We find that our kids seem to wiggle out of their sleeping bags all the time, so waking up every hour to tuck them back in is all too common. This got us thinking for ways to heat the tent on colder nights. Any quick searches seemed to pull up Continue Reading
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2020 Camping Essentials
Below is a list of some of our current favorites for our weekend adventures! Val wrote a similar article in 2019 and highlighted the our chairs, cooler, plastic tubs and a few other essentials! A new addition to our camping essentials, but it quickly became my favorite! We love the Continue Reading
Campground Coffee
At home, I am a big coffee drinker. Like, you would probably judge me if I told you how many cups of coffee I drink per day. I’ve often joked that when we started camping, we would eat “like children”. Easy was the name of our game, PBJs, hot dogs, Continue Reading
Where To Next? Finding Great Destinations To Explore
The big question always seems to be – where to next? It can be hard to find new places to hike, camp, or off-road. And honestly, when we started off-roading more a few years ago, we always went to the same spot. Butcher Jones. It was easy and we knew Continue Reading
Prioritizing Family Time
I’ll be honest and admit that sometimes when Val brings up planning a camping week that my mind starts to race and sometimes my first response is, “no – we don’t have time!” But here’s the secret. We will never have time. But we will always try to find a Continue Reading
Overland Route Planning
As we started getting more and more into off-roading and camping, one of the first big challenges we started facing was simply figuring out where to go. Sounds easy, but not… All the well known easy access places are busy, and privacy is hard to come by. I personally dislike Continue Reading
Affordable Roof Top Tent for the Family
When we stated to do more camping and overlanding with our two boys, there was one simple question that was surprisingly hard to find a solid answer to – Will a roof top tent work for a family of 4? Yes it will. After looking at many tents online, comparing Continue Reading
What is overlanding, exactly?
Lately, I’ve been adding #overlandfam to a lot of my Instagram posts. It’s taken me a little while to own our place as an overlanding family. I often get asked though, what does mean to “overland”. It’s not a silly question at all, and truthfully, it wasn’t really a term Continue Reading
Camping Essentials 2019
We have really enjoyed camping with the kids this year, here are the items that make such trips enjoyable for us. Tubs – The hardest part of going camping, is often not the trip itself, but the packing and unpacking. To make this less of a burden, we purchased several Continue Reading
Overland: Flagstaff to Grand Canyon
This 4th of July, Savannah and I opted to push our comfort zone and join an off-raod group (Instagram: @overland_raptor_runs) for a three day overlanding trip. We had gone camping with the kids before, and we had gone on long road trips with the kids before, but this was going Continue Reading