advertisements for campgrounds in the Northwest and beyond. RVLife is given away free at shows, but otherwise you have to buy single issues or subscribe. When you are attending RV shows, look for the free advertisements that might tell you where to go camping. National magazines on RVing and camping, such as TrailerLife, Motorhome, and CampingLife, will also help you find a private campground. (See Resources.)
Camping Farther Afield
When you’re ready for a longer trip, use the same string technique for measuring the distance your family will travel in one day. If you’re going to spend all your time in one place, your planning is the same. But if you propose to camp at more than one place, you have to build into your travel hours the time it takes to set up and break down your camp each day.
Another friend, Maggie, and her family camp for a week or more at a time. They move around, but they try to camp at no more than three different sites. If you have a camper or a motorhome, it’s easier to move. Maggie’s family camps in a tent, and she says it’s a lot of trouble to put the tent up, take it down the next morning, and set it up again in a different place in the evening. Their camping trips tend to be triangular, so that they have a change of scenery, with at least two nights at each site. They may leave town driving in one direction, toward the coast, then veer away inland on their next leg, toward the mountains, and return on a different highway than the one they left on. You can do that in Washington State.
Make an Itinerary
When your plans involve moving from one park to another, it helps to make an itinerary, just like travel agents do for an extended tour. Write down where you will be on Day One, where you will spend the night, where you will go the next day, Day Two, where you will spend the night then, and so on.
Once your basic plan is determined, you can flesh it out with dates, meals and menus, and the number of hours it will take to drive to each destination. Putting in the meals along the way (B for breakfast, L for Lunch, and D for dinner) will help you plan the numbers of meals you will need to pack. Then you can add a projected departure time for each day.
Planning future trips? Create a camping resource library.
Whether you’re camping in a tent or in an RV, be sure to allow time for breaking camp on each departure day and for a break in the middle of a long driving day. Once you’ve figured out your itinerary, you can make reservations.
IMAGINARY CAMPING
One Week in the Pacific Northwest
Follow me on an imaginary weeklong camping trip. Saturday through the following Sunday, I’m going to leave Seattle and visit three different parks, camping in Olympic National Park in Washington, and then going on to Jesse M. Honeyman and Fort Stevens State Parks in Oregon. My itinerary would look something like this:
Day One: Drive from Seattle to Olympic National Park
Day Two: Olympic National Park
Day Three: Drive to Oregon Coast
Keep your itinerary in hand when you are planning meals for the trip. Plan to use fresh foods early and turn to dried and canned foods later in the trip. Pack later meals at the bottom of your food containers and early ones on top. Or, if you plan to shop for fresh foods along the way, build those stops into your itinerary. (Read the sections What Do We Need?, and How Do We Cook in Camp?.)
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