Our Camping History 1963 to 1975
What is it that propels us to travel and camp? Is it something that resides in our itchy bones or is it something instilled by early experience? Maybe some of both, I don't know. My wife has the sa...
Forum Discussion
I frequently try to conceptualize recent history by comparing the passage of time in my own life to spans going back a hundred, hundred-and-fifty, or two hundred years. The technology we take for granted, the advantages we have over Lewis and Clark or Sitting Bull or even Libby Custer, is not all that old. Some of the luxuries we camp with (lead-acid batteries; refrigeration; as examples) have historical roots going back less than 150 years. Multiply our life experiences by two or three and we can almost transport ourselves back to Lewis and Clark or Sitting Bull. What our minds tend to dismiss as ancient history (on account of being before a time that we can personaly remember) is not so very long ago.
