Post pics of your first Camping trip!

[PushedAround]

A picture of my future wife and I camping at Watkins Glen, NY in October of 1978. Our first camping trip together and her first time at a Formula One race weekend. She loved both so I had to keep her around. Still doing both after 45 years!



Let's see your pictures!

[3pedal]

Cool idea, I have no idea what the oldest picture from camping is I have. Will have to look around.

[Bigceasar]

I wish I could, but my dinosaur put his finger over the lens when he took the picture.

[Triangle Drifter]

First rig. First trip: Delivery from Austin, TX area to Eastern Shore, MD, First time towing ANYTHING. First CG between Austin and Dallas.

[StarkNaked]

Originally Posted by Bigceasar

I wish I could, but my dinosaur put his finger over the lens when he took the picture.

I'm with Bigceasar on this one. I'm not sure film or cameras were invented back then!

My first trip would have been back in the 70's also. In a Datsun pick-up with a canopy shell on it in the mountains of Southern California.

PushedAround - Glad to hear you're still going to the races! We are also at the races every year with our RV. We will be at Laguna Seca in May for IMSA. And will be at Portland for IndyCar and NASCAR Xfinity.

(And for any of you West Coast people - I sell discount tickets for my car club for the Portland IndyCar and NASCAR Xfinity races).

[PushedAround]

Portland has always seemed like a good venue for Indycars. I had wanted to take my last MH to Austin for the F1 race but when I asked about the price they said a weekend was $15,000. I told them that I didn't want to enter the race, I just wanted to watch it. Maybe they don't want RVs there.

[Alpine36]

Not our first camping trip but definitely taken many moons ago, camping with our old West Seattle neighbors Ron and Patti (R) in the rain. Hard to imagine one big goofy dog and two teenage boys crammed inside an 8’ camper. We had blue tarps strung up everywhere, covering both campsites. Millersylvania State Park, Washington.
And yes, I believe we still have those grilled cheese sandwich makers. A loaf of wonder bread and a block of American cheese kept those Boy Scouts fat and happy all week.

Great times. RIP Ron.

[RickNC]

No pics of my earliest ones when I was bicycling across the US in 1977. But here is a few from 1982 when my girlfriend and I car camped around the US for almost a year in my old 1970 Volvo.

Top two photos was from our camp on the Flat-top plateau above Rifle Colorado(Coffee Pot Road for those that know) . 3rd down was at Olympic NP Bottom photo was almost anywhere west of I-25. That old Volvo did not like any altitude about 6k feet.

[jimfishes]

Originally Posted by Alpine36

And yes, I believe we still have those grilled cheese sandwich makers. A loaf of wonder bread and a block of American cheese kept those Boy Scouts fat and happy all week.

Hhhhmmmm…..never made a grilled cheese. Now, a loaf of Wonder bread and a can of cherry pie filling!

[bigb56]

Originally Posted by StarkNaked

My first trip would have been back in the 70's also. In a Datsun pick-up with a canopy shell on it in the mountains of Southern California.

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Same here, 1975 with a yellow Datsun pickup and a Perris Valley camper shell. In the mountains of Southern AZ. The Datsun had dual points and we had trouble on the hills, had to keep pulling over and letting traffic pass.

[Alpine36]

Originally Posted by jimfishes

Hhhhmmmm…..never made a grilled cheese. Now, a loaf of Wonder bread and a can of cherry pie filling!

Oh yeah, now we’re talking.
Todays mission, scavenger hunt in the garage for those puppies.
They really need to be in the coach.

[Beamer2022]

This was our first trip in September of 1998 to Westmoreland State Park in Virginia.

This is an old 19' Viking pop up I bought for $200. There were pinholes in the aluminum top so all the pressboard in the top had fell apart. I spent $450 to build a completely new top, replace some wood in the box, sew up and waterproof the canvas, and replace the tires. We used it the fall of '98, all of '99 and half of 2000 before buying a TT and selling the popup for $650.

[Unplanned Tourist]

I didn't think about taking pictures of any campsites, but here's my old 1957 Ford with the camper on the Top Of The World Highway between Dawson City, Yukon and Eagle, Alaska in 1976. Great trip, and my first long distance camping trip.

[Ray,IN]

My first camping trip was in 1954 when I was in Boy Scouts. No pictures exist, my ex burned everything when she left.