Freedom in a Can: Adventures with Hamlet

What are your Green Goals for 2023?  Whether they involve reducing your home energy bills, living lighter on the planet, or finding your off-grid happy place, digging into your solar DIY project this winter is a sure way to brighten your outlook for 2023!   For over a decade, we’ve been living and traveling with solar in our little vintage camper named Hamlet.  We’ve been lucky enough to explore all 50 states, 10 Canadian provinces, and have visited nearly every U.S. national park and more public lands than we can count…all powered  nearly 100% by solar!  We kicked off 2022 with some van camping in Hawaii, spent the summer/early fall in Alaska and northwestern Canada, and are now helping some friends in Oregon build out a new REGO solar powered system on their travel trailer.  Whatever environment brings YOU joy, Renogy solar components will power your way forward!   Have we inspired YOU to get your solar DIY groove on?  Your timing is...

Back in the Lower 48! As we re-entered Washington state just a few days ago, we reflected on all that we'd experienced along the way to and from our 50th state.  It's a humbling and impossible task to try and encompass, in a few words, the enormity of this experience.   We feel so fortunate and grateful to have been able to go and explore it for ourselves.  Gas prices be damned, we aren't going to remember the extra money we spent, but seeing the sun shining on the Matanuska Glacier as we drive into autumn along the Glenn Highway -- that's with us for the rest of our lives.   Many of our worries about traveling along such a long a road,  just the two of us, simply didn't become an issue.  The road surface was rough at times, but nothing close to our imagination when we heard fear whispering in our ears.  The bears were plentiful, but seemed uninterested in our presence.  And Hamlet, our 65 year old trailer, handled everything the road th...