School was out for the kids on June 2nd, so we were really jazzed to go out on our first big trip of the Summer starting on the 3rd. But the weather (that is the rain) had other plans, so we didn’t really leave for out big trip until Sunday June 5th.

Just outside the park entrance

Our destination for our first trip of the summer was to Yosemite National Park. Ah yes Yosemite! The land of John Muir. The incredible water falls rushing to the valley floor  and the extreme beauty everywhere you look.

Early June was a good time to go to Yosemite. The meadows still had some of their Spring wildflowers, the wild life was out and visible (we saw a bear, a coyote and a lot of deer) and the waterfalls in the valley were close to their all-time high flow level (They did crest on June 16th).

We didn’t camp in the Valley though. We stayed at the Yosemite Pines RV campground (map) just above the little town of Groveland. We drove up highway 120. Going up the grade it is a windy slow process, but coming from the SF Bay Area it is the quickest way to get to the park.

Yosemite Pines was a nice place to stay. The campsites are spacious, most have full hookups and the staff were pleasant and helpful. They also had some nice kid features like a petting zoo and a hike that you could take to an old gold mine on the property (the kids loved this). Though the camp bathrooms could have been closer to our campsite and the pool could have been a little warmer. All-in-all I can recommend this campground. But if you are a member of Thousand Trails the Yosemite Lakes campground is much nicer and closer to the park entrance.

Yosemite Falls

We rode our bikes in the valley just about everywhere. This is definitely the way to go (and the preferred way the park service wants you to experience the park). We just drove in to the Swinging Bridge area. Parked our car there and road our bikes throughout the valley floor.

The kids had a blast and we saw a lot of wildlife. I think we may start making a trip to Yosemite an annual event. Especially now that we have joined Thousand Trails and can stay at Yosemite Lakes for next to nothing.

This bear looks fairly young and kind of skinny, being early in the season

The mine at Yosemite Pines. No we didn't go in. Phoebe didn't want anything to do with it.

Our kids and kids or our friends play in the snow above Yosemite Valley

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Our Big Yosemite Adventure

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As I’m writing to you it is pouring rain here in San Jose, CA where we live, with not a chance of sunshine for three or four days – and it’s June 4th!

But it is the beginning of the RV season, even if the weather isn’t cooperating, so we plan a trip very soon to take advantage of the kids being out of school.

This RV season will be a bit different this year because we have a new addition to our family. Her name is Phoebe and she is a little white ball of fur and love. She is a perfect RV size and is a very good traveler (when we’re on the road she just takes a nap).

After our long time family cat “Killer” died in March (he lived 17 years) , we started to look for a new family pet. We got very lucky and found a family that needed to find a new home for their Coton de Tulear breed dog, Phoebe.

She has been a great addition to our family. In the coming months you will see her with us as we go on our summer camping trips.

If I can pass along any tips to traveling with a dog and two very active kids I will definitely add them here.

So please welcome Phoebe to our Family RV Fun blog.

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We  decided to spend a quick weekend at the Santa Cruz Harbor RV Park recently (map). Yes that Santa Cruz Harbor. The one that was hit by the Japan tsunami recently. Though we were there many weeks before the flooding at the harbor.

The RV park looked like it would be a fun trip and no big deal. A 40 minute drive over the hill to Santa Cruz from San Jose for fun on the beach (and a whale watching boat ride on Sat.)

The campground turned out to be a very nice pretty place to camp, even though it is just a strip of asphalt (and a kind of picky camp host) . But it has a nice view of the harbor, full hook-ups and a great kids park just up the hill. Also the beach is a short bike ride. Throw in that we had a fantastic weather (low 70s, sunny and little wind) and you have the makings of another Family RV Fun trip.

But, we had a couple of incidents on our trip where we felt our personal safety and personal property were in question. We almost had a bike stolen and also the same evening a homeless person hanging out outside our trailer at 3 in the morning. Not good.

Kids on the beach in Santa Cruz

I did read about the theft issue on a review of the park on another site, but I didn’t give it a lot of thought. After our experience, and talking with a harbor official, it’s clear that theft has been a big problem at this place and anyone planning to stay here needs to be aware of this.

