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On Camping, Is THIS You?

iLander

iLander

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I never go camping. Ever. I can't go anywhere without air-conditioning and a mini-bar. Even an RV is off-limits for me, because there's no room service. I can't fit my huge makeup bag in a backpack, so there's no point in going!

DH and I went camping once (so muggy in a tent, we brought in a fan and plugged it into the campsite outlet) and it was awful. Just as we were falling asleep, one of our Coke cans was knocked over in the tent. It was dark, and after a scramble for the flashlight, we found the can had been knocked over by a GINORMOUS CENTIPEDE! :errrr: It was easily 6 inches long, and hideous.

We ended up sleeping in the car. With the fan.

Are you anti-camping?

Or are you one of those what I call "wash and wear girls", and you always look great, even without makeup? Do squash bugs with your bare hands? Do weird night noises remind you of a symphony or a slasher movie?

You know where I stand, how about you?

(supposed to be a light-hearted jokey thread, BTW :lol: )

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I am so not a camper! IMO, my sleep accomodations need to be equal to or better than my bedroom at home :cheeky: Camping doesn't fit that description ;))
 
I've never gone camping, and I never will!
 
I'm so anti-camping! I've never been camping in a tent and I don't get the appeal of doing so. When I began grad school years ago, the first week of the summer program I was in was an experiential education course. There were 30 of us in the summer program and 5 leaders. We hiked through the mountains to a university-owned cabin and piled in like sardines. We spent 5 days there, learning about education and being one with nature. I loved the latter but hated the former. Not showering properly for 5 days? Sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor? Using an outhouse instead of a proper bathroom? Checking ourselves over for ticks and other creepy-crawlies? Totally NOT my style.
 
I don't camp. That's not to say I haven't camped. My family was really into camping when I was a kid. In fact, I remember the night my little sister was conceived in a tent. Parents had a tent, kids had a tent. Big storm, parents tent blew away. *shudder* I was 6. It was awful.

I see no reason in leaving things like electricity and potties. I ain't poor. I don't have to cook my food over a fire or pee outside or sleep outside. I grew up very poor and those things aren't novelty to me. They were how we lived at times. So, no thank you to camping.

I still remember trying to pass off my mom's cooking fire as something unique and inspired rather than poor and pathetic. Yeah, no camping.
 
Guy here. Camping... what camping? Usually just sleep on the ground with only my coat as protection from the weather, but that is in tropics... :P All kinds of terrain though, swamp, cemetery, jungle, hills. No fire, no light, no electricity, 7-10 days. Just biscuit for a meal, 2 meals a day. Fun times...
 
Well, with the disclaimer that I no longer do this because of a bum ankle and being mostly out of shape....

....I have never camped, because camping is for effete wussies. ;)) I BACKPACKED. For days. In mountains. At 10,000 -12,000 feet. Or canyons. Without showers, blowdryers, makeup, minibars, OR beds. Mountains, BTW, have the advantage of being about 95% bug-free and not hot or muggy, both deterents to my "camping". Better views too. But it IS painful to a certain extent, at least for a flatlander, and you do have to carry EVERYTHING in and out.

Now, I didn't climb fourteeners or anything, so on the "backpacking" scale I was kinda low...but able to function without the amenities? Yes, quite.

However, NOWADAYS my idea of "roughing it" is a 4-star. ;))
 
I HATE camping. I'm not outdoorsy, hate creepy-crawlies, and anywhere without proper plumbing is off-limits to me. I've argued with FI with this many times as he insists we should go camping...
 
I HATE camping. My idea of camping is to book a nice remote hotel or B&B, go out for the day hiking, fishing, boating, etc. then come back to the hotel for a nice bed and real plumbing and a hot meal.
 
I backpacked around Europe when I was 17 and we camped in a few places, including Italy. Man those were some great campgrounds. The one in Milan (I think) had a delicious pizza place on site with a woodburning oven, so we would have amazing pizza for dinner every night. Plus we got the dessert pizza a few times, which had Nutella and Bailey's Irish Cream on top. :lickout:

Camping is the woods, however, is the worst. It's never, ever fun. The last time I went was about 4 years ago, maybe more. It was in September and still really hot where we lived but much, much colder in the mountains. I'm always cold so I was smart enough to bring warm clothes, but several of the guys on the trip only had shorts and t-shirts. It was so windy and loud that we all woke up several times in the middle of the night, and we were so exhausted we slept too late and missed the horseback riding trip we had planned.
 
No, not a big fan of camping. I went a few times in my late teens, and it was ok but I remember I couldn't wait to get home to take a shower lol.
 
I can't imagine liking camping. I am not Suzy Woodswoman in the least! I do however think I would try a big fancy rv that had a bathroom etc. but nothing less.

I did go on a camping trip of England,Scotland and Wales when I was 17 whcih was great fun as a teenager but the camping bug didn't bite at all.
 
I grew up in a town where people went camping. Yeah I'm not a camper
 
Not a camper here, either. We will be going this summer though because the kids are begging us. Sigh!
 
I love camping! I love going out with my friends, pitching a tent, and hanging out for a weekend, making hot dogs and drinking beer and going swimming and hiking around.

That said, my skin is WAY too bad for me to be the wash-and-wear type, so I do usually pack *some* make up.
 
Not into camping but I have to go with my 7 year old daughter and about a ton of other girlscouts. Not looking forward to
it. We dont even have sleeping bags much less a tent. Its only 2 nights but I think I'll spring for a $40 tent and just
use blankets. We are in FL...so cold weather shouldnt be an issue.
 
