Beach House Rules

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Sacramento/Norcal area, Folsom Lake is the 9th biggest lake in California and is really beautiful. You can enjoy the best of camping, with miles of hiking/biking trails, boating and loads of beach surrounded by calm, predator free water. You can visit Tahoe, Napa, Sonoma, Amador County (amazing wine), the redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada foothills, Mendocino/Fort Bragg and Yosemite all in less than 3 hours. Most of these are only 1.5-2.5 hours away, but Yosemite is closer to 3 hours.

Don’t forget to keep the screws in a safe place and take pictures so that you remember how everything was installed From there, it should easily slide off the top and bottom tracks If you have any electrical wired into the sections of the canvas, make note of that and keep that section in place while you patch rather than removing it Pick an easy patch to start with and spread that canvas out on your work space Follow the instructions on the package Cut the patches out and place them over the rips to make sure they fit properly Add glue around the outer edges of the patch Place the glue coated fabric over the rips in the canvas and smooth onto place : We waited 24 hours to reinstall ours just to be safe Finish the rest of the patches and let them dry Reinstall the fully patched canvas into your camper using your saved photos and screws I am HOPELESS when it comes to sewing and she actually rebuilt an entire edge for us using the patch fabric, heavy duty thread, a sewing machine and a leather needle.

We haunted Facebook Marketplace for months looking for a pop-up in decent condition for under $1K. We didn’t care about much, except that we didn’t want it to smell terrible and we wanted the structure to be in decent condition. The interior was in great condition, especially considering the age with no work required immediately. The bigger issue with this pop-up is that the canvas needs work…bad.

While we both LOVED our beach house, our lifestyle at Jax Beach and the cost of living, we realized that the distance posed a challenge with our families. Since I was pregnant at the time and sick as a dog, poor Nick was stuck with a lot of the legwork. PODS are a GREAT and stress free way to move Roof Bags are an amazing way to save space in a smaller vehicle Don’t overdo the driving too soon The first time we did our cross-country trip, we drove 16 hours on the first day and burnt out so badly that we had to rearrange all of our travel plans just to take a break.