I was beyond nervous the first time we decided to drive 10 hours straight with two little kids. I thought for sure my sanity would be lost somewhere on the highway. In order to survive the trip I immediately decided we would need an Ipad. Then, I worried that if I let them watch a…
Our family has officially started our 3 month Van trip with Dusty our VW van. He is a 1993 VW Eurovan with lots of character and is a big part of our family. I am writing this in Yahk, BC while the kids sleep in the van that is parked near the river on our…
Ever wonder what it would look like to go backcountry camping with toddlers? This short video takes you on a back country trip with our family. We hiked and camped at Lindeman Lake in British Columbia. For more outdoor family videos make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel here! More videos will be coming…
Camping in Dusty our ’93 VW Eurovan has been one big adventure since we bought him in 2015. We bought him shortly after having our second daughter when I was having some intense nesting instinct while pregnant. Meet Dusty in this post here. There have been many ups and downs but overall the memories we…
It had been a long day of running. In fact it had been over 50km of running the Mount Assiniboine trail in prep for the 100 km Iron legs ultra race in Bragg Creek. They were tired and driving back to camp at their beautiful mountain view campsite that they had reserved for a second…
Camping with a baby is a lot of fun. We camped with our first daughter when she was 6 weeks old and with our second daughter when she was only 3 weeks old. I have to say the first time we went camping with a baby we were excited but also nervous. The experience helped…
Let’s talk about sleep. To be specific toddler sleep while camping. The big concern is that going away for a weekend or more will mean sleepless nights as you try to enjoy the great outdoors. I am going to preface this by saying that it is not always easy to get your kids to sleep…
Camping with a baby does not have to be stressful. In fact, camping has become so natural for our family that we can plan whether we are camping the same day that we decide to leave. But it was not always like this and when we first started we had a baby camping list. This…
Camping with two kids aged 1 and 2 1/2 is extremely fun and rewarding. That being said it is also chaotic. If you want to know what a morning camping is like check out a post I wrote for Vanlife Diaries here. In order to ease the chaos of camping with kids we found the…
Introduction: Just 3 weeks after our 2nd daughter was born the weather was fantastic. That meant that it was time to take her on her first camping trip. Since we took our toddler camping when she was about 5 weeks old, I felt it was not a big deal taking our 3 week old. My motto…