We went once in a tent trailer and it was awful. If you can call what we do camping, we go in a 31 foot trailer with a queen size
bed and all the extras. We mostly go to a campground that sits right on the beach. We cook outdoors sometimes, but
mostly eat out. All of my kids come. It is not really roughing it. That I don't do. Ever. I want a shower and a real toilet even if
DH has to clean it later.
 
Roughing it to me is a shady Days Inn :lol: As a kid we went camping at least once a year - in tents with no electricity, toilets, showers, etc. As an adult that sounds like torture and lobby against my husband on taking our kids camping when they're older. I am not a "natural beauty" and require a bed with a real mattress, a real shower, makeup, hair dryer and working plumbing to get ready in the morning.
 
I love that! I need to save that image. Because it's so me. Every once in a while, I'll try to convince myself that I can be outdoorsy and that I might want to do something crazy like go on a camping trip. Luckily, I've always come to my senses before embarking on such a mishap waiting to happen (usually because FI looks at me like I've gone completely nuts and reminds me that I would loathe camping). Pretty much nothing about a camping trip appeals to me really. I'd much rather hang out on the couch in my climate-controlled house with no bugs.
 
I love camping. As long as it doesn't include spiders. You're all a bunch of petunias just like DH! He gets spasms without his espresso & a hot shower in the a.m. I don't think he's ever traveled 10 minutes from home without packing his espresso pot. :P I will NEVER get him in a tent!

--- Laurie
 
I spent a summer on a bike trip where we biked all day and then camped at campgrounds to cook our meals and sleep. Never again! I never slept well, hated it when bugs crawled on me and the fact that I had to keep dumping change into the shower to get a stingy trickle of cold water has turned me off for good!

If our kids ever want to go camping (and I don't see this being likely, as DD is TERRIFIED of bugs), there's always the backyard! ;))
 
Stone-cold11|1303053789|2898414 said:
Guy here. Camping... what camping? Usually just sleep on the ground with only my coat as protection from the weather, but that is in tropics... :P All kinds of terrain though, swamp, cemetery, jungle, hills. No fire, no light, no electricity, 7-10 days. Just biscuit for a meal, 2 meals a day. Fun times...
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Umm . . . dude . . . you sure you're not thinking of some kind of war you were in? :shock:

This sounds like hell, and they say war is hell . . .

Just messin' with you :D
 
I do like to camp, we went all the time when I was a kid, me and hubby camped once in a tent..didnt much enjoy that and wont do it again...but I am not opposed to camping in a nice RV with a bathroom and air-conditioning, I really like sitting around the campfire listening to music and drinking a beer....I miss that.
 
Diehard backpacker, hiker, camper here :wavey: I love it! Right now I am planning a kayak trip with overnight sleeping stops on islands on a local river, I am soooo excited!!! I am getting old though and we bought a small pull behind camper that we use for big trips and am hoping to get to yellowstone and glaciar parks next year with it, that will be about a 2 - 3 week trip. No water or toilet in it but most state and national parks in the US have more then adequate facilities. :D
 
JewelFreak|1303066762|2898564 said:
I love camping. As long as it doesn't include spiders. You're all a bunch of petunias just like DH! He gets spasms without his espresso & a hot shower in the a.m. I don't think he's ever traveled 10 minutes from home without packing his espresso pot. :P I will NEVER get him in a tent!

--- Laurie
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LOL!! :lol:

Yup, queen of the petunias here! :wavey:

I had forgotten about the agonizing drive to find coffee the next morning! :errrr:
 
DivaDiamond007|1303063528|2898525 said:
Roughing it to me is a shady Days Inn :lol:
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totally agree! I admit I am spoiled; and it doesn't help that I am an incredibly light sleeper and can't fall asleep easily, whereas SO is out like a light in 10 seconds. I have lived in a city my entire life, so I am more comfortable with subways than hiking and roughing it out :lol: We stayed at a Howard Johnson once (10 hours of driving, it was 12am and there wasn't any hotels in sight) and in the middle of the night we got bitten by bed bugs. I FREAKED and the front disk moved us to a suite, and we were out there at 7 the next morning. We checked into a 5 star hotel right after and spent 1/2 the day putting all our clothes through boiling water in the tub just in case!
 
I camped a lot as a kid...in tents, when I was really little, then a pop up trailer, then up gradually larger travel trailers. We traveled all across the US, Mexico and Canada, from one end to the other and those are memories I cherish.

That said, DH and I have never camped. He never camped at all as a kid (other than with his friends as teens), I am not totally opposed to it though. This summer we are, what I call going cheat-camping, we are renting a cabin (with electricity, heat and AC :mrgreen: ) in a campground, right on the lake...I am looking forward to the campfires in the evenings, the BEST part of camping...and peaceful days by the lake. No campfire cooking either, LOL...and they have full showers, so that's not a problem. Best of both worlds. =)
 
I'm a non-camper too. I actually have something of a phobia of camping. In fact, I missed a class retreat because I couldn't fathom sleeping in a tent exposed to bugs and weather and scary noises...yuck! When I was in middle school, our class took a camping trip (in cabins, not even tents, and with a communal bathroom), and I was scarred for life by the amount of bugs that were hanging out in the sink of the communal bathroom. To me, there's no good reason to go without running water, electricity, heat and/or air conditioning, TV, and Internet.
 
Snort, I do NOT do camping nor outdoors. I hate bugs. I hate lack of AC. I hate "roughing it." But then Cute Guy says, Hey we should go camping sometime. What does Ms. Big City I Hate Nature Girl say? "SURE! I'm game!" :lol:
 
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