Well my fellow penguins, I will be out of the service area for the next week or so. The bags are all packed, the truck is loaded and the kids are in bed with visions of sugar plums . . . wait, visions of camping dancing in their heads.
We are headed up to the Tahoe Family Encampment. This may be our first and last chance to enjoy this experience, so we are going to make the most of it. This will be our whole family's first camping experience that lasts more than a night or two.
No, it won't be a true camping experience because we will have access to electricity and showers, but it will involve real tents, cookstoves, coolers, etc. We do have to keep the food locked up so the bears don't get to it, so that seems to raise the level of campingness. This causes me to wonder, what defines camping versus a non-camping experience? Does it only count as camping if you are completely off the grid? How much can you bring with you? Does a pop-up tent trailer still qualify as camping? Help me out here, please.
P.S. I'll let you know how it goes when we get back!
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Friday, July 23, 2010
Monday, April 19, 2010
Camping
This past Saturday night, I got to do something I hadn't done in a long time. I camped out in the back yard with Boo and Boy Wonder. I think the last time we got to camp out together outside was while we were still living in Missouri, back in 2004. We had done some living room "campouts" in between, but none outside for a long, long time.
It was great! The weather was wonderful, the tent was big enough for all three of us and the ground wasn't too hard (at least not after I got my self-inflating mattress pad between me and it!)
The kids love to camp out. I hadn't been joining them for a long time because A) we didn't have a tent big enough and 2) I was either too tired or too busy with school. Thankfully both of those issues have been remedied.
It wasn't perfect . . . someone was having a party in the neighborhood, so the music was still going around 2 a.m.; and Boy Wonder has a bladder the size of a walnut, so he was up 4 times during the night.
All in all, it was an experience I look forward to repeating multiple times over this summer and fall. Camping out is just so peaceful, even with the distractions. It reminds me of great times growing up, camping out in the backyard with my brother, or way back up on the Chacok with Dad. Camping is just COOL!
What's your favorite camp-out memory?
It was great! The weather was wonderful, the tent was big enough for all three of us and the ground wasn't too hard (at least not after I got my self-inflating mattress pad between me and it!)
The kids love to camp out. I hadn't been joining them for a long time because A) we didn't have a tent big enough and 2) I was either too tired or too busy with school. Thankfully both of those issues have been remedied.
It wasn't perfect . . . someone was having a party in the neighborhood, so the music was still going around 2 a.m.; and Boy Wonder has a bladder the size of a walnut, so he was up 4 times during the night.
All in all, it was an experience I look forward to repeating multiple times over this summer and fall. Camping out is just so peaceful, even with the distractions. It reminds me of great times growing up, camping out in the backyard with my brother, or way back up on the Chacok with Dad. Camping is just COOL!
What's your favorite camp-out memory?
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