How to Properly Rough It...

The Blue Ridge Parkway runs 469 miles and with our plan we’ll start at the Southern Most point by the Cherokee National Forest and run to milepost 1 in Virginia. The boys and I are making lists of what we need for “roughing it.”

Here’s a few essentials:
Senseo Coffee Maker – I do have to drive in the morning
2 Nintendo DS’s plus 32 games
1 LMax plus 10 games
Video Player plus 126 videos
Wii with two controllers along with 15 Wii games
2 computers with speakers
One wireless hotspot
4 ebooks about the Blue Ridge Parkway

Now to some real essentials:
Two long plastic gloves
One pair of goggles
One hazmat suit
Lantern
We’re still figuring out how many lunchables the refrigerator fits
Camp chairs
Starter Logs for help with those fire starts
Bottle of wine

We’re roughing it on the Blue Ridge Parkway because each of the campgrounds we’re staying in do not have electrical AND I have to figure out how to build a fire (cue in the song, “Dahling I love you but give me park avenue), we’ll have to find a way to wash clothes and take showers along with putting the cherubs on a schedule of “#2 on demand” or, “we’re on the campground time to do whatever business you have to do.”
But wait, there’s another trip to the super Walmart before we leave civilization behind…..