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Big Basins, Camp Fairies, and Banana Slugs–Oh My!
We survived! Our guys are officially seasoned campers, chomping at the bit to go again. Margot & I brought the boys over to Big Basin the Friday before last, rendezvousing with another 15 (!) or...
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Acampar Con Mi Mejor Amiga
This weekend marked our first camping trip of the season - and unlike last last summer's all-dude foray, all four of us went. We even got ourselves our own tent and sleeping bags (last year we borrowed...
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S’more Camping Photos
Here's a little gallery of photos from last weekend's camping trip with our Pasitos amigos, including banana slugs, hiking, tent hijinks, and s'mores around the campfire.
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Camping at Big Basin
This year marks the second year we've taken the Micronaxx camping at Big Basin with a bunch of our Las Madres friends and their kids. Last year John was flying solo with the boys because I had a...
View ArticleGlimpses of Mt. Madonna
We returned home yesterday tired, dirty, and happy from another great camping trip to nearby Mt. Madonna with the Pasitos preschool gang. I’m working to pull together some good photos, but in the...
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Mount Madonna Revisited
Check out the gallery from our most recent Pasitos camping adventure! We went to Mt. Madonna with Henry's preschool buddies and their families. Happily, Pasitos "alumni" like Magdalena and Finn were...
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Squire by the Fire
Finn toasts s'more eyebrow hair, braving the campfire as his pal Magdalena looks on:
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Seymour: An Introduction
This weekend marked our 4th year of camping with many of our Las Madres friends and their families. Instead of our usual Big Basin forest camping trip, this year we headed to Sunset State Beach near...
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Greetings from Sunless—er, Sunset—Beach
Despite freezing our butts off last weekend (seriously, the temperature dropped 40º en route from San Jose to our Sunset Beach campsite), we had a ball as usual hanging out with tons of friends large...
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Cub Scout Campout!
This past weekend, I escorted our young scouts to their first official Cub Scout overnight campout in the Santa Cruz mountains. It was held at the gorgeous Camp Campbell, which is deep in the redwoods...
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Annual Madres Family Camping Trip 2016
This weekend marked our 5th annual Las Madres family camping trip. (I think there've actually been six, but we didn't go the first year.) It's become a much-anticipated event every summer - the guys...
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Camping with Las Madres 2017
Continuing our great tradition from the last 5+ years (see previous installments), we were delighted to join our gaggle of Las Madres pals for some s'more-spattered fun in the woods. This year was...
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Cub Scouts @ Camp Cheesebrough
Labor Day Family camping at the Boy Scouts' Camp Cheesebrough is legendary. We missed it last year but made sure we took the boys this year so they could get in on the fun. The camp is only about 30...
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Westy’s Maiden Voyage
We've just returned from our maiden voyage with our VW Westfalia camper van, and it was great! We decided to spend the last two days and nights of the boys' spring break on the road, in the redwoods,...
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Las Madres 2018: Uvas Canyon
Well, another year of camping with our pals from Las Madres is officially in the books! Building on adventures from 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 (what a time machine!), we headed down to Uvas...
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Captains of Finndustrees
It’s pretty rare to get the ol’ Finnster interested in camping these days, so I was especially delighted that he wanted to mark the end of eighth grade (!) with me & Seamus by spending a couple of...
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