Camping or Glamping?
If you use your own equipment, and not “renting”, but reside in a nice, self-contained unit.....is it camping or glamping? After listening to my wife read about “glamping”.....I discovered that...
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I started Camping when I was 20. I'm 57 now. Tent, sleeping bags with no air mattresses or even bag pads. A couple of coleman lanterns, a coleman fuel stove and a couple milk crates of stuff to cook and eat with shoved in a 1978 Camaro trunk if you remember how small those were. Tent camped until I was 49. Bought a used popup that we used for 3 years before it rotted out from the "repaired water leak" the previous owner told me about. Bought a new small TT that we used for 6 years.
Last fall I bought the toyhauler that I wanted for retirement camping a few years early along with a golf cart to match it. Yea, I got a 40" TV in it and a residential fridge. Yea, we are likely going to be spending a great percentage of our time in campgrounds with full hookups in or close to places we to be.
I've loaded a canoe with a friend and a couple dry bags and camped, canoed and portaged everything we brought along the South Fork River in Tn plenty of times so I've roughed it. Most of them 4 day or longer trips. I've had enough roots in my back, rocks under my arm that I used as a pillow for this lifetime. I earned that badge already. Was time to move on. If I had access to the money needed, I would changed a lot sooner to a "GLAMPER", lol.
Last fall I bought the toyhauler that I wanted for retirement camping a few years early along with a golf cart to match it. Yea, I got a 40" TV in it and a residential fridge. Yea, we are likely going to be spending a great percentage of our time in campgrounds with full hookups in or close to places we to be.
I've loaded a canoe with a friend and a couple dry bags and camped, canoed and portaged everything we brought along the South Fork River in Tn plenty of times so I've roughed it. Most of them 4 day or longer trips. I've had enough roots in my back, rocks under my arm that I used as a pillow for this lifetime. I earned that badge already. Was time to move on. If I had access to the money needed, I would changed a lot sooner to a "GLAMPER", lol.
