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Anybody Got Some Cheese?

I need some to go with my WHINE!
We have a popup . . . and I love it. In fact, I INSISTED that we get it becaue it was more like tent-camping than a hard-sided trailer would be. Dude agreed . . . in fact, said he wouldn’t sleep in a hard-sided camper if we [...]

3 Years and $400 Later

Ever since we got our first popup 3 summers ago, I’ve been trying to find a bike rack that would work on it. We like to take our bikes to ride around the campgrounds and stuff - the kids especially like theirs when we’re just hanging out and they take a 2-way radio and go [...]

Campout!

This weekend is Boy and Girl Scout spring campout weekends for us. Princess and I will be going up to the mountains with her troop for our very first campout - we’re staying in cabins, but there isn’t any running water or electricity, so it should be good! They told us the cabins were heated [...]

Sleeping Beauty

I walked in the camper last weekend and started chatting to Princess. She was laying in bed reading with her headlamp. After a couple minutes of getting no response, I walked over to their bed and saw this . . .

How do they do it? I am 100% certain there is no way I could [...]

Father’s Day Camping Trip

We went on our first camping trip of the summer . . . it wasn’t a typical camping trip for us - we didn’t do any hiking! But we did get a lot of fishing in, searched for a few geocaches, and saw a bunch of stuff we hadn’t seen because we went to a part [...]

Just In Time For The Snow

At the end of September, we put our popup on Craigslist. We had gotten 3 summers of enjoyment out of it, but had decided that we didn’t need something that big.
It had a king sized bed on one side - Hubby and I DO need that!
It had a queen on the other side - the [...]

Camping - Day 3

We woke up on day 3 after another chilly night in the mountains. Hubby slept like a rock as always, snuggled away in his nice warm mummy bag. Dude slept like a puppy with MY pillow. Princess slept motionless all cuddled up in my warm mummy bag. Me? I spent the night figuring out how [...]

Camping - Day 2

We woke up on a chilly day 2 . . . took inventory of everyone to see if they were warm enough over night. Of course Dude said he was toasty and Princess said she was chilly. So she and I traded sleeping bags for the next night - she got my nice toasty warm [...]

Camping - Day 1

I can’t believe that it’s already been a week since our first camping trip of the season! At this time last week, we were taking cover from the rain in the camper and playing Farkel
But, let’s move back to the beginning. The kids LOVE to take their bikes and scooters when we go [...]

Well, That Wasn’t Very Smart

The fam went camping earlier this week up in the mountains. We had a wonderful time hiking, sitting by the fire, playing games while it rained, eating S’MORES . . . yummy! I, of course, had a few Dumbass moments . . .
First off, I checked the weather before we packed and noticed it was [...]