OH yes! A camping journal would have been terrific! I think one of our more interesting camping trips was at Clearlake in Oregon...got settled and it rained a bit, but nothing too bad...next day off and on...that night...different story...DH had rigged a tarp over our tent and over the table...woke to DH digging trenches around the outside of our tent and would release the rain from the tarps so they didn't colapse on us, so I got up and helped him...did that for well over an hour til the rain moderated a bit...meantime son was snoring soundly through it all...the next night I had left a package of M & M's on the table and in the morning, you could see the prints of where the rodants had carried off some of them and they'd been in the bag and such...mucky mess and I learned that M&M's are liked by mice and chipmunks alike! The next several days were dry and wonderful...walks around the lake, sitting by the fire and watching the stars at night...what great memories...I've so been enjoying reading your stories...