Introduction

I'm Natasha, a five year old Russian Tortoise and I travel all over the United States camping with my human companions.  The purpose of our blog is to share our travel adventures with everyone, good or bad.  We will post reviews of areas we visit, camping hints, recipes, helpful camping tools, and also include our Geocaching adventures. 

Today's helpful hint:  When traveling make sure your waste water valve is tightly closed every time you stop for a break when driving.  The extension bar may unscrew itself with all the bumps on the road.  This can cause it to either break off or bend.  You can also get rid of the extension bar and screw the handle directly onto the post on the waste valve and not use the extension bar. 

Recipe of the day: 

Sore Thumbs




Ingredients:  Crescent Rolls
                     fruit filling, marshmallows, chocolate
                     long dowel rod about 1" thick or an old broom handle
                     cooking spray such as Pam
                     fire with hot coals

How to:  1. generously coat one end of a cleaned wooden rod with cooking spray. 
               2.  take two triangles of crescent rolls (made into a square) and wrap it around the sprayed end making sure to enclose the end.  It only needs to be approximately 4" inches of the end.  
               3.  hold over the fire just as you would with marshmallows taking care to rotate slowly so that it cooks evenly and doesn't burn.
               4.  when the crescent roll dough is evenly brown and no longer spongy to the touch gently slide it off of the pole
               5.  fill the pocket "thumb" with filling of your choice
               6. Enjoy!
              

Our most recent trip was to Pymatuning Adventure Resort.  Look for that adventure in tomorrow's blog posting.