Eighteen Short Years: Travel. Adventure. Joy.
Back-to-school can be a pricey time of year. Purchasing new school clothes, shoes, and supplies amounts in a big chunk of change for our family every August. Our decision for me to stay home with our youngest this year means practicing extra frugality. I’m happy to report that we successfully reduced our typical back-to-school chunk […]
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Traveling by RV has allowed our family to travel big on a smaller budget than the same trips would demand if flights, rental cars, and accommodations were necessary. Though the expense may be less, our trips certainly aren’t free – requiring campground reservations, food and fun on the road, and so. many. fuel. charges. These
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My husband has family on Cape Cod, so we travel to Massachusetts at least once a year to visit. While the narrow roads and premium land value of Cape Cod don’t add up to it being a sought-after RV destination in my book, we looked into traveling with our camper for our summer of 2022
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How our family enjoyed RV camping – the kids enjoyed summer camp, and the adults enjoyed a little alone time – in one fun-filled week in Ithaca, NY. How We Chose to RV Camp at Summer Camp Many factors played a role in our decision to take a week-long family camping trip so that our
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The title of this post made me gag a little as I typed it. But here I am, writing on – owning that gross title. Because Mother’s Day 2023 could really only have been improved in a few, small ways. But…. If I had celebrated the day 15 pounds thinner, would I have allowed myself
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I’m sure I’ve failed terribly in many aspects of parenting and family life over the last 9 and a half years, but one area I often feel the worst about is the lack of an annual family photo shoot. Our last family photo shoot with a professional photographer was five years ago! The saving grace
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Our family has hauled our 30′ travel trailer from Pennsylvania to South Dakota – Wyoming – Colorado – Utah – Arizona – Tennesse – and all over New England. The four of us nestled into our Ram 1500, we’ve taken trips that have covered more than 6,000 miles over a span of 23 days on
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All I ever want for Mother’s Day is to go camping. We bought our travel trailer in early March of 2020, so our first Mother’s Day weekend as RVers was spent in Covid-19 quarantine. Regardless, we enjoyed our first campout ever in our new RV on Mother’s Day weekend. In our driveway. It was fabulous.
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Our family took our first major RV road trip just three months after purchasing our travel trailer. While shopping for, and eventually buying, our RV, we talked about traveling around the country to explore National Parks. But those conversations were whimsical. Daydreams. They started with “wouldn’t it be cool if….”, and “maybe one day we’ll….”
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This year our family opened up our camping season with a spring break trip to the Great Smoky Mountains. Stopping by New River Gorge, West Virginia on the way, this trip checked off National Park visits #11 and #12 for our family of four! As a family who plans most of their camping around State
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As we prep the RV for our first trip of the season to Gatlinburg, Tennesse, and the Great Smokey Mountains (yay!), I’ve found a newfound appreciation for so many of the little things in our camper – things that I am so happy our RV came with, or that we’ve added along the way. So
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