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We are avid fans of camping, hiking and the great outdoors. Unlike most bloggers, we are not full-time travelers or digital nomads, we (for now) must keep our day jobs. 🙂 But we’re here to share ways to travel more often, for less money, with more connection and more freedom.

At the top of Look Out Mountain, Georgia, where you can See 7 States.

I’m sure we all know the feeling of needing a vacation to recover from a vacation. We didn’t like this feeling either, and knew something had to change, but we weren’t sure what it was.

Our daughter was growing up fast, and knew we only had only so many summers left. We also hated the idea of leaving behind our American Eskimo or “Eskie”, Snowy – boarding her for 7 days or more while we traveled 1200+ miles away put a dent in both our hearts and wallets. Also, we noticed Snowy really liked car rides. Like, REALLY, REALLY, liked car rides.

In fact she loved going anywhere and everywhere with us, as of course, do most doggos. As we grew to know our favorite Eskie, we learned that American Eskimos, are a little more pack oriented than the average pup, with a facinating history, and she seemed to blossom the more we brought her along on our trips and everyday outings. This led us to make a big decision in the way we spent our vacations.

We also started to reminisce about our early days together, when a simple weekend camping at a state park in Florida was everything. Our budget was hardly anything back then for travel, yet we went everywhere. BP – Before Pups – We used to tent camp all the time. We loved tent camping so much, went spent two weeks camping in the Florida Keys for our honeymoon. Our plan was to end it on a high note by staying 3 nights camping in the Dry Tortugas. Due to a government shutdown that year, we never made it – but it still remains on our bucket list.

We realized we had let go of a simply activity that brought peace and joy to our lives, but didn’t cost very much at all. How do we get our now 6 year old on board?

Living in Central Florida for over 20 years, we have had some amazing vacations. But after years of over scheduled weekends at resorts and hotels, and cross-country flights that left us broke and exhausted, we took a leap of faith and purchased a Pop Up Camper.

Here’s us being slightly excited about it.

“Rocky”, our Forest River Rockwood Freedom “PUP”, or Pop Up Camper.

**Read about why we choose to go with our Forest River Rockwood Freedom, 2318G here.**