I go tent camping once in a blue moon. I need three things for sure when I go……a comfortable folding mattress, a toasty sleeping bag and a tarp under my tent. A nearby restroom and morning coffee are a plus too
Reminds me of our 3 family tent camping on the Beach at Ensenada - in 1962 - no toilette save a “seat stool” with plastic bags. Kids enjoyed it including the clam digging, cooking & eating. All the parents are gone - kids remain distant friends with vivid memories & observations about the other families. 1962 Ford Esquire with airbags - I was relegated to the “way back” while my Sister, her friend and my 7 year old brother were in the middle seat. What an adventure reflections from 61 years ago.
Where’s the Honey Bucket? All my memories of tent camping include them. You all are so funny and that’s because of how down to earth and real you are, by what you say and your reactions to every challenge you endure. 👍🇺🇸🔆🫖
We had an associate pastor years ago the was not a tent camper. After a father/son camp out he stood up in church the next day and said “I slept like a baby; I woke up every hour crying.”
Fun fact, we camped along the NC beach when the kids were younger. The winds were very strong, when we were packing up to leave, we saw a mosquito service truck spraying the area. If it had not been for the wind, we would have been inundated with the pests! Give Thanks in all circumstances. Great Video.
I can usually get a chuckle out of most of your videos, but with this one I was laughing full on right from the start. Grew up tent camping as a very young girl; family of five in an old-fashioned canvas tent. My little Brother was in diapers and I don’t know how my Momma did it, but we had a whale of a good time primitive camping - and I mean primitive. Will definitely put beach camping at Assateague on my bucket list of things to do. There’s something very magical about seeing the dawn of a new day and the colors breaking on the horizon. One thing is for sure - I’ll have one of those new inflatable hiking/sleep pads for my older bones lol. Thanks for sharing!
I am laughing my butt off. We have been camping for over 60 years and are so used to it. We bought a 26' TT and we still love our tent better. I am 75 and still love tent camping in a tent. Buckle up Buttercup and have fun.
Oh how nice tent camping. I have not done that in years. Never camped at a beach but near one. The kids were excited. I had no idea that there are wild horses on the beach. I love you guys you are so funny. I’m so glad I watch your channel.
Awesome video We love Assateague and have camped there in every season for almost 35 years. There’s always something new to experience. We also so happy that the Park Service, MD and VA have basically returned the coast to nature from Ocean City MD south to Cape Charles VA. Incredible remote areas in the middle of the eastern seaboard hustle Thanks for sharing your experience, especially with the young kids. We’ve tent camped there with ours many times, including when they brought their owns friends and tents.
Assateague Island was my favorite place to visit when I lived in VA. I stayed in a small inn on Chincoteague Island, though, and rented a bike for the day to go over and explore Assateague. There are great trails through the woods and around the water/along the beach. The ponies would pop out of the woods right in front of you, mosey along the trail a bit, then head back off into the woods again. Love the shots of the sunset you captured, and especially the dolphins. There’s just something about the ocean!
Loved the video today. It was more like your older videos with more doing and not as much talking. You all were my first family I started to follow and steal my favorites.
You guys just make the best videos. We have been full timing now for almost 5 years and I have been watching you the whole time. I look forward to them each week. Thanks so much for sharing!
A blow up air mattress makes all the difference in happiness in camping. If you are comfortable, dry and warm, you will love it. A means of cooking simple food? Good to go. Walnart camping gear is perfectly fine. My favorite sleeping bag was about $15.
Kaylyn was watching this with us for the first time (cause she had been playing Gaga ball). She said this video was hilarious and her favorite LJ MJ video thus far. I say... Y'all should have gone to Walmart. LOL
I love watching your family. Nathan is a great husband and father. I need to be more like him and not take the moments you have together for granted. God bless you guys.
Our very first tent camping was at Assateague and we had a borrowed old pup tent that someone had packed damp...stink. We were able to overnight in a huge tent with friends. Then the rain started and continued into the next day. Our pup tent floated away. The horses took our clothes that were hanging on the dining tent. The flies and mosquitos were as big as the birds that ate our food. We had a blast though!. 5 kids and 4 adults in the tent. The rain cleared up as we left the park and we stopped on the way home and bought our first tent, a 9 x 12 canvas tent. This was about 1979 and we continued camping for many years...mostly in Maryland mountains where we now live.
