Category: Camping
Camping tips, campground reviews, travel trailer adventures, and camping with a miniature schnauzer.
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28 Practical Camping Gifts for Families Who Love the Outdoors
Finding a camping gift that will actually get used can be harder than it sounds. Camping gear has a way of becoming very personal, and there is a big difference between something that looks useful and something that earns space…
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Travel Trailer Essentials We Wish We’d Bought Sooner
When we bought our travel trailer, we thought we had everything we needed to start camping. We had the camper, our tow vehicle, basic camping supplies, and our Miniature Schnauzer, Angel, ready for new adventures. What we did not have…
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Full Hookup vs. Dry Camping: What Works Best for Our Family
Camping gives families several ways to set up their RV, from campsites with water, electricity, and sewer connections to sites with no utilities at all. Although each option has advantages, we have learned that full hookups work best for our…
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How We Choose the Best Campsite at a Campground
Choosing the campground is only the first part of making a reservation. We still have to select an individual campsite that can accommodate our travel trailer, our truck, our family, and Angel. A site can look perfectly adequate on a…
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Campground Departure Routine: What We Check Before Leaving
Leaving a campground takes more than hitching up our travel trailer and pulling away. We work through the inside, hookups, stabilizers, hitch, and final campsite checks in an order we can repeat without rushing. One part of our routine came…
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Our Dog Travel Bag: What We Pack for Angel
One of the easiest improvements we’ve made to our travel routine is keeping a dedicated dog travel bag for Angel, our Miniature Schnauzer. Before we created a regular place for her supplies, packing meant walking through the house gathering things…
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How We Choose Campgrounds for Our Family and Schnauzer
Choosing a campground is one of the biggest decisions we make when planning a travel trailer trip. A campground can look wonderful in photos, but that does not necessarily mean it will work well for our family, our trailer, and…
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Camping Checklist for Families With Dogs: The System We Use for Every Trip
Our camping checklist looks very different now than it did when we first started taking trips in our travel trailer. At first, we treated almost everything like traditional vacation packing. Before every trip, we thought about bedding, campground gear, dog…
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Camping Meals That Make Weekend Getaways Easier for Families
Weekend camping trips are about spending time together—not standing over a camp stove for hours or washing a mountain of dishes after every meal. We’ve found that having a simple meal plan makes camping much more relaxing and leaves more…
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How We Keep Our Travel Trailer Organized During Trips
One of the first things we learned after purchasing our travel trailer is that staying organized can make or break a camping trip. When you’re sharing a relatively small space with a family of three, a Miniature Schnauzer, clothing, food,…