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I love camping. The wife not so much. Our 9yo son loves it. I plan to do some tent camping on a local lake that has many isolated islands to chose from this year.
What I really want to do is hike/camp the Appalachian trail with my son when I retire from the military in 3 years.
I love camping. The wife not so much. Our 9yo son loves it. I plan to do some tent camping on a local lake that has many isolated islands to chose from this year.
What I really want to do is hike/camp the Appalachian trail with my son when I retire from the military in 3 years.
The obvious solution is to remarry .... Kidding of course! I’d like to do the big 3 one day. I’ve hiked parts of the CDT and PCT.
My husband and I are 60-ish, and we have gone tent camping for the past 30+ years, and we still enjoy it as much as ever.
We have found that state and national campground with SEPARATE tent areas away from the RV'ers and plenty of acreage is the key to our continued enjoyment.
We do have friends with RV's, but after one experience camping with them, we said "Never again." If I want a modern home away from home, we will rent a luxury condo.
We go for the scenery, the quiet, to look at the stars without the reflection of city lights, and to be able to cook outdoors on an open fire (in an approved pit, of course).
However, if others prefer RV camping, that's fine with me -- as long as they keep their generators and televisions away from us!
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I went on a great camping trip this winter to Colorado. Yep, we spent a couple of nights at the Marriott, a couple in Aspen. This camping thing works purdy good fer me. Especially the breakfasts. Though roughing it in a suite is a bit tough but we managed.
So many good memories from "old" camping time. Now you need to pray that nobody will ruin your vacation. So we choose solitude and nature. Better to have wolf around than crowd with beer in hand and loud music. Especially because our dog is always with us and he really hate loud crowd And with so many useful gadgets today is easy to go in area where is no electricity and yet not suffer of lack of it.
My husband and I are 60-ish, and we have gone tent camping for the past 30+ years, and we still enjoy it as much as ever.
We have found that state and national campground with SEPARATE tent areas away from the RV'ers and plenty of acreage is the key to our continued enjoyment.
We do have friends with RV's, but after one experience camping with them, we said "Never again." If I want a modern home away from home, we will rent a luxury condo.
We go for the scenery, the quiet, to look at the stars without the reflection of city lights, and to be able to cook outdoors on an open fire (in an approved pit, of course).
However, if others prefer RV camping, that's fine with me -- as long as they keep their generators and televisions away from us!
haha...we keep our trailer away from the tent riff raff...
We LOVED tent camping...fit all your gear into the trunk of a ford Taurus and off we went...but now with kids (all of our friends have travel trailers) it just got to be to uncomfortable
its funny as we have TWO flatscreen TV's and a blue ray player in our trailer...only use them if its raining or right before bed...NEVER during the day
I think some camping has changed because we have so many options now. You can have people trying to enjoy one park anywhere from a tent trying to hear the sounds of nature parked next to a huge expensive motor home or 5th wheel with an outside tv.
I certainaly think it has changed, but we haven't actually camped in years. With all the new RVs and the campgrounds with modern facilities there have been a lot of growth. As for the ops comment about partying, we never camped to party. Did we have our beer or wine? Of course, just like we do at home, but that was not why we camped. We camped for the love of nature and it was a healthy cheap vacation with our kids. Many of the camp grounds we used didn't have showers other than the lake or river. When I was growning up most didn't even have potties except for an outhouse. The one modern comvenience one we did use when the kids were young had all the things we were used to, like hot and cold showers, a small store, bathrooms, etc. You know what? We didn't even have a good time. It wasn't like the days of sleeping in a tent or the back of the station wagon, taking our bath in the lake and heating water on the coleman stove so hubby could shave. I don't remember a single camp site that even had any grills.The firewood served our purpose quite well and we loved eating whatever we could cook on the open camp fire.
We camped for the love of nature and it was a healthy cheap vacation with our kids. Many of the camp grounds we used didn't have showers other than the lake or river. When I was growning up most didn't even have potties except for an outhouse.....
I can relate. The place we camped in NY many years ago was like that. Just an outhouse and in summer running water at a spigot. We all had a good time with no one getting loud or drunk. We camped winter and summer.
Now we have an RV and it's called RVing, not camping. It has all the comforts of home. Sometimes I wish we still had the tent....
I can relate. The place we camped in NY many years ago was like that. Just an outhouse and in summer running water at a spigot. We all had a good time with no one getting loud or drunk. We camped winter and summer.
Now we have an RV and it's called RVing, not camping. It has all the comforts of home. Sometimes I wish we still had the tent....
Though I have matured and I am used to all our modern conveniences, whether camping, cruising, a road tirp or whatever I do remembet the first time I say someone with a TV in their camp site. I thought, well what kind of camping is this? I wondered why they didn't just choose a motel 6 or something. Of course the first few cruises we took, there were no tvs in the cabins. We didn't think twice about it. My how life has changed.
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.... Kidding of course! I’d like to do the big 3 one day. I’ve hiked parts of the CDT and PCT.
And with so many useful gadgets today is easy to go in area where is no electricity and yet not suffer of lack of it.
