This episode breaks down the lighting system I rely on after years of forgetting flashlights and stumbling through camp in the dark. I walk through the exact lanterns that earned a permanent place in my pack, how they work, and why they matter for safety, comfort, and night movement.
Today’s conversation is all about practical lighting in camp. I walk through the lanterns I actually use, why each one has a job, and how they’ve held up in real weather, river nights, and deep woods trips. From ultralight inflatable solar lanterns to heavy basecamp chargers, I break down what each one is for and why I keep them in my kit.
Gear Mentioned (Remember to add affiliate links):
• LuminAID Lantern – your main work light
• LuminAID Titan – heavier, brighter, doubles as a battery bank
• Luci (BioLite rebrand) inflatable solar lantern
• Blavor Power Station Lantern
• Unbranded solar USB crank lantern
• Tea light can DIY example
• Headlamp and small LED flashlight
• Page references in your book (Page 70–73 sections)
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Welcome to the Primitive
Camping and Bushcraft Podcast.
I'm your host, Chris Speir.
So here we're gonna talk about gear,
Grit and the kind of stories
you only get around a fire.
It's all about learning, adapting
and keeping your faith strong.
So whether you're a seasoned outdoorsman
or just looking to unplug and reconnect,
you're in the right place.
So pull up a chair by the
fire and let's get into it.
All right, welcome back
to the Primitive
Camping and Bushcraft Podcast.
My name's Chris Speir
and we are underneath the
tarp of Camp Wut-Da-Heck
Today is Monday.
It is just a few short
days away from Thanksgiving.
We have a lot to be thankful for.
It does not matter who you are.
It doesn't matter where you are.
It doesn't matter what ethnicity you are.
It doesn't matter where
your social statuses are.
It does not matter any of these things,
these earthly things do not matter.
We all have something to be thankful for.
So moving on with that, I am thankful
when I get to go camping
that I have a couple of these devices
that we're gonna talk about.
I'm fixing to set it all up.
And so we're doing it.
I'm setting up a new
structure for everything.
We're ironing out all the kinks.
I'm ironing out all the
little things here and there
and it's starting to slowly transition
into a smooth setup.
So what my new model is
going to be here fourth
is we're gonna do the podcast on Monday.
Then Tuesday we're
gonna release a short video
on the same subject.
Wednesday is gonna be a
blog post on the website
on the same subject.
Thursday is gonna be a
short video on the same subject.
Friday is gonna be the
fundamental Friday video
on the primitive camping and bushcraft
YouTube page about the same subject
that we do the podcast on.
And then it all
starts over the next Monday
on the next subject, the next topic.
So we're gonna spend a whole week
on what we're discussing today.
And today we're talking
about candling devices
We're talking about lanterns.
I am the king of
leaving my flashlight at home.
And for any of you guys
that have ever been camping with me,
specifically David,
(laughs)
you know, he knows that I
consistently leave a flashlight
but I always bring
these other devices with me
and I want to really, I
really wanna lay this out
and I wanna show you
guys the significance
of having a lantern with you.
Now, I stopped using
lanterns that require gas
or fuel or anything a long time ago
because it requires extra weight.
It is extra weight that you
have to pack in or pack out.
Then they started having
the propane bottle lanterns
that lasted pretty good bit
and are a little bit lighter weight.
That's fine and dandy.
But then I moved up
and I found other ways
to light my campsite.
So let's get in, let's
touch on that a little bit
because, you know, in
the daylight, you're fine.
In the daylight, you're good.
You can see everything.
The night, whenever
your light comes to an end
and it starts to become dark outside
and you can't see anything,
you don't have a light or anything,
it becomes a safety concern
is what it really
becomes, what it boils down to.
You cannot perceive depth perception.
You can't see
different things in your camp.
You cannot see roots.
You can't see the ground.
You can't see your hand.
How many times have you
ever been in the pitch dark
and you went to scratch
your eye or rub your face
or something in a pitch
start and you poked your eye
because you didn't know
how far away your finger was?
Raise your hand.
I've done it.
