Car Camping

Travel off the grid and explore the world with this ultimate guide to vehicle-based adventure travel, perfect for beginner and intermediate adventurers alike. Overlanding 101 is the first and ultimate guide to vehicle-based adventure travel. Authored by renowned adventure traveler Scott Brady...

Three stories in one collection! This volume includes The Amusement Park Mystery, The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Zoo, and The Camp-Out Mystery. In The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Zoo, the zoo is wonderful - it has seals and giraffes and elephants and tigers, and Benny’s favorite, a little monkey named Amos. It also has a mystery. Someone is mixing up signs, switching off electricity, and endangering the animals’ lives. If the Boxcar Children want to save the animals, they’ll have to solve the mystery - and fast!

Be the star of your own epic road trip! Renegade Car Camping will give you the knowledge and strategies you need to cut loose from crowded campgrounds and experience an adventurous, inexpensive tour through the Great American West and beyond. Discover how to find free car campsites on public lands and in questionable areas. Learn how to locate primitive hot springs, navigate the Couchsurfing website, and stay clean, well-fed, and digitally-connected. With over two decades of experience in extended cross-country travel, Bryan and his intrepid Jeep Charlie have amassed a wealth of information...

Ready to hit the road and explore the outdoors — but unsure where to start? The Guide to SUV and RV Camping is your ultimate companion for discovering the freedom, flexibility, and joy of vehicle-based travel. Whether you’re planning weekend getaways, long-haul adventures, or just testing the waters of mobile living, this newly updated guide offers everything you need to make your first (or next) trip a success. This revised edition is packed with practical advice, beginner-friendly tips, and real-world insight into the SUV and RV lifestyle — including how to choose the right vehicle,...

A pair of hiking boots, a dog leash, and a severance check- Is this his path to enlightenment and self-discovery? Tom's sense of identity is spinning like a windmill in a cyclone. He’s been sacked from his job as a therapist. This prompts an epic soul-searching expedition with his faithful four-legged furball companion. What starts as a camping trip for contemplation takes a drastic turn, leaving him hopelessly lost in the wilds of New Jersey's Pine Barrens. Tom’s quest for self-enlightenment is becoming risky. Amid the creatures and chaos of the untamed wilderness, there's one constant...

Have you ever heard of “car camping” or “van life”? As simple as it sounds, it is the act of spending the night in a car while traveling instead of in a hotel. In the past few years, car camping has become very popular in the United States. I started car camping about five years ago and have been addicted to it since then. Recently, I went on a trip across the West Coast with my lovely companions, Mocha and Latte, who were both rescue dogs. I danced my favorite salsa in various places from Los Angeles to Seattle. I also stayed at the spiritually famous Mt. Shasta during my trip. In ...

Grandfather is taking the Aldens on a camping trip. The children enjoy the camp-out—setting up the tent, hiking in the woods, and especially making delicious food over the campfire. But some strange things begin to happen. Loud music plays in the middle of the night. Their lantern disappears. And then they receive a frightening note. It looks like the Boxcar Children have another mystery to solve!

¿Alguna vez has oído hablar de "car camping" (“acampar en auto”) o "vanlife" (Vida en camioneta”)? Tan simple como suena, es el acto de pasar la noche en un automóvil mientras viajas en lugar de un hotel. En los últimos años, acampar en auto se ha vuelto muy popular en los Estados Unidos. Empecé acampando en auto hace unos cinco años y soy adicta desde entonces. Recientemente, hice un viaje por la costa oeste con mis adorables compañeros, Mocha y Latte, que eran perros de rescate. Bailé mi salsa favorita en varios lugares desde Los Ángeles hasta Seattle. También me quedé ...

COLD, THE 1918-19 SIBERIAN ESCAPE OF CAPTAIN EWALD LOEFFLER, a novel by Rick Schmidt, follows a young German soldier, Ewald Loeffler, as he struggles to traverse 5000km of frozen and barren land across Siberia, to finally reach Germany and his family home. After he'd been in a Siberian prison camp for four years, the guards suddenly deserted their posts to join the Russian Revolution in Moscow, leaving the prisoners to fend for themselves. Loeffler, in the minority of those who survived such extreme cold and other human dangers, tells a harrowing tale of just keeping alive, one day at a ...

Embrace adventures both big and small and pursue your wild ideas with this “profoundly inspiring and laugh-out-loud funny” (Jaimal Yogis, author of The Fear Project) guidebook from seasoned adventurer and podcaster Shelby Stanger. Will to Wild is an instruction manual to adventure. Your...

Three complete stories in one collection! Includes The Summer Camp Mystery, The Copycat Mystery, and The Haunted Clock Tower Mystery.

Discover what it’s really like to live and work on the road in a camper van full time from eco-vanlifer and founder of the Diversify Vanlife movement, Noami Grevemberg. Feeling dissatisfied with her office job and her “stationary home,” in 2016 Noami Grevemberg took a bold step. She quit...

The Boxcar Children know how much work it takes to live in the wilderness. They also know how much fun it can be! The children love exploring and learning new things at a primitive skills summer camp. But when strange things start happening around the camp, they need to use another of their favorite skills - mystery solving!

Ride along with author Tom Cotter and photographer Michael Alan Ross as they pilot their Ford Bronco/Airstream Basecamp combination 8,881 miles along the lower 48’s back roads and byways. Tom Cotter has spent decades ferreting out lost “barn find” collector cars. The process has made him...

Carsick is the New York Times bestselling chronicle of a cross-country hitchhiking journey with America's most beloved weirdo. John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a pencil-thin mustache, and a cardboard sign that reads "I'm Not Psycho," he hitchhikes across America from...

The complete, confidence-building guide to tent camping designed for families, friends, beginners, and all ages. Whether you’re a first-time camper, a group of friends, a parent planning weekend adventures, or a grandparent ready to share the joy of the outdoors, Tent Camping for All Ages makes every step simple and rewarding. Inside, you’ll find: Step-by-step guidance on choosing the right camping essentials, including your new tent, gear, and selecting the best campsites for your adventure Packing checklists including campsite and tent setup tips for all experience levels Practical ...

Henry, Jessie, Violet and Bennie Alden arrive at Camp Seagull, eager to begin a new week of making friends and participate in the annual camp Olympics. But someone is determined that they won't win! Can they find out who before the Olympics is ruined for everyone?

Set against the backdrop of WWII, this achingly beautiful middle grade novel in verse based on American history presents the dual perspectives of Claire, a Midwestern girl who longs to enter high school and become a nurse even as she worries for her soldier brother, and Karl, a German POW...

John Grogan wrote this adaptation of his #1 New York Times bestselling Marley & Me just for kids. In his own words, here is the heartwarming and unforgettable story of how this big, rambunctious dog becomes the heart of the Grogan family. Meet Marley, a yellow furball of a puppy who quickly...

When Jessie and her friends decide to go camping as part of the Weekend in the Woods event, it doesn't take long for them to start discovering strange clues that could have something to do with a hiker who went missing years ago. Soon after they begin their investigation, they start receiving threatening messages from someone who wants them out of the woods―immediately. Could someone be trying to cover up what really happened to the missing hiker? It's up to Jessie to dig up the truth.