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My blog is dedicated to folding trailers (AKA PopUps or PUP’s). Hopefully non-PUP owners will find some of the posts of interest/value.

I’ll cover equipment, modifications, maintenance, camping stories, and of course SPUT’s (Stupid Pop Up Tricks). Please forgive my rants & raves and posts on my camping buddy – my granddaughter.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I try and keep the post short but augment them with pictures from my SmugMug gallery.

Enjoy.

He Ruide

I’ve never been this happy to be this disappointed

Posted 05-31-2009 at 01:24 AM by heruide

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Back in April DW declared that we should go camping. Now this was really strange since several years ago she had also declared that she would never camp again before Mother’s day. This declaration occurred after we camped in Kentucky in the middle of April and ran into this snow storm.
However, since we returned to Cincinnati we both had been burning the candles at both ends and she wanted some down time.

So I was really excited and quickly made CG...

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Three Flashing Lights

Posted 05-17-2009 at 11:35 PM by heruide

Went to sleep last night with my Atwood furnace working well but at 3:00 AM I heard the furnace blower come on and the ignition tried three times with out the furnace lighting. This occurred a couple times and I figured out I was out of propane.

Now DW doesn't really like the cold and I really wanted her to wake up to a toasty PUP, so I got dressed and when outside into the freezing cold to switch over to another propane tank.

However, I learned the hard...

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Changing a hitch ball with the assistance of my good friend Murphy

Posted 03-21-2009 at 12:42 PM by heruide
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A couple weekends ago I had the simple task of removing my 2 5/16 inch hitch ball and replacing it with a 2 inch ball so I could haul all the things DW and I collected during the last eight months from Houston to my home in Cincinnati in a Uhaul trailer.

This was going to be a very simple task with four steps:

1. Remove the nut and lock washer from the existing hitch ball shank
2. Remove the 2 5/16 hitch ball
3. Insert a 2 inch ball...

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Do you use SunGuard while camping/hiking?

Posted 02-26-2009 at 10:47 AM by heruide
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I recently had to attend a discharge class from MD Anderson Cancer clinic. The nurse who conducted the class put the fear of God into all of us - recent stem cell transplant patients. She had lots of stories of folks that did not listen to her advice and subsequently paid the price… including death - not from cancer, but infections, pneumonia, food poisoning, yard work, or complications from Graft versus Host decease.

I’ve taken her recommendations to heart....

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Time to help out one of our own

Posted 02-03-2009 at 10:38 AM by heruide

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I have been the recipient of a lot of goodwill, best wishes, thoughts and prayers during my fight with cancer. This has come from folks that I’ve never met and yet through the medium of the internet, follow campers have reached out to me. For this I’m extremely thankful and appreciative.

Now I have a fellow camper that has an opportunity and I hope we can help him out.

Ray Cooper, Tigard Organ owns an Evolution 3 (show in the picture...

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