camping

Growing up we went "camping" quite a bit every summer. It was always in a big camper with electric, heat, hot water, a full bathroom, refrigerator, stove, microwave a/c and a television! The camper I have now is a 26' foot long 1979 pop-up. All it has besides the beds and table is a sink and two little lights. I have camped out with nothing before though. Once when I was 12 and with 4 of my cousins. The five of us hiked up into the woods behind their house to find the tent the had set up back there. We never found it before dark and couldn't get a fire lit because everything was damp by the time we gave up looking. It was also too dark to find our way back to the house so we threw our blankets down on the ground and huddled together, all five of us under the one remaining blanket! Another time I spent a weekend at a dirt car racing track. We didn't have a tent then either but at least we had the trailer and plastic tarps the first night. The second night we couldn't use the trailer so we duct taped the tarps to the hood of the truck and then to the fence we were parked in front of to make a tent. That actually worked out really well because the truck was still warm and so we had the heat from that to stay warm. We also had an outhouse to use that weekend. I would actually love to "rough it" more often. It's so peaceful and satisfying and in my mind the perfect way to get away from this crazy world.

I love to go camping with just an old tent a sleeping bag and some food. My boyfriend and i go as often as possible in the summer.We also take advantage of fishing brook trout and just enjoying each others company There aren`t many people who do that here now adays. They mostly run to bars or just go their seperate ways on the weekends. Thats not for me,i just love the smell of the outdoors in the country early in the morning.Everything smells so clean and fresh.And besides you feel so much better. Maby everybody should give it a try at least just once,then they would know what they are missing. Enjoy your camping as much as i do! dusty6

I went camping last year for the first time in years and years. It was the whole works - sleeping in a tent, carrying all my equipment, camping in the hills. Really, really hard but I did quite enjoy it. It's certainly a good way to get away from it all. In fact I'm doing it again in a couple of months time.

I haven't been camping in awhile, and I really miss it. I actually lived like that for awhile, no tv or radio or anything electronic at all, not even newspapers. There's just something magical opening a can of baked beans and heating them up over a campfire, and washing dishes in a little stream, and then just sitting at the campfire and listening to the night around you, or when the fire goes down, looking up and seeing all the stars. Sleeping in a tent is good I guess if there are alot of bugs, or if it's really damp out. But I love being able to fall asleep looking up at the stars. I always thought it was so strange when I'd see people go "camping" with their houses on wheels, with all the modern conveniences inside, and then set up camp somewhere, and drag their tv's outside to watch. Or got out their boomboxes and turned up their music really loud and got drunk. Indeed, people are strange.

I used to go camping, but it's been years. We always used a tent and sleeping bags. My husband and I have been talking about going for years and just never get around to it.

i would love to go camping but i don't go often

I love camping but I have to have some sort of running water/clean water and at least a porta potty (though a bathroom is better)...I would have no problem roughing it hardcore (minus the not having clean water) if its just me, but with two kids camping like that just isnt happening LOL...But we love tenting (and I actually prefer to sleep outside rather than in the tent), I lvoe to cook on the campfire and flashlights are fine for lighting etc..its just the kids poopin outside in a hole and the not having clean water for cooking with, doin dishes, drinkin etc that I cant do..*have you noticed the whole "clean water" is a big thing with me?* I'm cool with campsites though....I mean if you find the right site and get a spot away from the favourite areas as well as go during the week rather than the weekend its still very relaxing, peaceful and quite

I go camping both in the mountians and at camp grounds. I don't think that there is anything really fake about using a camp ground to go camping. I still have to set a fire, sleep in a tent and pee in the woods. Normally when I go camping I go fishing too. So the outside of the little food I've brought with me I eat mostly the fish caught while out on the lake. I don't bring a radio or anything like that.

i like camping and many people look at me adn think are you crazy you are so girly you need a toilet etc but i dont i CAN survive without tv electricity running water bathrooms etc but i do perfer a state park with campistes only for the purpose that there is more for my children to do rather than being in a forest where you find your own spot and they have nothing to keep them busy i perfer them to have trails for riding their bikes , water for swimming fishing (that you dont have to hop in your car to drive to ) what would be the point of that so yes i REALLY camp , the whole roast marshmallows, sitting by the fire all night sleeping in a tent popping a squat outside to pee i guess everyone thinks of camping in a dif way but our ways arent much different we jsut like a dif kind of location. either way my kids have a blast and thats all that matters to me

if the is electricity i will

oh yeah, that's the only way to go. although i do have to have an air mattress now. the old bones just can't take the dampness anymore. lol. sometimes when it is really hot outside, the wife and i will sleep out on the front patio under the stars. we have a small fireplace built in to a stone wall. there is this one spot that we all like to go. it is a i.7 mile hike up a mountain (in the adirondacks) to a beautiful crystal clear lake at the top. it is so serene. there are usually a lot of people there, but it is so big and so woodsy that you can find a nice quiet spot. i may have some photos. i'll have to look around. nice topic.

i love real camping i do it as much as possible,i have a cub pack that gives me more chance to do it

I tried capming when I was in grade school. I really enjoy doing it, during the camp fire and games and songs and the discipline of course. I learn a lot from camping how to utilize things around you.

if i remember correctly,the last time i went camping was when i turned 13!woahh..that's aeons ago!!!

Oh yes I love going camping, at an isolated beach,. I hate the crowds and camping grounds. We just 4WD in and pitch the tent, then we will stay there for however long we want to.

Hello! I was an expert at primitive camping when I was a Girl Scout many, many, many years ago. It is absolutely the best camping there is! I don't do it anymore, for environmental reasons. There's just too many people in the woods now for it to be OK to use streams for washing dishes, etc., plus I can't think of a body of water anywhere on the East Coast of the U.S.A. I'd be willing to drink from. You can't boil away (or treat with a tablet) PCBs, heavy metals, and other chemicals that are present just about anywhere in my area. Too many latrine pits in the same area can harm the local ecosystem, too. So we go to the state parks, no electric, a propane stove for small cooking tasks and the fire for the rest. We were homeless a couple of years ago, stayed in a campsite through 3 hurricanes and a tropical storm. The second hurricane leveled our White Stag warm weather tent, now we have a lovely 10x14 3-season model, with an amazing thing called the GoBeDry System. That's a design feature that brings the waterproof floor about 4 inches up the sidewalls, making flowing water a lot less likely to breach the walls. LOL... I think I'll make a discussion about how Hurricane Ivan killed my tent. Thanks for the inspiration!

I do the traditional camp thing, and I love it. The only convenience that I do use that was on your list is a light. I take a latern because you never know when you may need to make a late night trip when the fire is out. It's nice to get away from the hustle and bustle of life. It makes me wish I were back in the old days, when people lived off the land and didn't have all the calamities that we face today.

Actually, I camp with my Boy Scout troop. It is fun and I really enjoy it. But now that I am an older scout, the little kids annoy me. But, anyways thats beside the point. One common misconception is that true camping means you get your water from a stream. NEVER DO THIS unless you have those little sanitizer tabs or a special filter. We bring our own 5 gallon jugs We do use lights and tents and we are usually in a campground.