This is a guest post written by my wife, Amber. Let me tell you, she has years of experience dealing with motion sickness. Our youngest daughter gets sick on almost every extended car ride. Here is what Amber had to say…
Depending on your camping destination, you may be faced with a lengthy drive (check out Great Ways to Combat “Are We There Yet?”). We have certainly had our fair share of them. For us, this usually means dealing with the effects of motion sickness in one or more of the children.
Luckily, we have gathered some great advice over the years for handling just such a scenario.
If you read our earlier article titled 
If you like camping, and you love dogs, then you probably bring your family pet along with you whenever you camp. If you’ve never brought your four-legged pal with you, maybe it’s time to give it a try!
One thing that can really ruin a camping trip is an unbearable heat wave. Besides the fact that extreme heat and humidity can leave you feeling sweaty and sticky, it can also make you quite ill. Nobody wants to end up in the hospital while camping.
For many of us, the family camping trip also means swimming in open waters. Open waters being lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds, or even the ocean. That also means that you and your family may be exposed to those blood sucking aquatic terrors – leeches.
One of the things that I try to do every year is plan our family camping trips and reserve the campsites early in the season. I rarely succeed at this, but it’s the thought that counts right?
If you’ve ever taken the kids camping before, or even on an extended road trip, then you are likely familiar with the words “are we there yet?”. It has to be the most popular phrase ever uttered by children since the dawn of the automobile.
Camping trips usually start out the same – you arrive at your camp site, unload your vehicle, and setup your tent or trailer. This is often done in some sweltering heat and leaves you sweating profusely and looking for a cold drink.