It took me awhile to jump on the bandwagon, but I finally did. Glamping.
I pulled out my Glamping with MaryJane book and studied every page. Again.
MaryJane’s Glamping book is THE book. A classic! It is full of great advice and lots of inspiration.
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Debbie Bosworth
is a certified farmgirl at heart. She’s happily married to her beach bum Yankee husband of 20 years. She went from career gal to being a creative homeschooling mom for two of her biggest blessings and hasn’t looked back since. Debbie left her lifelong home in the high desert of Northern Nevada 10 years ago and washed up on the shore of America’s hometown, Plymouth, MA, where she and her family are now firmly planted. They spend part of each summer in a tiny, off–grid beach cottage named “The Sea Horse.”
“I found a piece of my farmgirl heart when I discovered MaryJanesFarm. Suddenly, everything I loved just made more sense! I enjoy unwinding at the beach, writing, gardening, and turning yard-sale furniture into ‘Painted Ladies’ I’m passionate about living a creative life and encouraging others to ‘make each day their masterpiece.’”
Rebekah Teal
is a “MaryJane Farmgirl” who lives in a large metropolitan area. She is a lawyer who has worked in both criminal defense and prosecution. She has been a judge, a business woman and a stay-at-home mom. In addition to her law degree, she has a Masters of Theological Studies.
“Mustering up the courage to do the things you dream about,” she says, “is the essence of being a MaryJane Farmgirl.” Learning to live more organically and closer to nature is Rebekah’s current pursuit. She finds strength and encouragement through MaryJane’s writings, life, and products. And MaryJane’s Farmgirl Connection provides her a wealth of knowledge from true-blue farmgirls.
Cathi Belcher
an old-fashioned farmgirl with a pioneer spirit, lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. As a “lifelong learner” in the “Live-Free-or-Die” state, she fiercely values self-reliance, independence, freedom, and fresh mountain air. Married to her childhood sweetheart of 40+ years (a few of them “uphill climbs”), she’s had plenty of time to reinvent herself. From museum curator, restaurant owner, homeschool mom/conference speaker, to post-and-beam house builder and entrepreneur, she’s also a multi-media artist, with an obsession for off-grid living and alternative housing. Cathi owns and operates a 32-room mountain lodge. Her specialty has evolved to include “hermit hospitality” at her rustic cabin in the mountains, where she offers weekend workshops of special interest to women.
“Mountains speak to my soul, and farming is an important part of my heritage. I want to pass on my love of these things to others through my writing. Living in the mountains has its own particular challenges, but I delight in turning them into opportunities from which we can all learn and grow.”
Dori Troutman
Dori Troutman is the daughter of second generation cattle ranchers in New Mexico. She grew up working and playing on the ranch that her grandparents homesteaded in 1928. That ranch, with the old adobe home, is still in the family today. Dori and her husband always yearned for a ranch of their own. That dream came true when they retired to the beautiful green rolling hills of Tennessee. Truly a cattleman’s paradise!
Dori loves all things farmgirl and actually has known no other life but that. She loves to cook, craft, garden, and help with any and all things on their cattle farm.
Mary Murray
describes herself as a goat charmer, chicken whisperer, bee maven, and farmers’ market baker renovating an 1864 farmhouse on an Ohio farm. With a degree in Design, Mary says small-town auctions and country road barn sales "always make my heart skip a beat thinking about what I could create or design out of what I’ve seen.”
Rooted in the countryside, she likes simple things and old ways … gardening, preserving the harvest, cooking, baking, and all things home. While you might find her selling baked goods from the farm’s milkhouse, teaching herself to play the fiddle, or sprucing up a vintage camper named Maizy, you will always find her in an apron!
Mary says, “I’m happiest with the simple country pleasures … an old farmhouse, too many animals, a crackling fire, books to read, and the sound of laughter … these make life just perfect.”
Alexandra Wilson
is a budding rural farmgirl living in Palmer, the agricultural seat of Alaska. Alex is a graduate student at Alaska Pacific University pursuing an M.S. in Outdoor and Environmental Education. She lives and works on the university’s 700 acre environmental education center, Spring Creek Farm. When Alex has time outside of school, she loves to rock climb, repurpose found objects, cross-country ski on the hay fields, travel, practice yoga, and cook with new-fangled ingredients.
