Camping Trips Can Provide Family Fun

Growing up, my family always made sure to gather as many relatives as we could and make a family camping weekend. Most of the time we would go to the nearest lake that had a camp ground and allowed horses, since my family was big horse fans!

Usually there would be somewhere between 8 to 10 horse trailers and over a dozen cars that would head out on the expedition. We would leave Friday morning and arrive just a couple hours later at our vacation destination. Mothers, fathers, and kids of all ages would be there.

You didn't have to own a horse to go on our camping trips. We always made the trip be in a place where it wasn't just horse trails. There would be trails for hiking, lakes for swimming or fishing, or nice little areas just to hang out and have fun. There would be a midnight trail ride for the brave and a morning ride for the not so brave.

Usually on the midnight rides someone would come up with a really good ghost story and by the time we all would arrive back at camp, we would be scared to death. After storing away all the gear and making sure the horses were comfortable for the night, we would all gather around the campfire where the ghost stories would continue. It was fun to watch the younger kids squirm from being scared but at the same trying to act like brave little souls. You could see them inching closer and closer to who ever they were setting beside.

Sometimes us older kids, would hid out in the woods just to make a big scare at the end of the story! The next morning there would be something good on the the camp stoves. Usually homemade biscuits and gravy. My mom could make some mean gravy!

The kind that stuck with you all day. After breakfast, it was usually off to the trails again to see what else we could find.

Exploring on horse back was awesome. We would ride for somewhere between 3 and 4 hours depending on how hot it was getting. If it was too hot, we would take the horses back and take a jump in the lake. Some of us would even take our horses in to the lake to cool down. Nothing like a good ole lazy summer afternoon spending time with family and friends in mother natures land!



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