The Woods Online

04/13/2026

Hummingbird visiting today.

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04/11/2026

Cousin Eddie all cleaned and waxed by Keep It Clean RV Detailing at in Myrtle Beach, SC.

04/09/2026

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04/04/2026

GR!SWOLD is pretty when he comes out the car wash. But guaranteed he will be green in the morning. lol

03/29/2026

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03/17/2026

Looking for RV Life member “Noel_380” that recently left a review on RV Life for a park in Vegas. We have reservations for there in a couple months and have some questions on your recent stay.

03/14/2026

Just went into a US Chef Store for the first time. That place is awesome. Going back sometime with a cooler. Pretty good deals in there.

03/12/2026

Good stuff!

02/19/2026

Don’t forget you can get your America the Beautiful pass for National Parks digitally now. It comes to you via email immediately after purchase and you can add it to your phone like Apple’s Wallet.

And don’t forget veterans, you can get the Military Lifetime pass for FREE! Just have to go through the online verification process.

This is great as I already had the physical card but usually kept it in one of the vehicles and worried if I’d forget it. Now I will have it anywhere we go.

Is it sad that we are looking forward to the Senior Pass, when we can get half off of camping?🤣

01/20/2026

Did a little test using our Explorer 1500 with a mini coffee maker to see how much juice making a cup of coffee would take out of it. Thankfully this keurig mini is quick to heat and make a cup. It draws less than 1200 watts during it cycle. Actually I don’t remember seeing it go over 1150 watts. To my surprise, it used only 2% of the jackery battery!

Why am I excited? Well we are upgrading our camper (Cousin Eddie) with a lithium in a couple months. We aren’t doing an inverter though, at least right now. The quote of an inverter was more than the 460ah lithium battery we are getting, but not by much. When we thought about it, there were only a few things that we would need the inverter for. Coffee an maybe to use our Flip (oven/toaster/air fryer). But we don’t even have to use the flip. We do have a propane stove and oven. The only other thing would be the microwave, but we can do without that too. We can actually make coffee other ways too. We can boil water on the stove and use our as we have done in the past.

But, it got me thinking, we have this Jackery that we’ve had numerous years. It’s an older model and I’m sure the newer ones are even better. But what if we took it and used for those 110v things? We can literally both have a couple cups of coffee in the morning and have used less than 10% of the battery. We also have a couple of their solar panels that would bring it back up within a couple hours. I think they say charging a battery from 0% takes somewhere around 8-10 hrs of sunlight. It can also be charged in the truck while driving.

Of course using an inverter with the keurig would take very little off the lithium battery, but why even do that? And if the power goes out here at home where we are total electric, we can make that coffee, power up the starlink…

Can’t wait to get the new battery and warmer weather. We are so ready to put Cousin Eddie to the test. Ok, maybe I am more so than Angie. I’m sure she would prefer to be hooked up somewhere, near a beach with the AC running. Hehe

01/01/2026

New Camping World CEO, Matt Wagner, takes over. Let’s see if there are any changes or improvements.

What do you think? Gonna be better, worse or same ole same ole?

12/24/2025

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Brian, Angie & Bingo!