Eternal Hippies A Year Homemade and Beyond

What do you do when you are going out of town to visit your mother and her house is already full with an adult grandchild and his girlfriend?  Option 1-Stay at a motel- expensive and risk of bedbugs are high Option 2-Stay at nearby Kings Mountain campground- What we REALLY wanted to do but Joe’s mom didn’t want us so far away, and the poor weather conditions worried her Option 3- Stay in our tent in Joe’s mom’s big backyard. Close to her and can come in if weather is too rough, but can have privacy when we need it. Option 4-Put air mattress in her living room and make EVERYONE uncomfortable and have to wait until Joe’s mom goes to bed (usually after 4:00a.m.) before getting to rest. We decided on option 3. It was the compromise between what we wanted (Kings Mountain campground) and what Joe’s mom wanted. So we had all of the work of camping, without the fun of camping (by fun I mean, no campfire, no cooking outside and no campfire.) But we did have privacy and the...

As part of my goals for January, I have uploaded my first video to You Tube. No narration, just raw video of our drive on the road to Kings Mountain Campground. This was actually our, as a couple, second camping trip. Joe has been camping his whole life and could teach classes in the subject. Our first was two weeks earlier where we traveled and camped from Myrtle Beach, SC all the way up to Sebago, Maine with one overnight stop at Kiptopeke State Park in Virginia and a three days stop in Wompatuck State Park in Massachusetts. In Sebago we stayed at a private campground in nearby Standish called, Friends and Family Campground . On the way back we stopped in Maryland eastern shore at a private campground called Holiday Park Campground and finally treated ourselves to a one night stay at a motel in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia before heading home. That was over a 10 day trip. Since then we bought a bigger tent and have camped at Myrtle Beach State Park and over the holida...