I have only been home about 2 weeks now and I miss camp already. The camp we have is not like real camping. I have a 30ft, 5th wheel on a permanent site in a privately owned campgrounds just on the outskirts of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York.

I have a rather large site that I love. In this first picture I am standing on my deck looking out at my site.

This is my 4th year their as a seasonal camper. Before that we traveled around to different campgrounds around the Finger Lakes and would only camp here a few times a year.

When I say we, I mean, a group of us mostly cousins and their families and some very close friends. Some retired some not quite at retirement yet.

We all decided that, of all the campgrounds we had been to we liked this one the best. When the cost of gas went up so bad it just made since to get a seasonal site and park the big rigs.

Every year we develop more and more friendships with the other seasonal campers. Some have been camping there for many years. And every year more of our family decides to take a seasonal camp their.

Some of the guys like to get together and get out their guitars, mics, amps, drums, and even a squeeze box and they jam. A few of the guys play in a band and have regular scheduled jigs from different places, when they are not camping with us. They get together sometimes at one of our sites and some times up at the Big Brown Barn.

They get together on major holidays and play at the barn too. It’s kind of an open mic kind of thing. Everyone has a great time. They don’t get paid for it, it’s just a get together.

Before the night is over everyone is having a great time.

Here we are singing “The Party’s Over”. And some of us are have a lot more fun.

These were taken Labor Day weekend. This is the last camping weekend for a lot of the transient campers. We ask the guys to try to come up with a name for the band and they mulled it over and mulled it over. Finally, they came up with the name “Just Us”. I like it. “Just Us” jammin at the Brown Barn.

Our last weekend is usually around Columbus Day. Things start to get pretty cold up there after that weekend and we have to weatherize the campers and cover them to help protect them from the massive amounts of snow they usually get there. We stand up at least 4 fifty gallon drum barrels on the roof to help give a pitch to the roof after the tarp is on it and this way we don’t get the build up of snow that the roof would get if it was left flat.

After all the work is done some of us get to relax around our last camp fire for the season.

I really miss it and just can’t wait until Spring and we get to do it all over again.

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