Got this free WordPress 2.2 iPhone app today and am giving it a test ride. It seems functional enough, and it let’s you type in landscape mode for the post body.

There is a way to put an image in the post so let me save this and see if I can find one.

I went to preview and you can’t see the image, but it says that it will be at the bottom when published to the web. Here goes.

We found this nice new Plugin for WordPress that let’s Sleeping Bag Camping look good on touch-based smartphones. It’s called WPtouch. Check us out if you have an iPhone, iPod, Android, Storm, or Pre.

If WordPress senses your mobile device it will serve up our site faster and in a way that will make you feel you are working from an app. The Plugin developer has plans to make it compatible with even more phones as time goes by.

We tested it on our iPhone and it really displays the comments in a way that is user friendly. Make our day with a comment letting us know how it looks on your phone.

This Garmin Rino GPS is a new discovery for me today, and would be perfect for geocaching in groups where you are apt to split up and get separated. From what they say it’s about like having a Etrex Legend and a walkie talkie rolled into one.

I have the Etrex Legend and I could see how being able to talk to my geocaching partners would be a plus. They say the radio has a range of 2 to 5 miles depending on which frequencies you are using. We are usually within 2 miles of each other.

The Rino part of it’s name stands for Radio Integreated Navigation for the Outdoors. Some folks are really sharp forming acronym product names.

OutdoorBasics.com has the Garmin Rino but with a little different database. There are always some small differences in loaded features to keep you on your toes when you shop.

I remember camping with the Boy Scouts at the Chimney Tops Campground, and a Black Bear came visiting while we slept. If you say there is no such campground you are right, as some years back the Park Service made this jewel in the Smokies a picnic only area.

There had been a lot of bears seen around the area so the Scout Master posted a rotating fire watch through the night. We had our food tied up in trees.

I remember sleeping in a pup tent with a boy named Fowler. During the night I remember half-waking up and saying “Fowler get your leg off me” and he responded that his leg wasn’t on me. Read more…

Boy Scout Memorial-Rhea County, Tennessee

I got to thinking about an old camping trip on White Creek just a few miles south of Rockwood, Tennessee. What amazed me was how much information is on the web related to obscure places like that. This is no national park, but just a big chunk of private land too rugged for development so far.

I thought of the memorial cross next to the Highway 27 bridge across White Creek. A memorial to 7 Boy Scouts and their Scoutmaster who lost their lives in a flash flood there in March of 1929.

I remembered that there was a highway sign nearby for a place called Glen Alice, and I associated the whole beautiful area with that name. A partial inspiration I’m sure for my first daughter’s name. Google Earth shows the spot with very few houses nearby. Read more…

Here is a real neat idea to give the kids some indoor fun, and hold them back a little when they start begging to go camping. Buy a low price tent that you can pop up quickly inside and let the kids play camping.

I saw this over at a blog called “a number of things” where all kinds of imaginative ideas are shared.

Wasting time on YouTube and came up on a video of the Goat Man and it got me rolling down memory lane. Old timers from East Tennessee and North Georgia will remember him.

His name was Charles McCartney. No one around where I grew up knew him by anything other than the Goat Man. The Knoxville News Sentinel would chronicle his progress if he was headed our way, and folks would go out to gawk at him when he was camped nearby. Read more…

Something to think about before dozing off in your nice warm and cozy sleeping bag. Say a prayer for and be mindful of ways to help Veterans that have to camp to survive.

I just discovered Wanderingvet after a search bringing me to his recent post titled “8 to 12 Hugs a Day?”. Don’t go there unless you are willing to be moved.

In Wanderingvet’s Survival Tips I found his post on Sleeping Bag Survival, and it only added to an idea that’s been sloshing around in my brain. There’s got to be a way to recycle our old sleeping bags to these homeless vets. Read more…

A diverse group of agencies in Delaware have come together to try and get sleeping bags for some of the over 2000 homeless kids in that state.

The target group of recipients will be children ages 3-21, and the drive for donations will run from Sept. 15 to Dec. 20. Several drop-off points will be located throughout the state. Read more…

Looks like Louisiana will finally finish Palmetto Island State Park in December 2009. The sad thing is that the state has no money to operate it so opening the park is expected to be in fiscal 2010-2011.

The good news is that along with the cabins will be some campsites. They are building only 6 cabins on the 1200-acre park with no mention of how many campsites.

The park was started in 2002, but land acquisition and planning go way back past that. There have been 2 high water hurricane events during construction with Rita in 2005 and Ike in 2008. tvzb76qpfu Read more…