Re: Re: Can you say tent? (Was: Slide in Camper or Gooseneck)

["Duncan Fletcher" <dfletche@gte.net>]

Hookups? Never been hooked up - nothing to hook up, nothing to tear down. No
fridge (ice box, but would reconsider that if we stayed longer than 4 days/3
nights), no leveling. But I don't have to throw a wet tent in the bathtub or
front porch for initial drying and then don't have to spread the thing out
in the living room to finish the drying. I am still willing to pitch a tent
and enjoy it even with the camper - love to listen to the horses munch hay,
but the camper is definately easier and quicker.

One other problem with tents and horse camp sites. The gravel parking lot is
often the only level dry spot to pitch a tent - I need heftier tent pegs
(the kind you would never carry in a back pack) than I used when I back
packed.

Duncan Fletcher
dfletche@gte.net


----- Original Message -----
From: Kim Lemons <klemons@wah.nu>

> I've been tent camping for about 20+ years now  (uh, oh, showing my age
> now!) <BG>  and after my son was about a year old and we watched him
waddle
> like a weebel on our first tent camping trip into the mountains of
Colorado,
> (he was so bundled up he could barely walk...it was pretty cold)  we
decided
> to buy a bumper tow camper just for a couple of years during the
> breastfeeding/diaper changing period. (I know, too much information...)
> Anyway, we did just that and couldn't wait to get back to tent camping.
We
> love the outdoors and campers are like sitting in your living room.
> Everyone has their idea of comfort and enjoyment.  By the time we finished
> setting up and leveling the camper each time we stopped for the night, and
> then all the clean up involved in tearing it all down, we decided it was
> easier just doing the tent thing.  And we have a lot of gear for camping
so
> we don't exactly 'rough it'.  We eat steak dinners with baked potatoes and
> corn on the cob, etc.  We do it right.  Just don't really like the camper
> thing.  Besides, a lot of the places we wanted to camp there were no
hookups
> or whatever for the camper anyway.  So the tent was frequently more
> convenient and then you don't have to tow anything extra, all our gear
fits
> in a couple of trunks we got from the army surplus store.  And we have a
> nice warm canvas tent for the winter and a lightweight nylon one for the
> summers.
>    --Kim




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