House and Home - Planning an Unforgettable Family Camping Trip
A family camping trip can be an affordable alternative to a summer beach vacation.
When I was growing up, my family always took two vacations every summer: one to the beach, and one to a campground. My dad would spend weeks preparing for our annual “roughing it,” in the woods, sleeping in tents and eating nothing we couldn’t cook on a grill or over a campfire. (These days my mom says her idea of roughing it is a hotel that doesn’t have five stars.) Dad would make lists and menus, shop for camp “stuff” like camp soap and a little plastic egg carton, check all our camping gear for holes and cracks, pack a cooler with stuff for griddle cakes and breakfast sandwiches and homemade cornbread. We had an old-fashioned propane lantern and a screen tent that occasionally kept a mosquito at bay. We loaded up our van until there was…
