Family Camping Trip 2017

We moved our annual family camping trip to a new location in the White Mountains at Big Lake, AZ this year and we couldn't be happier about it.

Arizona's monsoon season has been known to rain out our trips more than once, so having a huge covered pavilion in the center of our camp site was basically a dream come true.

Cornhole, volleyball, tetherball, bocce ball, board games, lengthy hours spent learning my brother in law's newest favorite strategy games, these are a few of the things that fill our camping days.

Bicycling, hiking, finding wildflowers, making mudpies. and cooking on their "pretend" firepit, the kids went non-stop from dawn until late each night.

While many of our crew were playing at the lake, finding frogs, building forts and eating all the foods, several others managed to squeeze in a nap (or three) over the long weekend.

There aren't many things that beat lying on the reclining camp chairs with a book in your lap while you drift off to sleep in the gorgeous weather. (See, there ARE redeeming qualities to camping!)

Do you like to camp? If so, are you a tent camper or more of a glamper? After 30+ years of tent camping, I am very happily a glamper now. The fifth wheel has become our favorite way to travel as a family over the past year.