Now, my wife and I aren't "family" people. We have our dogs, but we're not exactly interested in kids. That said, you've gotta call in the relatives to come inspect your smallholding, right?
It's difficult to say if the kids were impressed with our choice of location... I suspect they mainly thought we were crazy, and that it was hot, and that there were monsters somewhere in the woods that were going to eat them.
Several of those things were true, in fact. And continue to be, at least at times. But we did keep coming back to that same spot we had found in our first few trips out to explore. Something about this little bend in the creek seemed so welcoming, even in different seasons:
Doesn't that look welcoming? We thought so too.
Which of course is exactly why our first camping trip was nowhere near this spot!
I know, "what the hell", right? Well, that little hollow is only accessible by foot or by ATV, and while we had feet, we didn't really want to hump our supplies all the way down to it. So we figured any significant progress down there would have to wait.
Instead, I present to you, "camping trip number one," otherwise known as "the one with all the bees":
...to be continued in the next post, for the sake of dramatic suspense (even though I'm uploading all of these on the same day).
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