Apparently neighborhood juvenile delinquents come down in the early morning hours and steal anything left outside. Luckily for us we did have our bikes locked-up but they almost got my bike pulled out of a padlock right before I scared them away.

Frederick Street Park

So do I recommend this RV park and will we come back? I guess it is a yes, mainly because the kids love the park near by and the great beach. Just don’t leave anything out of your rig over night.

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Santa Cruz Harbor RV Park: Nice Place, But…

We had been to the Columbia State Historic Park before (map). It was a summer time trip and a couple of years before we got our travel trailer.

So when our friends said they wanted to go there I was a little apprehensive about going back to some place that I thought we had already experienced. But we did agree to go and I knew the kids would have a good time with our friend’s kids so off we went.

Well I’m so glad we did. The first pleasant surprise was the RV park we stayed at. Located very close to the historic downtown area, Marble Quarry RV Park is a very nice RV park with full hook-ups and well-maintained facilities. The best thing about the RV park was that you could easily walk to the State Park downtown area, though we drove each time we went (our cop-out was two screaming kids who don’t want to walk anywhere).

The Columbia Historic State Park is basically a restored and maintained old 49er gold rush town that had the good fortune to be taken over by the Cal State Park system (or I’m sure it would have faded away from neglect and non-use long ago).

The downtown area is full of historic buildings along the main street. Some are storefront museums and others are quaint little shops, each with its own specialty.  One we particularly enjoyed was a farmers supply shop that had all means of supplies for the 19^th century rural famer. Others included a sweets shop, and old time restaurant and a gold rush era bookstore.

Stagecoach at Columbia State Park

You can also pan for gold, ride a stagecoach (guaranteed to by held-up be bandits) and drink-in the old time atmosphere of the old west.

The weekend we were there we enjoyed the Christmas parade for the town, which included more horses than you could count from horse clubs and 4H groups. What was great about the parade for us was that we didn’t have to fight the crowds to have a good seat to see the parade.  There was a good-sized crowd to enjoy the event but not too large to be uncomfortable.

Columbia Holiday Parade

All-in-all it was an enjoyable trip and well worth the gas money to get there.

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Columbia State Historic Park in December

We recently joined some friends for the long labor day weekend at an RV campground called Cotillion Gardens. It is located in the Santa Cruz mountains near the town of Felton (map). The thought “packed like sardines” comes to mind of our experience.

Kids at the redwoods

We had a good time and all, but man did we feel packed into a very small place. The whole camping vibe gets thrown out the window when the camp site next to you is less than three feet away and you can’t help but hear everything your neighbors are saying (and believe me you don’t want to hear).

We actually got one of the better RV spots at the campground but it still felt way too crowded. Although one good side effect of having a lot of people around is that there were a lot of kids for our kids to play with. But paying $55 per night for a packed like a sardine campsite can feel like a ripoff.

What was good about this place was that we were very close to Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park and the Roaring Camp Railroad. We had a great hike on the Redwood Grove Loop Trail that is in the park. This is a really good hike for small kids because it is pretty short and totally flat. Plus you walk among some very amazing old growth redwoods. Our kids had a really fun time.

Very close to the park is Roaring Camp Railroad.  If you have small kids, this is also a must do activity, though the rail trip can be a little pricey.

Next time we plan to camp  at the state park campground that is nearby, but not in, the state park.

This is an iPhone video of the train going by.

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Cotillion Gardens: Too many people, but the hiking was fun

Set for a mid-May trip, we finally got a weekend reservation at Sunset State Beach (Map) located south of Rio Del Mar, CA.

Sunset State Beach campground and beach

We’d heard a lot about the campground and looked forward to going there and having a great weekend trip on the coast.

It being mid-May we thought the weather would be no problem, but this is no usual weather year so yes we did run into some not so perfect weather.

We pulled into our campground late on Friday night with little problems (though me backing-up the trailer always involves some level of drama).

