These Coleman tent stakes are just wonderful. The other night, I slept out in my old orange tent, and boy was it windy! The rain fly was just all over with that wind. It is a good thing that I had these Coleman stakes on hand, otherwise, the tent surely would have been ripped out of the ground. These stakes are very firm in the ground and are very strong. I got these at Walmart for a couple bucks so I thought "what the heck". I needed them any
way so I bought them expecting "Walmart standards out of them, but from what I saw, they work rather nicely!

This Coleman sleeping bag is water proof unless it is soaking wet. The bag is good for cold weather 10-30 degrees, as shown on the bag, but not for extreme cold. If winter camping is your thing or you are headed for the Arctic Circle, you will want to keep looking. But, for most normal camping use, this bag will keep you warm and dry for a reasonable price. I have spent many nights in this bag and have no complaints about it at all.

The words Walmart, cheap, and unreliable usually go together like peanut butter and jelly. Not in this case. This is the "Ozark Trail" camping lantern. This is a really good lantern that was selling for a good price so I bought It. When I got home, I found that it was rechargeable, that is good because you don't have to run to Target to pick up another set of batteries every time it dies. You just have to plug it in and let it charge for about 4 or 5 hours. It includes a car charger so you can recharge it in your car to so that is cool to but the question still remains, How bright is it? it is very bright and stays bright for several hours before the bulb starts to go dim. How long it stays bright rely depends on how long you charge it. like if you charge it for 6 hours, it might stay bright for between 18 and 12 hours so it's a good lantern. My first experience with Ozark trail was negative because of that tent but this lantern changes that around. I rely like it!

New Coleman Sundome Tent

Yesterday, I bought a Coleman Sundome 4 person tent from Amazon. This tent gets high marks from Amazon reviewers, and I am pretty excited about finding that package on my door step in a couple of days. After the tent arrives, I will be updating this post with a review and pictures.

The spring camping season is here and the new Coleman is just what I need to start the 2012 season. So, if the Mayans are right and the world ends on December 21st, I will be going out after a great summer of Tent Adventures with the Coleman Sundome. Sweet!!

This is the tent that I had for the remainder of the summer of 2011. It is 7 by 9 feet. It is an Embark dome tent that sleeps 4 people. It's a family tent. I spent $54 on this tent and hated it all summer long. The reason I hated this tent is because water leaked in through the zipper on the door. I tried so many things to fix that and nothing worked. I would suggest staying away from this tent and do your home work on other family sized tents because this one isn't the one. I got this tent on July 14 2011 and hated it by July 18 because it leaks water in several spots including the back. 2011 wasn't a good tenting year for me because I had 3 different tents with problems.

This Tent is a Walmart brand tend known as "Ozark Trail". This is the tent I bought after my red one from the last review broke. I bought this tent for $25. This tent gets three and a half stars on Walmart.com but I would only give it two. The reason is that it is 7 feet by 7 feet. That may sound large but when it is set up in front of you, you will think different. I only had this tent for about two weeks in July and by then I was so sick of it, I donated it and bought another Target brand tent, but I will talk about that in my next review. This tent is good for a couple of 7 year old kids. That's it. But I will say that it is very easy to set up and I think they are selling this 2011 model again this year.

This is a 2010 Target brand tent known as "Embark". Embark tents aren't the greatest tents in the world but this is an exception. This is a 7 by 9 foot tent that sleeps two people. It's life average is about 1 to 2 years. I bought this tent at Target for about $30 and man was it worth it. This tent will keep you completely dry,and, it is a bath tub bottom. There are no tie down straps to trip on, you just have to hammer the seven shaped stakes into the ground. I slept out in this tent several times in the summer of 2010 and loved it. I slept out in it so much, that by the time June of 2011 was around, the strip of fabric where the poles
plug in had tore the sides of the tent out from the stress of the poles. I don't think that they make this tent any more, but if you find one on the internet, I would suggest buying it for a reasonable price. You won't regret it.

Hello, I am really excited for summer. Every summer I buy a tent and set it up in the back yard or take it some place else. On this blog you can find reviews on tents, brands, sleeping bags and lanterns. My real posting will start in late May when school is out and should continue to about late August. Right now, I am just setting up the blog. Sorry if it isn't that fancy but please check back around May.