Our gang camped a record 31 days for us.  Of course 20 of those days were on our trip to Yellowstone.  It was one of the best vacations I was ever on.  We stayed 3 days in the Black Hills (Knowing what I know now, I would have stayed longer).  We stayed in Yellowstone NP for 7 days and 4 days in Grand Teton NP.  The rest of the nights were one night stops along the way.  The trip was a total of 5008 miles.  I would do it again if I get the chance.

I live in Southern MD, and 2010 had us visiting my boyfriends daughter in the Winchester, VA area - one trip was 4 nights in Front Royal, another was 14 nights in Winchester, VA, then a trip to NY to see my family - 10 nights, 14 nights in Gloucester, VA, 10 nights in Hibernia CG - Kerr Lake, NC, and then there's camp back yard......the PUP's been open since 10/29, and I spent about 10 nights in it in early November, then thanksgiving another 4 with guests, and x-mas - 7 nights. 

I have a 30amp outlet for my PUP, and a super heavy duty x-cord, so have been able to keep the PUP heated during the cold snap we had around x-mas.  Heated mattress pads were wonderful, and the furnace as back up kicked on a few times.  It was nice laying in our heated bunks and yacking back and forth to guests - still being warm, cozy and comfortable.  Had a few nice meals. 

It's going to kill me to winterize this week.

15 nights total, all weekends.  Not too bad considering 3 trips had a 1 year old and DW won't let me go alone too often.  Something about leaving her home alone with my son  kiss 

My favorite trip was at the Fredericksburg KOA in July.  it was an AWESOME campground.  The sites had elbow room, there was a brand new bath house, it was shady, it was level, and my BIL and I were down there to visit the Boy Scout Jamboree that was only a few miles away.  I got to meet the CEO of KOA and I got my picture taken with him.  On Friday night there was a fantastic campfire program.  I think the fact that the campground was filled with Scouters who put on campfire programs all the time and joined in had something to do with that  :chief: 

We hit 48 nights this year largely due to the 24 night vacation out to the Black Hills and different Colorado locations (Durango, Manitou Springs, Ft Carson). Colorado is such a beautiful location, the camping and the biking were some of the best we've seen.  That was probably the best vacation of both our lives - after 24 days and almost 7,000 miles neither one of us wanted to come home. And we were both still talking to each other :dance: :dance:.  I can't wait until we have enough vacation time saved to do something like that again.

The other half of the nights were weekend trips, and like many of you we averaged 1 weekend per month from March thru November.

We had 24 nights in 2010. 

That would be 27 if you include the two (popup-less) cub scout camping trips and the night we had a bunch of friends over to do a dry run in our back yard (around 20 people total).  For the latter, a lot of our friends have younger kids that have never been camping, and we have a huge back yard so it seemed like a good way to test it out. 

I like the trips we did down to Chippokes SP in VA in July and again in October.  For July we went to Water Country USA and I remember my older son was so excited at one point, he was quite literally vibrating with anticipation.  In October we hit Jamestown and my older son seemed to actually be getting interested in history and how the Powhatan did things back then.  In November we visited Bell Isle SP in VA that was where we discovered geocaching.  Both boys really got into hunting for the caches.  It was also a year where some of our long-time friends started to join us camping, and even contributed luring one of my wife's friends over to the dark side -- they bought a fairly large travel trailer a week after after they tented it in the site next to ours.  😮

I had a very good camping year in 2010.  I slept in a camper 132  😀  nights.  102 nights were in my new camper, a Jayco.  3 nights were in my old PU.  The other 22 nights were split between my sisters camper and a friends camper.  I doubt that I will be able to camp that much in one year again until I retire. 🙂

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I was envious of 44 days.  132 made me want to cry.

Don't cry.  I had bi-lateral full knee replacements done in April.  10 days later I was camping (once I had the ok from the doctor to drive).  I camped more than normal at a local SP where I could drive to my physical therapy appointments.  I did do several longer trips once I didn't need to go to PT anymore.  Now it work 5 days a week, but I am camping this coming weekend.  I will start 2011 with a 3 night trip. 🙂

Path, where'd you go in NC?

11 - 20 days for us. We only camp on weekends.