5 States, 31 Nights, and 4200 Miles
On June 29th, 2017 our family of three hitched up our trailer and took off on an adventure. We travelled to 5 states, camped for 31 nights and put 4200 miles of road behind us.…
TAN: Trailer Area Network
Introduction A friend of mine, Scott Lemon founder and CTO of Wovyn, and I were discussing my travel trailer API and he coined the term, trailer area network or TAN. My TAN is going to be…
Travel Trailer API
Introduction I have recently purchased a travel trailer and desire to instrument and automate it. I want to control and monitor all of its systems using my iPhone or other mobile devices. When I am out…
Goblin Valley State Park, Utah
We arrived in Goblin Valley State Park in the afternoon of Thursday April 13, 2017 and setup in site 15 in a 25mph wind. We were joined by a son and daughter-in-law and their three…
Kodachrome Basin State Park, Utah
We arrived in Kodachrome Basin State Park on Thursday evening November 10, 2016 about 6:30 pm and setup in the dark. Trailering makes this far easier and the nearly full moon made it great. We stayed in…
Joe’s Valley Reservoir, Utah
We camped for five nights at the Joe’s Valley Reservoir Campground. When we arrived in the evening of Tuesday October 19, 2016 there were very few others in the campground. We chose a back-in spot with…
Island Park, Idaho
Some friends of ours invited us to their cabin for the Labor Day weekend, September 2 through September 5, 2016. We parked our trailer on their property on Huckleberry Lane in Island Park, Idaho. They…
Riverside Campground, Island Park, Idaho
Our first outing was to Riverside Campground on the bank of the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in Eastern Idaho. We arrived early in the evening of Wednesday August 17th. On Thursday morning I arose,…
Our Home Away from Home
On August 15, 2016 we took possession of our brand new 2016 Outdoors RV Blackstone 240 RKSB. We are excited to try trailer “camping”, but are reluctantly giving up the tent camping we’ve been enjoying as a…
myDoorbell: Play that Tune
Introduction In a previous post, I described the nine modules that make up myDoorbell. These are shown in the following figure. In this post I’ll address two modules that are difficult to describe separately, the…