Hello!  Today I have another portion of my camping history ready to share with you, including how the camping gene moves on through the generations.  You can see little Dan stirring the fire, and now he's 35 and still camping!  Part 1 can be read in a previous post.  I started writing this last spring to be a journal of the travels we have in our new trailer.  But the process took me back to thinking about how this leisure time activity developed for me.  It fits in with the history of travel trailers and RV's, which didn't become common for families much before the 60's.  It was tied to the fact that most families did not have leisure time, expendable income, access to good roads, etc.  With easier travel and the growth of camping, the landscape changed for the middle class families.