On Sat. morning we got up to a little fog but it burned off pretty quickly. So we packed-up and headed to the beach.

It is a short drive down to the beach with some really nice picnic and barbecue facilities.

Sunset State Beach

What makes Sunset State Beach so unique is that it is an extremely long and flat beach. I’m not sure how long it is but it sure looked like you would be walking for hours until you reached the end of it.

But we never really got the chance to walk along the beach for very long.

The trouble was that the wind was howling in from the surf and making our day at the beach a little difficult to enjoy.

First we tried to make a wind break with our chairs and sun umbrellas. But of course the wind was just too strong and we had to retreat to the other side of the dunes where the wind wasn’t so strong, but alas not on the beach itself.

Of course the kids took the weather hiccups in stride and seemed to have a great time no matter what.

Kids at Sunset Beach Campground

Later at the campground the kids had fun in a field of wild flowers just outside our trailer door.

Sunday morning we woke-up to a cloudy and raining morning. All the tent campers were very quick to pack-up and leave at the first sign of rain.

We also left Sunday morning, but stayed cozy and warm in our travel trailer until we were ready to leave.

This campground does deserve another try when the weather is better. But it is hard to get a reservation in the summer.

Also the campground doesn’t have hook-ups but we could dump our black and gray water at the New Brighton State Beach campground.

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What to do when the weather isn’t perfect – Sunset State Beach

With the President’s holiday  (and the kids being out of school for the entire week!) we decided to go up to the snow for the long weekend Friday through Monday.

We didn’t want to go to Lake Tahoe and deal with the crowds and the attitudes we have experienced there. So we decided to go up to the Southern Sierras and go skiing at Sierra Summit. Which is about one hour and a half East of Fresno, CA.

Sierra Summit is East of Fresno

It turned out to be a really good choice. The roads were pretty much traffic free and the resort was busy, but not uncomfortably crowded.

But before we got up to the snow, we had to decide where we would park the travel trailer. We were a little squeamish about driving up to the snow with our trailer, so we decided to park it at an RV park in Fresno and drive up to Sierra Summit for our day trips to the snow.

Two bugs watching a movie

In hindsight there was no need to worry about taking our trailer up to the snow (there were even RVs camping in the parking lot of the resort). The roads were very clear and there was space at Camp Edison at Shaver Lake. Next year we will probably do that. But only if the weather is guaranteed to be clear and the roads are plowed and dry.

We may have to do a little winterizing of the trailer (maybe buy a heat

Sam learning snow boarding

blanket for the water tank or an insulated water hose), but nothing major because it only get down to around 20F at night.

We drove around Camp Edison when we were up there and it looked like a really great place to park the trailer. They were recently rated very high in a Sunset Magazine article on the best campgrounds in the Western US.

Both kids loved the snow. Sam seemed to take to snow boarding, while Ben liked skiing. They are both now telling their friends they are accomplished at their chosen sport after only one lesson.

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A Trip to the Snow and Sierra Summit

The big tank at SeaWorld

Tomorrow we take-off for the longest (by distance and time) of our family RV trips this year. We are going to San Diego for two weeks. My wife is off work and the kids are off school, so we are going for it. I will have to do a little work during the trip, but when you work for yourself your time is never really your own.
photo credit: kwalk628

We are going to try to be as economical as possible. Our trips to SeaWorld and the San Diego Zoo and Animal Park are already paid for because we bought a year membership to both last year (yes we did this same trip last year).

Panda at the San Diego Zoo

But unlike last year we are trying to stay at county parks and other more economical places. Last year we stayed a really special RV park, Campland on the Bay. It was a little expensive (but very cool), so this year we are going to be staying at three different campgrounds and they are all under $35 per night.
photo credit: PedroCancion

We only considered doing this again this year if we could keep expenses way down. So we won’t be eating out much and we are really going to watch everything we buy. Needless to say our biggest expense will be gas. And the next biggest expense of course will be food. I will be using every trick I know to keep our fuel use to a minimum and most meals will be at the RV. Also the trip will be one of the kids Christmas presents, as we keep telling them.

