RV park "camping"
Is there anyone who actually camps any more? As a youth camping meant loading up the '55 Ford pickup with tents and sleeping bags, the old Coleman ice box and stove and heading for the forest. When d...
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I am going off topic a bit but I do two kinds of tent camping, I do low impact wilderness canoeing (with rather short portages these days). :) I also do the other extreme which is voyageur reenactment from 1730's period, with replica tents, canoes and camp gear.
And yes rain can be a pain. However, we still do what we do when it is not raining; only we get wet. :)
Back on topic, as mentioned, the quest for convenience does not stop with tents, PUP, and such. However, one of the marks of a seasoned camper is over time, they leave at home things they formally could not live without.
So to some of the TT folks. While we started with full hook ups with cable TV, we migrated pretty quickly to electric only. We will even boonedocked for a day of two when it was necessary to visit more remote spots.
Except for those who like the nostalgia of Coleman lanterns, pumping up white gas cook stoves and steel Pepsi coolers. Many of the folk in the primitive campsite have switched to LED lanterns and lights, small propane bottle stoves and high efficiency Yeti coolers.
Progress is hard to define.
And yes rain can be a pain. However, we still do what we do when it is not raining; only we get wet. :)
Back on topic, as mentioned, the quest for convenience does not stop with tents, PUP, and such. However, one of the marks of a seasoned camper is over time, they leave at home things they formally could not live without.
So to some of the TT folks. While we started with full hook ups with cable TV, we migrated pretty quickly to electric only. We will even boonedocked for a day of two when it was necessary to visit more remote spots.
Except for those who like the nostalgia of Coleman lanterns, pumping up white gas cook stoves and steel Pepsi coolers. Many of the folk in the primitive campsite have switched to LED lanterns and lights, small propane bottle stoves and high efficiency Yeti coolers.
Progress is hard to define.