And if I'm the only one
that's ever done that,
something is wrong, you know?
(laughs)
Something is wrong.
So I have done that in the pit start
and I have tripped in the pitch dark.
How many of you have got up at nighttime
to go to the restroom?
You don't have a nightlight at your house
and you walk into the bathroom
because you know which direction it is.
You've walked that route a million times.
You walk with your eyes closed
because you're
visualizing how to walk to the door
and you reach out, you touch the door,
you swing the door open.
You know how many times
have you stubbed your toe
in the cabinet or something like that
at the tip, the edge of your bed.
And it always happens at nighttime
when you don't have light.
Now that is the big issue,
is that light becomes a safety issue
whenever you're camping
because you can't see
a hole, you can trip,
you can break an
ankle, you can break a leg.
You don't see that bluff that's right
there over your river.
You can fall off the
bluff down into the river.
It becomes a safety hazard.
And in the daylight, none of this matters
because you can see it all.
Every decision you
make at night slows down.
Your eyes stop giving you the information
that you need to make the
decisions that you need.
So without all this
information, you hesitate,
you misjudge, you can trip over a route,
you can, you know, you
walk right into that guy line.
Now, how many of you,
whether you've got landers or not,
walk into the guy line a
hundred times off of your tarp,
raise your hand.
Me, that's me.
I've done it a million times.
So when you forget a flashlight
and all you have is the firelight,
you can get that
information, but you're still,
you still are only
getting part of the information.
All right, so nothing changes
between the night and the dark.
Nothing changes.
Your camp's still set up the same way.
The woods are still the same exact way.
The trees are in the same location.
You do not process that information.
You can't see where everything is.
And so whenever the
darkness starts to take over
for the night, the moon comes up,
you get a little bit of moonlight.
How many times have you
been camping on a full moon
or a fuller moon?
And it is so bright outside
that you can see without a light.
When we're driving up and down the river,
it is a lot easier at nighttime
to just have your red and green
navigation lights on
and your clear light
in the back of your boat
and drive with no other lights
because you can see clearer
with the gathered light on the river,
with the reflection of
the light and all that.
Now, it's not to say
that you can't hit a log.
I've done that before.
I run into a sandbar.
I've done that before too.
It's no fun hitting a
sandbar at full throttle
at a 40 horsepower
engine, a tiller handle,
and then everybody get
thrown out of the boat.
And that's pretty much happened one time.
But you know, it is,
you can see a lot better.
Now, if you turn that light on,
you're conflicting yourself
because that light
you're trying to concentrate
on the brightness of that light.
Does it help?
Yes, it does, but it actually hinders you
from seeing the whole picture.
You can only see what that
light is that you're shining.
I keep hitting this microphone.
So, but anyway, back to the camp.
So what we need is a simple, reliable way
to light up our camp besides fire.
Now I've camped many
nights alone on the river
with just a fire and no lanterns.
I've done it.
I've camped many nights alone on a river
with just a fire and no flashlight.
I've done it.
I've been there.
I've done that.
And I just like the
convenience of having a light
to be able to see around camp.
There's another issue that it gives you
a false sense of security.
If you can see what's happening,
you feel more secure.
And to a lot of
individuals that's not used
to camping in the great
outdoors by themselves,
they can have a,
almost like a sense of fear,
like they're sort of
apprehensive or afraid
of what's in the dark
because they don't have
the information to see what's out there.
They can't see something coming.
They can't see.
And a lot of your predators,
a lot of your game animals,
a lot of stuff is
moving around at nighttime
under the concealment of
dark and they get their food,
they get their stuff.
These guys are made different.
They can see.
They can see, they can
smell, they know where you are.
They can walk all
around you and be very quiet
and you never even see them.
But there's instances where
people can feel less secure
at nighttime and a light or
some kind of candling device
actually makes it to
where you feel more secure.
Now, I'm going to
throw this one out there
first and foremost.
I talked about this
with Chris on the phone,
up in, he's up in
Illinois, member of the group.
