Camping (Poll)

Do you go camping?

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Well, I am not big on camping at all anymore, but since I'll be staying in an RV next month while cooking a BBQ competition with a friend in Alabama, I picked that option.

Otherwise, it's Holiday Inn!

Lee
 
I put down tent camping, but that is only if I go for a weekend. If I go for a whole week I will rent a cabin at a campground.
 
I clicked on the wrong one but close enough. I didn't see staying at the Holiday Inn until I checked Rent a Cabin. At any rate loved it as a kid but now no way.
 
I love tent camping of all kinds.....especially tent camping not by car, but camp sites accessible only by foot or by bicycle, usually trail camps which are very primitive.
 
Funny hubby and I were just talking about this today....we are hoping to buy a camper soon (normally we use tents but with a baby now we thought a camper would be better) so we can possibly go in a few weeks when he is home. We both absoltely LOVE camping and now Ayla can't wait. This will be her 2nd camping trip and she still hasn't stopped talking about the first :D
 
I've been camping in my younger days, but I'm not a real outdoorsy type anymore. That is except for my deck in back!
 
I just took my tent down (in the back yard) because of 3 days of lots of rain on the way.

We purchased our first fire pit, so I put it together and we had our first fire. :wink:

I can get used to a fire in the yard.
 
As I get older, I find I like to camp within an easy walk of my truck, preferably lake or river side. And I need a nice air mattress too, oh my aching back.
However, camping on a kayak trip is still lots of fun!
Have to admit, my opinion is that if your "tent" has an engine, it ain't camping.
 
I've done lots of tent camping. We usually camped in a park where they had water and a bathroom nearby. Using the ol' Coleman lanterns and the Coleman stove was fun back then.

Then we moved on and started to rent rooms with kitchenettes (not really cabins). Rockport, Tx was a favorite because it was right on the water with a lighted fishing pier. The kids could crab during the day, and everybody fished from the pier at night. Great fun! Then we moved on and started renting beach houses at Surfside, Tx and fishing off of the jetty. I absolutely love the beach. Haven't done that in a while, but I'd go back there in a nano-second.

Nowadays, I really don't like tent camping. I like the modern conveniences, but they don't have to be luxurious (just clean with a real bathroom :mrgreen:).
 
Lots of tent camping. When we were expecting our first child, I was over due, and we still went tent camping, rationale: we lived two hours from the hospital, and the mountains where we camped were actually CLOSER to the hospital...
Then several years ago, we got a nice slide-in pickup camper, a Lance. But now, we are wanting to sell it, or trade it, and get a 20 ft. travel trailer. We looked at them this weekend. Queen size walk around bed, stove, oven microwave, bathroom with a bathtub!!!!
My husband usually does a major backpacking trip, climbing mountains, every year. Yeah, we know how to rough it. He dries quite a bit of his own food, has developed several good recipes for up in the high country.
We have great camping in our area, mountain forest, or lake (we also sail).
 
Phiddlechik said:
When we were expecting our first child, I was over due, and we still went tent camping, rationale: we lived two hours from the hospital, and the mountains where we camped were actually CLOSER to the hospital...
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LOL! You are a mighty woman, Phiddlechik! Tent camping at 40+ weeks pregnant!:tiphat:
When I was 2+ weeks overdue with one of my kids, I went to the outlet mall (an hour away.) My rationale was that kids love showing up at inopportune times. BTW, it worked - water broke at the mall and son made his entrance 3 hours later. Did you go into labor in the mountains, Phiddlechik?
 
nope, we tried. Drove over washboard roads, hard ground, etc... finally, I was to have a non-stress test early in the morning at 4 weeks over, and at the last minute we decided to drive down to SLC the day before and spend the night. We went out for a fabulous dinner at Market Street Grill (had a nice casserole of white sauce, lobster, crab, scallops), went to a movie, I think it was The Survivors, and stayed at a hotel downtown. At 2am I woke up, in labor, puking up the lovely seafood dinner, and luckily, only 5 minutes from the hospital!!!
The second child was 2 weeks over, headed down to SLC for a test, but by the time I got there, the doc decided to induce. whew!
(I've never had my water break naturally)
 
I just got back from camping with my boy. We did a dry run at a camp ground, along with some hiking. I realized that I need to get in shape before I go traipsing through the woods again. I am Soooo sore. Hopefully, I'll be able to get out with him again sometime next month.
 
One of my sons was camping this weekend at a RenFest. It's the first time for him, I think, and I'm anxious to see if he liked it.

Did your son like it, vyapti?
 
i voted yes for wilderness camping. i assume that means backpacking and/or canoe trekking. i've done both, many, many times.

i've hiked sections of the appalachian trail hundreds of times, and have maintained sections and been a trail angel more times than i can remember. i'd like to do the whole trail someday.

i've hiked mount washington in new hampshire, pike's peak, the cimarron mountains in new mexico, and even in the jungles of the yucatan.

canoe trekking has been limited to the delaware, the pine barrens of joisey, the green river in vermont, and too many lakes across jersey and new york state to count. if i ever get around to building an outrigger, i'm going to canoe around manhattan island one day.

i can't wait until my little guy is old enough to share my future trips. until then, i hope i win the fan vs. wild contest on the discovery channel: http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/manvswild/fan-vs-wild/degreechallenge.html
 
Fisher's Mom said:
One of my sons was camping this weekend at a RenFest. It's the first time for him, I think, and I'm anxious to see if he liked it.

Did your son like it, vyapti?
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I think so. He's 16, so it's sometimes difficult to gague his hormone soaked brain. We did have to drive into town once to charge his phone and ipod. Roughing it will never be the same again =)
 
Ooooh - take your son to a RenFest and camp there, vyapti. My 20 year old son came back exhausted and filthy but really, really happy. He learned all manner of bawdy sailor songs, won a contest by lifting 2 belly dancers at once, and enjoyed preparing and sharing food with lots of other campers. (Fisher is begging to go now.)
 
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