Comments on: Hardy Tent Camping or Comfy Lodge? http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/ Live Reports from the road as we travel the USA and Canada in a 34 feet motorhome! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:55:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mari http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-256 Mari Sun, 15 Jun 2008 18:39:11 +0000 http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-256 @Geoff - haha, thanks a mil! gives us something to look forward to next year! :D @Stacy - I'm with you on the hotel room! Thanks for your kind comments. @Lissa - loved your comment! Neato - yeah, funny how simplicity often takes more effort and discipline. I keep purging stuff off the RV even! @Geoff - haha, thanks a mil! gives us something to look forward to next year! :D

@Stacy - I’m with you on the hotel room! Thanks for your kind comments.

@Lissa - loved your comment! Neato - yeah, funny how simplicity often takes more effort and discipline. I keep purging stuff off the RV even!

]]> By: Geoff http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-255 Geoff Sun, 15 Jun 2008 03:32:23 +0000 http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-255 Maybe next year you guys can go to a prison for a few weeks to bond?:) Love the posts and photos. Safe and fun travels you two. Geoff Maybe next year you guys can go to a prison for a few weeks to bond?:)

Love the posts and photos. Safe and fun travels you two.

Geoff

]]> By: Stacy Brice http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-254 Stacy Brice Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:06:09 +0000 http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-254 Hi, Mari :) While the weekend sounds awesome, I am so much of a voluptuary, that my idea of roughing it *truly* is a hotel without room service. :) I am loving following your journey. Thank you for making yourself vulnerable to the world by sharing it. :) Warmly, Stacy Hi, Mari :)

While the weekend sounds awesome, I am so much of a voluptuary, that my idea of roughing it *truly* is a hotel without room service. :)

I am loving following your journey. Thank you for making yourself vulnerable to the world by sharing it. :)

Warmly,
Stacy

]]> By: Lissa Boles http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-252 Lissa Boles Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:32:18 +0000 http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-252 Hi Mari, What a post! First time here and love the way you took me on the journey with you - both virtually after the fact. I'm getting me some inspired ideas... Seems we might have a thing or two in common, you and I (but you be the judge). I met Randy, the love of my life, the same year you met Ty. A similar dream of travelling together (camping occassionally included - I have a minimum comfort threshold myself) came to a natural conclusion when it became clear that the dream dreampt and the dream lived (at least, indefinitely) were two entirely different things. Almost laughed myself right out of my chair when I read Gary Smalley's declaration about camping and bonding! Wonder what he'd say about a couple who felt called to work from home together, originating new work (we're a couple of Life Coaches with a focus on strengths, calling and purpose), while renovating and then selling their 2700 sq ft suburban home to simplify (purged 85% of what we'd accumulated - accept for the dog, that is!), go green (right down to the composting toilette) and living a whole new dream in a sweet little 500 sq ft cottage on the Sunshine Coast of Lake Huron (where highspeed satellite internet is more medium speed, a tad better than your aircard when the weather cooperates!). Seriously, we're having the time of our lives and getting that a big life of big dreams is really relative to how big the positive impact is on you and you're ability to serve the world. Our plans to winter south came to a halt when our 12 year old Dalmation 'The Prince' Pongo stopped being the eager traveller he used to be. That part of the dream's on hold till Pongo's with us no longer (hard to even think about). Till then, and with your permission, I'm going to stoke the fires of passion by living vicariously through you and Ty. Please keep the stories and pictures coming - and the FB tips too! All best, Lissa Lissa Boles's last blog post.. <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TrueCallings/~3/255154070/" rel="nofollow">3 Things You Need to Know</a> Hi Mari,

What a post! First time here and love the way you took me on the journey with you - both virtually after the fact. I’m getting me some inspired ideas…

Seems we might have a thing or two in common, you and I (but you be the judge).

I met Randy, the love of my life, the same year you met Ty.

