Got out for a short weekend trip to the Everglades. Stayed at Long Pine Key Campground in Everglades National Park. Nice Campground and central to a lot of hiking and biking trails.
Tested out our bike hauling solution with the trailer and it worked perfect. Kids bikes go loaded on the 1-up rack in the trailer and tied down. This way when we get to camp we just pull the whole thing out and put the rack on the car to hold/lock/transport the bikes. The adult bikes go on the roof of the 4runner.
Air conditioner with the goal zero didn’t work as well as planned. Luckily the temps at night dropped to the upper 60’s. The a/c was pulling way more wattage then the trial (700 watts with compressor running). This would only allow for about 3 hours of total run time. Running as a fan only we could get 18-20 hours. We were also pulling 50-75 watts of solar during the day so we had no problem keeping up with the fan. Guess we’ll need electrical hookups for Florida summer camping, but it’s better than no options at all.
We also got to check out the NIKE missile base that was used as a line of defense during the Cold War. Very cool tour if anyone is ever down at Everglades National Park.
Overall we are only liking this trailer more and more each time we take it out. We have a couple more short trial trips planned to work out packing, necessities and efficiency before the big one this summer...
South Florida - Colorado - Moab - Bryce - Zion - Yosemite - Grand Canyon

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