I think it will be fun to see how cheap we can be. So I will be tweeting along our trip (twitter username: FamilyRVFun).

Follow our exploits in family fun and economy. I will let you know the nitty-gritty on what we spend on and how much. And also I’ll try to pass along anything we learn on economical RV travel.

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The Big Holiday Trip: On the Road in Economy Class

So we always go to the Pismo Beach area every year for the long Thanksgiving weekend. This has been the second year with our trailer. Before that we rented a house. And before that we rented an RV and spent the weekend before Thanksgiving at a Pismo RV park (we couldn’t get a reservation for Thanksgiving). This was the start of our RV bug.

Thanksgiving dinner at Avila Beach

The weather is always really good during Thanksgiving. The locals call November their Indian summer. And I have to agree with them. We have spent many a sunny afternoon on the beach. And this year we had Thanksgiving dinner on our favorite place Avila Beach, which is just a few miles south of Pismo. We had a really fun time and went to the beach every day that we were there.

We stayed at a really family-friendly RV park in Oceano Beach (just north of Pismo). It is a small county RV park called Oceano Memorial Campground. It has a little kids park at the center and it also has a very large kids playground down the street. For families with kids you can’t ask for a better place to stay. And we are definitely coming back to it next year (we made our reservation for 2010 while we were there).

So if you want to stay at the beach and be at a really family friendly RV campground. Check out Oceano Campground

A really good playground by the RV park

Having fun at Avila Beach

Ben is having fun on the beach. I think he is digging to China.

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Thanksgiving dinner on the beach

Watch this impassioned speech by the President of the Cal State Park Foundation, Elizabeth Goldstein.

She lays down the law on what we need to do to save our parks.

The closure list has been delayed until late next week.

Make a donation to the Cal State Park Foundation fight to stop the park closures.

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Cal State Park Foundation President Speaks

We spent the weekend at a local county park that was a surprisingly great place to RV.

We wanted to go somewhere close to save on gas. So we settled on Coyote Lake Harvey Bear Ranch County Park. It is a park in the foothills above Gilroy, CA and managed by the Santa Clara County.

We weren’t expecting much (it’s a county park after all). But what we found were new and well designed facilities and a near-by lake that was a great place to go boating.

They seemed like almost brand new bathrooms and showers

They supply power and water but sadly no sewer. Though there is a dump station avalable to RVers

The best part of the trip was the friendly people we met who were looking for the same inexpensive, close weekend get away. The kids made quick friends with many of the other kids camping at the park. And we also met other family RVers who we share kids of the same age and a love of RVing.

Another pleasant surprise was that the county park rangers put on a little presentation on Sat. evening complete with a video showing all the wild life that live in the hills around the park. It was very entertaining – and surprising to know the variety of animals who live in the park.

During our stay we saw wild boars (yes there were and a lot of them but they always kept their distance) wild turkeys and deer.

Remember to bring your own shade in the summer

Though be warned: You need to bring your own shade to this park when you come in the summer. The RV campground area is fairly new and void of mature trees for shade. So you’ll need a portable canopy to make shade around your camp area.

Here is how to get there – From U.S. Highway 101 in Gilroy., take the Leavesley Road exit. Proceed east on Leavesley Road 2 miles to New Avenue. Proceed north on New Avenue .5 miles to Roop Road. Proceed east on Roop Road 3.5 miles into the foothills. Turn left into the park and proceed one mile north to the entrance station and visitor center.

The kids put together a talent show on Sat. evening

To reserve a space you can call (408) 355-2201 to make a camping reservation or go online at https://gooutsideandplay.org.

Below is a campground map of the area we camped at.

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CA Camping: Coyote Lake Harvey Bear Ranch County Park

My family and I spend the long weekend (from 6/19- 21/09) at Calavaeras Big Trees Stat Park. It is located 10 minutes above Arnold, CA in the Southern Sierra Nevada.  Below is the account of our stay and some tips on how to make your stay there more enjoyable.

