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RoyB
Sep 30, 2014Explorer II
We go to the regular camp sites with electric and water mostly at state parks and city type camp grounds. Our real love however is the off-the-power-grid sites up along the Blue Ridge parkway out in the wooded areas of NC and North GA...
This is how we love to camp with our OFF-ROAD POPUP setup


I am right at home up behind Harrisonburg VA on the VA/WVA wooded State Line where I have to cross a rock bed creek to get there. No one there but us and the wildlife... We do run into some of the local JEEP CLUBs making there trail runs sometimes. They have a real nice nearby spot where we camp called FLAGPOLE KNOB...
Our OFF-ROAD POPUP is all setup for long battery stays off the power grid but we are not die hard survivalists so to speak. We like our nightly watching HDTV before going to bed at 11PM. Also keep in touch with the kids, paying some bill online, and some surfing of the internet.
My other hobby is HAM RADIO so that brings in a whole other big mess of equipment and time consuming evenings yaking with my RADIO FRIENDS...
Our POPUP setup is just fine for us with all the modern comforts of home just is alittle short of move around room inside the POPUP. makes us spend more time outside.
We are avid tent campers from the 60s and 70s so the POPUP trailer just comes natural for us... We would load up our Jeep and util Trailer and head out to the high country of AZ and NM with friends and have great times.
Much like these GOOGLE PHOTOS taken in North Central High Country of AZ

Have pulled my off-road-POPUP all over Virginia to the Eastern Shore and down to Florida back along the gulf states shorelines as for West as Texas and Okla. Really love the high country of VA-TN-NC-SC-GA-AL in the Naltional Forest areas. All roads go through Gattlinburg TN on our trips both going and coming back...
Roy Ken
This is how we love to camp with our OFF-ROAD POPUP setup


I am right at home up behind Harrisonburg VA on the VA/WVA wooded State Line where I have to cross a rock bed creek to get there. No one there but us and the wildlife... We do run into some of the local JEEP CLUBs making there trail runs sometimes. They have a real nice nearby spot where we camp called FLAGPOLE KNOB...
Our OFF-ROAD POPUP is all setup for long battery stays off the power grid but we are not die hard survivalists so to speak. We like our nightly watching HDTV before going to bed at 11PM. Also keep in touch with the kids, paying some bill online, and some surfing of the internet.
My other hobby is HAM RADIO so that brings in a whole other big mess of equipment and time consuming evenings yaking with my RADIO FRIENDS...
Our POPUP setup is just fine for us with all the modern comforts of home just is alittle short of move around room inside the POPUP. makes us spend more time outside.
We are avid tent campers from the 60s and 70s so the POPUP trailer just comes natural for us... We would load up our Jeep and util Trailer and head out to the high country of AZ and NM with friends and have great times.
Much like these GOOGLE PHOTOS taken in North Central High Country of AZ

Have pulled my off-road-POPUP all over Virginia to the Eastern Shore and down to Florida back along the gulf states shorelines as for West as Texas and Okla. Really love the high country of VA-TN-NC-SC-GA-AL in the Naltional Forest areas. All roads go through Gattlinburg TN on our trips both going and coming back...
Roy Ken
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