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    Perfect Accessories from the Overland Expo
    • Aug 31, 2021

    Perfect Accessories from the Overland Expo

    Perfect Accessories from the Overland Expo Did you miss the Overland Expo in Colorado last weekend? Don’t worry! You can skip the wind, dust and expensive food trucks and just get the highlights here! Rather than featuring campers and trucks, I focused on those little goodies that every camper can use. Enjoy the video and please use my links below! Cheers! Links to items (thank you for using our associate/affiliate links!): #1: Lavabox Portable Campfire #2: Chef Adam Glick Ad
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    Camp Coffee: for your trailer, RV, hiking or home
    • Mar 17, 2021

    Camp Coffee: for your trailer, RV, hiking or home

    Camp Coffee We know there are a million ways to make coffee when you’re out camping. Heck, choosing your favorite method to brew is about as personal as picking your favorite radio station! After 5 years on the road, we’ve narrowed it down to our favorites in this video. Because of our life on the road we value simplicity, practicality, and ease of use. We hope this will help you get your cup o’ joe on the road too! Watch the video then see more info below As you may have not
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    Cookin’ in Little Bear:  Shakshuka & Shishitos
    • Feb 12, 2021

    Cookin’ in Little Bear: Shakshuka & Shishitos

    Shakshuka & Shishitos Meals that make us Happy. When I asked my friend Dawn to be a special guest in a cooking video, I gave her free rein to choose her dish. Well, she chose something I had never heard of and also couldn’t pronounce: Shakshuka! Turns out, this is best of all worlds: delicious, healthy and easy! Check out our fun video, and find the recipe below. Enjoy the video! Recipe: Shakshuka Main Ingredients: whole or diced tomatoes sliced onion sliced red bell pepper 6
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    A Day in the Life #3: Weekend Warrior Edition!
    • Aug 17, 2020

    A Day in the Life #3: Weekend Warrior Edition!

    This is now the third installment of our “Day in the Life” series, where we film everything we do all day so that we can bring you with us! It’s had a surprisingly positive response – which no doubt has to do with our current pandemic and the associated “cabin fever” that has come along with it. I have to be honest, these videos are not worth my time – monetarily speaking, that is. The hours I put into filming and editing in comparison to income… well, let’s just say it’s a l
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    A Day in the Life… #2
    • Jul 17, 2020

    A Day in the Life… #2

    After releasing our first “Day in the Life” video, we felt so excited to be sharing our raw and true “behind-the-scenes” lives with you! So, of course we made another. This time, after filming a YouTube video, we go on a scavenger hunt that one of our Patreons challenged us to do. It was great to have a purpose to our day, as well as explore some new areas! Watch the video, and see below for links, info and photos! Filming… We began our day with a bit of computer work. After
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    How to Pee (and poop) Outdoors: For the Ladies
    • Jul 12, 2020

    How to Pee (and poop) Outdoors: For the Ladies

    Alright Ladies, this one’s for you!! I know that peeing outside is supposed to be common knowledge… but yet there are still many women out there who struggle with it! Well – consider this your all-inclusive guide to “doing your business” outdoors. Here, I give you tips on finding your spot, how to squat, how to clean, dealing with your period, and finally – some very helpful products. First, enjoy the video – then find links below! Watch the Video Now! Tips to pee (or poop) O
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    Rodent Proof your RV
    • Jun 11, 2020

    Rodent Proof your RV

    Evicting mice from Little Bear! Sometimes you assume that just because you’ve gone some place tons of times before without anything bad happening that you’ll get the same outcome the next time you go there. Well, that’s what we thought as we headed out to one of our favorite boondocking spots in Colorado. After about two weeks of being in our spot we woke one night to something most RV’ers probably dread—a mouse in the camper! Watch the video, then find links below The mouse
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    Virtual üCamp 2020 Video Meetup!
    • May 11, 2020

    Virtual üCamp 2020 Video Meetup!

    Hi Everyone! Hello! By now, we’ve all heard the news that nüCamp has had to cancel üCamp 2020. But there’s good news! Whether you were signed up, on the waitlist, or maybe couldn’t even make it at all… now, you can! We’ve teamed up with nüCamp RV to create and share videos, greetings, and a virtual version of many events. Even if we can’t be there in person, we can see each other’s faces and smiles! But we need YOUR help! We’d love for you to participate by submitting short,
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    Cookin’ in Little Bear: Chicken Stew & Sourdough
    • May 8, 2020

    Cookin’ in Little Bear: Chicken Stew & Sourdough

    Chicken Stew & Sourdough Meals that make us Happy. This is a great meal to cook on your day off. While it takes a bit of time, most of it is idle/waiting. But if you ask us if it’s worth it to make your own stock from scratch… absolutely! So grab a mimosa and spend a day making these two recipes – The perfect pair! Enjoy the video! Recipe: Chicken Stew Stock Ingredients: 2 chicken carcasses 1 leek 4 celery stalks 4 carrots 1 onion Garlic 10 sprigs parsley 10 sprigs thyme 2 b
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    15 Worries of RV Campers
    • Feb 22, 2020

    15 Worries of RV Campers

    The best way to learn is from our own mistakes. The next best place is from everyone else’s! So, at the most recent T@bazona trailer rally, I took advantage of all of the experienced campers around me and asked my fellow happy campers… “What do you worry about when going camping, and how do you avoid those problems?” First, check out this video to hear their advice! Then, find links below to learn more about the products and services. #1: Roadside Assistance Whoever you are o
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    Camp with your Dog! Tips, Tricks & Accessories!
    • Jan 28, 2020

    Camp with your Dog! Tips, Tricks & Accessories!

