After a couple of years using our REI Kingdom tent, and being limited to two sometimes three seasons we have decided to expand our capabilities.
The Vagabond’s primary function for this family is to aid our family in exploring all the national and state parks this continent has to offer. Just driving around Texas will leave you sitting for long stretches of time on your rear. With that in mind it was important for us […]
Vagabond – Electrical Wiring
Over the years I have slowly transitioned from lightweight backpacking to car/van camping. It was hard for me to do this. I use to be a die hard primitive backpacker; loved hiking miles to the camping zone carrying everything I needed and getting away from people. Ever since I injured […]
The Vagabond
After living at our new grotto for a year, Amanda and I are ready to start building our vegetable garden bed. This one is a little ambitious as it will be a permanent structure and raised up to a little over 2 feet. I even learned to used SketchUp to […]
The Next Garden Bed
13 One of the great features with my Synology NAS, is that it uses the Let’ Encrypt SSL certificates. I am using my NAS for personal use so I didn’t want to spend money on a SSL certificate nor do I want to use a Self Signed one. Synology has a […]
Using Let’s Encrypt for Plex on Synology
When contemplating how to attach your bird feeders, birdhouses and/or wind chimes do not attach them with nails, screws or anything that will penetrate the outer bark. Texas A&M Forest Service has a great explanation on why one shouldn’t: Penetrating the outer bark can damage the cambium, the area just […]
Don’t Harm That Tree
To help ease our camping experience, and help our trips immensely, we decided to organize the campsite ‘kitchen’. For this we started looking at purchasing or building a chuck/grub box to store all of our camp kitchen supplies. This would save time routing around looking for utensils and places to prepare the meals. Using […]
Our First Official Chuck Box
Mission Tejas State Park is a 363.5-acre park in Houston County, 22 miles northeast of Crockett. The park contains several historic sites in the park along with a commemorative replica of the first Spanish mission in Texas and one of the oldest surviving structures in Houston County. Nice short trails crisscross the park, along […]