And, just like that, we've got an entire 6 months of camping in the books. It feels like just weeks ago that I was posting about our first trip of the year, in early May...and now, here we are with the winterized camper sitting ready to be taken out to Freeport for winter storage. We really do love camping and spending our summers on the road exploring new places. This year we logged a lot of miles and hit up a few new places we've never been. Ryan and I counted it up a few weeks ago and we spent just under 45 days in the camper this summer.
We camped in a total of three states - Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and put on more miles than I think I'd like to count. But we made lots of memories, ate more 'smores than we've ever eaten...used the Blackstone to cook big meals and dragged the solo stove along to make fires wherever we wanted (not just in the oddly placed pits at the sites).
Our last trip of the year took us to Nelson Dewey State Park - a smallish campground right on the Mississippi in south western Wisconsin. The park was pretty small, and the hiking was limited, but we found a geo-cache, explored the campground and probably most importantly, got to hang out with our favorite people! We camped with Jamie and Zach and also the McCarthys - how did I not get a single picture with that whole group!?
It was a short trip - we arrived Saturday late morning and left again Sunday late morning but we enjoyed the time we got. Oh, and we visited Potosi Brewery - we'd never been. The weather was great, I mean, check out those sunny photos! We were probably a week or two head of the best leaves of the year, but we've had a freeze warning the last three nights, so I'm glad the camper is fully winterized and we've got that job behind us.
Until spring! We'll be camping again in early April for the solar eclipse - we've already got it booked! We'll be camping again before we know it.
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