Greetings Glampers!
As we all hunker down and await the peak of winter, now is the perfect time to start daydreaming of Springtime Glamping! Naturally, Laura and I initially think big. Grand Canyon? Yellowstone? Badlands? So many choices! But for us, our go-to first camp of the season is our local favorite, the Wichita Mountain National Wildlife Refuge.
Greetings Glampers!
Before we turned the Labor Day corner into Autumn, Laura and I wanted to sneak in one last “Hotter ‘n 100 Degrees” Texoma summer season glamping experience. Luckily, the weather gods were more than happy to oblige (104 degrees! Yeesh!) as we discovered a new gem in Northern Texas: Eisenhower State Park.
Dear glampers,
It’s hard to believe summer is almost officially over. Today we thought it would be fun to discuss one of those things that we all encounter somewhere along our glamping trips: insects in camp. Yuck.
Dear glamper,
Some places you just have to get to now because they won’t be around forever. Places that you are amazed you can just walk into… because it just seems so special and a bit fragile. And one of those places also has dinosaurs.
Dear glamper,
As you’ve probably gleaned from this blog, I am a hippie. This can get interesting when you are a military spouse and your husband is “the man” and you move from military town to military town. But then you talk your husband into hiking with llamas near Taos and you refill your crunchy-hippie tank and it’s good.
Happy day of independancy glampers!
As America celebrates its freedom from tyranny and taxation without representation (sorry about that war thing, English Glampers… still friends, right?), TJ and I will be taking a moment to celebrate another Great American Dream: street camping.
Dear glamper,
Ah, the joyful sounds of nature: wind rustling the leaves, birds singing, children whining. Wait, no.
Like so many things, once you have children, hiking just isn’t the same anymore, if it happens at all. We used to love packing up backpacks for day long outings and wandering a bit of trail for hours. But usually, young kids are not always so into that, and neither are you after you’ve been running on two hours sleep and your muscles ache from picking them up and putting them down 20 times an hour. And so we have left behind any preconceptions of the old vision of what it means “to hike” and have found joy in hiking with our kids with a few simple “kid hacks”. Here’s a short list of things that have worked for us, most of the time.
Dear fellow glamper,
I must admit to you I was a bit hesitant about Texas when we first moved here. As a “northerner” I had a set of ideas about what Texas is all about: oil rigs, ranches with a thousand head of cattle, and short grass prairies stretching on and on just forever. Now, like pretty much everything I thought of as an absolute in my 20s, all those preconceptions have been tossed aside, and I admit I was totally way off. Texas is pretty awesome. Like, really. In particular, I have a crazy mad passion for the Texas State Park system. I love the variety, the natural beauty, the campsites, just everything. We bought an annual pass last year and have used it so much I am afraid each time I show it to a ranger that they will say, “now, ma’m, this pass is plum used up.” The pass covers daily entrance fees, has a bunch of coupons for discounts on camp sites, and means you can fish in the parks for free. Love it. Oh, and did I mention you can make your camping reservations on line?! You can see site availability, and make sure you will have a parking pad large enough, or small enough, for your rig. So darn easy!
Caprock Canyon is one of the parks closest to us. Driving through the flat panhandle and coming across this canyon system feels like tumbling into a different world.
Dear fellow glamper,
Thank you for visiting our blog! We are very excited to develop this blog into a resource for all things camping and create a community of and for those who love family adventures.
Just who are we, anyway? Well, we are an active duty military family of four: TJ (a military pilot and history nerd), Laura (a homemaker with an environmental sciences past and a long lasting passion for soil ecology), and two crazy, beautiful girls ages 5 and 2. Occasionally you may see our four-leggers (two 50 pound rescue dogs who think they are people). Although we are born mid-westerners, our careers have taken us all over the country/world (exotic locales such as Del Rio, TX and Pierre, SD).
Happy Glampers 