A similar dream of travelling together (camping occassionally included - I have a minimum comfort threshold myself) came to a natural conclusion when it became clear that the dream dreampt and the dream lived (at least, indefinitely) were two entirely different things.

Almost laughed myself right out of my chair when I read Gary Smalley’s declaration about camping and bonding!

Wonder what he’d say about a couple who felt called to work from home together, originating new work (we’re a couple of Life Coaches with a focus on strengths, calling and purpose), while renovating and then selling their 2700 sq ft suburban home to simplify (purged 85% of what we’d accumulated - accept for the dog, that is!), go green (right down to the composting toilette) and living a whole new dream in a sweet little 500 sq ft cottage on the Sunshine Coast of Lake Huron (where highspeed satellite internet is more medium speed, a tad better than your aircard when the weather cooperates!).

Seriously, we’re having the time of our lives and getting that a big life of big dreams is really relative to how big the positive impact is on you and you’re ability to serve the world.

Our plans to winter south came to a halt when our 12 year old Dalmation ‘The Prince’ Pongo stopped being the eager traveller he used to be. That part of the dream’s on hold till Pongo’s with us no longer (hard to even think about). Till then, and with your permission, I’m going to stoke the fires of passion by living vicariously through you and Ty.

Please keep the stories and pictures coming - and the FB tips too!

All best,

Lissa

Lissa Boles’s last blog post.. 3 Things You Need to Know

]]> By: Mari http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-251 Mari Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:15:45 +0000 http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-251 Yay, Alice!! Really great to be able to take ya down memory lane! hehe. I'm sure you'd see mega changes on PoI now. I'm not sure if the Thorne Bay school is still there... I did see a few schools here and there, even in Hollis. Probably just one teacher and handful of kids!!! :) Oh my, Palm Springs, eh! I ? California! ;) Yay, Alice!! Really great to be able to take ya down memory lane! hehe. I’m sure you’d see mega changes on PoI now. I’m not sure if the Thorne Bay school is still there… I did see a few schools here and there, even in Hollis. Probably just one teacher and handful of kids!!! :)

Oh my, Palm Springs, eh! I ? California! ;)

]]> By: Alice Allen http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-250 Alice Allen Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:34:39 +0000 http://tyandmari.com/2008/06/10/hardy-tent-camping-or-comfy-lodge/#comment-250 Loved reading about Thorne Bay. In the late 80s my husband and daughter and I lived in a logging camp even farther out than Thornebay. My daughter made it to the spelling bea championship from all the camp schools and of course it was held at Thornebay the big mac daddy of camps. It was fun and they acutally flew 100 or so Mac Donalds hamburgers out for everyone. Just fun to read that Thornebay is still around and seeing the pictures. IS the school still there?? We also lived at Coffman cove for awhile and it was in the late 70s my husband had Long hair then and they actually were all short haired guys and we left because we felt unwelcome isnt' that funny?? my 2nd husband and i Live in Palm Springs now and I don't know if I could go without my internet and starbucks either. But I did live up there for 16 years in the camp and sometimes miss the solitude and sweet air.. Thanks for sharing your experiences. Alice Allen Loved reading about Thorne Bay. In the late 80s my husband and daughter and I lived in a logging camp even farther out than Thornebay. My daughter made it to the spelling bea championship from all the camp schools and of course it was held at Thornebay the big mac daddy of camps. It was fun and they acutally flew 100 or so Mac Donalds hamburgers out for everyone. Just fun to read that Thornebay is still around and seeing the pictures. IS the school still there?? We also lived at Coffman cove for awhile and it was in the late 70s my husband had Long hair then and they actually were all short haired guys and we left because we felt unwelcome isnt’ that funny?? my 2nd husband and i Live in Palm Springs now and I don’t know if I could go without my internet and starbucks either. But I did live up there for 16 years in the camp and sometimes miss the solitude and sweet air..

Thanks for sharing your experiences.
Alice Allen

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