Getting to the Campground – No Wide Turns
Upon driving into the park, we were so stunned by the beauty of the forrest that we missed our turn for the campsite and we ended up on a dead-end road, which once had been the RV dump station area (now not in service). However, that was blocked off by some very heavy logs, yes, we did try to move them but couldn’t, because making a U-turn was impossible.

As we worked on trying to turn our travel trailer around in the dead-end road, we attracted the attention of a state park ranger who came to assist us in backing out of our mess (which was about 5 car lengths out with cars parked on either side).  It was a real nail biter and we were tired of driving so it just added to the frustration of being at the camp and not yet at the campsite.  We made it though and the Ranger followed us in and helped us back into our wide and expansive site.  He was great!  Thank you Barry!

About the Sites
The sites at Big Trees are expansive and that is a plus, however, many are close to Highway 4 so they suffer from highway traffic noise (not what you want to hear at a high sierra camp site).  We have done a bit of legwork and we’ll recommend the sites we think you should look for when you go.

What we didn’t expect was a spigot that wasn’t set up to accept a regular water hose.  So while there is water…you have to find a way to actually get it into the RV.  We knew this wasn’t going to be an easy fix.  On the second day we did buy an extra water hose and we cut off one end in order to make it larger to fit over the spigot.  That helped us out but we weren’t able to really cut off all the water from spraying out all over.  We will keep this modified hose and a few clasps within our trailer in case this happens again.

We didn’t have electricity and were a little concerned if we could make the two days on the battery power we have with the trailer.  We also did not have a sewer hook up at the site and had to conserve water and how we used our bathroom.  We decided it was only for those nighttime, and early morning nature calls and that by no means would we ever be doing number 2 there.  We used the nice bathrooms that were there at the campgrounds. We did great!  We washed our dishes outside with a collapsible plastic side-by-side sinks and used our outdoor shower to clean up under so that our water usage did wash way into the ground…versus into our tank.  We left with only 1/3 full tanks and drove all the way to where we store the trailer where we can use their dump station.

All the Fun
Big Trees State Park has a wonderful camper activity program.  On Friday night we took in a sing along at the campfire area. It was quite good.  The two who were leading the sing along seemed to be regulars and had strong voices.  They did a lot to involve the children in the audience and had a round of jokes, which both our little hams (Ben 7 and Sam 4) had to participate in twice!  Though we still can’t quite figure out their jokes, they both thought they were hilarious!  The evening finished off with marshmallows over the campfire! We made smore’s as we always have to do at least once on our trips!

On Saturday morning the kids took in the Jr. Ranger programs and they were great!  Ben got to explore and find bones of little creatures that were eaten by owls and Sam learned all about butterflies and made a butterfly kite.  In the afternoon we took out our new Rockport Old Town Canoe and had fun on a small man made like called White Pine Lake, which is just a few miles from the park.   This was fun and we enjoyed breaking in the canoe and finding a nice beach to picnic on.   On our way back we went ahead and drove up to the Stanislaus River and sat along the riverbank where the kids could throw in rocks and just enjoy the sound of the rushing water.

Though not all of us got to go on hikes, I did manage to get in a walk and was amazed by the Big Trees for which this park is named.  The trees are over 2000 years old and massive giants. It was very peaceful and tranquil and would be an enjoyable 1-mile hike for any family.

On our trip the campsites were full of families enjoying the first few weeks off of school.  Our neighbors all had kids and that is where our kids chose to spend their time, playing with the other kids and that really what camping is all about for the kids… meeting new friends who are enjoying the great outdoors as well.

When we go to Big Trees again….
We’ll be sure to turn into the campgrounds….very important.

We’ll also try to go to one of the campsites 4-12 (See North Grove Campground map below). They are far enough away from the traffic noise, but close to activity areas. If you want to get really away from it, you can stay at the Oak Hollow Campground in the park. It is a few miles into the park through a narrow paved road. Though if you have a large RV (28’ plus) I wouldn’t recommend it.