OK guys, you need to go camping on a motorcycle, it will teach you how to camp lightly. You only have so much space and you're not going to pack much. It takes that simplicity thing to a whole new level. It was nice to see Hensley's pink boots again and it looks like JJ is getting his curls back. Keep the good stuff coming guys.
How much fun! I tent camp and use a Walmart 16.00 dollar 10 inch twin air mattress with plenty of thickness, I sleep like a baby, better than my own at home mattress! As a side sleeper, I could never sleep on anything under 7 inches thick, thin mattresses are shoulder and hip killers lol! Let the "littles" have the thin ones! Lucky you didn't have any fog, you would have been sopped without your tent fly on! This was a great family experience to give your kids, family and friends and a campfire with sunrise and sunset. Perfect!
Assateague Island is in our state of MD. Just saw this and it reminded me of when we tent camped there with our 3 boys and our cub scout Pack about, wow, 18 years ago. The water was great, beautiful weather, not much bugs. The horses were there getting into other peoples stuff looking for food. The only bad that happened was when we were cooking dinner, chicken on the grill, the wind picked up the sand and blew it on to the chicken. No one from the pack of 20 adults and kids would eat it. Ended up eating hot dogs. But other than that we had a great time. The boys had gone back when they were older in Boy Scouts, no problem there, better cooks then. lol
I remember our beach camping experience years ago. We didn't even have a tent. We had two bed sheets and that was all. It was on a beach in Okinawa, Japan. That was the night we learned about high tide. :)
I used to tent camp all the time when I was a boy scout, then went a lot with my son when I was a scout master. We also tent camped as a family, but it was more like glamping to please my wife and daughter. But the day we bought our class A, never been tent camping since. Yeah, go to Walmart for supplies, unless you need high quality stuff that’s going to last. Looks like you had a good time, and more importantly, you created another great adventure with your family.
Just happened to find you guys bye doing research on Surf fishing at Assateague. Just wanted to say I love your family and you guys inspire me to get my family on more adventures! Thanks and great editing ☀️
We stayed at Assateague State Park last week and drove through the National side. Loved it - and no mosquitoes this time of year. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
The State Park has the best bathrooms, and outdoor showers, which are awesome. And with a senior discount it's a great place to stay. We go at least once a year.
OMG! You guys take a whole lot more for a family of 4 than we did for a family of 6! We would have that many containers if we were camping for 4 or 5 days. LOL!!! You all are bringing back some of my wonderful memories camping with our kids and all the fun we had. We always did some fishing too, so we had the poles & tackle too. All Everything and everyone packed into a minivan. LOL
Once we had our rv, no more tent camping with the kids! Horrible cold nights trying to keep a bottle warm or on top of a rock poking you in wind lol! I like my bed and toilet 😁 We bought our first rv when our son was 3 and daughter a baby, our parents told us it was too extravagant for our age but we never regretted it. So many wonderful trips, camping even living in while remodeling homes. Love all your destinations and your family! My kids are adults now so I enjoy your adventures with kiddos!❤🏕🌅🐎
The last time my wife and I did a backpack trip together, we hiked (on a fairly short and very easy) trail to a crescent shaped beach on the Pacific Ocean. It was packed with other campers and only one spot was left where we were able to set up our tent. Even with the crowded conditions, it was beautiful. The worst downside was that, pretty much all night, the gentle rhythm of the surf had me dreaming (and waking up each time the dream repeated) the tide had come in far enough that we were being washed out to sea in our tent. I confess that is one of the times I slept on the ground on one of those entirely inadequate pads without that particular discomfort bothering me as much as it usually did. So the nightmares did have that one positive aspect.
Tent camping....it has seasons. A time for rough and dirty camping and a time for a comfortable bed camping ( and you get to decide what that looks like) YOU get to decide what tent camping looks like so it’s enjoyable to you.
Although I’ve never tent camped on a beach, I’ve tent camped many, many times in the mountains!! Our daughter went on her first camping trip at 3 weeks. We slept in the back of our pickup. It’s only in the last 25-30 years of our 50 years of marriage that we’ve been in a trailer, because getting up off the floor at our age is near impossible!!!!
We love Assateague. We usually stay at the state park side in the RV. For RVing the state park is the way to go. The bathhouses are great there. The horses aren't bad if people let them be, and be smart about their food and gear.
