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How To: Quick, Easy Car and Tent Camping With the Toyota Prius Prime

In this article I will show you how to camp with your Toyota Prius Prime and a tent, doing so in a quick and easy manner. This method will actually work with any small car. But the point is that you’ll be able to load and unload your car in a quick fashion, with minimal, lightweight gear, circumventing the burden …

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El Capitan State Beach – Car and Tent Campsite Review

I’ve car+tent camped at El Capitan State Beach, CA a total of 3 times in unique campsite locations, and have day-visited half a dozen other times. So I think I’ve started to get enough of a feel for the place to say something about it, in a review. Here’s what I’ve found so far. Where is El Capitan State Beach, …

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Maximizing Fuel Efficiency When Car Camping with the Prius Prime

Currently here in Southern California, it’s not uncommon to drive by the gas station and see some 6 or 7 dollar figures lit up on the sign, warning you not to wander off too far, unless you want to buy some Saudi oil prince a new Rolex. Let’s take a look at how we can maximize our fuel efficiency, so …

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How To: Prius Prime Car Camping at Reserved Campgrounds

In this manual, I’ll show you how we pull off tent based camping at formal campgrounds using a Toyota Prius Prime as our one and only camp vehicle. We mostly camp up and down the California coast (sometimes a bit inland, like Paradise Campground in Las Padres), but I will generalize this manual for any formal, reserved camping at established …