slo’s FRIDAY poll - Camping In A Tent

[Dan Murphy]

As a Boy Scout, many, many years ago.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I have never gone camping and never will. First, the inconvenience -- no stove, no bathroom, no running water. Then the absolute terror of sleeping in a tent where anyone could come and kill you. I would fear crazy humans over critters.

 

[soccerdad72]

Once in my life as a teenager - not exactly the traditional camping location. We camped in the parking lot of a bowling alley years ago down the road from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway the weekend of the Indy 500.

 

[ronandannette]

Not a chance. And if I ever completely lost my mind and wanted to try it, I’m sure the price of acquiring all the necessary gear, compared to the price of booking a Caribbean cruise, would snap me back to reality.

 

[Dan Murphy]

I will say that years ago, the kids were 5 and 8 at the time, we rented a class B motorhome (the largest of that class) for a 10 day trip to the Smokies. We always say it was one of our best vacations ever.

 

[Skywalker3]

a few times with each kid when they were involved in Scouts....not since, and no desire to again

 

[disneychrista]

When I was in Girl Scouts. At this point it is hard enough getting out of bed, can only imagine getting off the ground.

 

[SandyinMonterey]

No. Not for me.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Ye-ah. Nope. My idea of roughing it is no little bars of soap in my hotel room.

 

[Kittyblue]

I have camped in a tent few times, and I hated it every time. Once we rented a trailer from a place that delivered it to your camping spot and set it all up for you. That was decent and I'd be willing to do that again, but ultimately I much prefer a hotel.

 

[Kae]

We used to all the time cheaper way to have fun with friends. Now I will say I love sleeping in a pop-up , Most of my friends have Rv's.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

I’ve only camped out once and that was in a pup tent on our honeymoon for a couple nights back in 1981 in Fort Wilderness at WDW.

 

[Skippy918]

I have and I hated it. I need a real bathroom and shower. Between the bugs and feeling icky cause it was warm out, nope, never again. Also add that I had trouble sleeping and every sound woke me up.
Dh and the kids don’t mind camping so he took them on a 6 day Grand Canyon rafting adventure. I don’t regret not going.

 

[lovesmurfs]

We loved tent camping in state parks when the kids were little. I used to have "chicks' weekend" with DD as she was growing up.

My favorite time EVER was when DH was at his Annual Training for National Guard, and both kids were at summer camp -- I went camping BY MYSELF for 4 days. It. Was. Wonderful. I cooked when I wanted, ate what I wanted, and went to sleep when I wanted. Had a huge thunderstorm the first night, but I was dry in the tent with a lantern reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which had just come out. Sigh. Would love to do that again sometime.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Too funny on the timing of this post. Dh and I JUST went camping on Cape Cod last weekend. We used to love going before we had kids and when the kids were small. Then life got too busy with sports, etc.. Now that they are all grown we decided to try it again because we have been talking about buying a camper or trailer etc..

We had an awesome time and are already planning our next getaway. What certainly helps is that we have super comfy cots and an instant tent that pretty much just sets itself up.
We want to do a year of traveling the country when we retire so we are starting to look at RV’s etc.. This was a perfect test of if we still liked it and we did. It felt like being a kid again waking up in the tent.

Did you go to Nickerson?
Haven't been up to the Cape for some time but it would be nice to take DGD. Something to mull over.

Love camping and have two different set ups depending on whether it’s base camping (we call it glamping) with as many home comforts as can be squeezed in the car, or shorter term more primitive stays.
Bought a TT as a retirement present for the man but he wasn’t having one more nano second of camping the moment DGD asked to go to WDW

 

[tvguy]

Only once, January 1977 while I was in College. I took a combo PE/Marine biology class and we spend 3 1/2 weeks in Hawaii scuba diving and sleeping on the beach in tents. Actually, most nights, we slept outside the tent, just went inside the night it rained.

 

[kdonnel]

We tent camped as a family once. Spent a week at Bay Lake Towers in a 2 bedroom and then 3 nights in a tent at the WDW campgrounds. Rained the whole time we were tent camping. The next time we were at the campground we were in a rented RV.

My son is on his way back from his second trip to Philmont Scout Ranch. He will get home around 7pm tonight after having been gone 15 days, 4 travel days, 11 days at Philmont, all in a tent.

The last time he went, the washer water was black, I expect the same.

 

[RedAngie]

I forgot about this. A few days before 8th grade graduation, (most of) the entire class went camping at YWCA/YMCA facilities in Medford Lakes, NJ. Matilionoquay/Ockanickin, something like that. Two nights, three days. School buses struggled to get down the narrow sandy roads. We weren’t allowed to call home from the pay phones.

No tents, we slept in screened cabins. Bathrooms/showers in a building nearby.

It was hot, there were bugs, food was nasty in the cafeteria, etc. Thunderstorm one evening.

I remember having fun but wouldn’t want to do it again.

Boys on one side of lake, girls the other side, but there were some coed activities.

Shades of the Tatum O’Neal film Little Darlings.

 

[NYCgrrl]

Ye-ah. Nope. My idea of roughing it is no little bars of soap in my hotel room.

I just finished using my last tiny soap bar (so cute by the bathroom sink) and cut a larger bar into small rectangles. Gives that feel of not being on lockdown for a year and and any moment now housekeeping should come in and bless this mess…


OK, OK so I’m daydreaming again but the soap helps

 

[luv2cheer92]

Went on a 6.5 week long road trip last summer and tent camped a large majority of the time. We did a hotel about once a week or less. Other than the nights in Zion where it was 95 degrees at midnight or in Yellowstone where it got down to 28 (within about 2 weeks of each other lol), it was great!