Vermont has a lot of offer visitors any time of year, but fall is hands down the most popular time to visit. To help visitors plan their vacation no matter what time of year they visit there are some great FREE planning materials available whether you prefer materials mailed to your door or if you want access to them right away via downloads.
The official Vermont tourism website, VermontVacation.com has a travel planning section where people can plan their trip online, including a lodging search that helps find camping and RV parks and an online “my itinerary” builder that is pretty neat.
Plus they will mail FREE travel planning packets upon request with a choice of:a summer packet, fall packet, winter packet, fishing packet, and camping packet (you can choose more than one).
Or, if you have questions and want to talk to someone, call the Vermont Department of Tourism at 1-800-VERMONT (1.800.837.6668).
If getting out on the trails to hike or bike is your idea of a great vacation then check out the free guides at ChamplainBikeways.org.
Editors note: Gary has been drinking… again (alcoholic!) so you get yet another beer themed blog post this evening.
I’m going to be perfectly honest - if there’s no beer available on the campground, I want no part of that camping trip. (Okay, so if there’s wine I’ll be super cool, but this post is about beer dammit.)
Everybody knows that a keg of beer is the most efficient way to transport large quantities of beer for a big group. However, it comes with it’s share of drawbacks.
First is that a keg is just damn heavy. I worked in a bar for a short while and trying to lift those things… let’s just say it wasn’t cool.
The next problem is that you need dispensing equipment in order to liberate the carbonated goodness from it’s steel container.
Finally, there’s that little issue of keeping the entire thing cold. Warm beer sucks and is completely unacceptable.
Fortunately the people at Tote-A-Keg have got your back with their Kegaloo 2.5.
These people are geniuses - seriously, if these people ran the country we wouldn’t have to be bailing out insurance companies and banks from going bankrupt and gas would still cost $1/gallon (but that’s another story, let’s get back to talking about beer).
Anyway, they have a whole line of portable coolers (many with wheels) designed to hold kegs and they have all the accessories you need to get said beer from keg to your glass (your hand is still required to get the beer from your glass to your mouth).
For the next big camping trip I go on, I know what I’m bringing… and if you decide you want one too, you can get yourself one at Tote-A-Keg.com.
I’ve been meaning to make a post about why an iPod is a must have gadget for your camping trips. Okay, maybe not must have, but a darn useful one.
However, I still haven’t gotten that far and I came across this little gadget today and I just had to share.
Now don’t get too excited just yet because much like yesterday’s Catchu Camera Frisbee, this thing is still only in the prototype phase but it’s cool nonetheless.
One of the biggest problems with taking electronics with you on a camping trip is that the batteries tend to die. You either need a charger or spare batteries.
And that’s what makes the REGEN Yo-Yo MP3 player so cool. To power this MP3 player all you need to be able to do are 10-12 tosses and you’ll get about an hour’s worth of play time.
And you can yo-yo and listen to music at the same time thanks to a wireless bluetooth headset.
This thing probably isn’t an iPod killer seeing as how it can only hold 200 or so songs, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a cool idea and one that could come in handy on a camping trip when batteries and power tend to be in short supply.
(sorry, no video for your viewing pleasure today, but if you know of one where we can see this thing in action, please be sure to post it in the comments.)
