Within approximately 5 seconds of arriving home from vacation, I was all, "Let's go camping again RIGHT NOW!"
Because I really do love camping that much. And I wanted to re-create the bliss I found on our vacation as soon as I possibly could.
I took our camping fate in to my own hands and searched for campsites within 3 hours of here. I found Takhlakh Lake, a place that, surprisingly, we had never heard of, nor visited. We didn't go to Mt. Adams last summer and it was time to go back.
The snow was cleared from the campground literally 2 days prior to our arrival and the mosquitos were EVERWHERE. All of us came home looking like we had a bad case of the chicken pox. I counted 55 bites just on Hazel.
Despite the insane itching that followed, it was a weekend well spent. Barkernews rode his road bike to Trout Lake to get us coffee (a good 45+ mile round trip), I lost myself trail-running, and Hazel tried to steal another little girl's fishing pole.
While it wasn't the same as our 2-week vacation, it was a fantastic nod to family time. See, what it comes down to is this: Barkernews and The Hizz are my two most favorite people in whole wide world. Mosquitos or no mosquitos, I would rather spend my weekend with them in a tent than hundreds of other people in a city.
And, yes, I would like that in my obituary.
