EveryBus 2012 (80 buses)

EveryBus this year started our camping season! EveryBus is really my favorite campout of them all. And we camp about once a month from March to November. The weather is usually perfect as it was this weekend. Wonderful 70 degrees during the day and cool to cold nights which makes for great sleeping. Here is the bus "Jaws" about 1/3 of the way packed. Getting ready to head out.

It took about 4.5 hours to get there with a few stops. We stop to get dinner but eat it on the way, then we stopped for gas about an hour before we got there.

My daughter didn't go with us this time. :o( She was at a women's computing conference ( my computer geeky girl). So my little guy had the whole back sit to himself and loved it. He slept on the way down.

Here is a picture of my best friend Dawnn, she carabused down with us. She owns her own bus too and is camp crazy like me. This is a good picture of the inside of our bus. You can see the hole up top, that's the poptop. My daughter usually sleeps up there, but my son got to this trip. It's like a cool cave. You can see our heater to the left. It was cold at night and we did have electric at this campout. So it was so cozy in the bus at night with the heater going. :o) The TV is a DVD player for movie watching. We didn't watch any this trip. We usually end up watching a movie if it rains like crazy and we are stuck in the bus waiting for it to stop.

I didn't take a lot of pictures of the other buses, but here is the Janes' bus right next to ours. They said that 80 buses showed up to camp.

There was unicycling.

And here is the raffle bus for "NaturalBus". Natural Bus is the campout in June. They(Salem Imports) always restore a bus and raffles it off there. ALL the money goes to the Ronald McDonald House. I'm not kidding, they give away a bus every year. People tell me all the time that they wish they owned a bus..... well, here is a way! NaturalBus.net is the site and here is the link to the bus.
$10 a ticket and you do not have to be at the campout to win!

Here are our cookers. My hubs and my best friend. They do all the cooking. And we eat good! Every morning we have a huge breakfast with pancakes, bacon, eggs, and hash browns. Friday night we had spaghetti with garlic bread. Saturday night Dawnn made BBQ with coleslaw, baked beans and mac & cheese.

A back picture of out campsite. Jaws is the blue on on the end, you can see the poptop. Dawnn's bus is right beside us with the tie dye poptop. She made the tie dye herself.

Saturday the 14th was the 100 anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. My son is Titanic obsessed. So I had to make cupcakes for the anniversary. I surprised him with them at lunch time on Saturday.

A 'fossil lady' came Saturday also for the kids. My son was in hog heaven. He is saving his money for a megalodon tooth. This lady had a bunch of them. ( you can see a bunch of the buses in the background)

I was in none of the pictures. I am always the picture taker. I spent the whole weekend studying for a microbiology test that I had on Monday. In the picture below you can see my feet on my micro book up on a table. This is the only photo I am in. LOL I did end up getting a 94 on that test and it makes me exempt from the exam. Yes!! Thank you to all of my moonies for supporting me all weekend.

One of my favorite things is a campfire. Here is my little guy wrapped up in a quilt around the campfire.
On the way home we usually carabus. A bunch of buses going in the same direction head out together. A photo opportunity when we stopped for breakfast Sunday morning. From left to right.. our "Jaws", the Janes' bus, Ronnie's bus, Pat's bus, and Dawnn's bus.

We didn't realize we put them in color order. They just pulled them up and they ended up that way. teehee hee.

The weekend was fabulous! Have I told you lately that I love to camp. :o)

O Christmas Tree

We picked up our Christmas tree in our 1958 bus, "Rusty" again this year. This is one of our Christmas traditions.

It wasn't as old this year as it was last year. We didn't need to ride with the propane heater in the bus this time. Merry Christmas

SunShine DayDream

A quick post about Sunshine Daydream with lots of pictures. Sunshine Daydream is always on or around July 4th. I love this camp out because we get to camp right up in the trees.

Jonah got to bring his bike. Can you tell he loves sharks ( Jaws shirt and shark bike helmet on) with our bus Jaws ( who he named ) in the back ground?