Alex grew up near the Twin Cities and went to college in Madison, Wisconsin—both places where perfectly painted barns and rolling green farmland are just a short drive away. After college, she taught at a rural middle school in South Korea where she biked past verdant rice paddies and old women selling home-grown produce from sidewalk stoops. She was introduced to MaryJanesFarm after returning, and found in it what she’d been searching for—a group of incredible women living their lives in ways that benefit their families, their communities, and the greater environment. What an amazing group of farmgirls to be a part of!
Nicole Christensen
Suburban Farmgirl Nicole Christensen calls herself a “vintage enthusiast”. Born and raised in Texas, she has lived most of her life in the picturesque New England suburbs of Connecticut, just a stone’s throw from New York State. An Advanced Master Gardener, she has gardened since childhood, in several states and across numerous planting zones. In addition, she teaches knitting classes, loves to preserve, and raises backyard chickens.
Married over thirty years to her Danish-born sweetheart, Nicole has worked in various fields, been a world-traveler, an entrepreneur and a homemaker, but considers being mom to her now-adult daughter her greatest accomplishment. Loving all things creative, Nicole considers her life’s motto to be “Bloom where you are planted”.
Oh how much fun! I have been camping in the rain and have forgotten many things too (including my pants). It wouldn’t be a legit camping experience without either of those happening at least once! Your camping spot looks so beautiful. I would love to take a camping trip there. Hopefully on your next trip you will have everything you need and it will be sunny and clear. Enjoy your wonderful glamping experience with your daughter and make many memories! I’m ready for a glamping trip myself!
Lovely camping spot Rebekah. Shame about all the rain, but it sure does add to the experience and I’m sure you and your daughter will have a good chuckle over it., I love your camper, very cute. I’m trying to talk my husband into moving up to a camper. Getting older we do need some things that allow us to enjoy camping more, no achy backs or hips on rising for the day :).
I will have to check out Mary Janes glam ping book for some inspiration and maybe a little arm twisting lol.
Look forward to your next glampimg tale. Have a sweet week.
Ten big smiley faces, no, a hundred.
It sounds to me like you had fun IN SPITE OF the rain. And that’s the important thing. I remember getting caught in a rain storm during one of our family camping trips. We used tents and air mattresses (roughing it, but not too much). My husband and I were in one tent and our kids were in a tent beside of us. It rained so hard the tents leaked during the night and the air mattresses floated. So all six of us ended up huddled in the back of our station wagon. It wasn’t fun then, but it’s a story my kids often laugh about now.
The first trip is always the learning one! Looks like you still had a good time. That site was devine, even without power. After awhile you will have everything you need in the camper and only need to pack your food and clothes, blue jeans and shoes included! Your little camper is just darling. Here’s to many more Glamping adventures!
Sounds like you had a lot of new adventures with the rain and all. I have camped for years and the newest trick I use is “solar” decoration lights so you don’t run the battery down in case you need it later. Since the solar lights hold their charge for a few hours they work great in the later evening. Playing cards, getting ready for bed etc.
Also always have a can of lighter fluid to help get the wet wood started and fire starters are fun to have also for camp fires. You can even make your own. We made them for “cub scouts” years ago and still have a couple left but they do sell them now.
Oh how well I now remember my 1st camping trip – minus the camper – tents only – the rain floated one tent so everyone piled into the other – oh what a grand wet time we had, never did that again, prepared better after each trip. So glad you get to have this fun.
God bless.
I think maybe a canopy pitched next to your camper would’ve made this a bit easier? Someplace to put the wood out of the rain, give you somewhere to stand and cook and even hang up wet clothes (though in that damp air and for the short stay, clothes probably wouldn’t have dried anyway lol!) It provides a lot more living area, and shelter from rain or shade from the sun. 🙂
Love the camper, and your site looks beautiful! Love those old stone stairs. Hopefully you have better weather next time!
Loved reading your Virgin trip blog! We’ve all been there and you will find the perfect fit for everything and the best way to do things. I will state here, veteran camper that we are, find print out lists from blogs for things to bring, menus you’ve planned and ingredients you need. Or make your own. It will someday become second nature. Every trip is different because of destination, power, and weather. Bon Voyage!
I just had my little camper out for her maiden voyage, about 2 hours from home in a rustic campground. The day was perfect and enjoyed sitting around a fire with friends. When we said our good nights and headed to bed, we found our door locked, with the keys inside! Our only option was to drive home since all supplies and meds were inside. Got to bed at 1:00 in the morning. Good news, a very nice camper repair business let us borrow their master key! The rest of the trip was wonderful, and you can believe that I had a set of spare keys made to keep in a safe spot!