Perry Family

Our Camping Trip

We've added to our fleet of two vans a camper. Our reasoning for purchasing a camper is for three reasons. First of all there is always the possibility that Mike will have to be stationed somewhere that we cannot go, if this happens at our current station this will allow myself and the kids to be able to visit with my family here in Texas without expensive hotel bills. Our second reason for purchasing camper is so that we can tour the area around us, wherever we may be stationed, again without the expensive hotel bills. Thirdly, we thought that whenever we can come back up north for a vacation, we can stay in our camper without imposing on anyone during the meantime. Wether any of our reasons hold good water or not we now have a camper.

   Since Mike had a three day weekend this weekend we decided to pick up the camper a little early and head out to one of the few lakes in the area. We initialy were going to go to Elephant Butte Lake in New Mexico, but based upon our salesman's advice we traveled the shorter distance to Caballo NM and stayed at a RV camp there. Caballo Lake and Elephant Butte Lake are both the results of damming up the Rio Grande, otherwise you wouldn't find much in the way of lakes at all. As it is we had to travel 1 1/2 hours just to get to this one.

  While there we had a great time biking, fishing, and figuring out how to move around in a camper with six little children. It takes organization, that's for sure. We didn't catch any fish, though one toyed with Mike for a while, and Mike had a hard time giving up trying to catch the little (I should say big) rascal. Biking was fun though Debbie, Becky, and Faith tired easily, so it was short.

It was really nice to be able to see water again. Since they dam the river upstream the Rio Grande isn't very grand in the El Paso area, certainly not anything you could fish in. And if you drive close to the river in Mexico it could make you quite ill to your stomach since they don't care to pass and carry out any laws prohibiting sewage and trash disposal in the river. No telling what you might catch if you fished in the Rio Grande in Mexico.

We all had fun and we hope to do it again real soon.

Denise

? about camping with 6 kids

{ 08:18, Friday, March 24, 2006 } { Posted by justme }

Denise, I see that you have 6 kids and it looks like you have a 5th wheel trailer to travel in. Is this right? if so how do you do it? that is, how do you all get to the camping spot. Do you take another car or what?

We are expecting another baby later this year and if it's more then one I was wondering how we will get everyone out to camp together. My kids are 5,3 and 2 and if all goes well we will have another late fall. We have a 5th wheel trailer that we just got last summer that we love.

Donna

Camping with six

{ 05:23, Monday, March 27, 2006 } { Posted by baabaamilker }

Donna,

Yes we do have six, but our camper is not a fifth wheel. The one in the background of my picture actually belongs to someone else. We pull a travel trailer with a twelve passenger van. Congragulations on your new one to come. I just love having children!!!

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{ 06:19, Wednesday, March 29, 2006 } { Posted by justme }

Thanks for answering my ?
Donna

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{ 11:48, Monday, April 10, 2006 } { Posted by Anonymous }

Yeah, I noticed how you faked everyone out with that fifth-wheel in the background! :)

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{ 11:49, Monday, April 10, 2006 } { Posted by Ellen }

That last comment was from me.