Friday, December 10, 2010

Home Style Camping


Hi Readers,
Well the year is about up, and it is time to pack our coach up for the winter. Sandra and I did not get to take all of the trips that we wanted. Biggest reason is the four letter word, (WORK). So, we decided to improvise and make the best of a bad thing. We popped open the sides on the coach' and put up the satellite, and opened the awnings, put out the lawn chairs, and "home camped". Don't laugh to hard, it was fun. We cooked out every night and enjoyed the sunsets and the skeeter's. We sleep better in the coach than the house. I have no idea why. I think that when it rains we sleep better because we here the drops on the roof, just like "grandma's tin roof.
We started in Sept. and stayed out in the coach till Dec. 1. Boy did the power bills fall. We have a power bill of around $170.00/mth, and when we stayed in the coach our power bills went down to around $100.00/mth. Now that helps provide $$ that we can use on our next trip. Most of use the facilities in the park we are at, instead of using our coaches. When it was time for my monthly Saturday shower,(haha) I just went to the house and took a shower. This was the longest time we have stayed in the coach. Well it won't be long before we can start full time camping, and I can get back to the once a month shower. Never forget that the time you share together in a camping trip is the closest time you and the one you love will spend together.

KEEP THE CAMPFIRES BURNING

David & Sandra

P.S. This is a pic. of our back yard, we look at when we camp in out coach

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Hi Readers,
This post is how Sandra and myself got started with the infection (camping bug). Sandra wanted to buy a tent and go camping on the backside of the property. Well we have no equipment to camp in. We had a old Coleman two burner stove, and lantern. That was it. So we went and bought a tent and thought we were ready. Finely the three day weekend came, time to pitch the tent. We loaded all of the camping stuff in the trailer of the riding lawn tractor, and proceeded down the logging road and found a great spot next to the creek. This spot is about 1800 ft. from the house and all down hill. Well its time to show the lady of the house that her manly man knows how to pitch a tent. The writing on the box says that this tent can be set up in just minutes (believe that). Forty-five minutes later the lady of the house is sitting on the tractor reading the instructions. Out of nowhere I here "What you need to do is read this". Any of you Boone guys heard this before?? Well the problem was the rubber band sticks. They were longer than the tent. Then I here "rotate the sticks". As politely as I can say, I reply "OK". Now the rubber band sticks are longer than the tent. The boss of the house now instructs the man of the house how to put the sticks in the corners of the tent. Picture a tent flat on the ground and the vertebrae standing in a dome position above the flat tent. "Houston" we have a problem here. So now I know what that round hook is for in the middle of the tent. I proceed to take all of the rubber band sticks out of the tent, and hook the round hook in the middle where it goes. Now I place the rubber band sticks back in to raise the tent, its done. OOPS It is backwards the door is in the back. Then the angle still sitting on the tractor comes up with an idea that I had. Rotate the tent around. Then with the help of the angle, the tent is now facing the right way. Now the Lady of the tent unzips the tent and goes inside and states "we" done good. Sandra walks back up to the house and gets some stuff. I make a fire-pit and set up the camp area. Sandra comes back down and drops the stuff. Then she states "I should have took the tractor". Then jumps on the tractor and takes off back to the house. I start the campfire and it is good. I am sitting on a pile of wood and Sandra returns and ask "How did you do that" pointing at the fire. A man has got his talents I stated. Then she says I smell kerosene. Oops caught again. Well I help her take the futon mattress in the tent and put the sheets on. Now the tent is ready. I fix us a hobo steak dinner and sa'mores. It is getting dark and the fire wood is about to go out. We go in the tent and rest. There was no sleeping for us. Do you remember all of those noises in the dark you here. She heard all of them, each time I was awakened by an elbow in the ribs. The voice of my wife saying "whats that ?". I never heard nutting and that's the truth! Well the rest of the camping trip was good, she got use to the noises and it was time to go back to work.
This was new to us, and we enjoyed it. We waited for the weekends and rushed down to the campsite, and proceeded to start a lifestyle of living out in Gods backyard. Then we spotted the large black mountain cat in the woods near we camped in.(ain't no house cat either) We decided to invest in our first camper, she decided.
In the next post we will show the trips in our first camper.

KEEP THE CAMPFIRE GOING
SANDRA & DAVID




The Camping Bug Bite


Hello Readers!
Well before I get all of you up to date on our travels I need to tell the story of the past. For the most of us we were bitten by the camping bug many years ago. There is no spray for this. If you are bitten you are infected for life. Sometimes the infection takes time to change your lifestyle. Mine took many years. I do remember the time I was bitten. It happened many years ago. Mom and dad took us to Table Rock State Park in S.C. and the coast in N.C. (Cape Hatteras) I think. Being very young I knew there was a lot of sand. Dad had made the Camper that we used. He was so proud, it was a camper that had 4 bunks (2 on each side). The camper was made of wood and had two windows one on each side,and a door in the back. The color was a dark green. The car that pulled the camper was also a dark green 1951 chev. The camper lasted for over 50 years. Not bad for a hand made camper. Well, there was 5 of us. Guess who slept on the floor and on a air mattress? I was the only male child , does that tell you? Every time someone got down they stepped on the only male child. Dad told me that girls sleep on beds, men sleep like Boone. Hay, I had the coon skin cap and the deer skin pants. I was the only choice in my mind, it was what Boone would have done. As I lay there that night I wondered, I think I just got talked into this. All night the camper tossed left and right like a boat. Every time someone went to use the bathroom I shifted to the left and right, on the air mattress. I thought this was a camper not a ship.
The next morning was the best part of the trips. Its breakfast time, the smell of bacon, eggs, toast, and the adult beverage, Coffee, smelled great but, never tasted till I was in my twenties. The drink of Boone boys was orange juice, or Tang. Now you know how old I was. The other breakfast was cereal with canned milk. Remember that.
I hope that all of your infections of the camping bug was as good as mine. Remember that the children of campers are 95% most likely to become bitten.
In the next post I will be telling you about my beautiful wife and our start in the camping lifestyle. Tent camping all the way to our coach.

Keep the campfires burning
David & Sandra


Monday, July 26, 2010

FIRST POSTING

We will be posting soon. Our postings will be about our travel in our coach. And the travels we encounter.

David & Sandra