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Camp Kawanee 1994

*** With the Kids at Kamp Kawanee-*** When our nephews and nieces were young we always felt it was more important and meaningful to give the gift of shared experiences at Christmas and Birthdays. Over the years for Christmas we’d pack everybody up in Jappy and Bumpa’s station wagon, (some diapers included early on) for parties at Silver Lake or the Trolley Light tour around Boston Common and Downtown, making Christmas cookies in our kitchen… For birthdays we’d take an excursion up to the condo in North Conway or some other outdoor adventure- and perhaps the most memorable of those was to Kamp Kawanee. We had checked this out with Cousin Maureen who had been there with her kids…rustic cabins, a nice swimming lake; it sounded like a great place for an overnight, not- roughing- it too much camping trip. After packing the kids and provisions in the Kelly van, we discussed the menu on the way down, picked up the food and arrived mid afternoon on a perfect summer day. We settled into ou...

VW story

“VW –Busted” (Our VW adventure Easter /Spring vacation 1971 ) In the Fall of 2009 we had just had 4 spectacular days of driving and hiking along Sheanandoah’s Skyline Drive on into the Blue Ridge Parkway and turned southeasterly heading for North Carolina’s Outer Banks. About 5PM on this Saturday of a surprisingly quiet ( compared to Mass) Columbus Day Weekend we pulled into the Greensboro Municipal Campground and spread before us in the campground were all manner and vintage of VW bus campers. The very friendly camp host Denny walked up to us with a greeting ,“Surprise!” and to our request for an available site directed us to the last one. As we registered with him he explained that this was the annual or sometimes semi-annual rally here for Everybus.com – VW bus –o-philes from America and Canada. There were perhaps 75 in all a few rainbow painted , with peace sign emblazoned and all kinds of extensions for cooking and sleep...