When you are all alone in the middle of the wilderness, how do you hook-up a camper to your car’s hitching ball?

If the camper is not secured, you will be stranded in the middle of nowhere. I found a simple method, using a web cam dangling from the back of the car and viewing its image of the hitching post on my laptop resting on the front seat.

I used to camp in my tent when I visited the dark sky site of the Astronomical Society of Kansas City, in Butler , MO. While this was cheap, it was always a bit of a hassle, both in the set up and the tear down.

The tent condenses moisture at night which takes forever to dry off in the morning, when you want to tear down. No amount of hiding under the sleeping bag seems to keep me warm enough at night when the temperatures of the dark, winter sky drop well below freezing, and in the summer, the heat, humidity and bugs are ever present.