Posts from ‘September, 2008’

So I was flipping channels this afternoon and what did I find on TBS? RV the movie with Robin Williams. This is one of those movies that I probably would never have dreamt of sitting through, but given my newly  minted status as an RV owner, I had to check it out. Verdict? unexpectedly hillarious, [...]

We’ve confirmed camping plans for next weekend, we’ll be heading out to Unicoi State Park. It’s a little more than an hour north of us in the mountains, about three miles from Helen, our local faux-Alpine mountain town. We’ll set up on Friday night as always and then take the kids to Helen on Saturday [...]

So we got an envelope full of crap this week from the Winnebago-Itasca Travelers club. Membership was free with our outrageously large purchase of a new Winnebago
After briefly looking over all the stuff, it seems that we get 1 year of roadside assistance (which is nice) and 10% off at selected campgrounds around [...]

These photos came out surprisingly good considering I took them all with my Blackberry… Was just too lazy to grab the real camera even though I had it with me. Here you’ll see it all, tha family fun, Izzy’s obsession with collecting garbage found on the ground and Michele’s first time in the driver’s seat. [...]

So we went back to Red Top for the second weekend in a row and made some big improvements in our overall game. First, we  brought the car. When you’re going to be somewhere with small kids for almost 2 days, it’s a strong move unless you’re absolutely certain there’s enough to do within walking [...]

We got back from camping at Red Top Mountain yesterday and a good time was had by all (photos here). Our daughter Izzy especially had a fantastic time. We did suffer a few rookie setbacks here and there, but nothing too major.
Overall, here’s what we learned:

Make sure you understand not only how to best get [...]

Details to come later… Tired now.

Well, we did it…We finally got our Winnebago. And it was a long day.
We started it as many of our fellow metro-ATLians do; sitting in traffic. At about 8:30 we rolled into Douglasville (about 20 miles west of Atlanta) and stopped for breakfast at the Waffle House. Think that made my morning. Next, we hit [...]

We’ve made much ado over the past couple of days about securing a tow dolly, something like the one in the picture below:

This turned out to be a slightly more complex purchase than we thought it would be. There is a wide price range on these things, about $750-$2000 from what we’ve seen and there [...]

This coming weekend will be our first camping tripin 3 years. And with good reason. In fall, 2005 my daughter Izzy was just a baby and it was her fist camping trip. Judging by the pictures, you’d think it was the funnest family weekend EVER. But you’d be wrong. Very wrong.
We arrived on Friday evening [...]