Camping..........Really

[Javi]

I still have and use my camping gear including sleeping bag and tent, most of the hunting I do it is required...

but it is nice to use the trailer when the DW tags along... in fact the trailer is a prerequisite if the wife is going.. she tried the tent thingy 39 years ago, for one night in the Colorado mountains above timberline and has never slept in one since...

[f6bits]

We call it "Vacation."

Years ago, imagine my dismay when I wandered into a Camping World looking for camping supplies.

[JRTJH]

When we were first married, we tent camped through Europe. I well remember sleeping under the stars beneath the grapes in an Italian vinyard eating cheese and drinking wine straight from the cask. Sounds romantic, and it was, to an extent, but there were millions of bees "camping" there also. So not only was it romantic, it was stinging as well. Later, when camping on a hill outside Rome, we sat overlooking the city as the sunset behind it, painting an orange glow over that ancient city. Amsterdam, Paris, Colonge, Trier, Munich, they were all wonderful. The Swiss Alps, however, were remembered much like the Italian vinyard. We went to sleep beside a mountain stream, lulled asleep by the babbling brook, but woke up to our tent hitting us in the face as it sagged under the heavy load of that freak summer snow storm.....

So, like so many others, we started in a tent, but like the refrigerator evolved from an ice box to a compressor on top box to a two door to a side by side to a frost free french door design that makes its own ice and delivers it when you hold out your glass, our camping has evolved as well. I do enjoy waking up, getting out of bed in my "sleeping suit" and walking to the bathroom without having to put on socks, shoes, pants, jacket and gloves just to rekindle the fire before my morning journey to find a quiet tree.......

[Kristi]

Originally Posted by Ron

I get a kick out of telling someone we are going camping, ya right camping for us older folks years ago was taking a tent, sleeping bags, and cooking over an open fire, so what should we really call what we do with these luxury homes on wheels? any thougts?

After years of hauling tents & supplies for 5 kids into camp each weekend, I'm gonna call this heaven,

[chartrand]

After years of tent camping, I still call camping. The dictionary defines camping as:

A place where a group of persons or an individual is lodged in a ten or other temporary means of shelter.

Any temporary structure, as a tent or cabin, used on an outing or vacation.

So by the very definition, what I do is still called camping.

Oh course it's not much different than the idea of using a Pole, Bobber, Hook and a worm is called fishing, but so is a using one of those big and honken net's off the side of a dingy.

[curlyfungirl]

Originally Posted by ExTowerClimber

My brother gives us grief about our "condo" on wheels while telling us it's not real camping unless you are sleeping under canvas like they do in their popup. If I want to sleep under canvas, I'll take a nap in the folding recliner under the awning.

But they go places to stay in a luxury hotel, we just hook up the M.V.H. (Mobile Vacation Home) and go. There is something to be said about sleeping in your own bed with all the comforts of home and a campfire.

You are definately sure to know how clean your sheets are and will most probably not bring home any bed bugs!!

[Jca3]

Ya the "purists" tell us we aren't camping. Hey we did our time in tents when we were young and broke. Of course people we know that don't think we are camping don't go out because they don't like roughing it any more than we do. We get to look at the lake or the ocean out the back of our rig when all they do is stay home.
My husband says we stay in places where rich people spend millions of dollars on their second homes, but if they don't like the neighbors they are stuck with em, we just pack up and move.

[chris199]

Our oldest daughter joined us "camping" and said....."This isn't camping...it's excerting! (sp?)"


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[Lost]

Originally Posted by chris199

Our oldest daughter joined us "camping" and said....."This isn't camping...it's excerting! (sp?)"


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Our daughter said pretty much the same thing. Then I explained to her that "were roughing it ... I have to climb 3 steps to get a beer".

[Ron]

Originally Posted by Lost

Our daughter said pretty much the same thing. Then I explained to her that "were roughing it ... I have to climb 3 steps to get a beer".

Not only you have to climb steps to get a cold one but you have to reach into the refrigerator to get ice for your favorite beverage, that just ain't right you know...

[hankpage]

Ron, My DW installed an ice dispenser in our Cougar ..... it's called ME. Now that's not right.

[Dhuhn]

Don't forget you have to climb back down the stairs to get back to your chair

[Ron]

Hank and Dhuhn, that s**t definetly aint right. Thank god my DW does not require ice with her beverage so I got to fetch it for myself, not got her trained yet, and the step thingy, just fall out the door into your favorite chair, alot faster that way so you can start enjoying that beverage sooner

[michael]

I have learned to resort to my colman cooler with my ice and beverages right next to my chair. Those stairs seem so far away when your having fun. lol

[CUFFS054]

Ha! When I announced to my older Bro (the 'perfect' child) that I was buying a camping trailer he retorted with "Tom you realize those things don't even have ice makers in them" Like I'm some sort of a delicate flower! I showed his butt, after I had the dishwasher and w/d installed I delibertly didn't buy a portable ice maker. The nerve of some people!

[crash]

A coleman and one of those new fangled Ice machines you go to and pay $1.50 to $2.00 to fill your cooler up ,Now thats better than buying them bags of ice.Just my 2 cents

[davidjsimons]

I have a nice home and I am comfortable at home. No sense in leaving home and not being comfortable. That's kind of like running out of fuel with money in your pocket.


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[TandE]

Originally Posted by davidjsimons

I have a nice home and I am comfortable at home. No sense in leaving home and not being comfortable. That's kind of like running out of fuel with money in your pocket.


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X2!!! That's how I feel now.