The Camping Conspiracy

[koan]

Is it just me or does society promote the camping experience as a good thing to affect our self esteem and good will towards each other?

If you sincerely enjoy camping tell me why and where, lest I stick to my conspiracy theory. (and Lord knows we don't need another of those)

[Uncle Kram]

A guy I worked with asked me if I'd ever tell anyone if I woke up with a used condom hanging out of my arse. I said I'd keep quiet about it.
Then he asked me if I'd like to go camping. Does this help?

[venus]

Originally Posted by Uncle Kram

A guy I worked with asked me if I'd ever tell anyone if I woke up with a used condom hanging out of my arse. I said I'd keep quiet about it.
Then he asked me if I'd like to go camping. Does this help?

ok now there is a mental picture that will scare me for life!!!!!

[koan]

It seems that most people claim to loooooove camping. I'm with the Deliverance point of view . Your experience does sadly not surprise me, Uncle K.

[Marie5656]

I would go camping...so long as I had a cabin. Oh yeah, and plumbing, and electricity..and a laptop. So yes, I would go camping.

[BabyRider]

Camping with the proper gear is a BLAST.
By proper gear I mean at the minimum, the following things:
Air mattress
Bug spray
a good knife
Comfortable shoes
Hiking boots
a good campsite

When I went camping in the Porcuine mountains in Michigans U.P., we had one of the most rustic sites there. Basically, a piece of the ground had been leveled out so your tent could be pitched with relative straightness.
We were about 10 yards from the river, where I washed my hair every day, and were surrounded by hundreds upon hundreds of acres of woods with some rough trails cut in to tromp through. We had a cooler full of food to last a week, and enough firewood to cook and keep us warm at night. We saw "Lake of the Clouds" named so because it is such a still and mirror-like lake that it looks just like the sky when viewed from the lookout about 500 feet above it.
There was no one else at our site, although it could accomodate a total of 4 tents, so we had the place all to ourselves. We spread out with our lounge chairs, an overhead tarp to provide shade, beach blankets drying in the trees nearby, a good set of camping cookware, even a coffee percolator that you set right in the coals of the fire.
It was one of the best, most relaxing vacations I've ever had.

[venus]

we used to go camping alot as a child..

one year we arrived at the allocated place for our tents, it was a family occasion and it was dark so we just pitched and thought about getting a better position hte next morning.

We were all awokeen at about 5;30 the next morning by my mothers terrified screams...

we had by accident camped in a farmers field and it has cows in it, one of which had entered my mum and dads tent and was happily licking my mums feet.....

we kids could do nothing for laughing my dad couldnt either....well it was only a cow...not a raging bull..

[koan]

The Feng Shui of the site was decidedly lacking the water element. My daughter claimed it was "in the plummage" (plumbing servicing the sites) I had trouble finding that to be a source of comfort.

A river might have helped. The half way thing of supposedly "roughing it" while hooked up to hydro and "plummage" was not rewarding.

I enjoy it as it allows you to cut off from all the normal everyday life stuff, and personally, I love being out in 'nature'!
A few days of waking up / going to sleep with no clock to live by, listening to nothing but birdsong and cooking over a beautiful blazing fire just does it for me.

[valerie]

Originally Posted by Jives

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