Cherriman Vacation '08: Camping

CAMPING

For those of you who know my father, understand that he is a thorough man who prefers to be prepared. So when the family takes a road trip he checks and rechecks every inch of the vehicle. To those of you who do NOT know my father and think I exaggerate please see the picture below of dad lubing the door latch to our mighty chariot. (You read correctly - the door latch...)

This particular trip was different from our family road trips in the past since we didn't leave at midnight. Showing a bit of mercy in his older years, dad allowed us to wait for the sun to come up this time. Once we ate breakfast we hit the road!

Another change to our usual agenda was an overnight stop along the way to Camden ME. Were this a typical Cherriman vacation we would have pushed through to complete the 19 hour trip in one day. Ahhhh... those were the days... *sigh

Once we reached Camden, ME in the evening of the following day it was pouring rain and all but mom and dad had tents to stay in. To those who have never set up a tent in the rain I say... you should try it sometime. It builds character. Here is a pic of my tent in mom and dad's site.

Among the many traditions of the Cherriman family the ones with food seem to hold the most memories and strongest ties to continuation. Pickled tomatoes are the #1 snack prefered by those who bare the Cherriman name.

In second place comes homemade pizza on Sunday!

And for icing on the cake of this tradition we have the ceremonial baking of the pizza in the dutch oven! This was dad's only job when it came to food preparation.

Without computers and TV we enjoyed finding many forms of entertainment while we roughed it in the wilderness. Jeremy climbed poles... still wondering about that one...

Kids performed various acrobatics...

and practiced their "too cute to get in trouble" look....

Some of us found a little extra time to read...

Some of us enjoyed the occasional opportunity to be eaten by our chairs...

And others got out cameras to preserve the memories.

Here are some pics of the family members

Laney

Lilly

Jared and Makayla

Angelic Laney

Mirick

This vacation was so full of memories and good activities and we got tuckered out many times.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Love,
The Cherriman Family