Not quite a Tiny Travel Trailer but if you like trying out new things while you are camping in the wilderness here is how to build a DIY yurt.
I am assuming anyone reading this is going to have a lean towards camping. I suppose you don’t have to but if your checking out info about Tear Drops and Tiny Travel Trailers odds are good you will be out camping.
Of course your chosen destination will probably have lots of sites near by to go visit. Plus you are camping after all sitting out and enjoying a good bit of nature is always part of the itinerary. If you are looking for more the perfect answer is Geo Caching. Basically you have a hand held GPS unit and Coordinates to a hidden container usually in an out of the way place.
Geo Caching is a great way to find other spots of interest where you are camping and who would not like using a billion dollars worth of satellites to play hide and seek with a Tupperware container in the woods.
Typically most caches will have a log where you sign your name and the date you found the cache. Occasionally caches will have little nic naks in them that you trade with what you bring. Some caches will have special coins or items with tracking bugs that you take with you to put into another cache and enter the info in on geocaching.com and see where else in the world the object has been. To find the coordinates to caches go to geocaching.com and search by the zipcode that you will be in. You will find many caches in the near by area to go out and hunt down. In some areas you might find special caches like in western PA there is the Allegheny GeoTrail. The Allegheny trial offers you special coins by finding caches in each county.
If you are interested in Geo Caching be sure to check the Getting Started section of geocaching.com where you will find guides to everything involved in Geo Caching. Also you don’t have to be on vacation to go Geo Caching. You will find caches in your own area and you can also hide your own cache for others to find.
Loading …One of the hardest parts of going on vacation is figuring out where do you want to go and what to see while 
you are there. Recently we found a book called 1,000 Places to See in the U.S.A. & Canada Before You Die which is good for finding places to go categorized by state. We started by looking neighboring states for some vacations that we could do more vacation than driving. This book gives about a page of info on each location along with website addresses to find more information which makes your job easier. My only problem with the book is there are a lot of events listed when interesting places are left out. If you like food festivals and flower shows this won’t be a problem for you but I was a bit disappointed by some of the entries. Over all this is still a good guide to find places of interest to you.
After finding places that look interesting searching Google is always a good way to find more info but a couple of sites can really help you out along the way. The first is Trip Adviser where people write reviews of different areas. It is a good resource for filling out your vacation itinerary. The second site which is really helpful and a little less obvious is Flickr. Tons of people use Flickr to post photos and you know everyone has vacation photos. For example if you search South Dakota Badlands you are bound to find pictures of places to go while in the area that might not show up in the travel guides.
There are a ton more sites out there to fill out your vacation itinerary but these are the ones we always end up using. A quick tip if you don’t like getting junk mail don’t sign up for the print version of the state/area travel guide don’t sign up for it. You will be surprised what kind of “mail offers” you will get. If you do find that your only option is to give them your address a little trick that I learned long ago is to fill in your name with an alternate middle initial. So if start getting mail for John Z Doe, you will know exactly who sold your information. Most places are pretty good with keeping your information to travel related businesses in their state but other states just make a quick buck from selling your name to every mass mailing list out there.
Have a favorite travel planning resource post it in the comments.
