well you know the comedian who said "I do not spend most of my life working hard at my job- that gives me 2 lousy weeks off - to vacation like I'm homeless"....sums it up for me. lol
Sums it up for me too. Vacation should mean: pampering. NOT "roughing it."
I have no desire to relive "How the West was won."
One BF's family did have a lovely trailer, permanently installed at a campsite that we would visit down by the Jersey shore each year. So we got to sleep
indoors. And the bathroom & shower was just down the hall - especially at night.
And we had a regular stove in the trailer for the foods that need regular cooking, instead of being cooked on the campfire. We planned very carefully what could be cooked on an open flame, to purposely get a nice BBQ, smokey taste.
And they had a huge ez-up, screened in gazebo, where we dined outdoors, but screened in, to lessen the bugs getting at us.
There were cots off to the side, raised up off the ground, so we could snooze in the gazebo on nice warm nites.
However, THAT was the extent of what I liked about camping. As night descended, that meant the dew would set in. AND worst of all, being in the WOODS, mosquitoes and every bug and critter imaginable would come out. I HATE bugs! There isn't a yard spray or citronella candle, or body bug spray strong enough to keep the mosquitoes & spiders away. Plus, isn't the whole point of being outdoors is to be out in the
fresh, natural air and unsprayed flora?
And I have the type of blood or body scent where mosquitoes always go after me and leave everyone else in my party alone.
So I'd wake up in the mornings with a million bites, after the mosquitoes banqueted on ME all nite, and everyone else woke up without a single bite.
So, what I'd end up doing is sleeping very lightly, if at all, to try to keep the bugs off of me. And you know how that goes. . . once you think there is a bug around, you start itching, even if nothing really did touch you.
I also hate waking damp if it rained out and the humidity is up to 100%. Or standing or sitting around damp all day with frizzy hair, if it rained all day.
And I like my HOT showers. I need them to wash off all the bug spray from the night before, and all the sticky, dirty feeling from "roughing it."
I think men like "roughing it," because it primordially reminds them of their cavemen days.
I'm a highly evolved woman in need of a hairdryer.
I like pampering!!! I get grossed out if I stay in a Motel 6 that even looks like it has mold.