Any campers out there? I am talking today about camping and recapping my weekend at the same time. Any guesses to what I did last weekend?
A little backstory to my camping experience.....as a child, we had a pull behind camper and took a few long vacations. I particularly remember a trip we took out west for a few weeks. We also took a trip to the northeast another summer. Fast forward to I married Avery and he loves camping...tent camping. I admit, I had never tent camped before meeting him. We went tent camping and he has taken our girls tent camping too. I even went tent camping once during each of my pregnancies! When our youngest was about 2, we bought a travel trailer. It was perfect for our little family. We had a little kitchen with a cooktop, sink and microwave. We had a queen size bed and the girls had bunk beds. We also had a shower and toilet, so it had all the necessesities we needed (including heat and air). We got rid of it right before we moved to South America. Most of my old camping pictures are cropped in a scrapbook, but here are a few random pictures from our camper days when the girls were little....
Since that time, I haven't camped....until this past weekend. We have a Sprinter van that is used for work and would like to convert this at some point in the future to a camper van. In the meantime, my husband had done a few modifications so we can sleep in it. That brings us to the weekend. My youngest daughter had a retreat with church, so my husband and I found this place, just 2 hours from home, to camp.
So we camped, just like the old SNL skit says, ".....in a van, down by the river." We found some places to eat dinner, so we didn't cook outside, except for our breakfast. It was quite a cold weekend, but we survived.
I grew up camping-- My father took us tent camping each summer for a week (and I HATED it!) but my grandmother had an Airstream trailer and took us on several vacations each summer. I liked that much better. My husband and I have been talking about buying something small just for the two of us as the boys get older and we vacation more and more just him and I. We like the idea of having our own space not always relying on hotels and their unpredictable stays.
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