Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Camping

Mel and I hadn't been camping since early spring due to the rains. We finally made it out last week to one of our favorite places--Tyler State Park. Here we are camped in the Big Pine section. We had a great week and were so glad to be able to get out camping and on the road again. Our future plan is to tour Colorado in the fall and hopefully see their beautiful changing trees.



This is the interior of the camper. You see our little kitchen, bathroom to the right behind the towel rack, and a queen size bed in the back.


Here is a picture facing the front of the camper. The couch Mel is sitting on pulls out to a twin bed. Behind him is a double bed.


This is the Lakeview section where we usually like to camp. In the summer you're very lucky to get a spot here. In the fall, however, when everyone is back to school and work we never have a problem and usually settle in close to the lake. We start a campfire around 5, sit and watch the beautiful reflections of the fall trees in the lake and the sun setting.




My favorite picture in this series is of this little footbridge that leads to the island we visit on our morning walk.





Here I am sitting on the island. As you can see Tyler is a great place to camp.

4 comments:

Peggy said...

This looks like a great get-a-way. And love your camper. One of these days we'll join you.

Mike said...

Great pictures of the camper and park. We may need to borrow this camper and give it a proper initiation with your youngest grandson. I would guess he would find a way to climb on top of it and then say "Help,Help"

john said...

It looks like a great place to camp. Go for it Mike.

Jo Barr said...

Hi,
We are also the Barr family, but we live in the New Forest, Hapmshire, in the UK! We also have a camper which we bought last year, and we love! We wrote a blog called 'Lay-bys we have lunched in - pit stops with the Family Barr' and were searching for it on Google when we came across you. Our site isn't live as we've not paid for it to appear in Google, it's just a bit of fun in an effort to understand how to do blogs. we are mum and dad Jo and Duncan, and our two boys, Cameron, 14 and Rudy, 11. We mainly use our camper when we're down at the sailing club, for staying overnight, or for somewhere for Jo to make a cup of tea and curl up to read her book on those days when it's a bit too cold for sailing!
happy camping.