Camping? When did you start.
When you were introduced to the camping lifestyle, was that first experience in your back yard, a KOA type park, Other types of private camps, or State, Federal or Local facilities. When we as a fami...
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My first experience was camping in a family friend's trailer when my family was visiting the Seattle World's Fair back in 196????? Then Dad designed and built a big wooden box on wheels with a tent topper (Sears sewed the canvas). It had a rack to hold the outside kitchen Dad designed and built. The box held our clothes, food, toys, you name it. Mom and Dad would take the box top off and it folded down onto the ground. There were mattresses on the inside box top and the inside of the top (on the ground) had linoleum flooring. We two older daughters had our air mattresses and sleeping bags on that floor, flanking the door. Mom, Dad and the two younger girls slept on the mattresses on the box. He could maneuver the thing by himself, it was so well balanced! He towed it behind our 1953 Olds.
Years later, my new DH had a truck camper that we used for several years when our girls were little. Then no camping forever until we got into Civil War reenacting. Now it was a canvas A tent, cooking over a fire with cast iron cookware, a little porta-potty for nights, only "AC" was when we opened the flaps to let air flow through.
We finally took the plunge and got our MH and we've been loving that! We have AC, our own real bathroom, bed that's off the ground and not a cot...We're still sitting outside under the awning (yeay!), cook over a fire when we want to...so glad to be camping again...okay RVing:)
Our last reenactment was the first weekend in Nov. 2014 and it was cold, damp and raw. No tent this time...took the camper this trip (first time)...so nice to come home to a warm place and warm bed at night!!!
Years later, my new DH had a truck camper that we used for several years when our girls were little. Then no camping forever until we got into Civil War reenacting. Now it was a canvas A tent, cooking over a fire with cast iron cookware, a little porta-potty for nights, only "AC" was when we opened the flaps to let air flow through.
We finally took the plunge and got our MH and we've been loving that! We have AC, our own real bathroom, bed that's off the ground and not a cot...We're still sitting outside under the awning (yeay!), cook over a fire when we want to...so glad to be camping again...okay RVing:)
Our last reenactment was the first weekend in Nov. 2014 and it was cold, damp and raw. No tent this time...took the camper this trip (first time)...so nice to come home to a warm place and warm bed at night!!!
