Ingredients 8 ounces mushrooms, chopped 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 medium yellow onion, diced 2 medium garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 lb. ground beef 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon paprika ¼ cup dry white wine 1½ teaspoons kosher salt, plus more as needed ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus…
Read MoreCamping Tips & Tricks: Handy Storage Tips & Tricks
Repurpose containers to hold your spices. One camping challenge is finding ways to bring useful everyday kitchen items with you. One item worth putting in your cooking trick bag for shorter trips is the seven-day pill box for spices. Holding enough spices for a couple meals, a pill box will help save space in the…
Read MoreCustomer of the Month: Gil Smith with his 2015 6×10 Silver Shadow
Q: What make, model and year is your Little Guy? GS: I have owned my 2015 6×10 (silver) Silver Shadow Teardrop trailer for about a month. Q: What was it about the LG that lead you to purchasing it over other models? GS: The reason I went with LG is because of the “Old School”…
Read MoreJourney to Alaska: Day 4
It’s easy to forget what day of the week it is. Even if I could remember, it just doesn’t matter up here in the middle of nowhere. John and I left Whisker Point Provincial Point and hit the road toward Dawson Creek, the beginning of the Alaska Highway; Milepost “0”. It was beautiful drive from…
Read MoreJourney to Alaska: Day 3
Today was another good day. We woke up around 6:00 at Cache Creek, BC and decided to hit the road around 7:30 AM. On our way into town we decided to gas up. This seems to be a recurring thing on the way to Alaska. Even though we haven’t started out on the Alaska Highway…
Read MoreJourney to Alaska: From Dawson Creek
Tom and I arrived in Dawson Creek, British Columbia this morning after spending the night at Walmart in Grand Prairie, Alberta. Not by choice, but because the area is a camping mecca and the local campgrounds were booked solid. The 2300 mile trip up from Michigan has been grueling, but the payoff will be very…
Read MoreJourney to Alaska: Day 2
We got up at 5:00 AM and were ready to hit the road at 6:00. We (John and I) double checked everything and hit the road. We knew that it was going to be a long day and we wanted to start out early in order to miss the Portland and Seattle traffic on our…
Read MoreJourney to Alaska: My first day on the road.
I left home about 7:00 this morning and had a rather uneventful drive to Portland, OR to pick up my friend John. Since our wives had no interest in driving to Alaska, we both decided that we would do it together. At least, partway. John will be flying back to Portland out of Anchorage in…
Read MoreJourney to Alaska: Reporting in from Saskatchewan
Tom and I pulled into Regina this morning and are on our 5th day on the road. We are roughly 1425 miles into our trip after having spent nights in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Minnesota, and Saskatchewan where we spent the night at Fieldstone RV Park. I think the biggest hurdle thus far was clearing customs…
Read MoreJourney to Alaska: On the road again…
Well, the time has finally come after a year in the making. While sitting around the campfire at last year’s Little Guy Western Rally in McCall, Idaho, the topic of driving to Alaska came up. Naturally, after a couple of glasses of wine, more and more people started taking an interest in “caravanning” up to…
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