Have you ever camped on the holidays?
Friday December 21, 2007
| The holidays are a great time to get together with family and friends. I hope you all are enjoying this festive time of year. The weather in December can be quite harsh in many parts of the country, but in some areas this can be the very best time of year to be outdoors. Ask any snowbird. They know the advantages of heading south for the winter. |
Jean Sickler took this picture of the camping loop on Thanksgiving Day at Spirit of the Suwannee Campground, Live Oak, Florida.
I know there are a lot of die-hard campers and RVers out there, but have any of you ever camped on the holidays? If you have, leave a comment and share your holiday camping experiences.
Comments
Have camped many yrs, 10+ during holidays. Wonderful and couldn’t be more peaceful…. Love it!!!!
I have camped numerous times over Thanksgiving and New Year’s, but not X-mas. Friends and I usually go steelhead fishing somewhere in Northern California or Southern Oregon. It’s great, often we are the only ones camping in the area.
I am sitting at Ocean Lakes CG Myrtle Beach, SC right now.
I am have been here all week and we just had Thanksgiving dinner with 12 other families who are camping with us.
This is our 7th Thanksgiving together.
We started with 3 families and it grows each year, as more families get into camping.
We camped this weekend out in Ridgecrest desert. I is a family tradition for over 20 years. We ride our dirt bikes and party with many friends that all met the same weekend. There is no better way to spend a long weekend
we have camped (I THINK 3 YEARS IN A ROW) in Branson, Mo. over Thanksgiving. and been camping in Tupelo, Ms. (to visit relatives) over Christmas more times than I can keep track of. We camp almost every year at our seasonal CG over EASTER weekend.
Never camped on New Years
My husband and I have a tradition of camping over the Thanksgiving holiday. Our kids are grown and out of state with their own lives and we have no other family nearby. This year we took our three 12 week old kittens with us. What a hoot!
We camp over the holidays whenever possible. Anywhere south of here where it is warmer. This year it’s Christmas in OK camping on my son’s property. A real camper must camp, ya know?
On Thanksgiving of 2006 we were in Anthony, New Mexico and it was beautiful. Had the door and windows open and a lot of people standing outside smelling the cooking turkey and pies. It was awesome. Missed the family but had a good time.
We had for years, before we retired met several couples for Thanksgiving and Christmas….Lots of love there and the food to die for great! Now that the grandkids are bigger we have stopped for a few years but I tell you we may just start bring them along because we had so much fun…everyone becomes your family….giving with a smile and a hug means so much to us all…
We leave the a couple of days after Christmas to go snowmobiling. We stay thru the New Year and longer. We camp-out in the R.V. in the snow for 6 to 9 days, spending the days snowmobiling and the nights around a bonfire, staring at the bright stars, breathing the sharp, clean, chilly night air. It has turned into a family event for the past 8 years now. My wife, daughter, in-laws, and a few friends head out every year. We see other familar faces time after time. Some of these people come from as 400 miles away just to spend the New Year up in the mountains. These people seem become your “winter” family; sharing and enjoying the same things you do. It is bliss…..
We started camping out on Thanksgiving we had so much fun we did it every year to the many complaints of our family…then when 911 happened we said ok we stay home and have Thanksgiving dinner with the family…family all left town! Never again we have more real “family” in rv parks than at home……the deversity of food is so nice too…and all the people gather there who meet us want to be with us instead of a required visit to the relatives….Christmas is getting that way to just mail a gift card and we’ll talk at you later…get more love in an rv park, they treasure what time we all have left and make the most of it…..