And we were talking about
how you take a tea light candle
and you open up a pop can for all you guys up north,
a soda can for all you guys down south
or a Coke can for all you in Mississippi.
And, or in Mississippi,
there you hit some Bud Light can.
You know, well anyway,
you cut it in the middle,
you know, about two thirds of the way up,
you cut a line straight down
to about a third of the way
to the bottom and then, or
maybe a quarter of a way.
And then you make little door hinges
and then you open it up and then that will expose the air
and then you open it up
and then that will expose
the inside of this can.
And then you light your tea light candle
and you stick it inside
that can and stick it up there.
I have tested how many lumens that is
and I don't have an
example to show you right now.
But you see this all the time
on these fake survival skill videos.
Yeah, it's great, but how
many times are you going to just
carry a tea light candle?
Am I wrong?
Do you carry a tea light
candle with you in the woods?
I don't know if you guys have any
comments of this video
or this podcast, but it
will produce some light.
It will give you some light.
It is not going to
give you a lot of light.
You would need
several of these, you know,
how many of you remember
before they started gauging
everything and lumens,
everything was candle power.
You know, growing up in the woods,
we would get a new
flashlight and it'd be like,
oh man, this has one
million candle power.
And I know you know
what I'm talking about,
unless it was the,
what do they call that?
The butterfly effect or
what do they call that effect,
something effect that it never really
happened or whatever.
But no, I can remember flashlights
whenever you had a spotlight
to come out and have
one million candle power
and it was extremely bright and you
spotlight from here to,
you know, 10 acres across.
That was the equivalent
of one million candles
inside that handheld device.
All right.
That's how they equated that.
That's where that come from.
One million candle power.
So if you have one candle, you can light
up just a little bit.
You know, it's probably
not even 65 lumens now.
They changed it over
to lumens and you know,
it's the lumens that light
up everything you're getting.
The lumens are the value that they
measure how bright something is.
And if I'm wrong, correct me, let me know
because I'm just going
off the top of my head.
I don't even have any of this stuff that
we're talking about scripted out.
So, but anyway, let me know in the
comments or something like that.
But if they judge it by the lumens and
that little device right there
can give you some light.
I need to go out and record a video and
post it here showing you how
bright that candle could be.
I think I'll probably do
that in the next week or two.
So, all right.
Moving on from that.
So now I'm typically the guy that leaves
the flashlight at home.
But when it gets dark, I
always remember in my backpack
to bring one of these
little extra devices.
And I talk about it in
my book on page 70 and 71.
If you're watching the video, I'm holding
the book up here
showing you on page 70 and 71
under the miscellaneous items.
And there I talk about like a headlamp.
The headlamp, it uses batteries.
It uses three AAA batteries.
It don't weigh much, but
it is extremely useful.
And I put in there, I can't tell you how
many times I forgot to
pack replacement batteries
or forgot to pack the
flashlight for my trip anyway.
A small LED flashlight
is good to take with you.
But let's get over here.
A multi-tool, synthetic materials.
So, on page 73, 72, I discussed the
Lumenade solar lanterns
and how they're waterproof and how they
really help with
visibility around your camp.
And so, these things are amazing.
They're great.
And I wanted to really touch on them
today and demonstrate
them here on the podcast
and the podcast video.
So, if you're not watching the podcast
videos, go to the Primitive Camping and
Bushcraft YouTube page and look at the
videos because it's
describing everything.
I'm showing everything that I'm talking
about on this podcast.
So, in my hand, what I have now is the
Lucy Empowered, the Lucy Outdoor
Empowered solar lantern.
This thing will raise not even three
ounces, not even four ounces.
It's less than three ounces.
Now, this little device, it inflates like
a swimming pool noodle.
You have to pull this little thing out
and then it has that
inflatable thing where you blow it.
And let's see if I can do this.
I like to squeeze it and then pull it out
and then blow it up.
So, there we go.
Now, it is blown up and it
looks like a swimming pool.
It's like people use these in
their pools to swim at night.
They put it for lighting and they'll
throw it in a swimming pool like this and
it lights up the pools.
