My sons 4 and pretty much since he could talk we've been talking hiking the Appalachian trail together someday.

He doesn't know what that really means, i probably said i always wanted to at some point and he internalized it deeply.

So this year we've been testing the waters with camping.

The first time we went was perfect, we did a 12 mile hike one day, where i only carried him for 4 miles which was incredible. The second time we tried camping there was a very unfortunate incident with a little girl in a lake and it left him (and me) a little traumatized so we went home on the first day.

Now a couple months later, thinking his love for camping had been destroyed before he really found it, he's off of school this week and begged me to go camping. So naturally i took of work and said hell yeah, booked up a couple nights at the first campground we went to which is much more secluded and my speed anyway, I'm not a fan of the campground with pretty much waterparks (no judgement if you are).

I'm hoping everything goes smoothly and we can plan some winter camping after this!