Adventures of the Nguyen Family
RV Life and Travel With Our Two Kids
Camping Review – Mountainaire Campground – May 20-23, 2022 Location: Nanaimo Regional DistrictSelling Feature: Proximity to Nanaimo River, campground activitiesPrice per night: $56 + GSTHookups: 30 amp electrical and water. I want to start off this blog with a request for readers to provide me some feedback, I want to make this into a meaningful …
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Outbound Flight Segment: YYJ-YVR-CUNReturn Flight Segment: CUN-YYC-YYJAircraft Flown: DHC-8-400, Boeing 737Max8, Boeing 737-800Total Distance Travelled: 9,358 kilometers (5,815 miles)Price per km: Not calculated as trip was purchased as a vacation package. So, spring break comes along, and next thing we know we are on our way to Victoria International Airport (IATA Code YYJ) for our …
Join us as we head out on our first trip since COVID began! Well, I don’t know what to say. It sure has been a long time since I’ve done a blog, and I do apologize for that. In the spring of 2020, who would have thought the world would have spun the way it …
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Exciting news! Well, for us anyways. As of Nov 15, 2020, we’ve moved over to Vancouver Island! Yes, you read that right! Alyssa and I both accepted jobs with Island Health. Alyssa is based out of Royal Jubilee Hospital and I’m hitting the streets with Substance Use Outreach and COVID Outreach and Assessment in Duncan. …
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Well here we go again! Off for a week of rest, relaxation, and adventure. 2 campgrounds to review here: 4 nights at Shuswap Lake Provincial Park and 3 nights at Kekuli Bay Provincial Park. First things first, Shuswap Lake Provincial Park. WOW. We spent a single night at this park last year and it was …
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Located just north of Maple Ridge, Golden Ears Provincial Park is one of the largest; and is the busiest of the provincial parks in British Columbia by number of campers. Alouette lake is HUGE and popular for boating, swimming, paddle boarding, wind surfing, and many other water-based recreational activities. The park is also criss-crossed by …
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“As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh That quote couldn’t have been more true. Hold on, because this is going to be a long blog, spanning over 22,300 kms of air travel, 2 south-east Asian countries, and 4 children in tow. It …
If you trust play, you will not have to control your child’s development as much. Play will raise the child in ways you can never imagine. ~ Vince Gowmon Camping with young children. We started a bit later, when Maddy was about 2 and a half. We ventured to beautiful Green Lake as an experiment …
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So we picked up our new Cub 175BH last Wednesday, just in time to take it to Fort Langley this past weekend to lovely Brae Island Regional Park. Not sure why this was our first trip here. just 45-minutes east of Vancouver, it is a lovely alcove nestled inside historic Fort Langley. From here, it …
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Very early in the camping season, we determined that the Prolite Profil was not going to fit our needs for long. We wanted longer, further, and bigger adventures. The Profil was simply not going to be able to keep up with what we were going to ask of it. A somewhat expensive decision we knew …
Adventures of the Nguyen Family