So it will be nearly three years after our wedding--not sure what the cutoff is on a honeymoon. But NotFroofy and I have decided to take a road trip rather than just fly to my daughter's wedding in Oregon this September. So we've started accumulating stuff for our trip.
First purchases:
* An 8-person tent. Yes, there will be only two of us plus a dog. But I'm tired of trying to wedge myself into the kind of tent I can carry in a backpack or on a bicycle. This one is big enough to stand up in.
* Two sleeping bags. Yes, we already own one sleeping bag. But if this is going to be our honeymoon, the least we can do is have sleeping bags that will zip together to make one sleeping bag big enough for the two of us.
* A portable popup gazebo. We actually got that one free. When we bought the gazebo we used to make our chuppah (Jewish wedding canopy), there was some fraying on the cover. Rather than replace the cover, the seller sent us a whole second one. While we've long since sold the chuppah, we never even opened the second gazebo. We figure we can put it over a picnic table to eat on a rainy day.
* A Coleman 56 Quart Wheeled cooler.
We already own a tarp which I'll be patching up so we can use it under the tent. We have a couple of camp chairs that we usually use for the Fourth of July. A friend has offered to lend us a queen-sized air mattress. We've got a bunch of extension cords we can use to enable us to power cell phones, computers, etc. inside the tent. (No, we are definitely not roughing it!) We'll probably buy a small Propane stove, but otherwise I think we have most of what we'll need.
I decided to test out the tent by putting it up in our back yard this afternoon. Apparently, this resulted in thunderstorms and flash floods throughout the DC area. At least we will find out whether and where it leaks before we're actually trying to sleep in it!