Episodes

Fall Gear Guide – Part Two On this week’s show I continue my Fall Gear Guide. Last week we covered all of the things having to do with Food Fun. This week we are moving on to cover all the other gear relating to camping and glamping.

It’s that time of year again and I am sharing my favorite gear from my summer camping adventures. I am starting off this two part series with all things food!! My favorite things that made prepping, cooking, serving and eating better!

On this week’s show I have the honor of interviewing a woman I greatly admire, Vicki Hill. Vicki is an avid hiker, outdoors-woman and experienced Car Camper. She keeps her trips as simple as possible in order to keep her focus on what she is there to ...

On this weeks show I welcome Joel Holland, owner and COO of Harvest Hosts, a network of wineries, farms and unique locations that offer overnight parking for fully contained RV’s. Joel and his wife took an extended RV vacation crossing the country and ...

This summer I took my youngest on a Mother / Daughter road trip from New Jersey to the western side of Colorado to camp in the Grand Mesa National Forest. It was my hope to teach her to tow, something she was not excited about.

On this weeks show I’m sharing Jason Stevenson’s Ten Hiking Blunders Beginners Make. Jason is the author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Backpacking and Hiking.Jason wrote the article for Backpacker Magazine.

Today I am looking more closely at the Leave No Trace Program. I have always thought that the program was a single directive, “take out what you brought in.” Gail Bable, Ohio State University certified Naturalist and Beaver Creek State Park Camp Host i...

In July I had the opportunity to camp at Mill Creek Campground in Mackinac City, Michigan when Liberty Outdoors hosted its annual Tear Stock event there. It’s a large family owned campground started in 1965 and is still owned by the same family toda...

On this week’s show I welcome my very own real life sister Natalie Hill. Natalie is a wife, mom and the founder of Holdyou Foundation, the official charity of the Girl Camper Podcast. Besides being incredibly altruistic she’s my only sibling that camps...

On this week’s show I am continuing my exploration of all the available trailer types out there for Girl Campers and everyone else and this time it’s my personal favorite, the Teardrop trailer. Born in the 1930’s as a mobile shelter for the Great Depre...

There are so many places I want to camp in and foreign countries make that list as well. When I see pictures of New Zealand I always imagine myself there. My sister lived there at one time and I have many friends who have traveled there on vacations bu...

On this week’s show I am taking a fresh look at ways in which to find money for travel and possibly a trailer purchase. RV travel is the most budget friendly way to see the country. It offers a flexibility that resorts and hotels cannot.

On this weeks show it’s my pleasure to welcome Laura Fahrenthold, author of the Pink Steering Wheel Chronicles. Laura and her husband, Mark Pittman were living their dream life in New York. They were both writers,

My topic on this week’s podcast is forming a regional Girl Camping group and my guest is Sharon Cormican, co founder of the Rocky Mountain Glampers. Sharon is a member of several Girl Camping groups but was looking for more regional camp outs with wome...

On this week’s show I am talking about dry camping and I also welcome a VERY special guest, my own husband and patron of my hobbies, Rick Pettit. Regular followers of the show know he’s “not a camper!” He is however a great husband and a couple times a...

On today’s show I am talking towing technology with Brian Bell, the Ford Marketing Manager for F150’s and the Ford Ranger. Each week in my mail bag I receive letters from women wishing to hit the road in an RV and they often express the same fear – to...

On Part Two of my interview with Karen Peterson, solo woman traveler, I ask Karen the questions that wannabe solo travelers submitted on line. Many people are drawn to the open road and adventure. They seek the opportunity to spend significant amounts ...

On this week’s podcast I interview Karen Peterson on her path to becoming a full time solo woman RVer. Karen took a look at her retirement income and the travel she wanted to do. She knew that if she kept her brick and mortar house she would have to li...

https://girlcamper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Grand-Mesa-Colorado.mp3 On todays Podcast I welcome Mike Wenner, owner of the Grand Mesa Lodge on top of the largest flat topped mountain in the world. Mike chucked corporate life,

To listen to this weeks podcast, click the arrow below. https://girlcamper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Girl-Camper-Mini-Max.mp3 On this week’s show I am reviewing the Mini Max trailer by Little Guy Trailers. I recently took the Mini Max,

On this weeks show we are continuing our exploration of the different types of RVs available and their advantages and disadvantages. My guest is Class B owner Carole Steinberg who has been full timing in her Mercedes Sprinter for four years now.

To listen to the podcast, click the arrow below. On today’s show I have some tips for keeping your RV refrigerator clean and organized. RV refrigerators do not work like a home refrigerator. They don’t have a circulating fan to move the cool air around them. When you open an RV fridge to get something, […]

To listen to this week’s podcast, click the arrow below! https://girlcamper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Girl-Camper-2018-Petite-3.mp3 On this weeks show I’m talking about using your vacation as an opportunity to hit the reset button on bad eating habits. After the long, long winter most of the country experienced in 2017-2018 I had really fallen into a bad sugar and snacking […]

To listen to today’s podcast, click on the arrow. https://girlcamper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Girl-Camper-Petite-Podcast-2.mp3 On this weeks show I am answering follower Julie’s question about the realities of long term travel. Julie wrote in: “Dear Janine, I’ve been following your Texas trip and it looks like you are having so much fun. I’m wondering what the “down” side of […]