Winter Beach Camping

The kids are back in school, football in underway and there is a certain crispness to the morning air. Summer is over, but that does not mean we have to put away our camping gear for another year and ride out the winter in suburban solitude!

Morro Strand State Beach, Morro Bay, California

Morro Strand State Beach, California

Camping is a year-round activity for us, due in part to the mild winter climate here in NorCal, but also because camping is just what our family does. We cannot stop being who we are, for six months of the year. For us, winter means beach camping, since our favorite Sierra camping spots are all above 7,000 feet and hopelessly buried in snow.

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Best of CraigsList: To all Happy Campers

I have no idea what the real story is behind this post on CraigsList, back in September of 2006, but it is still as poignant and humorous today as it was back then. Is it really written by a park ranger? Is it older than 2006? Like most Internet lore, we probably will never know and maybe it does not matter, anyway. The message is one that reminds us that even when we leave the big city, sometimes we don’t always leave the big city behind.

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