Ever since I was a baby the end of summer meant
camping, at the same camp ground in the same camp site each year. My
parents have been taking my brother and me to Sand Flats since I was a baby, and
my grandparents started it all by taking my Dad and his siblings to this same
site since my Dad was a baby. Whether it was just my immediate family or
my entire Dad’s side full of aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins, we always
made a camping trip together before school started back up.
I hadn’t been camping in years and had really
been missing it, plus JD and I had never gone camping together, so we had plans in
the works for a while and this year we were finally able to go! So a few weeks
ago, JD and I drove to northern Ca ,
packed my Dad’s truck full of camping supplies and hit the road with him. (The trip fell on our 6 year anniversary!)
It’s about a four hour drive up into the Sierras
and once you reach the turn off you definitely need a truck or bigger 4 wheel
drive car to get down the “road”. It’s not so much a road as it is a very old
washed out river bed, nothing is paved and it is full of dips, large rocks,
steep turns and a dusty down hill grade. Getting back up the dry river bed is
no easy feat either, it takes about 30 minutes to strategically go down or up
it.
We had such a great time while we were there,
and it was an amazing change of scenery and temperature to be in the nicely
shaded, cool and crisp green woods. I love that is it isn’t a well known
camping area; we had the whole place to ourselves. The water and rapids are only
a two minute walk, which is perfect when you’re roughing it outside and you
need the (freezing) water to clean off and brush your teeth. We took long
walks and hikes each day, explored a lot, had some target practice with the BB
guns, relaxed, cooked our meals over the fire and woke up to deer outside
our tent in the mornings.
Going back to one of my favorite places, and
getting to show JD, was really fun and brought back a ton of childhood memories
for me and for my Dad. I’m so happy we finally went. Sand Flats is such an
important place to my family and has always been popular with the Meier’s; I
can’t wait for it to be just as popular of a place with future Poplin’s!
xoxo,
Rachele
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