My wife and I camp a couple times a month, year round. WE live in AZ so it's easier to enjoy it year round. We like the freedom it offers us coupled with our Land Cruiser. Pack and go, drive to the next good spot. I would say, without goin gonzo with the equipment, is to have a good air matress to insulate you from the ground, and a 12v quick pump. Open up the vents all the way, and enjoy the oper air.
Gator, read this one again...air matress essential, 12v quick pump imperative! (ummm, of course some of us have enough hot air to fill a balloon)
J
I've really enjoyed all your responses, by the way. Gator
Glad we could each, in our own way, provide you with "sound" advice. A few years back I wrote a poem about camping. If I can find it, would you like me to share it with you?
J
Yep, GO FOR IT !!!
Why are you NOT in the poetry group!!!
Phil.
Tent, only way to do it unless you chose to just sleep out under the stars. We always tent and have a full view of the heavens as we lie there. Can't do that with a trailer or a pop up! We do use an inflatable air mattress though so we don't have to worry about sticks and debris... Steve
Lol, I love to tent camp, but having never experienced camper/pop-up, etc...don't know if I'm missing anything. I think my ultimate camping week would be 5 nights in a tent followed by 2 nights at a luxury hotel.
Jenn
All I can remember is that you must NOT touch the inside of the tent if it's raining, cos it'll drip on your head all night :) .......Oh, and you need a soap on a rope!
I think my ultimate camping week (and don't forget I'm in the UK, so summer is but a distant memory) would be 7 nights and involve some big sheets to make the tent from, a fondue set and a four poster water bed, ......IN a luxury hotel. ......Oh! ......and a pretty naked girl, ............to make the breakfast of course!
Phil.
I have to agree with you here Phil. A luxury hotel for me too After having surgery on my left shoulder, both elbows and on my neck, there is no way I would even try to camp. AND, if my new girlfriend is there naked with me, NO ONE is cooking !!!!! It's called ROOM SERVICE !!!!! LOL
Steve
Steve, this is getting scary, you are agreeing waaaaay too often with Phil! That's like the fifth time in two nights...
J
OH WOW J, you are right. Maybe I need to sign up for therapy!!!!!!!!!!!! ~bangs head against wall~
Steve
Wow Steve !!! ......you didn't tell me you were, BIONIC!!! .....you'd better make sure it's a hotel from now on, don't want you going RUSTY!
and make it a Luxury Hotel, they have softer walls!
Phil.
Hmmm, maybe Steve should check in to a "hotel" with padded walls?
J
Stop picking on my mate! .....he hasn't long been LET OUT!
Phil.
I have tent camped a few times in my adult life but my back refused to try it again so I purchased a pop-up camper, later I traded it for a hard shell. If I had my choice I would purchase a pop-up again, my wife on the other hand wants a 35-40 foot fifth wheel with satellite tv , microwave, fireplace and a toilet and shower, heck might as well stay home I got all that here.
hehe, what can you say, .......that's what wives do! ........no sence of adventure! ....hehe
I have tent camped a few times in my adult life but my back refused to try it again so I purchased a pop-up camper, later I traded it for a hard shell. If I had my choice I would purchase a pop-up again, my wife on the other hand wants a 35-40 foot fifth wheel with satellite tv , microwave, fireplace and a toilet and shower, heck might as well stay home I got all that here.
hehe, what can you say, .......that's what wives do! ........no sence of adventure! ....hehe
The best camping trip I was ever on required a tent. I hiked a couple of miles up a mountain and camped there. That meant limiting what you carried, good thing I have manual pump for air mattress. The view of the sun coming up over the mountain was fantastic.
Thomas
I've really enjoyed all your responses, by the way.Gator
Glad we could each, in our own way, provide you with "sound" advice. A few years back I wrote a poem about camping. If I can find it, would you like me to share it with you?
J
Sure. Sounds like fun.
My wife and I camp a couple times a month, year round. WE live in AZ so it's easier to enjoy it year round. We like the freedom it offers us
Gator, read this one again...air matress essential, 12v quick pump imperative! (ummm, of course some of us have enough hot air to fill a balloon)
J
The air mattress and pump are already packed and ready to go tomorrow afternoon!
I've been camping since I was 6 months old and I've done it every way you can possibly imagine from walking into the woods and finding a nice tree to lay under to sleeping in a 40 foot RV. I've got a garage full of every imaginable piece of camping paraphernalia. After a few years in the military sleeping with my head in the mud and a car accident that made a mess of my back I'm definitely all for the Rvs with heat and a comfy bed. Sleeping on the ground in a tent is near total torture for me at this point and takes a good couple hours for me to get up and moving in the morning.
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