Thanks for all of the interesting comments! Now I want to go more then ever. Will take all of this into consideration--but the DW is not totally sold. She just said that "Gettysburg has been there for hundreds of years so it should still be there in a few years when the boys are older." Now you see what I have to overcome to get a little Civil War action into our family camping itinerary:)
Our philosophy about camping with kids goes something like this--
We don't totally focus on entertaining our kids while traveling and we don't totally focus on entertaining ourselves. We really try to find activities (such as hiking, canoeing etc..) that we can all enjoy together. After 100 days in our RV over the last four years this formula has worked pretty well.
Our family travel blog is all about enjoying travel with kids, but sometimes we do end up torturing ourselves or torturing them! A few of you stumbled onto our blog through this thread! Thanks for the nice comments.
Best--Jeremy