The Problem With Campground Reservations and How to Fix It

Camping

The focus of this post is public campgrounds, such as those run by counties, states, the US Forest Service or the National Park Service.

You want to go camping next month for a week. Hopping on the Internet you navigate to the online reservation system and find that almost every campsite is reserved for Friday and Saturday, but the other five days of the week are available to reserve. Almost no one is camping on those dates. In other words, 70% of sites are sitting empty generating zero income. Continue reading The Problem With Campground Reservations and How to Fix It →

Ultra-Fab Phoenix 5500 Tongue Jack

Camper Upgrades,

PURPOSE: Raise and lower your jack with the push of a button with this incredible 5,500lb capacity tongue jack. Perfect for all known trailers with “A” Frame couplers with a 2.25” hole. This includes travel trailers, pop-up campers, utility trailers,...
UF Ultra-Fab Products 38-944055 Electric Tongue Jack 5500Lb

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PURPOSE: Raise and lower your jack with the push of a button with this incredible 5,500lb capacity tongue jack. Perfect for all known trailers with “A… read more

New Ultra-Fab Phoenix 5500 installed on the trailer.

A few days ago, as I was hitching the trailer to the truck to leave the campground, something fell out of the tongue jack lower tube. I didn’t see it fall, but Joyce did and pointed it out. She didn’t know what it was, but I did — it was the stop collar to prevent the jack from extending too far. I wrote about our Odyssey 4000 tongue jack in this post. It wouldn’t affect the tongue jack at the time, so I would deal with it once we got home. Continue reading Ultra-Fab Phoenix 5500 Tongue Jack →

2020 Ford F-250 7.3L “Godzilla” Gas Engine Towing MPG

Ford F-250 Super Duty

For the 2020 model year Super Duty trucks, Ford released a brand new gas engine (7.3L or approximately 445 cubic inches) and a new 10 speed automatic transmission. When I was researching the new engine and transmission there was almost zero feedback from owners on towing miles per gallon. Now that we’ve had ours for a while, here is some information on our 7.3L MPG. Continue reading 2020 Ford F-250 7.3L “Godzilla” Gas Engine Towing MPG →