People will pull 50 feet off the paved road and set up camp with a generator, mini refrigerators and freezers, electric lights, fan, stereo, tables, chairs, the whole works, and they'd even roll out a carpet so they wouldn't get their tootsies dirty. If they'd been able to get reception, they'd have hauled out their TV too.
Have a 25 ft camper, we camp in RV parks with hook ups. It never ceases to amaze me how much additional 'stuff' people bring, generators, golf carts, out door TV's etc. I guess its the American way.
ReplyDeleteYeah, have a coworkers with that mentality. Just purchased an off-grid water heater (propane and electric) for taking showers after a day of hiking. Delivered yesterday - I wished him well.
ReplyDeleteI guess he never heard of heating water over a heat source and wiping down with a hand towel. No enclosure needed if tent was too small - put on a poncho and take care of business underneath it. All the privacy you need. Women particularly like this trick for going to restroom out in the woods.
...or how about just getting good and stinky. Nemo
DeleteIt has something to do with their insecurities. Currently, the assholes probably wear M95 masks and go through a gallon of hand sanitizer every day while communing with nature
ReplyDeleteMost folks won't even step off the gravel, and that's always been true for my lifetime.
DeleteCan't leave the herd, I think. safety first!
Likely go through enough hand sanitizer they couldn't pass a roadside alcohol test.
DeleteOur family went camping when I was a kid in California. We would drive up to the Serria's and rent a mule and throw on a backpack and head out on a trail and hike about 5 miles a day to a lake or stream. We go out for about a week. The best part was the bath at Mono Hot Springs at the end of the trip.
ReplyDeleteThe picture, to my old unfocused eyes, at first looked like they had brought along their own bear.
ReplyDeleteEveryone has different ideas about fun...
ReplyDeleteBack when I RV'ed, the entire point was to get away from all that "modern civilization" crap.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy car camping if it is well away from any well-traveled road, and there is NOTHING noisy in the vicinity. A waterfall is groovy. Some birds, but never kingfishers or jays due to seriously annoying racket.
ReplyDeleteSort of like making nature my living room. Ice chest okay. Majestic campfire. Preferably well-padded tent and even some comfy seats. Hell even bring some gourmet stuff and champagne. Great. Mellow.
Generator? Let alone anything that runs on it. Death penalty.
Otherwise, just throw your sleeping bag on the ground and count stars until you're asleep.
That was me. --nines
ReplyDeleteI remember a cartoon in Leatherneck. A guy in a pup tent with his son. The caption read, Gee Dad aren't you glad I remembered you said you would take me camping when you got back from Nam.
ReplyDeleteKenny - do you remember way back to when people would camp where Heritage Ford is now? There were some Eucalyptus trees there and people would pull off 99 and camp there on their way to work in the fields. Probably stopped doing that in the late 60's.
ReplyDeleteI don't have a lot of memories of Modesto back then. My grandparents lived in Keyes, Hughson and Ceres until the late 60s, then they moved to Airport for God only knows why.
DeleteIn my teens, we would go out on horseback into the high country and camp. It rained a couple times though we didn't care as we avoided chores for a bit. Then one day, we met up with a WW2 vet and were bragging about being out in the woods, his reply: "I done enough fukkin camping before I was twenty-two to never do it again."
ReplyDeleteNever thought of it that way.
I used to commute between San Diego and San Francisco in my 77 vw bus. It had my comfy leather chair in it behind the driver's seat. I would camp out for the night at Big Sur on the way back from San Diego. I'd roll open the side door, pull back the roof and just chill looking at the ocean from hundreds of feet up.
ReplyDeleteThey aren't there to enjoy nature, they're there to enjoy not being around other people.
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