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Camping Off-the-Grid? ‘A Solar System’ for RV Boondocking

For most RV campers, “boondocking” is a mythical form of camping. Disconnected, off the grid, separated from other campers – just you and your crew deep in the state or national park or out-of-the-way getaway where no power, water or sewer lines can reach. Just like the pioneers used to do. But glampers aren’t pioneering woodsfolk, unless the pioneers had their own memory foam bed, and shower, and fridge, and solid roof and door to keep out the elements and creatures. Modern boondockers want the creature comforts only power can deliver.

Enter solar power.

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Cookin’ Up Music Festival & Campground Meals in the RV Outdoor Kitchen

Since many people will be at the Florida RV Super Show this week, here’s another look at outdoor kitchens. This under-appreciated feature on select RVs and travel trailers truly elevates the camping experience…

Here at RoadtripMojo, we’ve written a lot about the music festival and RV camping experience. While we dig writing about festival venues and our latest campground experience, nothing jazzes us more than seeing some new outdoor kitchen. Yeh, we’re kinda quirky that way.

So Imagine our elation when we saw a few new innovations from the latest RV show. Outdoor kitchens have come a long way, baby. And we’re stoked to learn about the latest takes on one of our favorite RV design upgrades.

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Great Gear Makes Music Festival & RV Camping Site

Festival camping is about more than pulling in, setting up, and heading out to see the show. When the stage lights go down and you’re headed back to the RV or tent campsite, does the party go dark – or rage on? With a few choice accessories, some planning, even a hand from fellow campers or your crew, you can make sure your campsite rocks. Even if you’re not festival camping, lights, tarps and accessories elevate the experience.

Google “festival camping gear” and it’s likely “Festival camping survival gear” will pop up. It’s not about survival; it’s about thriving. Festival and event producers spend thousands, possibly millions of dollars to amp up their ear and eye candy for attendees. Why not rise to the challenge?

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Tools That Smooth RV and Music Festival Camping

Bought or buying an RV? That check you wrote or the finance agreement you’ll sign is only the start of the cash outflow. But don’t think of it as some investment that keeps on sapping your bankbook. Leave that to boat owners. Shopping for your camper is exciting. Not as thrilling as buying that clear acrylic elbow attachment for the sewer pipe to watch the tanks eventually run clear while dumping. But it’s close.

You’ll want camping supplies and festival accessories and chairs and tables and stuff for sitting around the campfire and creating the the perfect campsite. Consider this your post-holiday list of must-have gadgets for RV and festival camping.

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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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