But these are amazing at camping.
These are amazing
during natural disasters.
These are amazing for preparedness.
If you have any reason to have a
preparation kit at home,
some kind of go kit, a go bag,
or preparation to be prepared for the
natural disaster, then these
are what you need in there.
They're the most cost
effective and most reliable.
You can get one of these
for probably like 13 bucks.
Now, there's different brands.
It doesn't really matter to brand.
This is the Lucy.
Lucy is a brand that I have particularly
cared for because they seem to last.
Now, they have changed to the name.
So, they used to be Lucy Empowered and
now if you look on Amazon, they are
called the Lucy BioLite.
I forget the price.
I believe they're like 13 bucks or $15.
Something to that effect.
But even if they were up to $20, these
are worth every single penny.
And they recharge.
They have a little lightning bolt on the
side right here that tells
you how charged they are.
You press that button and it gives you
three little lights.
If it's fully charged, it gives you one.
If it's drained and none. If it's empty.
And then you hit the power
button and it will light up.
You can see in the camera.
Let's see.
Can you see in the camera?
Yeah, it's bright.
Where that is the low setting.
That is the bright setting.
And then it has a blinking setting.
And that blinking setting is for
emergency so you can signal to somebody.
And then it has an off.
So, it has a low, high and blink.
And these things are great because they're not going to be able to get off.
They're going to be great because it will
allow you, you could put it on low.
You get two of these and set up in your
camp, which I do all the time.
As David, we just used them
in our video week four last.
And I'm going to try to put some footage
of me using these
videos, using these lanterns
in a video while I'm doing this podcast.
So, that is the Lucy Empowered light.
Now, that is an amazing
little device and they are great.
They're economical and they're, like I
said, extremely
affordable and ready to go.
And all you have to do whenever you get
done is set it in the
sunlight and it has that
solar panel right there
and it'll charge it up.
Now, out here at Camp Wut-Da-Heck
Underneath my tarp, I have two of them
set up and that's the
only lights I use out here
underneath this camp tarp at night.
It lights up the whole thing.
The way I have this set up is to where
it's reflective
underneath and it was, I got one
out front and then I have one in the
middle and it lights up
everything that I need it
to light up.
These things are awesome.
They're great.
I cannot, I cannot tell you, but if you
want to up your game, I
think those are 65 lumens.
Let me check.
Let me see if I can get on the interwebs
while we're out here and
check out the price currently
on the Amazon website.
I would have to do it through my
silly-tilly because my
tablet does not have the internet
connection.
And now we're looking
for the Lucy BioLight.
BioLight.
Lucy BioLight.
And bear with me, it's coming.
Lucy Lantern.
And I keep getting the little oops,
something wrong because I
don't have much service out
here at all.
Nope.
No internet.
So I'll have to put the link in the
description of this
video in the show notes.
Oh, it popped up.
Here we are.
Let's see.
Lucy, Lucy, Lucy, Lucy BioLight.
Oh, they changed the price.
These things are now $19.95.
$19.95.
So they are up to $20.
And let's see.
They are, I'm looking through, I'm trying
to, there's another one,
Bidex Solar Rechargeable
is $13.99.
Now it does not matter to the name brand.
It shouldn't matter to the name brand.
These things, this one puts out, the $13
one puts out 90 lumens.
And let's scroll up
here to the other one.
The other one, it says, for $19, it puts
out a whopping, let's
see here, a whopping, it
don't say the lumens.
It just says 10 hours of runtime, five
light modes, 10 hours
reliable light per charge,
and it's USB chargeable.
So the original Lucy, this
one in my hand is now $29.
That is crazy.
I don't know, I think I
would not buy Lucy for $29.
So I'm glad I checked that live here on
the page because I
really do believe that the
next up is the better option.
And let me grab those.
So the next up is the
Lumenade, the Lumenade Lanterns.
Now these I know are $30 a
piece, but these are heavier.
These are, I want to say this one is, I
think it was eight, six
ounces, eight ounces, something
to that effect, something to that effect.
Now these are almost the same.
