Small me, in a small tent staked to a huge planet, rolling slowly through open space -- alone.

Everything that happens on a camping trip can be an adventure: Getting dressed inside your sleeping bag on a chilly morning. Rowing across the lake with Mom, exploring a dark cave with Dad. Discovering an abandoned cabin . . . meeting a moose . . . or simply sitting still under a tree, watching and listening. Pitching a tent in the woods is only the beginning!

Award-winning poet Kristine O'Connell George turns a flashlight beam on the moments that make up a family camping trip and records them...