Although we both had done our share of camping and hiking in our youth, it wasn’t until 2012 that my partner and I decided to get back to the woods, first on a three-day backpacking hike through the Shenandoah Mountains of Virginia, and then on a five day excursion to Northern New Hampshire with several local trips in-between.
After enduring five rainy days and a freezing night in New Hampshire, we realized that, at our age, a tent simply isn’t big or comfortable enough for two adults and two pups and we began to contemplate a move from “camping” to “glamping”, perhaps in a popup trailer.
For Reina, that conversation led to several months of research that culminated on the purchase of our rig, an amazing trip through several states on our way to Glacier National Park, Montana, and the purchase of a beautiful site at a campground near the Kittatinny mountains of New Jersey. This site is our base-camp for eight months out of the year and from where we plan our adventures during the winter months.