{"id":5958,"date":"2004-06-23T10:33:57","date_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/23\/koa-vas-is-das-koa.html"},"modified":"2004-06-23T10:33:57","modified_gmt":"2004-06-23T17:33:57","slug":"koa_vas_is_das","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/23\/koa_vas_is_das.html","title":{"rendered":"KOA?  <i>Vas is das<\/i> KOA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s not (in our context) &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.koakampgrounds.com\/\">Kampgrounds of America<\/a>.&#8221;  Instead, it&#8217;s the annual <b>Kleerup Organized Activity<\/b>, the &#8220;camping trip&#8221; that we head off to California for every year.<\/p>\n<p>And Doyce, with the newcomer&#8217;s perspective, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.average-bear.com\/archive\/004381.html\">describes it better<\/a> than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/20\/gone_campin.html\">I<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/06\/25\/travelogue.html\">ever <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/02\/david_goes_to_c.html\">could<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My own pictures to follow anon.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/gallery\/koa2004\">Anon is now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s not (in our context) &#8220;Kampgrounds of America.&#8221; Instead, it&#8217;s the annual Kleerup Organized Activity, the &#8220;camping trip&#8221; that we head off to California for every year. And Doyce,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21365,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/29\/koa-2012-recap.html","url_meta":{"origin":5958,"position":0},"title":"KOA 2012 Recap","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jun-11 9:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So last weekend was our annual KOA \"Kleerup Organized Activity\" (vs Kampgrounds Of America) camp-out back in California. 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This year I've actually gotten my graphic act together (hmmm, not the best of phrasing) and put together some KOA 2009 swag at Zazzle -- buttons, t-shirts, aprons, mugs -- for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9528,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/14\/back_in_faerie.html","url_meta":{"origin":5958,"position":2},"title":"Back in Faerie","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 14-Jun-06 8:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Trip out to California last evening was generally uneventful. 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