So I'm going away for a little while...

[skcin]

...to remember how it feels. To go camping.

Not that anyone cares, of course.

I don't want anyone to presume that I think I'm so cool & popular that everyone will miss me & wonder where I am or anything.

Just so everyone knows.

Not that you care, though, like I said.


So - does anyone else here camp? Regularly, or just once or twice? Cabin or trailer or tent? Same place or all over? Far or close to home? Etc, etc, etc. I'm also curious to know if camping is popular outside the U.S.

Annually for the past 12 years, hubby & I have gone to Highbanks Campground on the Seneca Nation near Allegany State Park. A group of 15 of us have a total of 4 cabins for 3 nights. We basically just eat & drink a lot, play board games, hike, swim, play horseshoes & bocce, sit by the fire. It's so much fun, we look forward to it every year. One year they closed for renovations & we had to go somewhere else & it SUCKED! Just wasn't the same.
The cabins have cold running water, gas stove & a small fridge. Bathrooms & showers are public (I can hear Dissention puking from here.)
Highbanks

For the past 7 or 8 year over a weekend in August, we take our 2 nieces tent camping for 2 nights at various campgrunds in NY & PA. We've been to Allegany, Letchworth, Watkins Glen & Beaverkill State Parks here in NY. This year we're going to Hickory Run State Park in PA.

Anyone else love to camp? Hate to camp? Have funny camping stories?

[DrummerDeanna]

Oh have fun!!!

I've always wanted to go camping and never have Perhaps some day I will

[GardenStateGirlie]

I'm not a camper but i'd imagine, with the right group of people it would be fun.

Have a great time and be safe! We'll miss you!

[skcin]

Originally Posted by GardenStateGirlie

I'm not a camper but i'd imagine, with the right group of people it would be fun.

Have a great time and be safe! We'll miss you!

Of course you will, fellow cliquey!

[amber]

I'll tell the clique you'll be MIA.
I love to camp, but don't get to go as much as I want to, which is essentially constantly. I camped for a month in Alaska. And in beautiful place on the north coast by Eureka called...Patrick's point? or something over a thanksgiving. That place was cool, because you camped by the beach, but hike a little inland and there was a lush rainforest jungle type place with trails. I camped and hiked Yosemite for a weekend, that was gorgeous. Except it was really a hiking trip, so we all had to walk all day long with about 30 lbs on our backs. I loved it. I camped in, I think, Sequoyah national forest with my best boyfriend - it was higher up, but then there was a lake about 1/2 away that was lower and warmer that we drove to each day. That kicked ass. All of this was tent camping, no buildings. Oh, and the guy I "hung out" with in Chico just wrote me and asked if I wanted to go camping, or something.

So have a great time.
I'll miss you.

[sara1998]

We camp once or twice a year. We went over Memorial Day weekend, and we are going again Labor Day weekend. I look forward to it every time! We're taking badmitten, volleyball, and horseshoes. And we always take the kids' bikes. It's always a good time.

Have fun on your trip!

[skcin]

Sara1998 - thanks! We always do. Your trip sounds a lot like mine - so much fun!

Amber - thanks, sistah, I knew I could count on you to get the word out to the peeps. And your camping experiences kick my camping's ass!

[Wild_Heart03]

The last time I went camping was a LONG time ago, when I was about 8 years old. We were only gone maybe one or two days, but then it started raining really bad and we headed home. I think my family is going camping next week actually, but I can't go with since I have to work.

Anyways, have fun Paula! We'll see you when you get back

[sara1998]

Originally Posted by skcin

And your camping experiences kick my camping's ass!

Ya, no ****!

[seeker007nmss]

Be sure to bring along a Harry potter Book to burn for the Pope when you make smores!

[amber]

Originally Posted by skcin

Sara1998 - thanks! We always do. Your trip sounds a lot like mine - so much fun!

Amber - thanks, sistah, I knew I could count on you to get the word out to the peeps. And your camping experiences kick my camping's ass!

Ha, no. They sound a bit more "rugged", but I'd love to go do the cabin thing with a bunch of friends. Where you can just chill...and there's a lake.
I've actually only ever been camping with one other person. I mean, in Alaska, there were a bunch of other campers all around us, but they weren't my friends.
anyway.

[Dreammms]

Have fun Paula. I love camping!

[CreepingDeath]

I've only been once in my life and loathed every second of it. It might have been the people I was with, who I didn't care for at all, but basically I don't think I'm the camping type.

I hope you have a blast though, Paula.

[strandinthewind]

Do I strike anyone here as the camping type

Seriously, when I was a Boy Scout (one smart quip outta any of ya and I'll smack ya ) I learned that I was not meant for the outdoors, esp. when there is always a Ritz Carlton waiting just around the corner I used to BEG them to let us go somewhere where I could rent a cabin instead of sleeping in some awful tent in the middle of nowhere

I can tell you this though - I went down the Amazon River a few years ago to deliver school supplies to the Yagua Indians. When you buy bug pray, get the one with the highest concentration of DEET possible. REI usually has the best. You will not regret it. I have also heard that there are natural repellants as well, but have never used them.

Finally, bring lots of vodka and aspirin for the morning

Have a BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[GypsySorcerer]

Have fun, Paula. I enjoy camping, so long as I have access to showers. Smores, campfire, and beer.... fun!