Adventures of Brian and Dee

brian hill and dee power camping and travel adventures

Home Baked Bread While Camping?

No. but I made something just as good, Even in a Dutch oven it’s difficult to bake bread, biscuits yes… bread no. When I was growing up I spent every summer with my grandparents in Overlook, PA. My grandmother baked her own bread every week. As a special treat she’d roll out some leftover dough, Continue Reading

The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly Cabela’s

Just want you to know Cabela’s came through for us. Big Time. First the ugly. About a year ago we bought an Eagle’s Camp brand (which was Cabela’s house brand) 10′ x 14′ tent at Cabela’s, the super duper outdoors men camping, sporting goods store. The tent was fine for the first trip. The second Continue Reading

Chicken Sh!t Bingo?

I kid you not. Camping near a small town, in this case, Tonto Basin/Punkin Center, is an interesting experience. Tonto Basin bills itself as where “The West Still Lives.” Small towns often have special events and celebrations and Tonto Basin is not exception. Easter Festival is coming up. One of the activities is Chicken Sh!t Continue Reading

A Grave Sight

When you visit small towns off the Interstate Highways you may come across unusual sights, such as a small — what looks to be private — grave yard. I’m not one of those people who likes to meander around looking at head stones and exclaiming over who is buried where and when. And because this Continue Reading

Spring Has Sprung in the Sonoran Desert

But not for long. Between the first and second week of March, don’t blink if you want to see spring in the Sonoran desert. It melts into summer heat that quickly. This year there were no swathes of shocking pink owl’s clover covering the hillsides or vivid orange and yellow California poppies under the Palo Continue Reading