MM, put https://freecampsites.net/ up on your saved places up at the top of your browser.

Now, click on it and zoom into Florida and click on Daytona Beach for Daytona Beach Bike Week.   Wammo, instant camping about an hour, hour and a half away at Ochala National Forest.  

It even lists the Walmarts with accessible camping spots.

Now re-zoom on the St Augustine area for Thunder Run Bike Week.   Wammo, instant camping at Appalachacola National Forest less than an hour away.

I LIKE this app a lot --- we can go ANYWHERE we want to, by easy daily stages.   The price is right and we can share a location with the group and arrange meet up times to say howdy to the locals.

Carry a water bottle, a roll of toilet paper and a single person tent  (no per tent $20 charges to worry about) and this app on both your cell phones and GO PLACES.

Pop up tents are out as they twist/fold up into huge 32" diameter round things (a shape that is a really poor fit on a bike).   Plus, Amazon had a manly looking green "2 person tent"  (that is really just a one person tent) for $15.99 that folds and rolls into a normal sized single tent roll.   Wally sells the same tent at the same price, but you pay shipping or wait for in-store delivery, so Amazon Prime makes some sense here.

So it takes 5-10 minutes to put up, big deal .....        



Pop test -- take your new favorite app and click on the Dragon           Count them, three (3) freebee camping sites with a total of 12-15 slots within easy reach of the Dragon.
Two of them are on Tapco road actually closer in to the Dragon than Robinsville (go downhill to breakfast at Huddle House in Robinsville?)

Me, I'm just planning for the excursions you don't go on, like the two day easy riding trip to get to your house so we can go to Lancer's.



Try to find one of those chairs that can take 287 pounds on loose dirt without folding up on you.

They do make them, but they cost more.   Got one headed my way as we speak.

I found a "motion detector" at Harbor Freight that I like.  put the detector at the tent door and the receiver next to my head.  ...  Under $20.oo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fldxCN_AkOQ

Only thing , ya have to pull/disconnect the 9V battery in the receiver when your not using it.   But its easy to do .  

Make me sleep easier when I don't have a dog.






 

verslagen1 wrote on 12/09/16 at 20:46:14:


Mine gets good reviews from fat people ......  has a 300 lb max weight mostly due to the oversized foot thingies that don't sink down into the dirt.

It is a little taller than the one you bought, but you are more flexible than I am.

OF, I almost bought that chair w/out the knobby feet. 27 vs 55
but I'm particular about the kind of chair I sit in.
I'm really uncomfortable in the standard directors type chair.
I used to have a 3 legged sling chair that I liked but lost it.
I've sat in the chair you got and think I could be comfortable...
except for the 55 bucks.  

 
For your wife, to show her that you love her and care about her worries ....

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.life360.android.safetymapd&hl=
en

Give her a better tool to know where your butt is located (except when you are off the grid up in the high mountains, of course).

Now whenever your dot stops moving (or it disappears completely) she can worry even more .....




A bit more practical, if you are on a group trip and get separated, you can maybe find the other group a wee bit easier.

This has only happened 6-8 times with the Savage trips .....        

Oldfeller--FSO wrote on 12/10/16 at 13:32:20:


You did notice that it will tell my wife when I am accelerating aggressively, or speeding....or braking hard.

I can't believe that you think this will make my wife feel good - she most likely will get nearly 900 alerts from one pass on the Tail of the Dragon!

old.indian wrote on 12/10/16 at 13:36:09:

I think i'm gonna get a cheap chair, get a piece of wood and make my own rocker.