They have Velcro.
You open them up and that handle comes
around and you can latch
that onto a tree limb or
something to that effect.
I turned it on
accidentally before I was ready.
Then they have a little pull tab here at
the bottom and you open
it by pulling it and let
all the air in and
then you close that off.
All right.
So this is kind of frosted.
It looks like it needs a good washing,
but these things have
been used so many times.
I cannot tell you how many times.
If these die, I will buy a new one.
So, but anyway, it
even smells like campfire.
Yeah, I've used them so many times.
Now this one right here, it has a button
that it will tell you,
you press this button on
here and when you press that button, it
gives you how many, four
lights are being charged.
Which is one, two, three, four.
So this device is fully charged.
It has an optional button right here for
red light or white light.
Now the red light is exactly that.
It is an emergency light so you can
signal and it does
brighter and it blinks.
Let's see if we can get
it blink here on the video.
I think it's blinking.
There we go.
It's blinking and then turn it off.
But then you can switch
it back to the white light.
Now what I love about these liners is
that you can turn them on.
One, let's turn it
back to the white light.
One that is the low setting.
No, that's the high setting.
Then the next one is like a medium and
then a low and then
extremely low and then blink
and then off.
So these things are amazing.
These are worth it.
Now this one in particular model is
called the Lumenade Titan.
This one is more expensive than the
regular just Lumenade solar liners.
The Lumenade Titan allows you to charge
it on the wall before you leave.
But this also acts as a battery bank for
whenever you get out into
the great outdoors and you
need to charge your
cellular device or your something.
So you can charge something with this.
Now I got two of those.
I got three of the
Lumenades and I used to.
You can buy the
Lumenades at Walmart for cheap.
I mean not the Lumenades but the Lucy.
L-U-C-I Lucy.
So now moving along to the next item.
I found an item that someone had sent to
me to do a video on.
And this item when I first got it I was
like this thing is
ridiculously worthless.
I did the video and the more I started
investigating when I was
doing this video on how to use
this thing I fell in love with it.
This is this little box
right here is a solar liner.
This little box
charges right here by USBC.
USBC and it has a USB-A where you can
charge another device with it.
It has a solar panel here on the top and
these little arms fold out.
They fold out and you
pull and that liner turns on.
It pops out.
Now this is something I'm
not taking camping with me.
This is something that
I'm keeping at my house.
This would be something that I would take
with me if I
absolutely had to but this is
something I would keep at my house in the
event of hurricanes or tornadoes.
This is a natural disaster type thing.
The reason why is because not only can
you charge it, it has a
flashlight right here.
Not only can you charge this by your wall
but it has an arm that
comes out and it allows
you to wind it up and charge it.
It has a little red light right here on
the side and when
you're doing this motion it's
a wind up type charger and it allows you
to charge this light.
So if you cannot get it to charge in the
solar power or the
sunlight or it's after dark and
it dies you can still charge the same and
still have enough
light to do what you need
to do.
Now here's the only problem with this.
There's no name on this.
There's no brand name.
There is no, I've tried emailing the
people, the people that
made this one out of business.
There is no way to replace this.
I don't know where, how to get another
one but that's what makes this so unique.
There's only a few of these out but there
should be something
like this out and available
for you to find and you could
probably do a search on Amazon.
This little box is unique.
It is extremely unique and I will leave
it at my house for natural disasters.
Now let's talk about the big elephant in
the room if you're
watching the video is this
device that is actually powering the
camera while we are
sitting here going over this
podcast.
This is the Blavor.
It is BLAVOR.
It has 16 amp hours.
It's 14.8 volts and it
has 236.8 watt hours.
So this little battery recharger is going
to go with me camping.
This little device in my hands, it
weighs, I want to say two
pounds, two and a half pounds,
something to that effect.
This is one of those battery backup,
those little battery chargers.
Now what I like about
this device is the lantern.
It has a lantern that you could leave
this out on a tabletop or something.
It has one, two, three and it has three.
It has low, medium and high lanterns and
I haven't got into it
so far yet to find out
all the lumens and everything.
