The most important thing about camping with kids

While I was tapping out yesterday's Q&A post about camping I got to thinking about camping with kids. It's been a great experience for our family, especially since we've been doing it since our daughters were small. Camping is one of our family traditions. Every year is an adventure and every … Continue reading →

Camping questions and answers

I write about our camping adventures every year, and every year I have the same problem: how much detail should I provide? On one hand, the details are good to recount for me and my family (i.e. blog as scrapbook) but can be a bit long for casual readers. I will try to find a middle ground, but … Continue reading →

Camping at Bon Echo Provincial Park, part 1

We arrived later than we had intended on Sunday, but that turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It meant that we only waited 30 minutes for the rain to stop instead of 60+. I love camping, but bad weather - especially given the amount of rain we've had these few couple of months - was … Continue reading →

Dinner in the sky (a.k.a. Sky Lounge, the Ottawa edition)

I'm bummed that I haven't had a lot of time to write here these past few weeks. Part of this is because we were away camping this past week and the week before was overfull with (a) work and (b) life. But that's the way it goes sometimes. Sidebar: I totally feel like Little Miss National Capital … Continue reading →

Rediscovering Gatineau (part 2)

In my last post, I wrote about MosaiCanada, a free, must-see exhibition that's going on right now in Gatineau. After tromping around the park and admiring the sights my group continued our tour of Gatineau through the city core.* If you're from the Ottawa-Gatineau region you already know that … Continue reading →

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The most important thing about camping with kids

Camping questions and answers

Camping at Bon Echo Provincial Park, part 1

Dinner in the sky (a.k.a. Sky Lounge, the Ottawa edition)

Rediscovering Gatineau (part 2)