Terry and I arrived at Aaron/Amy's last night after spending 13 nights in our Alpine 7X8 tent. We had wonderful weather until Sunday night when it rained from 8:00 PM until we pulled out of our camp site at 8:30 AM in the rain. It appeared that we had about 3/4" over night but our tent kept us 98% dry!!
We have plans to leave Madison Wednesday and then arrive home on Thursday.
Our tenting vacation has been successful beyond expectations. From Bayfield, to Ashand, to American Legion National Forest camp grounds to Door County and then to Madison it has been exciting, fun and full of memories. From the ferry rides, to the bike rides, to the full moon to the campfires to the fish boils and the list is almost endless each day has been filled with new experiences and fun times. Terry had limited experiences camping in the past but one would think she came into the vacation as a pro with her ideas, her skills and her excitment. I did fail camping 101 and left our cooler out one night. We found that racoons do not need anything on their hot dogs and they like boiled eggs over fresh eggs. Other than that things went so well. Some of the highlights were the fish boils, the perfect weather, the wonderful meals, the full moon nights and so many many nice people we met. Were there any bumps? Of course as this is real life, not any fairy tale story. BUT the bumps were just that, little tiny ones that a person meets, go over and move on to new and wonderfull things. It may be difficult to get back to reality but we will do that on Thursday and in the morning of that day we will begin to check off a long list that needs to be taken care of before we head to FL for some time.
As I write Terry is making the evening meal as Aaron is at work, Leo is watching a movie, Ruby is sleeping and Amy is out of town for a couple of days. I think the menu is Swedish mealballs with fixings to go with them.
We were able to dream a bit as we saw wonderful campers at some of the sites we were at. One of them, T@B camper, seemed so perfect---but then we do not live in a perfect world!!!!
One last thing. I think some of the clothes we brought along with us that seemed a bit large now seem to fit quite well :( That may mean some change of eating habits when we arrive home on Thursday.
Here we are at July and the months is Dave's. An outstanding father, dad, woodworker and a man of God he had it all. We miss him.
Hey Carmen and Terry,
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear it went well. We were praying for you. Maybe you'll join us next year for a couple days. In the meantime, check out Pat and Penny's camper. It's the most amount of camper in the least amount of space. Very well laid out and spiffy and not too much $$$. If I weren't addicted to my tent I would for sure go for this little thing. - Eileen