I’ll go ahead and put a warning out there… We have always lovingly referred to our own family as the “Hinkles”… Yes, that’s right. We were the peopled that watched “The Beverly Hillbillies” and said, “Wait a second! We’ve driven across country with a wooden rocking chair strapped to the trailer… What’s wrong with that??!” So needless to say, family vacations can sometime have a flair of the unexpected, and even trashy at times… As my sister would say, “that’s just how we roll”… :)
Carolyn found a little bunny friend in the trailer park! :)
Lago di Garda (Garda Lake)… With the Italian Alps in the background!
So when my Aunt Laura suggested that we stay in a motor home instead of a hotel during our two nights in northern Italy, we all just had to laugh… It was just too typical. :) Little did we know that we’d go ALL the way with the “trailer park” jokes… And I mean all the way, as in my mom fired up Spam for breakfast. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s not like it hasn’t happened before… In fact my brother was thoroughly excited to wake up to the smell wafting through the motor home… It’s just 
But we quite enjoyed ourselves! When we got back from Verona, we packed our cooler full of beer (in plastic bottles none the less) and headed to the beach of Lago di Garda (Lake Garda)… We had a great afternoon baking in the sun (something that hasn’t been possible in Germany so far this summer because it’s been so darn cold!), swimming in the lake, and watching the rather scantily clad men strut around! :) And later that evening we retired for a true all-American dinner of beans n’ franks… (I told you we were the Hinkles… Haha)
Sisters on the beach!
Gorgeous sunset on Lago di Garda!
Carolyn was quite surprised by some of the tiny swimsuits walking around… Haha
And of course there were lots of other shenanigans along the way as we attempted to live up to our red-neck roots… :)
My mom and I are too cool… Haha
With Love from “a trailer park in northern Italy”… :) Mary Elizabeth
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