Back when camping was camping

tatest wrote:
Camping is still camping, If you choose to do it. When I take my RV out to the campground, I'll sometimes choose a place when I am surrounded by campers. Sometimes I'll take my tent and kitchen. Sometimes I'll take the kitchen box, a low cot, and sleeping bag. Still have, and use, the camping equipment I bought 40 years ago.

I don't see RVing, another thing I do as a road trip convenience, as camping, but someone wants to call it camping, that's OK too.

But if you want to really camp, where I am, there's not much to keep you from doing it, hundreds of campgrounds, a long season if you can tolerate the heat and are not afraid to see wildlife.

But if you want to backpack, camp outside a campground in a wilderness area, we don't have much of that. that works better where you have forests.

In the true sense of the word, camping is setting up a tent or other rude means of shelter and living off the land, so to speak. We started out doing that and "roughed it" for quite a few years before moving up thru the TT, 5th wheelers, and eventually motorhomes. However, we are perhaps "old school" in the use of the term camping because that is what we choose to call it from the begining. Perhaps, deep down inside, the old way of "camping" is still a "bucket list" and all the memories of the past never go away, and I for one am that way. I will still take our 40ft. gas-guzzler and go on a camping trip, sit by the fire, cook on a coleman stove, etc., then retire at night into my "tent" and just remember all the trips we took years ago-going camping.
Happy trails