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RV Camping: The Marvels of the Outdoor Kitchen

Imagine you’re an up-before-dawn camper hosting people who prefer to sleep in, but who’ll no doubt awaken hungry for breakfast. Try perking coffee, frying bacon or doing meal prep with an RV full of sleeping bears best left unpoked.

Enter the outdoor kitchen, the ideal place to cook, serve and entertain friends and family. It’s an idyllic place, especially sipping that first cup of coffee of your own.

Why do people rave about their RV’s outdoor kitchen? Because it’s a camping marvel.

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FloydFest Pumps the Music Festival Heartbeat

You could excuse Sam Calhoun if he gloats a bit about the success FloydFest Odyssey enjoyed earlier this year. Fresh off the fear of the pandemic, the festival, which had gone quiet like almost all others in 2020, returned loud, proud and pretty damn safe. Definitely worth boasting about.

While other fests remained locked down or overly cautious, Calhoun’s show – “FloydFest Odyssey 2021” – went on. Fans enjoyed Music. Magic. Mountains. in the hills of Virginia.

The odyssey didn’t end after the show. It seemed to endure after the closing act, like notes carrying through the hills of Virginia. One of the first to cancel in 2020, they were among the first to return with a “traditional” (no pods, no distancing) fest in 2021.

“The afterglow of getting through Odyssey is wild,” says Calhoun, producer with promoter Across-the-Way Productions.

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Bougie Wooks: The Unapologetic Glampers

One of the early “glamper” tents used by Ottoman Sultan Suleiman.

When hitting the music festival circuit, who’s your crew? Is it the RVers parked in the full hookup sites, with refrigerators and beds and toilets that flush. Or is it the primitive campers who sleep in tents and whose food and drinks are pulled from a cooler that someone damn-well better have remembered to restock with ice.

We usually camp with the glamper set, a relatively climate-controlled world where the elements are left outside – with the $100 zero gravity chairs and shoes all dry and tidy beneath the awning.

But we’ve been known to pitch our tent beside Spirit Lake, digging that primitive vibe with fellow tent campers.

Though the forces of gravity and the corrosion of age have us tending toward glamping’s softer touch, we’re comfortable with our flip flops in both camps.

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What’re You Packing? Stocking Your RV & Music Festival Go Bag

If you’re an RV owner, you’ve no doubt spent time and treasure stocking your rig with all the accessories you hope will personalize your experience. But what if you’re traveling in someone else’s RV – and they don’t quite consider “must-have” camping or music festival goodies the same as you do? How can you ensure you’re prepared to make the experience your own, even if you’re riding shotgun?

Enter the “go bag.”

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Goin’ Solar: Q&A With an RV Solar Expert

When Barry decided he wanted to be prepared to take his travel trailer off the grid and boondock when the spirit moved him, he first wanted to install a solar system to ensure he had the creature comforts only power can provide.

A DIYer at heart, knew bringing in a pro to help install the right solar array on his Grand Design Reflections 150 Series fifth-wheel would smooth the process. He hired Expert Mobile Solar LLC in Melbourne, Florida (check out his Facebook). The proprietor Jeff sent Barry a list of panels, batteries and other components to choose from.

Read on to discover what you can learn from the experience?

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