We’re prepping for our big Door County camping trip and we had to make a decision on which tent to use. My parents have a big 2-room tent called the Winnebago. I’m not joking around. That’s really the brand. I guess Winnebago made more than just RVs. Growing up, my parents would take us on these amazing road trips around the country. The Winnebago tent was always in the back of the minivan. It was used more to keep us on our best behavior, because my sisters and I did not want to sleep in a hot, buggy tent during the dead of summer. We wanted the thrill of sleeping in an air-conditioned hotel room that had mini shampoo, cable, a pool and an ice maker.
As I mentioned in a previous post, my old 3-person tent isn’t big enough for the Emmons family, so the other weekend we were at my parents’ house and we decided try to put up the old Winnebago.
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| Tom and the Winnebago. |
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| Checking it out. |
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| Isabelle was having fun! |
As you can see, we did it. I even found a brochure for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina inside the tent bag. What you can’t see is it took at least five adults to get this massive tent up. Yes, the Winnebago has had a good life and saw a lot of the country, but it will not go back to Door County with us.
So, I bought a tent on Amazon. We got the Coleman Montana 8 Tent. As the name states, it sleeps eight people. We put it up over the weekend and the massive 16’ x 7’ tent took up most of our upper deck (not to be confused with upper decker). It was pretty easy and only required two adults. Plus, I think you could even set it up alone. It’s definitely for car camping and at $136.86, plus free shipping, we can’t complain if it doesn’t last forever.
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| Our new tent! |
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