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<\/a>\nCamping in 1972: Jedediah Smith State Park, Mount Rainier National Park, and Yellowstone National Park.<\/em><\/p>\n
When we had kids, we kept right on camping. Even tiny infants just sort of got dragged along.<\/p>\n
1981<\/strong><\/span>: Upgraded to a VW Vanagon camper. 1982<\/strong><\/span>: Lake Casitas campground (California): <\/a>In 1987, we upgraded to a pop-up camper and began one of our best family traditions: annual trips every Thanksgiving to Walt Disney World, where we stayed (naturally enough) at the Fort Wilderness campground.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong><\/em>: First trip to WDW Fort Wilderness campground (accessorized with Figment hats and stuffed animals).<\/em> 1990<\/strong><\/span>: Back to Ft. Wilderness once again.<\/em> 1988<\/strong><\/span>: The trip of a lifetime. Wendy and her dad took the kids on a six-week cross country trip, ending up in Yellowstone and Grand Tetons, where I met them.<\/em><\/p>\n At one point, after the kids had pretty much grown up, we upgraded again,this time to a nice travel trailer. We still would link up with our now-grown children, though, for camping. Here’s a 2007<\/strong><\/span> trip to Land Between the Lakes, when both sons, now married and in the Army, were stationed at Ft. Campbell.<\/p>\n (For a while, I kept a database of our trips. The listing for 2003 to 2008 is here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n So, after following a path that took us from backpacking, to a family tent, to a Volkswagen Vanagon, to a Starcraft pop-up, and then to several trailers, we’ve finally landed in a Thor ACE 30.1 motorhome, named, aptly enough, Ace.<\/p>\n So, the next chapter is traveling around the country in Ace: numerous trips out west, several to the midwest, and a concluding trip to the northeast. But wait, there’s more … after that, it’s a new adventure in our 2024 Grand Design Imagine XLS 23LDE, named “Genie.”<\/p>\n We’ve always been happy campers. Really. On our way back to Connecticut to get married back in 1972, we camped in state and national parks, sleeping on the ground in a rubber-coated canvas tent that drenched us in condensation every morning. After we arrived, Wendy’s dad asked us whether, as a wedding gift, we’d prefer … Continue reading “About us…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P68mhx-3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skiprd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nOur first “camper” (1980<\/strong><\/span>): a homemade VW bus conversion, using a folding card table for a dinette and a cooler stood on its end as a fridge. Cliff (age 2) and Jennifer (age 3), already immersed in the camping experience.<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nWhile we’re fishing or sitting in the Vanagon, Robert (age 6 months) got stuck in a bouncey-seat in a tent, but “camping” nonetheless.<\/em><\/p>\n
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