Before Anthony, Bob and I went camping a lot, probably 6 or 8 times a summer easily. (Two of our vacations were also week long camping trips.) At the time our tent of choice was Bob's 2-3 person Sierra Designs backpacking tent.
We took Anthony camping twice last season and he shared our little tent with us. It was cozy. Quite cozy as he can take up an amazing amount of square footage for a little dude. We started looking for a family camping tent and our plan was to buy one with my REI dividend this year.
Well, we were at REI this weekend and Bob saw the tent he liked on super-duper clearance. We are now the proud owners of the Sierra Designs Bedouin 4+2 monster tent. The original price was $450 (gasp!), but we got it on sale for $188. How's that for a bargain? (Its cheaper than the REI brand 4-person tent and is a really good quality tent that will last us a long time.)
Key features in our new home away from home:
1. The main tent sleeps 4, but there is an attached screened-in annex. The annex can sleep 2 with the rain fly on, or you can take the rain fly off for a screened-in playroom.
2. Cup-holders. Yes, we upgraded from a backpacking tent to one with cupholders!
3. An interior clothesline.
4. More storage pockets than you can ever imagine needed.
5. 99 square feet of living area, I kid you not!
Now all we need is spring and a camping trip or two to test it out!
1 comment:
I didn't even know that tents could have cupholders!
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