Camping is Fun / myLot

Canada

November 4, 2016 9:07am CST

I've run into a few people posting about their Camping experiences and really enjoyed reading their stories. It reminded me I never shared our CampInsanity Photo for this past year. We got together with all our children and the grands. It was a reunion for CampInsanity. Someone mentioned next summer will be a reunion too... the more the merrier. Elaine and I camped for two weeks and the young ones joined us for a long weekend. When we all get together it become bedlam, a funny and happy bedlam. My sister and I get a huge site on the campground and our kids take two other sites very near to our site to set their tent up. All the cooking and campfires are on our site, we have cover in case it rains and we have a perfect river access and we can all keep our eyes on the young ones that need to be watched. This is the first year that my sister and I were asleep in our tent with our children sitting in front of the fire for hours while we sleep away. They talk quietly at the fire like we used to do when they were small children sleeping in the tents around us. We have gone full circle. My three are 35, 40 and 46, Elaine's are all in their 30's. The grands are between 3 and 8 and a new one will be joining us next summer. Life is good when sleeping in a tent. It doesn't matter is you are in a tent, a cabin or a camper, the experience is wonderful! So much more fun than a hotel – of course that is my opinion...

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@DaddyEvil (174208)

• United States

6 Nov 16

Yeah, when I was younger, sleeping in a tent was just fine! Building a campfire, cooking over the blazing coals, eating perfectly seared and perfectly spiced foods was THE way to spend some quality time with friends and family! Then, when I hit 23 years old, I realized what a fool I'd been for offering my fair white body up for all the voracious mosquitoes, chiggers, ticks and bugs! Being the banquet meal, in MY opinion, is not the way to spend my precious and usually very limited vacations! Give me a decent motel (notice I didn't/don't insist on a GOOD motel or even a hotel, pains! LOL! I am willing to 'rough it' that far, at least!) and I will be perfectly content as long as the air conditioner works and the pool is open!

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@DaddyEvil (174208)

• United States

6 Nov 16

@PainsOnSlate I understand, pains, but I can see your husband's point of view, too! Just because the bears are really looking for your food stash doesn't mean they won't attack you or your husband to get it, even if they are mistaken about where you've hidden the foods! If you are interested, I can tell you another way to keep biting insects completely off your body... Buy a bottle of the B Complex vitamins. You want the ones that are a dark yellow and the size that would choke a horse! (I think those are the ones that are 250 mg, but can't be sure without looking for my bottle of them.) Take one B Complex vitamin at breakfast and another just after lunch. You will pee dark yellow all day, but the bugs won't even crawl on your skin until after you've peed all the Complex B vitamins out of your system!

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