We love Assateague 🐴 you guys are hysterical 😂 REI $$$ 🤦♀️ we took our little boys tent camping ONCE ! That was enough. Then we bought a pop up. Next time add wine 🍷
Great video. I love tent camping but it got hard on my old back so we bought a small camper. I miss the tent experience at times. This was a great tent experience. I would love to try that. Thank you.
Well, LJMJ finally had a sunrise moment! Having spent 64 years tent camping your tents looked like you were living life on the edge without the flys! But then you wouldn’t have had that night sky view. Enjoyed being on the beach with you, I’ve never camped on the beach but it would be epic.
I love watching you guys, even though we don’t RV. This is was fun to watch because we tent camp every where we go. We have fine tuned our set up over the years, but it’s definitely nerve wracking doing it the first time with kids. We would love to get an RV in the future, but like Nathan said, the places you can stay with a tent are so epic sometimes.
You guys are hilarious! Been tent glamping for 50+ years. My son's first camp was at a month old in JTNM (national monument) before it became natl park. When he was a teen we homeschooled & were tenting glamping nomads in a car across the country with a dog & a cat and even with the hugh coleman camp kitchen. Still use it today. Used a couple tarps for the bathroom & shower tents. Have upgraded now to the two room shower tent. 😄😄 Tent & backpacking can get you to views where rigs can't go. Now that I'm older & slower am looking at getting a small TH & will still be bringing the tent setup.
When our three kids were the ages of your kids, we had one in between yours, we traveled from Iowa thru California, to Washington State and back to Iowa tent camping. They had a blast.
We lived 30 minutes away from Assateague for 20 years. The crabs were great, the skeeters could airlift the horses if one got hit by a car. If not for the grands we'd still be there. Love your stories.
@@qixu3208 assateague crab house right before the visitors center or several in OC. Be ready for sticker shock if even available.. it's a bad year for crabs. We still go up a couple times a year.
😂"If you can get comfortable being uncomfortable..." I knew how you were going to finish that sentence-truer words were never spoken. Tents can take you anywhere, can't wait to see y'all backpacking when JJ is a little older... ❤
You guys crack me up! You have been so bold over the years with some of your adventures but Marissa’s trepidation on this one was epic 😂. We raised our kids with a combination of tent and Rv camping. We did a 10 day boat camping trip every August with about 25 friends and family for years. Boat 15 miles down a reservoir and pitch a huge camp on the beach. All our kids were within a 4 year range and we started when the youngest was 2. Our kids now all have kids of their own and still do all sorts of camping. You have given your kids such a gift!
We took our kids (who are now your age) tent camping when they were little. The 17 year locust were swarming. They were inside the tent, outside the tent, the kids made a locust shell graveyard, and they were pooping green from the trees. Give me a trailer any time.
I got a kick out of how Less Junk went to REI and spent hundreds for one night of tent camping. LOL ❤️ Plus, we think of you guys as camping all the time but you're right that tent camping and Fifth Wheel camping are very different. We started out in a tent but upgraded to a tiny camper about 15 months ago and we have been having a lot of fun with that. Thanks for another fun and wholesome video, guys!
It's one thing to be family tent camping for the first time, but to do it on sand...AND with little ones. I'm surprised you didn't have sand everywhere. I once took a group of kids to Great Sand Dunes NP, and they couldn't sleep because after rolling down the sand dunes all day, they could never quite get all of the sand off and they ended up sleeping in sleeping bags full of sand! 🤣🤣🤣 But that does look like a very beautiful and unique place.
So much fun watching ❤Brings back memories of our fist tent camping in the 80s with 4 kids. ⛺️Hubby & I and 3 of our kids & their families all have large trailers now. We camp together as much as we can. Wonderful family memories and this past summer with our great granddaughter (3).
Really cool! Nathan, we're so envious of your editing skills, we totally appreciate the effort that went into putting this together. Great experience for the kids (and you guys). Something that we'll probably never try ;-)
Just down the way at Chincoteague did not appreciate the horses running all over our beach blankets and such. They had a ranger following the horses with claim forms because the horses would damage coolers and things trying to get food.
When we visited the park this summer and saw those sites, the wind and bugs were my concern. If either got bad there was no getting away from them up there on the beach. Be glad you picked the place you did for firewood. I went to the place around the corner from there a few months ago and it was all wet and wouldn't burn. What RV campground did you stay at while there? And how was it?
I go tent camping once in a blue moon. I need three things for sure when I go……a comfortable folding mattress, a toasty sleeping bag and a tarp under my tent. A nearby restroom and morning coffee are a plus too
So Epic, so uncomfortable! Unreal beautiful...coffee on the beach at sunrise! wow wow wow!