We’ll seek out more hiking, be sure to take in the Campfire singing on Friday nights, go canoeing, maybe at another lake (Alpine and Spicer Lakes are close by).  Be prepared with the modified hose contraption.   We know our battery power can handle a 2-day trip, we only used 1/3 of our battery power.  All in all….we’ll be ready to have a nice, relaxing time at Big Trees again!

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CA Camping: Calaveras Big Trees State Park- June 19 – 21, 2009

You may have heard of the budget problems with the state of California (my home-sweet-home). It seems we are $20 billion in the red.

Well the governor is proposing some prettry draconian measures with the State Park system. He wants to close up to 220 state parks with over 50 in Northern California alone.

This could mean that Big Basin State Park (one we plan on camping at this year) could be closing.

There is something we can do about it though. Go to the calparks.org web site and sign the petition to tell the govinator that we don’t want this.

photo credit: jeffk

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California Camping in Danger by State Budget

If you aren’t a member of Good Sam, I strongly suggest you join. It is $30 a year and more than pays for itself many times over in just the Good Sam member discounts at RV parks.

If you are a member, there is currently an extra benefit that I think you’ll be interested in. If you look in the current (June 2009) Good Sam Highways magazine, on page 23 you will see some great discounts for parts and service at Camping World.

You can get up to $300 off their Procare service is you show the discount coupon at your local Camping World among other discounts.Some great deals are offered just in time for the summer.

They also have some good deals online. Click the link below for more info.

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Good Sam Coupons for RV Parts and Service

You are itching to go and your RV is gassed-up and ready to roll. You’ve reserved and you’re excited to experience the new campground you read so much about in the travel directory. Your ready for the open road.

This is all fine and good but – what about the kids. You know they aren’t going to be angels for the multi-plus hours drive to your RV adventure. So what do you do to keep the kids occupied while you tool down the road?

Below are my ideas on how to reduce the stress and tension when traveling in your RV with the kids.

First some basic travel planning will go a very long way in making the drive time much less stressful:

1. Learn about your travel route as much as possible. Look through the route in a road atlas if you have one. If you have a GPS, program it with the correct address (Confirm the address online or by calling the destination. You don’t want the GPS to sending you to the wrong place. Believe me it happens.)

2. Plug-in your trip destination in Google Maps or another online mapping service. Print it out and have it with you. It is useful as a last resort.

3. Buy the book “the next exit.” It provides exit services info for every exit on the major US Interstates.

So now let’s look at keeping the kids occupied:

1. First the obvious. Have an on-board DVD player for the kids to watch movies. Many vehicles have them built-in these days but if you don’t have one, buy a portable DVD player with a cigarette lighter adaptor. And have a variety of movies on hand so each kid has his/her favorite available.

2. If you are open to it have video games available for the kids to enjoy. This can include LeapFrog system games so they are educational as well. But if you have “tweeners” Nintendo DS or Sony PSP will be your options.

3. Plan craft projects for the kids to do on the road. This can be done safely by having a small portable table for each kid (there are a number of them available. Do a Google search for “kids travel table.”).

4. Reading to your kids isn’t only for bed time. Maybe on a long drive the non-driving adult can read a few stories.

5. Lead road games with the kids. “I spy” is a favorite one of ours. Another one is “who can spot the most out of state license plates.”

6. Potty breaks are an important part of travel. Beside pee breaks kids need to get up and move around during long trips. We usually try to stop every two-to-four hours for a potty and stretch break.

photo credit: House Of Sims

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Thoughts Before Going On a Family RV Travel Trip

This is a great video that demonstrates how special family RV camping is.

KCRA a Sacramento TV station interviews RV blogger Brad Herzog about his (and his wife and two boys’) summer adventures RVing throughout the United Sates. Watching this video I had a few pangs of jealousy as he talked about their travels throughout the US.

One great idea they talked about was having the kids put together a travel calendar. The kids wrote down where they would be on what dates and what they planned to see, complete with pictures and notes.

We haven’t had a changes to do any multi-location trip longer that one week. But possibly in 2010 when Claire (my wife) has a sabbatical scheduled.

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Family RV Camping: There is Nothing Like It