Julie Welch's blog

One of the hazards of camping is the bugs. They will bite at you and irritate you to no end. What happens is you find yourself swatting more than anything else. Fortunately, there are some remedies out there to keep the bugs away. Those remedies include:

Hiking can be a blast as long as everything goes smoothly, so   don't be afraid to take your kids hiking with you.

When we think of hiking, we think of people throwing backpacks on their shoulders and toughing out the rough terrain. In other words, an entire day spent on hiking an intense trail. But the truth is that you don’t have to rough it and you don’t have to worry about anything being intense. There are hiking trails out there that are family friendly. This means that you and the kids can go hiking quite easily.

Camping can be a blast, but there are some things that you have to look out for. Most people have allergic reactions to certain plants and some people don’t. There are those individuals that can wallow around in poisonous plants and not have a thing happen to them. Then there are those of us who can just look at a poisonous plant and suddenly break out in a rash that itches like mad.

Kids get bored easily and camping trips can be grounds for boredom if your kids are used to the many technological advances that they have grown accustomed to. This means that you have a job ahead of you. You want to be able to keep the kids occupied, but at the same time you want to interest them in the camping trip rather than bring all the conveniences of home with you.

When camping, you have to keep yourself and everyone with you safe. You have to prepare yourself by planning for every scenario on your camping trip. This means packing all the right stuff and simply exercising safe camping practices.

One of the deterrents when it comes to camping is: how in the world a person can go to the bathroom?

If your family is large, it can be difficult to find an area large enough to accommodate everyone attending a reunion. Then again, not everyone will want to stay in a hotel, as it may be too expensive, and the person hosting the reunion may not have enough room to accomodate everybody. 

However, for a cheap family reunion you may decide to go to a campground and have a camping style family reunion there. It is always a lot of fun.

Camping is meant to be fun for the entire family, which means it is also meant for your pets. But camping with pets can be rather tricky unless you know all of the rules and have a pet that will listen to you. Many times, pets will do what they want when they want, but you always have some control. Where you camp out will also have an impact on how much pet wiggle room you have.

Whether your next camping trip is one for adults or you are bringing the kids along, there are some tips that you need to know so that you can make the most out of your excursion. So let’s get right to it.

Unfortunately, many of us suffer from motion sickness. This is because what the eyes see and what the brain processes end up being two different things. The fixed objects in the car give the illusion that you’re sitting still when you’re really not. What this does is cause you or your children to get some rather sick feelings. Those sick feelings can then lead to a mess in your car. That is definitely not the way to start a getaway.