Adirondack Camps

I love the idea of camps and cottages.  A building in a remote place where families gather for anticipated adventures and long lived memories.  Filled with comfortable furniture that doesn't match and no televisions, laptops, ipads, Xboxes....get my drift?  Places where you have to interact with each other or curl up in a corner to read a book (yes, one you have to hold), play card games, checkers, go for walks.....do any of you have places like that?  I bet some of you do..

Our family had a camp in the Pocono Mts. of Pennsylvania, Tobyhanna to be exact.  I grew up in Southern Lancaster County of PA and summers were expectant times.  We would vacation in Tobyhanna a number of weeks during school break.  My Nana and PapPap built the cabin.   I don't remember the "original" cabin.  The cabin was built on to and had enough beds to sleep 12 people comfortably.  There was no running water and a hand water pump outside with a slate patio built around it.  The water was so cold and a serious wake-up call in the morning.  We had enamel bowls to wash in and pumped 3-4 buckets of water to drink, which would be placed in the kitchen.  There was an outdoor fireplace as well as one inside.  Almost every night a fire was built indoors, the nights would get very cool and there wasn't any other heat source, and we would make s'mores and play Screwball Rummy.  During the days we would go to the State Park nearby and swim, take walks through the woods, rake leaves, always gathering firewood, sit on the porch with Mom and Nana and took drives at night to see the deer in the meadows.  It was great.  I learned to crochet and cross-stitch at the cabin, but that's another blog.  

A picture of few of my sister's, brother's and my children enjoying the cabin

A picture of our "children" a little older (they have now given us grandchildren!)

Some pictures of ADK cabins within 4 miles of my house 

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