Summertime and the livin’ is easy…. a pitcher of icy cold sangria makes it even better.

Being wine enthusiasts, we’ve experimented with lots of wine glasses aboard our cruising sailboat over the past 15 years. For the travel trailer, the options seem to be improving every year. Here are several options that we’ve tried, some are aboard currently, some in friend’s trailers or boats. Cheers!

They said it couldn’t be done. Our experience towing our Lance 1685 (3800 dry weight, just under 5000 loaded) with a 6 cylinder Toyota 4 Runner … 10,000 miles, desert to mountain passes … our “little engine that could” … your experience may vary….

Bugs can ruin the most stunning sunset. But screen enclosures we saw in campgrounds seemed a PITA to set up and blew down easily. We finally found the perfect screen enclosure for us, take a look!

6 months later … our Grizzly premium cooler spent 3 months in the Florida Keys aboard the boat and 3 months camping from south Florida to the Southwest Utah desert canyons. Would we buy another “premium cooler”? How did it go?

We broke down and bought a premium cooler for our new RV lifestyle, despite the marginal results of our Yeti test … which one did we pick? Why? And what other options did we consider?