Stuff to do while camping.

GaryWT wrote:
Our last vacaton, my wife wanted to be bored, she needed rest and got it. We have camped for years with the kids, with friends, with family. We have had great and not so great trips with all. Last year when the toungest went off to college we started camping the 2 of us, my wifes response, that was a mistake because now I don't like camping with everyone else.

We love to camp alone, just the 2 of us, on our schedule. We get up in the morning, 8, 9 or whenever. Sit out and have coffee, when ready we have breakfast, something easy, grill muffin etc. Then we dscide what to do, she is reading her boo, I am on the ipad looking at camping sites. We will walk the campground looking at trailers, take a ride to site see or take a hike, we will visit other campgrounds in the area and drive through to take a look, will stp to eat sometimes. Back at camp we will plan meals, cook apple pie over the fire, take a nap, play cards or dominoes (we have had domino games last 8-10 hours). If we are near the beach we might go for a day. Sometimes we will camp near something like friends or family to visit or maybe a fair so we can spend the day there. An oh ya, what about the fires, sit all day, night or whenever by the fire talking. We are not into hunting or fishing or anything like that but we find plenty of other things to keep us busy. Good luck.

Same approach that my wife and I take now that we camp alone, as the kids are in college. We really like autumn camping, and we avoid weekends so that we generally have most state parks, etc. nearly to ourselves. No hurry, no schedule. We do what looks interesting at the time. Lots of reading, board games, fires, and cooking. Some fishing. hiking and sightseeng too. Nice to know others think similarly.