"get comfortable being uncomfortable" YES!! writing that one down as a reminder. loved the video as always!
Yes! Thank you!
Reminds me of our 3 family tent camping on the Beach at Ensenada - in 1962 - no toilette save a “seat stool” with plastic bags. Kids enjoyed it including the clam digging, cooking & eating. All the parents are gone - kids remain distant friends with vivid memories & observations about the other families. 1962 Ford Esquire with airbags - I was relegated to the “way back” while my Sister, her friend and my 7 year old brother were in the middle seat. What an adventure reflections from 61 years ago.
The wailing cry of Hensley....classic!!! 🙂
That place is on my dream list! What a beautiful place to camp!
Great memories. Lol to see the kids up at sunrise!
Where’s the Honey Bucket? All my memories of tent camping include them.
You all are so funny and that’s because of how down to earth and real you are, by what you say and your reactions to every challenge you endure. 👍🇺🇸🔆🫖
We had an associate pastor years ago the was not a tent camper. After a father/son camp out he stood up in church the next day and said “I slept like a baby; I woke up every hour crying.”
Fun fact, we camped along the NC beach when the kids were younger. The winds were very strong, when we were packing up to leave, we saw a mosquito service truck spraying the area. If it had not been for the wind, we would have been inundated with the pests! Give Thanks in all circumstances. Great Video.
Night, shore, ocean, horses, bonfire - it's very cool and romantic👍
Atleast your there with cooler temps, it’s blazing there in mid to late summer. I love going there to see the wild horses.
We tent camped there many years ago (not on the beach). It is a cool place. The horses will definitely come into your camping area and eat your food.
I can usually get a chuckle out of most of your videos, but with this one I was laughing full on right from the start. Grew up tent camping as a very young girl; family of five in an old-fashioned canvas tent. My little Brother was in diapers and I don’t know how my Momma did it, but we had a whale of a good time primitive camping - and I mean primitive.
Will definitely put beach camping at Assateague on my bucket list of things to do. There’s something very magical about seeing the dawn of a new day and the colors breaking on the horizon. One thing is for sure - I’ll have one of those new inflatable hiking/sleep pads for my older bones lol. Thanks for sharing!
I am laughing my butt off. We have been camping for over 60 years and are so used to it. We bought a 26' TT and we still love our tent better. I am 75 and still love tent camping in a tent. Buckle up Buttercup and have fun.
Oh how nice tent camping. I have not done that in years. Never camped at a beach but near one. The kids were excited. I had no idea that there are wild horses on the beach. I love you guys you are so funny. I’m so glad I watch your channel.
That is awesome, thank you.
Awesome video
We love Assateague and have camped there in every season for almost 35 years. There’s always something new to experience. We also so happy that the Park Service, MD and VA have basically returned the coast to nature from Ocean City MD south to Cape Charles VA. Incredible remote areas in the middle of the eastern seaboard hustle
Thanks for sharing your experience, especially with the young kids. We’ve tent camped there with ours many times, including when they brought their owns friends and tents.
Assateague Island was my favorite place to visit when I lived in VA. I stayed in a small inn on Chincoteague Island, though, and rented a bike for the day to go over and explore Assateague. There are great trails through the woods and around the water/along the beach. The ponies would pop out of the woods right in front of you, mosey along the trail a bit, then head back off into the woods again. Love the shots of the sunset you captured, and especially the dolphins. There’s just something about the ocean!
What a wonderful experience for the kids more memories being made love it.Thanks for sharing. 🙂🇨🇦❤👍👍👍👍
Thanks for watching
Loved the video today. It was more like your older videos with more doing and not as much talking. You all were my first family I started to follow and steal my favorites.
You guys just make the best videos. We have been full timing now for almost 5 years and I have been watching you the whole time. I look forward to them each week. Thanks so much for sharing!
... almost 5 years, and I ...
Wow, thank you!
A blow up air mattress makes all the difference in happiness in camping. If you are comfortable, dry and warm, you will love it. A means of cooking simple food? Good to go. Walnart camping gear is perfectly fine. My favorite sleeping bag was about $15.
A childhood memory of Assateague and Chincoteague Islands.
Kaylyn was watching this with us for the first time (cause she had been playing Gaga ball). She said this video was hilarious and her favorite LJ MJ video thus far.
I say...
