Froggi Donna asked us on her blog about games we played. http://2takinga5th.blogspot.com/2011/02/childhood-games.html
That made me think about games we’ve taken camping with us pretty much all our lives. Even when we were backpacking off the beaten track we took a games pack that looked much like this:
It used to be in a fold-top sandwich bag but now resides in a quart-sized Zip-Loc bag which is the right width but about twice as tall as it need to be.
The bag now holds this:
Two decks of cards so we can play Canasta, Hearts, 500 ,or Hell.
Six dice. It used to have five so we could play Yahtzee. Then we learned to play Farkel so now we have six dice. Which means we can also have two tables playing Bunco. No gambling, though, or the Bunco Squad could show up at your door.
The pencil and paper are, of course, for keeping score. The filled out papers are rules for games we play seldom enough to not trust our memories. Other games we just agree on the rules before start.
And that funny little key-chain thing is a cribbage board. It is finely machined, lightweight metal with metal pegs that are much easier to use than they look like they would be.
All of this weighs only ounces and takes little room in any type of travel carrier.
That’s the indoor games.
Next Donna asked people about outdoor games. Here’s the one our daughter gave us when we went full-time in our RV. I laid a toothpick on it so you can see how small it is.
But, when removed from its bag, it opens itself to become…
…a flying saucer!
I throw it and you chase it, right?
TTYL,
Linda
Have you done any model railroading on the road? Not much room for a layout, but something portable, or just models? We’re 18 months full-time, 36 ft. Bounder, wintering in Florida.
We play a lot of card games and dice games but mainly with family and not so much with other RV’ers. Maybe it’s because family plays the ones we like and other folks not so much.
Love the blog. Great idea. I am going to learn how to play Farkel next Wednesday.