This
post represents another installment in the series detailing the second of our
three cross country National Parks camping trips with travel trailer in tow. At the time of this trip in 2010, our son,
Ryan, was 16 and our daughter, Kyra, was 11.
We were on the road for 4 weeks and 1 day.
Alan and I have been tent camping since we were married 40 years
ago. But it wasn’t until 2006 that we
purchased our first travel trailer. That
first “RV summer,” Ryan was 12 and Kyra was 7, and we started out by
frequenting private RV parks with amenities and activities that we felt the
kids would enjoy. It was on our first
cross country National Parks camping trip in 2007 that we tested the waters of
dry camping (camping without water, electric or sewer hookups) in Yellowstone
National Park’s Madison Campground. We
discovered that we loved waking up in the Park surrounded by nature instead of
other RVs. The space, solitude and
scenic views we experienced at Madison ignited our passion for camping in State
and National Park campgrounds. The rest, as they
say, is history.
