3rd Annual Camping Biking Trip

Last weekend we completed our third camping biking trip! You might be asking, "What is a camping biking trip?" Well, it is when we ride our bikes to the campground from our house, then stay a night and ride to the next campground and stay a night.

Here we are leaving our house on Saturday

First, we rode to Sweetwater Forest in Brewster. It is about 8 miles from our house. On the way we stopped to have lunch at Red's Pizza. Mema and Grandpa Al came to hang out with us for the day. When we got to the campground we set up and then went to play at the park. We also got to do a little fishing. 

Fishing with my sister, Addy

Here we are getting ready to have dinner- hot dogs on the campfire of course!

Guess what? We I saw a friend from school at Sweetwater Forest too! Murphy and his family were also camping at the same place!

My brother Liam, Murphy, and Me

On the second day we rode our bikes to Nickerson State Park. It was about 5 miles to get there. We stopped to have smoothies at Karma on the way. I think we found the best campsite in the whole park. It was a perfect day and we spent time on the beach and rode bikes to the store and playground. 

Our campsite overlooking Flax Pond

We slept over one more night and had to get up early so we could get to school on time. Mom and Dad went back to pack up all of our stuff. It was a fun weekend- I can't wait for next time!

Our last campfire of the weekend

The Goleys Go Camping!

It's spring break on Cape Cod- and everyone in my house knows that if it's not warm by spring break- we better get Mom somewhere warm! Recently, we bought a pop-up camper with my Mema. We love to camp, but sleeping on the ground and fitting my wheelchair in a tent gets hard. So, Mom said, "For spring break we drive south until it's at least 70 degrees!" A couple of days before we left, we looked at the weather and decided that Maryland was going to have good weather- warm and no rain! 

All packed up- ready to hit the road!

Dad looked online for a campground close to Washington DC- we ended up at Smallwood State Park. We parked in a nice spot and setup camp! The camp was right on the Potomac River and had a museum and a discovery center- it was pretty quiet while we were there.

Here we are, all set up!

It was really cozy...

We saw some cool things around our campground...

There were lots of trees nearby that had gotten knocked down by a storm- some had SUPER HUGE ROOTS!

Here is an osprey nest- it was super close to us on a pier in the water. It was really low to the water- not up high.

Hiking on The General's Walk hiking trail

Dad helping me hike

A GIANT Gypsy Moth nest

The playground had a really cool swing- just for me!

We visited an old fashioned farm

Haberdeventure- the house of Thomas Stone (he signed the declaration of independence)

We went to Mount Vernon, that is where George Washington lived. He was quite an amazing man! We toured his house and grounds...

I got to use a hammer to put a nail in this stump.

We saw a blacksmith making some horseshoes

Here I am outside of Mt. Vernon

Here is where George Washington is buried

Liam got a fife for his souvenir and we found a real fifer on our way out!

George, Martha and two of their kids

Slave memorial at Mt. Vernon

 We went into Washington DC one day too! We even got to take the Metro! We went to lots of Smithsonian Museums and the National Gallery of Art.

Sitting at the fountain in the National Gallery's Sculpture Garden

The water was so cold!

Wet toes

At the National Gallery of Art

 Our last morning at camp- ready to head home! Little did we know that it would take us 13 hours just to get to Rhode Island!

 Ready to go back to school tomorrow...