{"product_id":"camping-diaries-the-good-life-and-the-not-so-good-life-paperback","title":"Camping Diaries: The good life and the not so good life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristie Marie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBears, beans, and baths in a river. Yes, these are just a few things written about in this family's collection. Imagine wanting to publish stories on some fun and not so fun camping adventures. Then add to this, other members of your family also camp and have travel experiences that you were just dying for them to write about to add to this book.\u003cbr\u003eThis was Christie's predicament. So how did she get these busy professional sons, daughters, mama bears, and others in her family to crank out these stories? She told them that the only thing she wanted for Christmas was a camping story from each one of them; blackmail.\u003cbr\u003eAfter many reminders that time was getting away from them, finally...all six children, her sister, husband, mother, and a future daughter-in-law responded to Christie's request for a story. Slowly, in they came. The emails filled with their renderings of outdoor adventures. Several are hilarious; others are more reflective of times spent in nature. Whether you are like her oldest daughter, who hates camping, or you love it. From close encounters with wildlife, life and death circumstances, getting rescued rangers and taken out by helicopter, lost, auto breakdown in the campground, everything going wrong, explosion at the campsite, finding sea glass, one-week stinky bodies, and a narrow escape along a hiking trail.\u003cbr\u003eSome story titles: \u003ci\u003eA Beary Scary Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOnce and Never Again\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Shady Lake Detour, Chasing Freedom, Heading South: Kodiak\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cliffside Scare: A Secret from Lake Superior, A Crumby Night, Camping on Horseback, An Arkansas Mini-Adventure, Hill Country Adventures, To the Center of the Universe, A Camping Misadventure and Bear Tracks.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a real page turner that will entertain the whole family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 102\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48600136253661,"sku":"9781971150000","price":16.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/Vdf1F3VR7R9781971150000.webp?v=1789728634","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/camping-diaries-the-good-life-and-the-not-so-good-life-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}