Too Hot For Camping??

Last month I took Brooklyn camping for the first time. Some would say we really didn't go camping. Personally I think Camping is Camping whether it's in an RV, Pop-up or Tent - its camping.

About once a year I go "camping" with my friends - the kind of camping where you put on a backpack with all your gear - hike some trails - and crash wherever you can find a spot. (except on Old Rag Mountain - where you better not camp on private property).

Anyway, last month the fam went camping at Kiptopeke State Park over on the Eastern Shore part of VA. I like to give the wife a hard time and call her "Brooklyn" when it comes to anything "southern". Not that camping is strictly for "southerns". Anyway, She is from Brooklyn and never got the chance to go camping as a kid. So packing everything in a backpack and hiking some trails was probably not a good way to introduce camping to her. So instead I got a huge 8 person tent from Amazon.com for the Fam last Christmas. Then we got the air mattresses for us and the kids, the canopy with mosquito netting to surround our picnic table, the coleman grill, bug spray, etc,etc. Basically we got the works to make camping enjoyable to anyone who has never been camping.

The trip was a success. Brooklyn had a great time. Of coarse the 2 boys did as well. Which 6 and 4 year old wouldn't. And since that trip we have been planning 2-3 more camping trips to try and get in before the end of the summer. This weekend we are going to check out Bear Creek Lake over in Cumberland. We have not decided on the camping part yet -- with the heat like this Brooklyn may cancel the other 2 camping trips...