Camping - Yay or Nay
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I went camping once, many years ago, and I've never been again. I hated it and never want to go camping again.
Ditto. Ideally in a gorgeous location that requires a bit of backpacking to reach it (though my backpacking days appear to be over).
Went to camp once when I was in middle school. It was terrible...I ended up going 3 days with little to no sleep, getting bitten by a tick, crying from homesickness, and just overall hating it. Never again.
I was a Girl Scout too, and so did a lot of camping as a child...but never with my family. Only with the Scouts.
As an adult, I went camping with friends in Alaska many times. I actually like camping in Alaska better, because it's nice and cool - you don't spend the entire weekend sweating like a pig (like I did in South Florida as a kid in Scouts). Plus, there are no snakes in Alaska - always a plus.
I am about to move back up there...but I don't think I'm gonna be into camping that much anymore. I am very attached to regular showers these days.
I've been camping a couple billion times and I absolutely HATED it every time. But, being a Boy Scout, it was kind of necessary to go through - one of the two main reasons I hated being a Scout, the other being that I would have rather spent my weekends as a teenager in the company of attractive women instead of other males who did nothing but annoy me.
Give me an RV with a TV, refrigerator and air conditioning and I'll consider myself enough of a mountain man.
Give me an RV with a TV, refrigerator and air conditioning and I'll consider myself enough of a mountain man.
Went camping when I was in the Scouts quite often, or with my family or friends, but I haven't been "real" camping in years now (ie. not in an RV or cabin or something).
Mon frere!
My parents took us camping a few times when we were kids. Now that I'm an fat, decrepit, old lady, I prefer to be a bit more comfortable.
You should be jealous. My years in the Girl Scouts were some of the best of my life.
Don't be too jealous, I was a Girl Scout and we rarely went camping. There was a Girl Scout Camp nearby that hosted troops once a year, but our group only managed to scrape together the money to get there one year. It was a very fun trip, but it wasn't even really camping, we just hung out in cabins for the weekend.
Did you get kicked out of the girl scouts for eating a brownie?
She gave me a couple Webelos first.
I love camping. Used to go all the time with my parents when I was a kid, and I was in Scouts for about 11 years. For me, the ideal trip involves getting in a canoe and paddling for three or four hours before you get to your spot. Hopefully with relatively short portages. 
My favourite trip that I've been on was probably one to Killarney Provincial Park. The landscape is gorgeous, and the lakes are clean and crystal clear. It's rather lovely.
My favourite trip that I've been on was probably one to Killarney Provincial Park. The landscape is gorgeous, and the lakes are clean and crystal clear. It's rather lovely.
My Dad hikes there quite often, Dave. It's fairly close to us.
I love vacationing in the woods... in a cabin. 
Thirty years ago I went on a camping trip with my father-in-law, my now ex-husband and two of my sons who were at that stage aged 3 and a half, and 4 months old.
We travel through 4 states (Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia) We covered about 8000 km in 23 days and saw some amazing sights. It was quite tiring for me as it was in the middle of summer and I was breastfeeding my son who wanted to be feed about every hour because of the heat. He refused to take water from a bottle or from a spoon.
My husband, myself and the baby slept in a tent, my father-in-law and my eldest son slept in the car. The hottest temperature we encountered was 46C and our car had no air conditioning.
We travel through 4 states (Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia) We covered about 8000 km in 23 days and saw some amazing sights. It was quite tiring for me as it was in the middle of summer and I was breastfeeding my son who wanted to be feed about every hour because of the heat. He refused to take water from a bottle or from a spoon.
My husband, myself and the baby slept in a tent, my father-in-law and my eldest son slept in the car. The hottest temperature we encountered was 46C and our car had no air conditioning.
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