Category: Oakland, USA
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Samuel P Taylor 2024
Summer 2024 kickoff was a camping trip to celebrate Grandad’s big birthday. Each day, Grandad and Mamo’s campsite was abuzz with grandkids. Cousins of different ages and heights skipped rocks, rode scooters, and picked blackberries. They could always find an auntie’s hand to guide them, or a cousin’s plot to adventure into. Everyone chipped in.…
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Samuel P 2023
Camping is my happy place. The days are long in the best ways and I feel immense joy camping with my kids. Corey is a natural as well. He jumps right in as though he’s been camping for decades (he hates that I’ve written that). I am fortunate to have him really see how much…
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Oakland Solo Week 2
It’s Mother’s Day which means that my trip to Oakland was three months ago!? Where does the time go?! Well, it never gets old looking back on the full-o-fun memories that we made. If you finished reading the previous post, then you know that Miya’s crew arrived on a Sunday. The cousins crew didn’t skip…
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Oakland Solo
My girls exceeded my expectations on this solo trip from London to Oakland. There is no way to sugar coat it: eleven hours is a loooong flight. We had our busy bags, snacks, an ipad with a headphones splitter but by the last four hours, I wasn’t sure what we were going to do. But…
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Reunion at Samuel P Taylor
We went camping at Samuel P Taylor this summer. It’s the place I grew up camping, and it was a joy to take my girls for their first camping trip. The smallest detail like feeling the car dip down in the road towards the campsite kiosk felt nostalgic. The redwood trees felt like home. The…
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