Y'all should have gone to Walmart. LOL
This is such an epic adventure for the kids to have memories with. I love that. Great video! Hope you have a great week and see you soon!
Thank you so much!
I love watching your family. Nathan is a great husband and father. I need to be more like him and not take the moments you have together for granted. God bless you guys.
Our very first tent camping was at Assateague and we had a borrowed old pup tent that someone had packed damp...stink. We were able to overnight in a huge tent with friends. Then the rain started and continued into the next day. Our pup tent floated away. The horses took our clothes that were hanging on the dining tent. The flies and mosquitos were as big as the birds that ate our food. We had a blast though!. 5 kids and 4 adults in the tent. The rain cleared up as we left the park and we stopped on the way home and bought our first tent, a 9 x 12 canvas tent. This was about 1979 and we continued camping for many years...mostly in Maryland mountains where we now live.
OK guys, you need to go camping on a motorcycle, it will teach you how to camp lightly. You only have so much space and you're not going to pack much. It takes that simplicity thing to a whole new level. It was nice to see Hensley's pink boots again and it looks like JJ is getting his curls back. Keep the good stuff coming guys.
Thanks for the tips!
Lordy, the things we do for our kids. I devoutly hope and pray I have already spent my last night in a tent.
How much fun! I tent camp and use a Walmart 16.00 dollar 10 inch twin air mattress with plenty of thickness, I sleep like a baby, better than my own at home mattress! As a side sleeper, I could never sleep on anything under 7 inches thick, thin mattresses are shoulder and hip killers lol! Let the "littles" have the thin ones! Lucky you didn't have any fog, you would have been sopped without your tent fly on! This was a great family experience to give your kids, family and friends and a campfire with sunrise and sunset. Perfect!
Love the editing style of this video. Had me cracking up!
Yay! Thank you!
Assateague Island is in our state of MD. Just saw this and it reminded me of when we tent camped there with our 3 boys and our cub scout Pack about, wow, 18 years ago. The water was great, beautiful weather, not much bugs. The horses were there getting into other peoples stuff looking for food. The only bad that happened was when we were cooking dinner, chicken on the grill, the wind picked up the sand and blew it on to the chicken. No one from the pack of 20 adults and kids would eat it. Ended up eating hot dogs. But other than that we had a great time. The boys had gone back when they were older in Boy Scouts, no problem there, better cooks then. lol
Looked like you all had a great time. Always a joy to watch thanks for sharing. ❤❤🇬🇧
Thanks for watching
I remember our beach camping experience years ago. We didn't even have a tent. We had two bed sheets and that was all. It was on a beach in Okinawa, Japan. That was the night we learned about high tide. :)
Oh wow!
Nice video. A tent tall enough to stand up in with cots and sleeping pads on top make a world of difference for comfort.
Very true!
You all made me laugh. This was a great episode!
I used to tent camp all the time when I was a boy scout, then went a lot with my son when I was a scout master. We also tent camped as a family, but it was more like glamping to please my wife and daughter. But the day we bought our class A, never been tent camping since. Yeah, go to Walmart for supplies, unless you need high quality stuff that’s going to last. Looks like you had a good time, and more importantly, you created another great adventure with your family.
Just happened to find you guys bye doing research on Surf fishing at Assateague. Just wanted to say I love your family and you guys inspire me to get my family on more adventures! Thanks and great editing ☀️
Welcome aboard!
We stayed at Assateague State Park last week and drove through the National side. Loved it - and no mosquitoes this time of year. Thank you for sharing your adventures.
The State Park has the best bathrooms, and outdoor showers, which are awesome. And with a senior discount it's a great place to stay. We go at least once a year.
We tent camped for years. We had a decent size tent and got a double high mattress I was great, so comfortable.
Thanks for sharing such a wonderful experience 😊
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you.
OMG! You guys take a whole lot more for a family of 4 than we did for a family of 6! We would have that many containers if we were camping for 4 or 5 days. LOL!!! You all are bringing back some of my wonderful memories camping with our kids and all the fun we had. We always did some fishing too, so we had the poles & tackle too. All Everything and everyone packed into a minivan. LOL
So very True!!
