08 May
The RV Atlas Blog
Thoughts on camping, parenting, and travel.
19 Apr
Campground Review: Mama Gertie’s Hideaway
Swannanoa, Western North Carolina The Lively Little Campers are also lucky little campers. Max and Theo just happen to have two loving grandparents who live in Asheville, North Carolina–surrounded by the stunning beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The boys have visited Ami and BeBop in Asheville many times, but we have never had the pleasure of camping there. That all changed last week when we kicked off the 2012 camping season with a seven day stay at Mama Gertie’s Hideaway in nearby Swannanoa. Last summer while staying in... Read More
16 Apr
The Leaves are on the Trees: Season 3 Opener
Season Opener: Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina * At some point this February, my husband set off to retrieve the family camper from South Jersey. We had (once again) dropped the pop-up off for some repairs at the dealership, where it proceeded to stay for the better part of two months awaiting parts and pieces. At last everything was right as rain and while Jeremy went to pick it up, I did boring weekend chores like grocery shopping and banking. Well. We just happened to pull back into our driveway at the same time Jeremy was pulling up... Read More
21 Oct
CAMPGROUND REVIEW: Pleasant Acres Farm Campground
When Stephanie and I decided to buy our first pop-up camper we were hoping that we would travel a lot and travel cheap. We have owned our Flagstaff 625d for about 18 months now and we have spent 48 nights camping . Not shabby, right? We would never have been able to spend 48 nights in hotels. Just too expensive. Besides, as we mentioned in a previous post, when it comes to family vacation time–we pretty much hate hotels. Camping really is so much cheaper. Sometimes…. Pleasant Acres Farm Campground lived up to its... Read MoreGetting Back to Real Life (yeah, we work and stuff)
Before we left for Sussex a couple of weeks ago, I was talking to a friend about the upcoming trip. As I was describing some activity we were anticipating, she cut me off to ask a very fair and very pertinent question. She couldn’t have cared less about the hike I was trying to sell her. What she wanted to know was how I got all the weekend chores done and was able to go back to work on the Monday after a trip without the whole house being in a state of chaos.This is such a mom perspective. I remember one of our first weekend trips... Read More
13 Oct
The Farmer and His Apples: Diver Ed Gets a Run for His Money…
We were pulling out of the campground Sunday morning, damp and frizzy, when the sun decided to aggressively burst out of the clouds. Suddenly it seemed like absolute madness to simply head for home when the beautiful fall day we had dreamed of suddenly arrived. We spotted this sign a couple of miles away from Pleasant Acres and headed down a bumpy, muddy road, keeping our fingers crossed that somewhere at the end we would be able to turn our camper around. Is there anything as romantic as picking apples? My husband and I picked apples for the... Read More
11 Oct
