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Charging your mobile stuff while camping

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I am planning a camping trip this weekend.  It is not a real back woods camping trip. but  +Sylvia Wormley  and I will be sleeping in a tent with other cyclists in downtown Columbus, GA.  This will be the first time that I have been camping since I have been in the information age.  My last camping experience was way back in 2004 in Big Bend Texas.  At the time I only had a Motorola Razor flip phone. So now I have a smart phone, blue tooth speaker and a navigation device for my bike to keep charged.  So how do you keep stuff charged up when you do not have an electrical wall socket handy?  Well option one is that I will leave my devices inside of my truck and use the always on power adapters to charge them.  The other option is to use a portable car battery booster.  I was cleaning out my workshop and found my battery charger that I had not used since I had my trailer.  I thought the battery was dead when it did not hold a charg...

Georgia Bike Fest Tent Set Up

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I purchased a new tent for the  Georgia Bike Fest . I ordered it from Amazon along with two Coleman cots.  I wanted to go through setting it up so I would get an idea of how it worked. I set it up in my back yard.  Sylvia and I plan on doing more camping in the future.