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Assuming you won't have to accelerate up a steep hill or floor it from a stop... I'd risk it if I was in your position. But that's just me... And I paddle my kayak among alligators.

They've dropped the tornado watch for my area, but the 'regular' storm finally got here. Raining pretty hard with lightning and thunder. I'm at the blue dot: Nice to be cozy inside a fiberglass shell.

I'm camped on Grand Isle, Louisiana -- in my first ever tornado watch! Radar shows the storm action is passing to the west and north... which is just as well, I suppose. ;)

Maybe because the mattress is relatively thin, if it was soft the sleeper (unless they were very light) would bottom out -- and feel the board underneath...? My 2005 mattress never felt hard, so I don't actually know what they are like now...

Spring in southern Louisiana -- Cajun Country: After some kayak paddling on the Vermillion River this afternoon, which got me a little warm, I almost turned on the A/C in my "camper". Temperature was about 80°F with 65% RH. But I resisted that noisy option and just turned a little fan on me...

RIGHT NOW! Here in Palmetto Island State Park, Louisiana: a FWC Hawk on a GMC Sierra with Texas plates. Just a couple of sites away from my campsite. (I, however, am traveling incognito: my identity as a pop-up camper owner is obscured by my travel trailer.)

Port Arthur, Texas, where I reported prices this morning, looks to be a source of gasoline. There are several petroleum refineries in and around the city, and I even drive through a couple of refineries to get to where I'm camped -- Sea Rim State Park. That is, the refineries straddle the road...

Craig, In Port Arthur, TX, this morning diesel is listed at $2.599 at a place where I paid $2.499 for regular.

Craig, I didn't notice, but I'll look tomorrow when I fuel up. One thing I've noticed in Texas: gas prices in a region are very uniform, generally not varying by more than a couple cents between brands and locations. In Bend you can cross the street and save 20 cents/gallon! And in Redding...

Here in east Texas it's between $2.29 and $2.49/gal.

When I saw this headline my first thought was of millions of Californians saying, "Man, I hope so! :) "

I was glad that I was able to get it recertified and didn't have to buy a new one. The horizontal type that my 2005 FWC requires are expensive.

Frank, I got mine recertified at an actual propane distributor - the companies that fill big tanks. Ferrellgas, for example, rather than at some place that only fills rv tanks. The guy that checked it out noticed a rust spot, which is undesirable, but I promised to sand it out, and he recertified.

I'm not going to post on this spring topic until tomorrow when it actually IS [meteorological] spring. ... DOH!!

"Cooper recalls 430K truck and SUV tires due to sidewall bulges"

And the hits just keep on coming here at Twin Peaks CG, OPCNM, Arizona! Switching it up a bit today to keep things from getting stale: A small ATC on a small truck...from California, I think. It was a drive-by past my campsite so didn't get a good look. But it had a lot of stickers on the back...

One useful feature is the ability to download stuff (info, maps...) for a Park in advance, so it's available offline in no-signal zones.

National Park Service has a new unified app for all parks and landmarks From the article: "The National Park Service has offered mobile apps for some of its national parks in the United States, but maintaining a separate application for each park or landmark probably wasn't the best idea...

I think the fan is good for pulling in the soft-sides under normal conditions... But I don't think it has nearly enough suction to pull against the airfoil suction of gale-force winds curving across the top of the camper. I didn't have a roof-vent fan at the time of my high-winds experience, so...

If we had a REALLY TALL WALL across our northern border then we could keep that dang-ole polar vortex up north where it belongs! <_< ;)

Good stuff to consider, in one of my favorite areas: Eastern Sierra Dispersed Camping Summit: Dealing with The Hordes Intro from the article: "The Eastern Sierra was ill prepared for the waves of Southern Californians literally heading for the hills during last summer’s COVID-19 restrictions...

I had a very similar experience a couple of years ago, camped on a saddle/ridge at about 10,000 feet in the White Mts of California. I had the front of the truck/camper pointed into the wind. I tried to sleep but the winds were incredibly fierce - almost scary. So I eventually decided to lower...

FWIW: I've been camped in southern Arizona, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, for 2 weeks. Weather is fine - generally beautiful - this far south. But my plan was/is to go east to Texas, camp mostly along the Gulf and to continue to wander east from there. So I'm in a holding pattern here...

Yet another day of multiple sightings here in Twin Peaks CG, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument: A FWC Fleet on a Tacoma from Washington A FWC Hawk on a...truck from California I chatted with the owners of both rigs. They were already familiar with WTW, so I didn't bother offering them...

Here in Twin Peaks Campground, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, AZ sighted today: 2, count 'em TWO, FWC Fleets -- in TWO flavors! One, a flatbed model on a flatbed Tacoma from Oregon. The other, a regular Fleet on a regular Tacoma from Arizona. In the 2+ weeks (between last month and...