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G4: Babes in the Woods

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Cute kid. Cute book.

If you were wondering how you could combine your two favorite things—your new baby and your love of hiking/camping/boating— then Jennifer Aist’s ‘Babes in the Woods’ might just be the book for you.

Getting all of the essentials out of the way in the first chapter (clothing, food, sleeping, etc), Aist moves on to the really fun stuff in later chapters, like backpacking with babies and activities around camp. And I love the no-fail recipes section with classic camping goodies like oatmeal and dried fruit,  trail mix and breakfast burritos (okay, so maybe breakfast burritos aren’t the first thing I think of when camping, but it still sounds delicious to me). And with helpful portion sizes and notes, as well as which type of trip the meal would be best served on, it’s hard to go wrong.

If camping with your newborn isn’t your thing, the fun facts sprinkled throughout the book are enough to keep me entertained. For example, did you know that DEET was originally developed by the Army during World War II?  Or that once opossum babies are too big for their mom’s pouch, they climb onto her back, where she continues to carry them until they are too big?

Well now you know!

Bis bald, friends!

G4: A Must-Have for Outdoor Travelers

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If you’re seriously wary of involving yourself in any kind of travel that would include sleeping outside, trapping your own food or finding your own shelter, I don’t blaim you. Sure, I’ve gone camping a handful of times. There was that one time in the “woods” near Ocean City with my boyfriend, a best friend and her boyfriend. We slept in tents, collected firewood to roast marshmellows and the boys went fishing—you know, the usual. But it was still, I would say, very, very, far away from being “rustic.” We had showers and actual toilets to use, and we were only about a 5 minute drive from the beach (and you better believe we were at the beach EVERY DAY). But that still counts, right?

Anyway, the point is, with this new book that’s out this month, “Outdoor Medical Emergency Handbook: First Aid for Travelers, Backpackers , Adventurers” by  Drs. Spike Briggs and Campbell Mackenzie, I’ll be prepared for whatever might befall me in my camping (or any other outdoor-centric) travels.

With its color-coded sections—flip to the green section to find out how to best prepare for outdoor travel, or to the orange one for all things emergency medical procedures related—it’s super easy to find what you need at a moment’s notice (which is, I suppose, exactly the type of situation where you’d need this book.)

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