Nights Under Canvas...

That's what they call a night out camping in our MAC (Mid-Atlantic Campers) forum. Since we have the hybrid with bunk ends, we are sleeping under canvas, just like in the old pop up we had. MAC started as an off shoot of Pop Up Explorer (PUX) and most of us still had pop ups when the group originated. Many in the group have since upgraded to travel trailers or hybrids, like ours. It's pretty cool to see the clever mods people have done to thier pop-ups...adding storage, air conditioning, fridges, etc. One thing we'd like to do is start replacing the bulbs in the lights with LEDs, which would be great for dry camping (i.e., national seashore with no electric hook ups). When we found our Rockwood Roo, we pretty much got everything we wanted and were looking for. It was a deal we couldn't pass up.

I'm so excited this year to be able to use it alot more. It was hard to plan camping weekends when Reece was out of work. We didn't have a whole lot of extra cash for booking a bunch of weekends early in the year, like most peoople do. If you don't do it early, then you get what's left, if you can find anything at all. Since there was an extra pay period for my this month, I decided to use the extra from the first paycheck to do just that and be able to get out camping at least once a month, which I mentioned in the last post. We've got many nights of camping planned and that makes me happy. Gettysburg will be the end of April and mid-October. Elk Neck will be in May and Cunningham Falls in June. July is our trip to the beach and then the annual WV tubing trip at the end of July. I think we're still trying to plan a Lancaster/Strasburg Railroad trip for sometime in Sept also.

I think only one trip so far we'll be alone. One or possibly both Gettysburg weekends will be with Reece's parents...others will be with our MAC friends and our week at the beach will be with the Magees. Hopfully my brother and Amy will make it for a weekend out with us and if we can get Lancaster in there, maybe mom and dad will come too.

Happy trails to all our camping friends out there. Here's to a great season of nights under canvas!