Colorado
We enjoyed the diverse scenery across northwestern Colorado. I was amused at the “Welcome to Colorful Colorado” sign as we crossed the state line from Utah. The only colors I could see at that time were gold and sage green! Not exactly shades I think of as particularly “colorful”!But we soon got into a more lush region driving along rivers…
Camp Cooking
We like to cook over the open fire when we go camping. Here’s a sample of some of the meals we enjoyed on a recent camping trip. The first night we had hot-dogs. That’s usually our default first-night meal because there’s very little prep and clean-up!For breakfast we cooked bacon in the skillet (and then eggs in the same skillet…
Mother’s Day Camp-out
Our first “real” camping trip of the season was for Mother’s Day weekend. My younger daughter asked me if that was my Mother’s Day present. I said, “Well, I guess so!” I hadn’t really thought about it… but it was interesting: later in the weekend I was reading about “love languages” and realized that my love language is “quality time.”…
Camping Season Begins
One of the main reasons we bought a travel trailer 3 years ago was to take to the homeschool conventions we attend each spring. The big side benefit, of course, was for regular camping and leisure travel. Our camping season typically runs from April through October, and we had hoped to take the trailer out one weekend before time for…
Old-Fashioned Popcorn
What do you do when you hanker for some popcorn but have no electricity? Do without, I thought. We were “dry camping” a few weeks ago and I mentioned that popcorn sounded good, but since we had no power the microwave in the travel-trailer was useless. My romantic man remembered that and the next week went to Sportsman’s Warehouse and…
Weekend Getaway
It was a beautiful weekend to enjoy the national forest. On Friday we had the whole campground to ourselves. The kids thought it was fun to pump water! Not native wildlife, but still picture worthy! Crystal-clear streams for wading.
First camping trip of the year…
There is still snow on the mountains but the lower elevations are finally turning green! This early in the season we practically had the campground to ourselves except for this mare and her foal. They were very curious… …and very friendly! The girls were thrilled! “Can I help you with that, mister?” Saturday was a lovely day for a hike.…
Fall Colors in the Columbia River Gorge
We took the trailer down to Oregon this past weekend for our last camping trip of the season. We stayed at Memaloose State Park in the Columbia River Gorge. The weather was cool and damp, so we didn’t do much in the way of outside activities, but I thoroughly enjoyed the fall colors! We enjoyed some down time just playing…
Grand Coulee
We camped this past weekend near Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. It’s about 2.5 hours from here. We had stopped there on our way home from Seattle earlier this summer, and learned about a laser light show that is projected against the wall of the dam on summer nights (through September), so we decided that would be a fun place…
Camping in the Mountains
We had a very relaxing weekend camping close to home this time. It was a Forest Service campground, so no hookups, but we didn’t mind. The kids even decided to put up their tent and sleep in it. The only down side was that there is a Stage 2 burn ban on right now, which means that we couldn’t have…
