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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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Jun 10, 2020
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...
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Sep 20, 2019
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...
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Aug 21, 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...
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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,...
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Aug 6, 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...
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Jul 29, 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...
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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...
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Jul 23, 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...
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Jul 21, 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...
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Jul 17, 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...
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Jul 16, 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...
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Jul 2, 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...
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Jun 29, 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...
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Jun 26, 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...
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Jun 25, 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...
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Jun 20, 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...
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Jun 17, 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...
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Jun 13, 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...
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Jun 10, 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,...
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Jun 7, 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...
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