Lucas Camilo

The dino family RV is back! But this time the destination (and nicknames) don’t have anything to do with dinosaurs. Allow Lucas to explain:

i am leaving reef town in less than a week

we are going to the redwoods.

in an Rv the same one as last summer

we are going to see our friends daniella, & gabe & rafi

& layla.

i am excited about the realy big trees

i bet ripple will miss his 499 or shoughd i say 498

beacause 66 is lost & gone.

Hmmm… that probably didn’t make that much sense after all. You see, last year when we traveled to Canada and Montana in a wheelchair-accessible RV Lucas was still completely obsessed with dinosaurs. So we all gave ourselves dinosaur names and made dinosaur road trip shirts. 10 months later he’s moved on from his obsession with Dinosaur Train the TV show and has a new favorite: another PBS kids show called Splash and Bubbles. So now we’re all characters from that show — Splash (Lucas), Bubbles (Ida), Dunk (Krista) and Ripple (Burke) — and Lucas is pretty militant about us only calling each other these names. In fact he’s been insisting that everyone at school call him Splash too. All these characters live in a section of the ocean called Reef Town and sing somewhat annoying songs like “Reeftown Rangers” and “Rhythm of the Reef.” My character Ripple is a sea horse who has 499 brothers, one of whom (#66) is always missing. I hope that helps you decipher Lucas’s blog post!

Anyway, we’re heading out on Friday and will make it as far south as Leggett, California, in the heart of the redwoods. Some friends from the Bay Area are coming up to meet us and hang out, which should be a blast. And Lucas will be blogging (just like last summer) so look out for some updates over the weekend and all next week!