New to dry camping, questions?

profdant139 wrote:
Here is a suggestion -- just for one night, try to do without the generator. The silence is golden. For your coffee, check out the idea of "pour-over" coffee using boiled water -- it is all the rage these days, and it is delicious, and it uses no electricity. And is it absolutely necessary to use a blow dryer? In dry climates, hair will dry pretty quickly without electricity. (In a wet climate, there may be no other option.)

I understand if you and your wife choose to use electric power so that you need a generator. That is your choice. But a lot of folks camp "off the grid" and enjoy the peace and quiet. It is a lot easier than you'd think.

Thank goodness it is a free country, and you can do what you please!!

Along that same line of thought, my wife and I camp at state parks with electricity but really enjoy national parks which have no electricity and only water at central locations. We find it is rather fun working out alternative approaches (we used to tent camp)to doing things that require significant electric power. While we use an electric drip coffee maker when camping with electricity, we switch over to a stove top percolator when dry camping. The MW becomes a bread box and do fine without using it.

We do use a quiet 1 kW generator but it is to recharge the battery which powers the water pump, fridge and water heater electronics, lights and vent fan.

Everyone has their own style. We actually saw tent campers once in the Smokies running a loud contractor style generator two or three times a day to power a MW sitting on a table outside.