Newbies! Sometimes you've just gotta laugh!
OK, my wife has a friend (former work colleague) that is several states away. He put a post on Facebook just the other day that made us laugh so much, we though we'd wet our pants. He's never own...
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I guess sometimes we just have to accept that some people really don't know about "camping" and know even less about "glamping" that many of us enjoy. For many, it just seems impossible to spend a few thousand dollars for a week of living in a tiny bit of luxury, but there is ways to soften the blow.
A lot of the enjoyment of camping for me is the constant fixing, repairing, rebuilding that has gone on over the many years of camping. Our first truck camper was only $1200, and I worked my magic into it to her delight. Likely many of our best times were in that old rig. Once we started moving up in value, problems were just more difficult, and more costly. Fortunately, cost wasn't a break point and we managed to move onward and upward.
Certainly, when you own something that isn't worth a bundle, you can enjoy a wide range of camp spots many won't go to. It's about the places you camp, and the people you meet, not about what you have in your rig.
We enjoyed a VW van early in life, tent trailers, even a mattress in the back of a pick up truck canopy. Now, if we have to go down a dirt road we both wonder why, it's a lot of cleaning afterward. Maybe we are missing the point.
A lot of the enjoyment of camping for me is the constant fixing, repairing, rebuilding that has gone on over the many years of camping. Our first truck camper was only $1200, and I worked my magic into it to her delight. Likely many of our best times were in that old rig. Once we started moving up in value, problems were just more difficult, and more costly. Fortunately, cost wasn't a break point and we managed to move onward and upward.
Certainly, when you own something that isn't worth a bundle, you can enjoy a wide range of camp spots many won't go to. It's about the places you camp, and the people you meet, not about what you have in your rig.
We enjoyed a VW van early in life, tent trailers, even a mattress in the back of a pick up truck canopy. Now, if we have to go down a dirt road we both wonder why, it's a lot of cleaning afterward. Maybe we are missing the point.
