Camping Diaries
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Ole' Elmer Like |
Joined: Jul 23, 2003 |
Posts: 775 |
Location: Keene, Texas (Fort Worth Area) |
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:32 am Post subject: Camping Diaries |
Does anyone keep a camping diary for their Apache that records where, when, who, and what you did on each trip? |
I have done this with tent camping for almost 25 years and it is fun to look back and remember the good times and places I have visited and the friends that I have camped with over the years. |
Just curious if anyone else keeps a camping diary for their Apache and how and what you record??? |
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Alan |
Restoring a 1973 Ramada |
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Apache Master |
Joined: Apr 20, 2003 |
Posts: 722 |
Location: Salt Lake City Utah |
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 12:25 pm Post subject: |
can't say that I have done this but I do like the idea.. I will talk to my wife when I get home about starting this.. I like it.. I remember lots of tent trips as a kid growing up but the details are fuzzy _________________ Me -71 (Jeff) Wife ?? (Shauna) Thomas 97 Nicholas 01 '79 Ramada '95 GMC Z71 in Utah |
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Squirrel |
Joined: Jul 25, 2003 |
Posts: 73 |
Location: Sacramento valley area, CA |
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:56 pm Post subject: |
We have never kept a camping diary. With our Apache, unlike with our HiLo, we are going to keep a lot miles driven and maintenance done. This is our first Apache. _________________ Beth '67 Ralph '60 Mary '95 '75 Apache Royal '03 GMC Sierra LSE 1500 Extended Cab |
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Squirrel |
Joined: Jun 27, 2003 |
Posts: 74 |
Location: Indiana PA |
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 11:25 pm Post subject: |
We owned an acre and land in the mountains of PA and ever since the camp was established, we had a camp journal....we all took turns writing in it and it is so much fun to look back on it. We sold our camp to a cousin with the understanding that he had to keep up the journal, so far he has! We brought home our journals when we sold it, and have looked back on it often! |
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Chipmunk |
Joined: Apr 22, 2003 |
Posts: 43 |
Location: Waynesville, N.C. |
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 7:51 pm Post subject: Diaries |
YES!!!!! For the last 2 yrs. but not before. Seen an article in POPUP TIMES magazine about doing that. We write down date, Time, Friends we see, receipes that we like from friends, any thing of intrest where we stay, price, weather, You name it! it will be good reading in a few short years. Minds seem to forget as they age, if it has been writen down , you can look back and reminence!!! Happy Camping...'homer' |
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Moose |
Joined: Sep 22, 2003 |
Posts: 279 |
Location: Memphis, TN |
Posted: Fri Nov 07, 2003 8:33 pm Post subject: |
we've started one and so far we have camping in the back yard and then taking the Apache on its maiden voyage w/us to Arkansas _________________ tnaptguy--Bret '67 Jen '68 BretII '95 Emily '99 Rachael '01 Sophia '03 Tinkerbell '97 DodgeRam TurboDeisel'99 Ramada '79 |
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Ole' Elmer Like |
Joined: Jul 23, 2003 |
Posts: 775 |
Location: Keene, Texas (Fort Worth Area) |
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 12:24 pm Post subject: Re: Diaries |
homer wrote:YES!!!!! For the last 2 yrs. but not before. Seen an article in POPUP TIMES magazine about doing that. We write down date, Time, Friends we see, receipes that we like from friends, any thing of intrest where we stay, price, weather, You name it! it will be good reading in a few short years. Minds seem to forget as they age, if it has been writen down , you can look back and reminence!!! Happy Camping...'homer' |
Yes, my memory is not so good after some years have passed. It is really cool to look at the diary and to just reminence about where you have been. My twin daughters like to keep a running count of the deer at each place we have been and to write it in the diary also. This last weekend we saw 17 white tailed deer and one eagle. |
Keep on camping! |
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Alan |
Restoring a 1973 Ramada |
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Location: Keene, Texas (Fort Worth Area) |
Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 5:17 pm Post subject: Tents |
jtsljOh, almost forgot. When I tent camped, in addition to a diary, I was inspired by a famous camper from the lake country of Wisconsin by the name of Sam Campbell. He owned an island and had his home there and now has a trail named after him in one of Wisconsin's Parks. He died in the early 1960s but his books live on. They are called the forest life series. Just do a book author search on Sam Campbell. He was also hired by the Canadian railroad as a trip guide and lecturer. Here in the USA he talked to over 10 million people in his life at universities and other gatherings where he shared his stories and animal pictures with others and taught people to love nature and its animals. He on his tent flaps would write down each trip and when he was in the tent he could read all the places that this particular tent had traveled to and would bring back many fond memories just reading the list written on the tent flap. For almost 30 years I have also done that on each and every tent that I have owned and when a tent is retired, I cut off the flap and keep it for a memento of the trips it has gone on. It is fun reading all the places from across Europe, to across Canada, Alaska, and all over the USA that my tents have gone. It brings back many happy memories. _________________ Alan Restoring a 1973 Ramada
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