Quote Originally Posted by 4x4mike View Post
You're only moving a couple streets!?!

I thought you had mentioned Kentucy or somewhere much farther.

My wife and I had the easiest time camping with the kids when they were babies, the first year. They were Spring babies so that meant they were only a few months old. That was sweet because they didn't wonder, Mom always had their food ready and they liked to sleep. We had a 4 person, 3 season REI tent that was perfect as you could fit a pack-n-play and a pillow top Aero bed in it. For the most part baby slept with Mom on the bed and would get moved as necessary. With a baby and a little older kid the space was gone in that tent so we got a Kingdom 6 REI tent. We're totally past the pack-n-play stage so the extra space gets used for our stuff and the kids rough housing.

A trailer would be nice, don't get me wrong, but it would take more money, time and tinkering. We have everything down to a science so I am able to spend most of my time enjoying being out. If I had a trailer I'd also want to use it for more than 'camping'. A lot of out trips are offroading and an offroad style trailer wouldn't be as useful for things like car camping, soccer tournaments/that style outting (I grew up spending a lot of time in RV's at events), etc. I already have a utility trailer for trailer stuff and am making due so far. Things, places and people are too flux to make a camping decision.
The Kentucky move is a maybe...maybe?

The only thing that I have found constant in the military is change. I have been here in the desert for 4 years and the way it looks (God willing) I will be here for another 2 which will be the longest I have ever been in one state my whole life.

I definitely have given tents a look and right now I am looking at a couple Wenzel and a couple of Kelty's. I love the space of the Wenzel tent but I know the reputation of Kelty much better and it's more in line with what we want weight wise. My wife and I are no strangers to hiking and I would rather be able to hike with it than park and drag it to where I would set it up. Although I am no expert with tents either....I usually don't have one. Here's are the links to the ones I am looking at. Any advice is appreciated. I have slept in tents or out in the stars in just about everything imaginable so weatherproof is something I am interested in.

Wenzel Klondike
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PB2HPS/...I30S8T4DAZNL3F

Kelty Trail
http://www.amazon.com/Kelty-Trail-Ri...&keywords=tent

Kelty Arcadia
http://www.amazon.com/Kelty-40815012...&keywords=tent

and just for kicks I ran into these too:
http://www.amazon.com/Kelty-40818813...&keywords=tent

http://www.amazon.com/Kelty-Car-Tarp...&keywords=tent