It just feels wrong
We went camping last week testing out the new solar, inverter and the toys they will run. We were talking about them when Honey gets excited and starts digging through a storage that hasn't seen light...
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I used to be a real "roughing it" camper, using only a tent, a sleeping bag, a backpack of dried foods, bottled water, a few matches, a snake bite kit, and not much else but after getting the OFF-ROAD POPUP with all the modern appliances available to us I have slowly got away from candles and flashlights.
It was surprising how long we could camp way back in the woods with a bag full of D-CELLS for the flashlights and portable fans etc and some white gas for the portable Coleman stove. The high lite of the evening was firing up the one very bright camp gas lights hanging on the provided U hook for a few hours...
The nite lights would be a couple of the old style lanterns turned down very low hanging on opposite ends of the tent site so they would cast a shadow on the tent wall from the inside of any thing wandering thru the camp site.
Entertainment was listening to the radio for a couple of hours running on D-CELLS. The best entertainment was listening the night sounds.
We used to sleep in sleeping bags on the tent floor but did finally start using the fold-out camp beds that had pouches for air mattresses in the 70s...
Now we are lit up like Saturday night in Gatlinburg TN on the strip there until lights out around 10PM each night. Even run our lighted lamp post way back in the woods.
Then at 8AM the next morning all you hear is generators running up and down the camp ground roads re-charging their battery banks. Takes me the usual three hours of generator run time to get my 50% depleted 255AHs batteries back up to their 90% charge state so we can do all of this all over again for the next day/night run off the batteries.
I guess you end following the old rule if you don't use it you will lose it hehe...
Roy Ken
It was surprising how long we could camp way back in the woods with a bag full of D-CELLS for the flashlights and portable fans etc and some white gas for the portable Coleman stove. The high lite of the evening was firing up the one very bright camp gas lights hanging on the provided U hook for a few hours...
The nite lights would be a couple of the old style lanterns turned down very low hanging on opposite ends of the tent site so they would cast a shadow on the tent wall from the inside of any thing wandering thru the camp site.
Entertainment was listening to the radio for a couple of hours running on D-CELLS. The best entertainment was listening the night sounds.
We used to sleep in sleeping bags on the tent floor but did finally start using the fold-out camp beds that had pouches for air mattresses in the 70s...
Now we are lit up like Saturday night in Gatlinburg TN on the strip there until lights out around 10PM each night. Even run our lighted lamp post way back in the woods.
Then at 8AM the next morning all you hear is generators running up and down the camp ground roads re-charging their battery banks. Takes me the usual three hours of generator run time to get my 50% depleted 255AHs batteries back up to their 90% charge state so we can do all of this all over again for the next day/night run off the batteries.
I guess you end following the old rule if you don't use it you will lose it hehe...
Roy Ken
