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Camp Daddy Hits the Road


Hitting the open road for a 7500 mile summer road trip. Just Dad, Mom, three kids, one dog, and two guinea pigs.

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Tales from semi-isolation
I expected Camp Daddy to be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. -- spending the summer with our three boys, free of the demands of work, the...
Jun 10, 2020


Camp Daddy: End of the Season
Well, our little campers are all back at school now and that means an end to Camp Daddy for the summer. Don't worry though, there are...
Sep 20, 2019


Camp Daddy: Bachelor Edition
Mom went out of town for a few days for work, leaving four care-free bachelors at home to live it up...at least until bedtime at 8...
Aug 21, 2019


Camp Daddy Wood Shop
We are building skills, here at Camp Daddy, starting with woodworking. So we decided to construct a raised vegetable garden. Seems easy,...
Aug 21, 2019


Easy Homemade Pizza
Every week, as Grace and I plan our shopping list we ask our little campers for inputs on what they want to eat. Their response is always...
Aug 6, 2019


Shave Ice
If you've never visited Hawaii, then you might not know what this frozen treat is all about. Shave ice is similar to a snow cone, but...
Jul 29, 2019


Hawaii and the Chocolate Factory
On an expedition for shave ice, we stumbled upon the Manoa Chocolate Factory -- a bean-to-bar, socially responsible, craft chocolate...
Jul 29, 2019


Hawaii's beaches
We spent a lot of our time relaxing on some of Hawaii's most beautiful beaches. Although every beach we went to was beautiful, each day...
Jul 23, 2019


The summit of Haleakalā -- 10,023 feet above sea level
OK, I will be honest here….when I thought about going to Maui, taking the family to a mountain top nearly two miles above sea level never...
Jul 21, 2019


Driving the Road to Hana
High on our list of “Must Do” Maui adventures was the fabled Road to Hana (HI-360)- a gorgeous 52-mile automobile trek along the rugged...
Jul 17, 2019
Top five sanity saving tips for travel with three young boys
We made it back to Camp Daddy base camp after two tremendous weeks in Hawaii. I am drastically behind on our vacation blog posts but they...
Jul 16, 2019


Camp Daddy is hitting the skies!
It is vacation time here at Camp Daddy. We've packed up the base camp for two weeks in Hawaii! We will blog about our adventures in the...
Jul 2, 2019


Back yard hiking
We are lucky enough to have a forested area behind our house that is also protected as part of the Montgomery County watershed. The boys...
Jun 29, 2019


Banana pancakes
I appreciate the suggestions from some of you about ways to make our growing blog be even better. So as some of you suggested, here is...
Jun 26, 2019


Dylan's Guest Post #2: This is Exasperating
Well, in the few days I’ve been in Camp Daddy it’s been a blast, with the obvious exception of our daily plans getting interrupted by the...
Jun 25, 2019


Camp Daddy goes grocery shopping
While we try to fill our days with Camp Daddy fun and activities, some days the work just has to get done. We love Instacart's grocery...
Jun 20, 2019


Birdy bungalows
In between family dinners talking Star Wars, Harry Potter, or who would win in a battle between Yoda and Dumbledore, we spent a few...
Jun 17, 2019


Hiking the Billy Goat Trail
We hiked part of the Billy Goat Trail today – section C to be precise. If you are from DC than you are probably familiar with the Billy...
Jun 13, 2019


Day 1: Rain, rain, go away
Even though it went well, I would have to categorize last week's adventure as kind of a warm up. After all, it was just a day and a half,...
Jun 10, 2019


Our inflatable backyard pool
Its June and temperatures here in Maryland are already hitting the low 90's on a daily basis. Here in the Washington, DC, suburbs, there...
Jun 7, 2019






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