The American flag flies high over the camp out.

A very relaxing / fun camp out. This is Mark asleep. (teehee)

Fun in the water.

The view from my bus. Pilot Mountain in NC.

My children trying to fish. They are so sweet and cute.

Lots of frogs at Sunshine Daydream. Jonah loves to catch them and set them free.

We eat soo good when we are camping. Here Dawnn is making Philly cheese steaks. Yumm.

Enjoying friends.

They shoot off the most wonderful display of fireworks every year. They are just gorgeous in the sky. I didn't get any good pictures this year of them though.

We stopped at Dan River on the way home and played in the water.

Here are my sweet children sleeping on the way home. :o)

NaturalBus 2011

We've been going to NaturalBus since 2003, my son Jonah was only a few months old at his first campout, now he is 8 years old. This is the closest campout to us so it's easy to make. It is usually very very HOT, but this year the weather was wonderful and in the 80's.


NaturalBus is held at the Yogi Bear Jellystone Park in Natural Bridge, Va. It is a Fullmoon Bus campout. And every year some of the men find a bus, fix it up and raffle it off.

We camp by the same people every very, our moonie family. Check out my sweet bus twinkle lights.

The water is a must at this campout because of the heat. There is a water slide, a lake and

a pool. I usually stay in the pool. I am scared of the lake.

Jonah got to fish! He is loving it. He wants to be Jeremy Wade when he grows up.

Here is the raffle bus being driven after being won. I didn't know the winner. The money from the raffle goes to the Ronald McDonald House in Raleigh, Va.

Here is my annual picture of my children with Yogi!! They get their picture taken here every year after the campout.

We had a fabulous time. Weather was perfect, some of our friends were missing ,but we had a lot of them there! And the food was good as usual. Oh... and I slept like a rock both nights in the bus! I love sleeping in our bus , it is sooo comfortable and cozy.

The Farm

We camped again this weekend, April 22 and 23 just for a bit. This is a photo of my best friend Dawnn cooking up some hash browns for breakfast. We always have to have some hash browns. We camped in Buckingham County at 'The Farm'.

T.R.O.M.

The 2011 camping season has officially started. And I am just so happy about it. I don't like the months of December, January, and February. They are dark, cold, and we don't camp. But once March hits.... it starts to warm up a bit, stay light longer and camping season for us has started. We got TROMotized this weekend at T.R.O.M. Which stands for The Rides Of March.

The camp out is in Atkinson, NC on a river swamp. The weather was beautiful and 69 degrees Saturday.

The hubs, my Babe, cooks a lot when we camp. Which is an awesome plus because I hate to cook. Here he is cooking up some breakfast Saturday morning. I think these were the hash-browns. Yummm.

I don't have the official 'bus' count yet, but there were more then 27 there. This Winter my Babe installed a big screen and mounted the DVD player into the cabinet. Little Jo, pictured here in the front seat loves to watch movies on the way there and back home. We watched "Monsters vs Aliens" Saturday night curled up the bus bed which is so cozy and warm.

They had a big game room at TROM. With air hockey, a pool table and a ping pong table. Little Jo lived on the air hockey table all weekend.

I got lots of stitching done. Doing my two favorite things.... camping and sewing.

Here is a photo of our bus at night. For Christmas my in laws gave me some twinkle lights shaped like little buses. Perfect. They were so cute hanging up. TROM had a band there Saturday night too, but I didn't get pictures of them. I stayed back at the bus while my Babe went to listen to them by the camp fire. He said they were great!

TROM had some cool little boats available to take a ride in.

Dinner and door prizes Saturday night. We won a cool wooden VW sign. Little Jo wants to put it in his room. And those are cooked oysters on the table to the right. I didn't eat any.

Jaws ran great to the camp out and going home. A great way to start the camping season! And on the way home we stopped by to see family, my Babe's family. Here he is with his granny. We were so happy to see her up and out.