Our Camping Vacation July 3
This year for vacation we went camping - yes, good old fashioned tent camping. Tent camping has improved a bit since I was a kid. Most camp sites now have flush toilets, and some even have showers. They also have this wonderful new invention called an air matress.
If you are a clean freak, camping is not the vacation for you. Between the smoke from the camp fire and the dirt that’s everywhere, you will not come home with anyting that’s clean. My youngest child thought she had died and gone to heaven. We gave her a shower to get one layer of dirt off, and five minutes later, we discovered her literally rolling around in dirt piles she had constructed herself with a look of pure joy on her face.
Despite the dirt, it was a wonderful vacation. Without the distraction from television and computers, it’s amazing how much fun you can have. We watched deer graze near our campsite, watched a hummingbird chase a squirrel, played lots of card games and frisbee, and roasted marshmallows. We came home rested, relaxed, and with a whole batch of new memories.