I'll be doing that throughout this week
as I post the
information on the website, on
the blog post and we'll be going over all
this stuff with the
fundamental Fridays episode
as well.
But this will allow you
to charge USBC devices.
It charges via USBC.
It does not charge via solar panel unless
you have a third party
solar panel to connect
to it.
And then it will charge your devices.
Right now it is charging the battery on
the GoPro that is
actually filming this episode
and it is using 8.9 volts
right now to charge that device.
So I can turn this on and it will light
up the area so you can
see everything at the
table.
So you'll put this in the table.
I'm not sure you will
actually hang this up.
I'm going to test it out this week and
I'm going to run it through its paces.
I'm going to test it out.
But this is the Blavor, Blavor, Blavor,
Blavor, Blavor, Blavor,
Blavor, Blavor, Blavor, Blavor,
lantern and battery backup.
Now I'm not sure how
expensive this thing is right now.
They sent it to me to do a video for
Spare Outdoors and I was
like well we're talking
about lanterns so let's go ahead and
throw it on a primitive camping podcast.
And you know sometimes
these things come in handy.
Sometimes they're just gimmicks and you
know I will, if I see
something that I like that
I think has value in something I will
throw it out here and I
will throw it, like Spare
Outdoors, my YouTube channel.
I do product reviews all the time.
And a lot of the videos that I do, if I
put it on there it's
because it's something that
I use.
It's something that I will use.
If people have sent me products and I
have emailed them back and
saying I will not recommend
your product to my viewers.
And a lot of these are non-name brands
and places, companies
and stuff like that you
never heard of.
That's okay.
Just because you've never heard of it
doesn't mean it won't
work for what you need it to
work for.
So you know it's crazy how, it's crazy
how we always get into
the name brand thing.
Where if that's not a name brand product
I'm not going to use it.
I don't want to use it
if it's not name brand.
Now I just want to take a
chance to shift gears a little bit.
Because I know how we've talked about
these laners and how you
know it sounds like I'm
just going about camp
gadgets and camping gear.
But there's a bigger
point under all this.
We have been talking about light for the
last 31 minutes or so.
How light for safety, light for comfort,
light so you don't trip
over a tree root or a guideline
in the dark or anything of
that point or that nature.
And I feel like maybe some of you may
know exactly where it's going.
Truth is all of this talk about physical
light is really just a
picture of something a lot
bigger.
And the same way you feel when you're at
camp you don't have enough light.
That hesitation, that unease, that second
guess in every step
that how life feels when
you're trying to walk it out or without
the Lord leading you.
You're still moving.
You're still making decisions but you're
doing it half blind.
You're missing a lot of the information
that you need when it
comes to what you're doing
in your life and what you're doing.
And you're reacting to the shadows
instead of seeing everything clearly.
So I wanted to read a verse
to you that ties it all in.
If you have your
Bible, if not, just listen.
If you do, follow along.
It says here in Psalms 109 verse 105 is,
"Your word is a lamp unto
my feet and a light unto
my path."
And I know in the King James is, "Thy
word is a lamp unto my
feet and a light unto my
path."
So it's like your word is a lamp unto my
feet and a light unto my path.
So it's not talking about spotlight.
It's not talking about a
one million candle power.
Flashlight is talking about how your word
is a lamp unto my feet.
A lamp unto your feet is something just
so you can see where you
are walking so you don't
stumble, so you don't trip.
His word is something
that illuminates your path.
And that's just like, you know, I'm
always saying at the end
of every video is, you know,
acknowledge him in all you do
and he will direct your path.
And he will direct our path.
And if we allow him to light
our path, we won't stumble.
We won't trip.
Now, are you going to stumble sometimes?
Absolutely.
Yes, you are.
But there's another
passage that I want to read too.
And that is in Matthew, and this comes
straight out of Jesus' mouth.
He said that, "You are
the light of the world."
And this is Matthew 5, verse 14, "You are
the light of the world.
A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and put it under
a basket, but they put
it on a lampstand and
it gives light to all
those who are in the house."
