Cape Disappointment Camping Part 2

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Here is Part One from yesterday, where I actually had to search my dim memory banks about whether or not porcupines can shoot quills at you. I’ve lived in cities for far too long now. Right. So we left off in the middle of the night, with our tent being blasted by sandy gusts of wind, [...]

Travel Tuesday Sorta: Camping at Cape Disappointment

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Last week, while it was in the 90s in Portland, Dave and I packed up for an after Labor Day camping trip to Cape Disappointment. And you know what was awesome about this trip? It was like, only 20 minutes from home.

Weekend In The Woods: Camp Creek. Again.

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Long before we decided to move to Astoria, we looked ahead at the summer weekends of 2011 and started to plan some camping trips. We probably started planning in January or February. We looked at all the festivals, street fairs, weddings, Timbers games, and all the other stuff going on in the summer. Then we [...]

Headed For The Hills

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This weekend, we are unhooking from the grid for a whole three days, packing up the car, driving east, beyond civilization, outside cell coverage, and into the woods. With big mountains and big trees. We’re going to build big fires and cook big meals. We’ll breathe big gulps of mountain air and catch fish with [...]

Camping On The Coast: Cape Lookout

Awesome. We knew that early May was way, way too early to be camping, especially on the coast. We normally camp in a tent. But we wanted to try a yurt. We figured it would expand our camping season if we didn’t have to worry about sleeping in a puddle. How correct we were.

Camping Season 2011

Dave’s last day of work was yesterday. I haven’t seen him sit still for days. If he stands in one place, he bounces or outright dances. He will deny this if you ask him about it. But I swear internet, it’s true. Long before we had any idea we’d be quitting our jobs and moving [...]

Super Shiny, Red Blooded, Gas Powered Recreation On Wheels

Wow! Dave and I went to the Portland RV Show on Saturday! We were the youngest people there! Just imagine! I’d never heard of Louis Lake before. In fact, I still haven’t heard of it. But it got my checkbook fired up and ready for some hot recreational vehicle browsing. Some of these rigs were [...]

Camp Creek: Camping Amateurs

While other folks planned to grill meat products, drink alcohol products, and light off gunpowder products for 4th of July, we packed up the car with our camping gear and headed for the woods. If you don’t live in Portland or Oregon, you might not realize that summer 2010 has not yet arrived. When I [...]

“Summer” Road Trip Season Begins

Some time in the beginning of the year, we sat down with our calendar and looked at the weekends of the summer months. We had several weddings, a bunch of street fairs and a number of festivals we didn’t want to miss. But we wanted to make sure we got some camping in this summer [...]

Day 19 Of Rain

This is the nineteenth day in a row that we have gotten rain. Some days have just been a little rain, but other days have been an ass ton of rain. It rained all night last night. It’s raining right now. What a perfect time to kick off our Summer Camping Season. The car is [...]