Well, we arrived at the Camperworld in Woodland tonight and once we got here and settled a little, I told Kev, “It’s good to be back,”
and his reply was, “Yeah, it feels like home”.
I hope I’ll go back and catch up from last year, but just in
case I don’t, we still camped last year, but one, I didn’t blog about it, and
two, it wasn’t much of our traditional camping.
We had planned a family vacation to Northern California for the end of
June. It got pushed to the beginning of
July because of problems with Kevin’s work (he got laid off, boo! But that’s a whole
other story). While in Cali we stayed in
a hotel a few nights but also spent two nights camping right on the beach in a
tent, which was really really fun.
We got home from that and just a few days later left to camp
at Camperworld. We had decided to start
in Coalville, spending a week there and then moving on to Woodland, which is
our favorite. In the middle of our week
in Coalville, a friend and neighbor emailed and said, “Hey! At the end of the month we’re going to camp
on the beach in Carlsbad, California.
The campsite is paid for. We’d
love to have you join us.” My first
reaction was no way. Kev was out of
work. Then I started thinking that
realistically, if he had a job, we couldn’t go because he couldn’t’ get the
time off. The more we thought about it
the better it sounded. I’m the queen of
frugal. If the site was paid for then
all we had was gas, food, and a few minor expenses. So, we went.
It was glorious. We had the BEST
time. I hope I’ve written about it
because we LOVED it and hope to go again next summer.
That trip though, cut our Camperworlding short. We up just staying 10 days in Coalville and
then went home to get ready for Carlsbad.
But we’re here now and starting in good old Woodland, so if
something is cut short, we won’t miss out on our favorite. We’re actually on our longest adventure
ever. We’re staying one week in
Woodland, one week in Coalville, then coming back to Woodland for the week of
July 24th. Kamas has fun 24th
of July festivities and we don’t’ like to miss them. Kev will go back and forth some and work and
take care of our house and garden as usual.
He’s so great.
Camperworld has had its own problems as of late. I don’t want to go into it too much, but they
almost closed down, asked it’s members for a bunch of money to keep things
going, lost a bunch of members, closed the pools for the summer, etc. We spent a lot of time thinking about it in
the spring trying to decide if we were going to stay with them. We thought, we prayed, we talked. We went back and forth. No, let’s leave and camp on our own. No, let’s stay. As you can see, we ended up deciding to stay
for at least now. I can’t imagine that
Camperworld is going to make it long-term.
Finances are just too much of a mess.
Lawsuits, dishonesty by the board.
I would almost be relieved if they just closed down. But if they stay open, I can hardly stand the
thought of them going on without us. So,
here we are. And now that we’re
here. We’re happy about it.
OK – blah, blah, blah. One more word about blogging before I close up
for the night. Someone asked me over the
winter if I’d given up blogging or if I’d given up camping. I assured him that I had NOT given up
camping, but had real mixed feelings about blogging. Blogging takes up a lot of
my time while camping. I know
realistically all I have is time while camping, which is why I love it. I really try to limit time I spend on electronics
though. A big part of camping is the escape
from Facebook, email and the phone. WiFi
up here sucks and I spend a lot of time typing and then trying to upload
pictures and editing and typing and stuff.
I hate that. Because of course in
between waiting for things to load I’m checking FB and email and everything
else, and my kids are saying, “Can’t we go to the pool. Can’t we play a game.” And I’m like, “No,
obviously my computer is more important.”
After giving a lesson in Primary however on journaling I can see the
real value in writing these experiences.
I’ve decided that this year I’m going to try and type up the entries
while camping, as I would a regular journal.
Then when I get home with a better computer and better WiFi, I’ll try
uploading them. We’ll see how that
works.
So, sleep well. I
sure will. There is definitely something
about this mountain air and my camper cocoon.
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