These 'small' things make camping so much more pleasant...not only for her...but for you too. You won't have to hear her COMPLAINTS in the middle of the night.
LoL, thanks- were going to go looking around at camping world tomorrow for one of those and a little privacy tent. I think the tent will be comfy enough that we won't go into "RV withdrawl" The wife and I have our queen size airmattress and a heated mattress pad, the kids each have an air matress and heated blankets. I bought a small refrigerator and will bring a small microwave and portable dvd player along. The tents is a 16x18 3 room wenzel titan.
I'm guessing at some point we will upgrade, but I think it will be with a "small" easy to tow pup- without the hardwalls our last pup had. I wanna be able to hear them crickets and feel like I'm outdoors again!
89 malibu cobra. Old and crusty, but ton's of fun!
With the size of tents you can get along with gear you can buy tent camping can have great set ups. I don't remember seeing anything like that when we tented camped either that or I was not shopping in the right places. The outdoor kitchens, blow up furniture, beds, all kinds of great things. Friends of ours have the whole set up. They are very comfy. I enjoy listening to the outdoors while I am sleeping, that is one of the best part of camping. I hope you enjoy everything that has brought you back.
I moto-camp two weekends a year to get away from it all, and them!
We're thinking of selling the 'bago and getting a truck/hybrid trailer as a replacement, but may tent camp for a while between selling the old, and before buying the new.
I've said it before and i'll say it again. We see all types of people and all types of camping equipment. I've never noticed anyone having more or less fun based upon the stuff they were using. Unless it's raining!!!
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt and moved on board my sailboat. Cheapest form of camping that exists, if you don't mind climbing the mast every now and then.
Started with a tent, bought a tt and virtually GAVE it away to buy a popup.....I love my popup but now the cable is broke....I just bought a class c for short, local trips but will take my tent on the old logging roads we have around here....I LOVE my tent!
I don't WANT the "comforts" of home when I'm in the middle of the woods....
I don't WANT the "comforts" of home when I'm in the middle of the woods....
Sometimes I do WANT the "comforts" of home. That's when I bring the TT. But, sometimes I don't. And that's when I take the tent, cot, pad, sleeping bag, pillow, lantern & ice chest. For entertainment I keep a portable dvd player in the truck, an iPod, and I always have a book (or three) laying around somewhere that's unfinished.
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93 DD
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06 F150 Screw 6.5' Bed, 4x4, 5.4, 3.73
04 Tahoe 23RB-GL Honda EU2000 Parallel Cables "I hope you like Guinness, Sir. I find it a refreshing substitute for...food." Col. Jack O'Neill, Stargate SG-1.
With gas prices, any trip over a hundred miles is liable to be a tent trip. We are 71 and still tent camp, sometimes with cots and sometimes without. I prefer to take my teardrop trailer, but long trips get spendy.
A few years ago I set out to put a comfortable tent camping setup together that would fit into a small coupe. It is a challenge, but it can be a LOT of fun, and that 30 mpg is sure nice.
Ahhhhh...it's summer. Time to pitch the ole little backpacking tent!
When it's raining and cold and damp, the RV is nice. (Although, Good Gosh, I clean more in that dang thing than I do at home!). In about 4 feet of snow in Yellowstone? I like snowcamping, but even I have to admit that the RV was an upgrade.
But when the weather is above 45 and sunny? Who wants to sleep INSIDE in a BED?
Not me!
Give me crickets and frogs so loud that I can barely sleep! Give me sleeping under the stars! Give me waking up to the silhouette of a moose on my tent wall. Give me waking up to a bear cub sniffing my sleeping bag, with his Ma about 10 feet away...oh wait, I don't know that I need to experience THAT again!
But yeah, Mike, I'm with you!
Dh, our 2 year old German Shepherd, 15 yr old Beagle/Spaniel and me.
Exploring every National Park (and Monument) in USA, Canada, Mexico & beyond.
3 well-used backpacking tents.
2008 Itasca Impulse, 24'
I started out backpacking. Quite awhile ago I became too old to carry that much weight so when I got the yen to camp again I got a slide-in truck camper. My God, that's like a Hilton in the woods.
But next week my son and I are taking off on our motorcycles to tent camp through Maine and New Brunswick. It's going to be interesting to see how these old bones cope with sleeping on a 2" thick Therm-a-rest resting directly on the cold, hard ground.
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