Recent content by willoL

My experience is mostly with car camping, so, I'm wondering, how quickly can you get your campsite set up with a tiny trailer? What do you have to do to the tear itself to "set it up"--just unhitch and level it? I've never timed camp set up myself, but putting up the tent and then making the...

I appreciate this qualification. I'm not a true cheapskate because I love to spend money, but I can be frugal in that I despise WASTING money. I think my priorities are: 1) TO ENJOY THE RIDE! :) More specifically, to have a travel experience with my kids that enriches our lives. This...

Yeah, the property purchase is in combination with my father-in-law, who has more cash at this stage of life than we have with our young kids. I am responsible for the research, and we will pay the property taxes. My father-in-law says this is his insurance that, if I ever convince DH to move...

Well, Evan, since you mention it... I might have registered on this forum after looking a couple of times when I noticed the thread where you mentioned renting out a different teardrop trailer you picked up in Canada or somesuch... LOL We will be visiting Orcas Island (Washington State's San...

I'm an Oregon native who settled in the Boston area to raise a family with my DH. Since I'm a SAHM, I have the flexibility to take my two sons (ages 3.5 and 7) "home" to the Pacific NW for a month or two every summer. Like many people, I'm absolutely fed up with the current state of air travel...