Cards and board games are a great way to fill downtime at a campsite, especially when it rains — or if you have kids.

Don’t let crossing the border make you nervous unless you’re packing a kilo and some guns. For the most part it is a non-event and if you are prepared it can go down smoother than a properly aged whiskey. Even traveling with a pet is easy if you’ve done your homework. We camp with two [...]

Dessert. It may just be one of the best things about camping. Anything cooked over the campfire is good, but dessert – now that’s where it’s at. Anything from Rolo S’mores to campfire donuts – if it’s over the fire, we are eating it. This Blackberry Cobbler is no exception. Plus it is delicious and [...]

Like gardening fanatics who get itchy for spring in the dead of winter–you can tell them by the intensity in which they study garden catalogues in February with such longing—I get itchy to buy the perfect holiday gift gear for the campers in my life come the fall. I’ve learned over the years pay attention [...]

If I’m not camping my next favorite thing in the world to do is quilting. Add a couple of dogs and some of my favorite people to either activity and for me, it’s heaven. What’s even better for me is quilting while camping. Quilting is no longer the hobby of old ladies stitching squares of [...]

I fell in love for the very first time to the haunting harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, and honestly, if CSNY are the last sound I hear when I depart this life, that will be just fine with me! I was fourteen years old the summer of love, 1969, too young to go [...]

My four-year old granddaughter Emme and I were sitting in my Santa Fe near the Timbuktu Marina launch on Lake Vermilion in northern Minnesota. We were awaiting my son, her Daddy, to return with his boat to take us out to the island where we would be camping for the next week. Adam was hauling [...]

Like any other holiday, I give the 4th of July the reverence it deserves. This is one of my favorite celebrations because instead of wrangling a turkey or ham alone at dawn, I am cooking over a campfire with some of my most favorite people in the world scurrying about in close proximity, with the [...]

With the Fourth of July quickly approaching, if you are like me and you are beginning to put together your patriotic campfire menus, don’t forget the artillery! Not just fireworks, but bombs. Onion Bombs, that is. The first time I made this recipe I was a bit skeptical. I like onions, but it seemed to [...]

Whether your campfire is burning next to a lake in Minnesota, a glade in Florida, or atop of a Montana mountain, you are enjoying a front row seat to the greatest show on earth-the beauty of this land. Besides good company, good food, we’d all agree good music undoubtedly takes the experience up a notch [...]