Once we had our rv, no more tent camping with the kids! Horrible cold nights trying to keep a bottle warm or on top of a rock poking you in wind lol! I like my bed and toilet 😁 We bought our first rv when our son was 3 and daughter a baby, our parents told us it was too extravagant for our age but we never regretted it. So many wonderful trips, camping even living in while remodeling homes. Love all your destinations and your family! My kids are adults now so I enjoy your adventures with kiddos!❤🏕🌅🐎
Best opening line for a book or song: "If you can get comfortable being uncomfortable..." :)
Y’all are the best. 😂 Instagram table 🤣🤣. You always make the best of it all and have such a great attitude.
Thank you so much!!
😅 "Moments of sleeping". Beach was beautiful. Milky Way and sunrise were awesome.
The last time my wife and I did a backpack trip together, we hiked (on a fairly short and very easy) trail to a crescent shaped beach on the Pacific Ocean. It was packed with other campers and only one spot was left where we were able to set up our tent. Even with the crowded conditions, it was beautiful. The worst downside was that, pretty much all night, the gentle rhythm of the surf had me dreaming (and waking up each time the dream repeated) the tide had come in far enough that we were being washed out to sea in our tent. I confess that is one of the times I slept on the ground on one of those entirely inadequate pads without that particular discomfort bothering me as much as it usually did. So the nightmares did have that one positive aspect.
Tent camping....it has seasons. A time for rough and dirty camping and a time for a comfortable bed camping ( and you get to decide what that looks like) YOU get to decide what tent camping looks like so it’s enjoyable to you.
Although I’ve never tent camped on a beach, I’ve tent camped many, many times in the mountains!! Our daughter went on her first camping trip at 3 weeks. We slept in the back of our pickup. It’s only in the last 25-30 years of our 50 years of marriage that we’ve been in a trailer, because getting up off the floor at our age is near impossible!!!!
Fun video. Thank you. Blessings
Glad you enjoyed it, thank you.
Some awesome views, without anything to obstruct, just you and nature.
My favorite moment was Nathan loading up the pillows in the truck and then the pillow falling right back out again as he walks away oblivious lol
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We love Assateague. We usually stay at the state park side in the RV. For RVing the state park is the way to go. The bathhouses are great there. The horses aren't bad if people let them be, and be smart about their food and gear.
That bread hitting the ground is my life!😫 😂❤
We love Assateague 🐴 you guys are hysterical 😂 REI $$$ 🤦♀️ we took our little boys tent camping ONCE ! That was enough. Then we bought a pop up. Next time add wine 🍷
Love it!! Camping on the beach in a tent is the best and so grounding! ❤❤❤❤
JJ looks more like his Dad everyday. So cute!
Lovely. Had to laugh at the Instagram vs actual table in use. Too funny.
Great video. I love tent camping but it got hard on my old back so we bought a small camper. I miss the tent experience at times. This was a great tent experience. I would love to try that. Thank you.
Well, LJMJ finally had a sunrise moment! Having spent 64 years tent camping your tents looked like you were living life on the edge without the flys! But then you wouldn’t have had that night sky view. Enjoyed being on the beach with you, I’ve never camped on the beach but it would be epic.
Ha, we've had a few other sunrises 😀
I love watching you guys, even though we don’t RV. This is was fun to watch because we tent camp every where we go. We have fine tuned our set up over the years, but it’s definitely nerve wracking doing it the first time with kids. We would love to get an RV in the future, but like Nathan said, the places you can stay with a tent are so epic sometimes.
What a fun camping place❤
Hello 👋 How are you doing today
The wooden stakes been there done that. My family used to go to Assateque all the time.
Well I haven’t been ⛺️ camping in a decade, but I can’t do that anymore! But that looks amazing
You guys are hilarious! Been tent glamping for 50+ years. My son's first camp was at a month old in JTNM (national monument) before it became natl park. When he was a teen we homeschooled & were tenting glamping nomads in a car across the country with a dog & a cat and even with the hugh coleman camp kitchen. Still use it today. Used a couple tarps for the bathroom & shower tents. Have upgraded now to the two room shower tent. 😄😄
Tent & backpacking can get you to views where rigs can't go.
Now that I'm older & slower am looking at getting a small TH & will still be bringing the tent setup.
When our three kids were the ages of your kids, we had one in between yours, we traveled from Iowa thru California, to Washington State and back to Iowa tent camping. They had a blast.
We lived 30 minutes away from Assateague for 20 years. The crabs were great, the skeeters could airlift the horses if one got hit by a car. If not for the grands we'd still be there. Love your stories.
hii im going to ocean city soon and stopping at Assateague, what restaurants would you recommend for crabs?
