Three thousand seven hundred seventy-six acres all to ourselves. Yes, that's why we love camping on off peak season~weekdays. When we arrived on Sunday afternoon there were a handful of other campers, but come Monday morning, they were gone, leaving...

I grew up camping. Matt had never been on an overnight vacation until our honeymoon. Camping fit perfectly into our life. It was a cheap, comparatively speaking, and easy way to go places we could not afford to visit otherwise. The first summer of...

Isaac: "Mom, can I have a cookie?" Me: "No honey, we'll be eating supper in about 10 minutes." Isaac: " Well, Mom...it doesn't take me 10 minutes to eat a cookie"

This weekend I finished retrieving the thumbnail photos stored on my iPod. 5 years of pictures that we thought we had lost when our computer crashed in March. Now begins the long task of re-dating them. The world will not be right until I do so. ...

A few cold weekends ago we hauled ourselves out camping. We put our heaters to the test. We're still using the electric heaters (we still need shore power to run them) but Matt is in the process of devising a way to heat the bus with a boiler and hot...