What does that mean?
So you are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden.
These cities, if you've seen any lights
up on a hill, you
could see it for miles and
miles and miles and miles.
You can't hide it.
It cannot be hidden
unless you turn the light off.
So if you have that
light in you, people see it.
People can see it for miles away.
People can see everything about you.
They can see your
actions, your reactions.
How do you handle stressful events?
How do you?
And are you the reason that people are
walking away from the light?
So what Jesus is saying
is the same thing about us.
If His word is lamped to our feet and His
light is what lets us walk straight, then
we are also meant to reflect that light.
Not hide it.
Not bend it in the dark.
Just like a lantern.
We're going to hang it out there in camp.
And you're supposed to make it a little
easier for folks around
you to see what is true and
what is not.
Not by being preachy.
You don't have to beat people over the
head with a Bible to show your faith.
It's just by walking in
the light that you have.
If you got one of these lanterns hanging
up, let's say this 65
lumen lantern hanging up,
it does not produce a ton of light.
It's not the
brightest light in the world.
But whenever you're a hundred yards away
from this light, it is
in the complete darkness.
This is a very bright light and you can
see it from a very long way.
And that's what we are called to be.
We're called to be the light.
When you're out in the woods and I've
done it, I've walked up
to camp in the dark without
a flashlight with these lights on and I
can see where the camp
was from a very long way.
So that's what it means when it's talking
about your word is a lamp into my feet.
It gives you just enough light to where
you can see where you're walking.
So you're not stumbling.
You're not tripping.
All right.
Thy word is a lamp into my feet.
It is not a one million candle power
light shining the whole woods and
disturbing everything.
It is just being consistent and people
that can see it can see it from afar.
Okay.
You can see it from a long distance.
But these lanterns, dude,
I love all these lanterns.
Now I'm going to be
trying this Blavore one out.
I love this one.
This is the rechargeable one.
Michael Mike, uncle Mark, something like
that outdoors or
something was the original name
of the company.
But I think he went out of business and
then we got the Titans.
We got the Lucy's and there
are other kinds out there.
If you have a particular kind that you
want to use, throw it out here.
Let me know.
The one thing that I absolutely love
about each and every one
of these is set for the
Blavore is the fact that you could charge
it up during the
daytime while you're around
camp.
You can set it out in the
sun and charge these things.
It takes about seven hours to charge them
up and you can get about
seven hours of daylight
and you just lay them puppies out there
and let the dudes charge
and you're going to have
enough light to light up your camp.
And that's why I take two of them because
I leave them on the
low setting on each one
and one part of the camp,
one and the other part of camp.
And I put them on low and it lights up
the whole camp and it
gives a nice little glow.
Y'all have seen the
nighttime podcast down here.
The only light I have was a Lucy overhand
and you know these
things are amazing little
lights.
They put out a ton of light.
That's it.
Nothing more, nothing less.
And I have not used any
other lights for this show.
I haven't used any other
lights while I was camping.
So for the Lucy's, the Lucy's and
Luminae's, this is it.
That's all the light I need.
So anyway, without rambling on, that's it
for this week's podcast.
I really enjoyed you being
here and I thank you so much.
And remember Happy Thanksgiving.
We have a lot to be thankful for.
All of us do.
And I really want you to reflect this
week on what you do
have to be thankful for.
And take a moment, take a
moment to think about it.
You don't have to be a Bible carrying
believer to be thankful
for something that's in your
life.
But if you're not, that is
the reason why you have it.
So remember, in all
your ways, acknowledge Him.
I'll see you next time.
God bless you.
Thanks for sitting
around the fire with me today.
If this episode gave you something to
think about, if it
helped you feel a little bit
more prepared or it even stirred your
faith a tiny bit, go ahead
and share it with someone
else who might need it as well.
We don't go camping
to run away from life.
We come out here to slow
down and to recharge
So grab another log, throw it
on the fire and remember this.
In all your ways, acknowledge Him.
And He will direct your path.
I'll see you next time.
God bless you.