s stay, I tried to cut straight to the chase with the manager, Tamara. I’d eyed their site map, but those things can be so deceiving. Often not drawn to scale and designed to make every site look spacious enough for Will Smith’s monster rig, you don’t know if the site they’re offering is the spatial equivalent of a parking spot at the outlet mall.

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Tale of Two Industries: Concerts & Camping Amid Coronavirus

The coronavirus > COVID-9 earlier this year delivered a one-two punch to patrons of the RV camping and live music festival sectors. It also presented in stark contrast the tale of those two industries and how different they are when faced with a potentially existential threat. Almost immediately, both the live entertainment and the camping and recreational vehicle (RV) industries got hammered. Both were shut down cold. No concerts, no camping, no club shows, no festivals.

However, those similarities soon ended and traveled different roads. As the pandemic slogged on and science and consumers came to understand it better, what was murky soon cleared. Those denizens of both RVing and music festivals realized the sectors had nothing in common and the longer-term impact upon these two unique categories couldn’t be more different.

Live music still struggles – horribly. RVing is stronger than ever. How governments, consumers, and the respective industries responded reflect how little we knew then, and how much we think we know now. 

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7 Steps to Curb Waste at Campsites and Music Festivals

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It’s a conundrum for campers of all stripes. We want to get back to the outdoors and feel at one with Mother Nature. But when we break camp, do we leave behind more than a molehill of trash. It can be no small mountain of shame. Whether camping to take in the outdoors or a music festival, how can we curb consumption and waste and leave the site better than we found it?

It goes beyond the old adage, “Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.” That’s been a warm and endearing mantra for years. Contrary to what Mr. McGuire told Dustin Hoffman’s Ben in The Graduate, plastics suck – especially when roadtripping. A frightening / sickening / maddening National Geographic report from a few years back noted that mankind has generated 8.3 billion metric tons of plastics in about six decades since its widespread introduction.

OK, we suck and have made short work of screwing up our precious planet. But what do we all do to curb waste – be less of a problem? Try these seven tips – and share what you’re doing beyond these…

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