What Nobody Tells You About Van Camping (Good + Bad!)
Thinking about joining the van life movement? Read this first. On a whim, my husband and I decided to rent a camper van and take it on a 9-day road…
Camping
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From the first camping trip our founder Kara took as a child back in Wisconsin, she’s fallen in love with all things tents, fire-building and road trips to National Parks. Here you can find useful camping tips (like what’s the best sleeping bag, or which camping essentials are worth it?) along with camping gear reviews, tips for finding free campsites, campground cooking ideas, and more hacks. Including features on our favorite campgrounds + glamping around the world!
Travel Diaries: What We’ve Been Up To On Our Van Trip
Feeling a lot like Adele when I say “hello from the othersideeeee!!” The otherside being the off the grid side of life, aka what we’ve been on for most of…
Where To Find Free Painted Hills Camping
My husband and I rented a campervan and took it on a long road trip from San Francisco up to the Painted Hills, then down Hwy 1 back into California.…
Travel Diaries: So, We Rented A Campervan…
Hello from Bend, Oregon! Right now I’m sitting in a Starbucks checking emails, texting my Mom & using this rare wifi opportunity to plan out the next few days of…
Our Favorite Camping Food Hacks
We’ve vowed to go camping more this year. We’re lucky and live in California, so we can go camping year-round. So far, we’ve done Mammoth Lakes and Big Sur camping…
Inside The Ventana Campground at Big Sur
Ventana: a camping trip to remember! My husband and I met 7 years ago as camp counselors at a summer camp. So, for our one-year wedding anniversary, we thought it was…
Rent a Treehouse in California: Magical Treehouse Glamping California Airbnb In the Santa Cruz Mountains
We dine al fresco in the treetops and woke up to the sound of birds and low hanging fog on the forest floor below…Welcome to the most magical treehouse Airbnb…
Mendocino Glamping: Inside The Instagram-Famous Mendocino Grove
(Updated October 2020) Mendocino County is my happy place. It’s one of the most beautiful and underrated places in the entire United States, in my opinion. And one of the…
What to Pack for Half Dome Village in Yosemite
I love Yosemite National Park. It’s probably my favorite National Park in the United States and certainly my favorite in California (which is saying a lot because we have so…
A Weekend In Half Dome Village
The second I saw the cute tents of Camp Curry, now known as Half Dome Village, I knew we had to stay a few nights there while visiting Yosemite. I’m…