The Hubs is a die hard camper, so when we started dating I had to gently break it to him that I lean more toward "glamping" style of things than his minimalist style of backpacking/camping, and that I am firm believer that just because a bear shits in the woods that doesn't mean that I should... Fast forward 8 years, multiple trips and living abroad in a country where there isn't a lot of public toilets and my definition of glamping has changed. Now I can pack minimally, eat jerk and pop a squat with the best of them. After The Boy was born we decided to get a hard sided camper for safety reasons, you know babies + bears= boo. Our sweet little pop-up camper was great, we had so much fun in it and were able to really see Alaska in it. Sadly when we moved to Mongolia we had to sell it since it was an older camper that couldn't handle being in storage for two years. About two seconds after getting back to the states we decided that it was time to get a camper again, one we love camping but need somewhere to store the kids and two, this will make the trip back home to AK next summer so much easier. The Hubs had been searching online before we even made it to the states but nothing was really working out for the family. About a week after moving to our new place a great camper popped up and we jumped at it. By the end of the day we had a handshake and a check written and The Boy dubbed it our little home! The camper is quite the upgrade from our little pop-up. It has room for the kids to grow, a kitchen, fridge and a shower. Yes you read that right, a SHOWER. I swear after ger camps, car camping and week long kayaking trips this is CRAZY awesome. Because the efficiency of the AK DMV was so awesome it was a number of weeks before we could finally take the camper out but check out that photo below, I think it was worth the wait! We decided to stay somewhat close to home and headed over to Normandy Farms in Massachusetts. This place was awesome, not too far from town, but still on a huge plot of land, it is a camper paradise. There is a pool, tons of activities planned for both kids and adults, huge play area for kids and about 5 minutes away from a State Forest. We skipped out on all the planned activities and decided to hit up the forest to see what adventures we could find. We hiked about 5 miles which was fun, but the best part was The Boy getting tips on how to climb this giant boulder. The first time The Hubs told him where to place his hands and coached him up, after that The Boy wanted to try on his own and he did it! After a quick snack and some googling (the campsite had wifi, seriously!) we decided to hit up the local apple farm. The Boy was doing a fall scavenger hunt for school so we were able to knock out a bunch of items here. They had a huge apple "factory" going. Huge crates of apples were brought in and then put on a conveyor belt, as they moved along the belt they would drop into another belt based on their size. The ladies would then pull out the bad apples and bag up apples for people to buy. The Boy spent about 15 minutes just watching the apples, hahaha. When we walked in there was a line out the door for hot apple donuts, so of course we had to try them, right? DELISH! We picked up a dozen as well as a gallon of apple cider and 2 caramel apples (my favorite). With the approaching of fall that sadly means that most of the camps are now closing up shop for the season. We packed our little home back up and got it set up for the winter and we can't wait for spring to come to bust it back out.
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