    While we don’t have a pup of our own, we sure do love dogs and take every opportunity we can to play with the ones we come across! That’s why we realized a great topic would be tips and tricks for camping with your dog! At our most recent trailer rally, T@bazona, we asked dog owners what they would suggest, and here were their answers: Watch the video: #1: Hook for Leash Amelia and Mercy showed off a great idea for putting a simple eye hook in the frame of your camper. If you
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    20 Items for the Perfect RV Kitchen
    • Jan 15, 2020

    20 Items for the Perfect RV Kitchen

    If there is one question we get A LOT, it is how do we eat while we’re on the road? Well, just like you… we cook! Now that we have been in Little Bear for over 9 months – we’ve filtered out the “keeps” and “keep-nots” from our kitchen arsenal. And here are the items that made the cut – our perfect kitchen set-up! Watch the video and then click the links! #1: Cast Iron Pans If you only take one thing from this video, I hope it is these cast iron pans! Our go to cooking vessel
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    10 More Tiny Trailer Mods
    • Dec 24, 2019

    10 More Tiny Trailer Mods

    Whether you have a T@B, T@G, or really any RV at all, this video is likely to spark your creative inspiration for remodeling! We recently attended the annual Texas Tiny Trailer Rally hosted by Princess Craft. It was a weekend surrounded by amazingly talented and ingenious campers who were happy to allow me to share their creative ideas! Enjoy the video showcasing their creative modifications, and find out more at the links below. Shopping through our Amazon links even helps s
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    Grand Canyon Guided Backpacking
    • Dec 6, 2019

    Grand Canyon Guided Backpacking

    Watch the Video Adventure Now! Sign up for a 2020 backpacking trip here! We’ve been teaching landscape photography workshops in beautiful places for several years now. That’s one thing we don’t plan to stop doing any time soon. One request we’ve been getting more-and-more lately is to include more hiking in some of our trips. So, in November, we decided to venture out and try something a little different—guided backpacking adventures! For our first trip, we took an amazing gr
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    14 Useful Camping Accessories
    • Dec 2, 2019

    14 Useful Camping Accessories

    We recently attended the annual Texas Tiny Trailer Rally hosted by Princess Craft. Once again, it was a weekend surrounded by amazingly talented and ingenious campers who were happy to allow me to share their creative ideas! Enjoy the video showcasing their favorite camping accessories, and find out more at the links below. Shopping through our Amazon links even helps support us on the road! Watch the video now! #1 Narrow Shoe Holder/Hanger This is a great idea for extra stor
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    Winterizing your T@B 400!
    • Nov 3, 2019

    Winterizing your T@B 400!

    Winterize your T@B 400 in 10 easy steps! Watch the how-to video Our lifestyle tends to take us from one extreme to another in a short amount of time. It seems like just yesterday we were sweltering in mid-90’s down in Texas with our T@B 400 air conditioner running full-blast, but now we’re freezing in Flagstaff, Arizona where the temperatures our first few days were single digits. Now, here we are haphazardly trying to figure out how to winterize our T@B 400 for the first tim
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    5 RV Memberships & Clubs Compared
    • Oct 10, 2019

    5 RV Memberships & Clubs Compared

    If there’s one thing I’ve learned working in the RV industry, it’s that the term “camping” can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people! And that also means that there is a different solution for everyone when it comes to finding a place to rest your head (and your wheels) for the night. While Kendrick and I prefer to find remote locations that are a bit more “off the grid”, always with no reservations, we know that this is definitely NOT the style that mos
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    5 Safety Items for your RV
    • Sep 29, 2019

    5 Safety Items for your RV

    We recently attended the world’s largest RV show, the Hershey RV Show. We were there representing our favorite company, nüCamp RV. We used our free time to look around the show for ourselves. (while sporting our awesome nüCamp shirts, and Mandy in her camper leggings!) While we weren’t interested in any other campers (because we love our T@B!), we did realize there were a lot of great RV accessory companies in attendance. One thing we rarely think about is spending money on s
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    A Full-timer’s Tour of the T@B 400
    • Aug 30, 2019

    A Full-timer’s Tour of the T@B 400

    We have officially been Livin’ in Little Bear for nearly 4 months now! We’ve been asked by several folks to do a video tour of our home. The truth is, it took us a few months to get settled in and customize him a bit… and quite frankly, to have anything interesting to show you! We’ve finally put together a tour – but this one is a little different. I have already done a factory tour of the T@B 400, so this time we focused on the living aspect: where we keep things and why. Ke
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    27 Decorations for your Tiny Trailer
    • Aug 1, 2019

    27 Decorations for your Tiny Trailer

    I recently released 2 videos featuring 25 Great Mods and also 20 Must-have Camping accessories that I collected from the attendees of the 3rd annual üCamp Trailer Rally. And finally, I am happy to release the 3rd and final installment of ideas from these wonderful campers: 27 Decoration Ideas! Although these ideas are featured by T@G and T@B owners, they work very well in RV’s and trailers of all sizes! So, if you have 12 minutes to spare, here are 27 great ideas to make your
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