2025 News

If you have been following our site, you know that we sold our pop-up in the spring of 2024.The new owners have sent us pictures out camping in the Dutchman. They are enjoying it. 

I'm eating my words of I'll never camp in a trailer. A slide out adds so much more space and I don't feel claustophic in our new unit.
We keep it stored in the driveway and use it as a happy place escape room. Our first camp reservation for 2025 is in the books. We are set to camp for seven weeks starting May 1st. That is going to be a different experience for us after only camping weekends or short vacations.
The new to us travel trailer pictures are here

Happy Camping!

We're still plugging that Pop Up Times Magazine is back online. Not a busy site but there is so much information on pop-ups there from folks who have fixed this, repaired that and done it long ago. 

Welcome to our website
We have owned our 1994 Dutchmen 1002XS since it was brand new. Over the years we have made many memories, traveled to many places and learned a lot about camping in a pop up camper. So we decided it was time to share some of our experiences with the rest of the world.
Our camping history goes way back to childhood when Donna camped with her parents in various types of campers. Tim began camping with the scouts and then with an aunt. We tent camped while we were dating, but there's a story from one night that maybe shouldn't be repeated. Oh heck, check the Stories page to see what happened on our first camping trip.
We bought our pop up when our two youngest were just 6 and 4 years old. We wanted to introduce the kids to camping, and knew a tent wouldn't cut it anymore. Now we camp with them and our grandchildren.
So feel free to look around our website. We have some funny stories, pictures from places we've visited, some repairs and mods done over the years and much more. I'll keep adding to the site as new repairs or mods are tackled and we visit different campgrounds.
Happy Camping!
Tim & Donna