go on more camping trips

Two years since we went camping, how can that be? Oh, well, it just means I can keep this goal on my list. Camping at Douthat State Park was great. We stayed at the Lakeside Campground, with the small lake shimmering in the afternoon sunlight just a few feet from our campsite. We had our usual Bratwurst cooked over the campfire, followed, predicatably and perfectly by s’mores. And the fire was great. And the sound of children’s voices, so excited by the new friends they were making, the fish they were catching, the salamandars they were discovering. The weather was perfect and the sky was amazing when we snuck out of our tent at 2 a.m. to watch the meteor shower. This was definitely a good camping trip. Maybe one day, we will actually go for 2 nights!

I went camping this weekend while my son was at his dad’s house. i didn’t want to sit home alone so I went camping…alone. It was wonderful and although it was my first time going it alone, I loved it. Will definetly do more often!!!!

We only made one camping trip this year. Which may get added onto in september if the weather holds out. We didn’t get a fire but we did have a tarp and a tent and a little gas stove for popcorn and coffee. Almost the perfect brokeback camping trip.

Having my health again—not being in pain, having energy allowed me to take my kids camping three times this summer: to 2 Pow Wows and Peace Camp.

Yay!

And they’re too fun to miss out on.

it’s grand

So far, this is our favorite place to camp. The trip to the park is a leaf-peepers dream, the weather was perfect and we got the best site (#21 for those of you who might want to camp there)! We are still pretty new to camping (it’s one of the things neither of us did before we met so it became one of the things that would be part of us together) so we have lots to learn. We have gotten really good at getting the tent set up but we need to work on our campfire cooking skills. We have agreed to stay for two nights next year (part of my mission to see a moose) and we may try to get in a night somewhere here in VA before it gets too cold this year.

Well, we went up to Coffs Harbour for the long weekend to go “camping.” Camping these days is unlike anything I experienced as a kid. I guess when you go camping with families with kids, nobody wants to “rough it”. (They broght a fridge and microwave for cryin’ out loud!” But I think roughing it is the best part about camping! Even though it was hardly camping, it was fun nonetheless. Beach cricket, swimming, tennis (I can’t believe there was a tennis court at the campsite), BBQs, beer and sunshine. Next camping trip I’ll plan to go backpacking for a more authentic experience.

Sadly my pump tent holds desperate vigil in an Egyptian sarcophagus by Rubbermaid.
Long past summer smoke lingers faintly on its’ tarp shroud.
Sacrificed carcasses of forest insect fauna lie flat in the seams.

Now my holiday camping is by the pool at camp Marriott.

I do so miss my camping. But now I have duty and lists of things to do and yet do not

There is not much available in the way of campsites until then, so I think this goal can slumber until it’s time to go camping again.