@@qixu3208 assateague crab house right before the visitors center or several in OC. Be ready for sticker shock if even available.. it's a bad year for crabs. We still go up a couple times a year.
😂"If you can get comfortable being uncomfortable..." I knew how you were going to finish that sentence-truer words were never spoken. Tents can take you anywhere, can't wait to see y'all backpacking when JJ is a little older... ❤
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So many funny moments in this video. 😂I’m simply happy just to live this through you instead of going camping. 😉❤️
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Beautiful! We took our kids there 30 years ago! It was the best but we could have used an awning with mesh lol
Oh wow!
You guys crack me up! You have been so bold over the years with some of your adventures but Marissa’s trepidation on this one was epic 😂. We raised our kids with a combination of tent and Rv camping. We did a 10 day boat camping trip every August with about 25 friends and family for years. Boat 15 miles down a reservoir and pitch a huge camp on the beach. All our kids were within a 4 year range and we started when the youngest was 2. Our kids now all have kids of their own and still do all sorts of camping. You have given your kids such a gift!
We took our kids (who are now your age) tent camping when they were little. The 17 year locust were swarming. They were inside the tent, outside the tent, the kids made a locust shell graveyard, and they were pooping green from the trees. Give me a trailer any time.
Love going there to camp.
Omg, last week you were in the state I live, this week where I used to go almost every weekend as a kid! I'm so fan-girling! Lol!
Oh wow! 😀
How beautiful! Tent camping on the beach is my favorite!
I got a kick out of how Less Junk went to REI and spent hundreds for one night of tent camping. LOL ❤️
Plus, we think of you guys as camping all the time but you're right that tent camping and Fifth Wheel camping are very different.
We started out in a tent but upgraded to a tiny camper about 15 months ago and we have been having a lot of fun with that. Thanks for another fun and wholesome video, guys!
Especially since REI rents camping gear... 🤭
It's one thing to be family tent camping for the first time, but to do it on sand...AND with little ones. I'm surprised you didn't have sand everywhere. I once took a group of kids to Great Sand Dunes NP, and they couldn't sleep because after rolling down the sand dunes all day, they could never quite get all of the sand off and they ended up sleeping in sleeping bags full of sand! 🤣🤣🤣 But that does look like a very beautiful and unique place.
So much fun watching ❤Brings back memories of our fist tent camping in the 80s with 4 kids. ⛺️Hubby & I and 3 of our kids & their families all have large trailers now. We camp together as much as we can. Wonderful family memories and this past summer with our great granddaughter (3).
That is awesome!
Being warm is essential. A thick blanket layer on top of the mattress helps a lot.
Beautiful
Kudos! Best video ever!! ❤
Thank you.
Oh yeah that was Epic. I loved it.
That Was Epic is the name of a yt channel. 🤣
Perfect location
What cool adventure. I would have brought a pan to make instant coffee or maybe a French press? Thanks for sharing 🖖🏻😘👍🏻🙏🏻
Really cool! Nathan, we're so envious of your editing skills, we totally appreciate the effort that went into putting this together. Great experience for the kids (and you guys). Something that we'll probably never try ;-)
Thanks so much! That is very kind of you.
This is an awesome video loved the adventure you had!!!
U guys are amazing so sad I missed meeting yall at GD meeting in PA last month, thanks again for sharing the journey
Always enjoy your videos. But, please refer to Catherine Gregory for tent camping!😎
Love y’all guys
I like your s’more hack! Great thinking 😊
The sunglass thing ,I have also done that one, too.
Super fun!
It really was.
Did you get a chance to take the ferry to Okracoke Island at the end of Cape Hatteras?
Such a neat place!!!
I agree -- we can't camp without sparkling water! 😄
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Just down the way at Chincoteague did not appreciate the horses running all over our beach blankets and such. They had a ranger following the horses with claim forms because the horses would damage coolers and things trying to get food.
Great fun and Wild Horses can be pretty vicious sometimes 😳 I think it was still worth it, look at that sunrise and the Dolphins WOW 👌
Fun! Have y'all been to Cumberland Island ?
Ha ha ha I saw that thermos last weekend!
Hi from Richmond, VA!!!
When we visited the park this summer and saw those sites, the wind and bugs were my concern. If either got bad there was no getting away from them up there on the beach.
Be glad you picked the place you did for firewood. I went to the place around the corner from there a few months ago and it was all wet and wouldn't burn.
What RV campground did you stay at while there? And how was it?