Hello all! I'm new to the site, but have been an avid camper for decades. Began tent camping as a child in the 1950's through the 80s. Over the past few years my wonderful, outdoorsy wife and I have gone from pop-ups to a 34' MH (hated that one). Went from the MH to a 25' travel trailer (loved it, but was not what we wanted). Dropped down to a pop-up, slide-in truck camper, which just hurt and was a pain in the butt. Now we are back to where we both started, tent camping.
We realized on our last few trips, with both the trailer and the slide-in that we spent most of our time in the canopy screen room. With the slide-in, we also brought along a 14 x 8 ' tent, where we would go if the weather got more than a drizzle, but not a storm, to read or whatever. The slide-in was used if the weather got really bad (and it really did a few times) or we wanted to watch something on the laptop. So 90% of the time in the screen room, 5% in the tent, 5% in the camper. Camper lost out.
So here we are back. We like our tent, we can set it up in about 10 minutes. Canopy takes maybe 15 minutes. All the various crap I bring to make camping comfy (hey, I'm in my 60s now and want comfort :-) ) take another hour to set up. Over the years I've built a bunch of things and added things to make outdoors more homey for us. Solar system, inverter, an icemaker (no kidding, small and works great), queen sized neverflat air mattress that runs off the 12v system. Oh, and lest I forget, on demand hot water.
Yep, no backpacking for this old disabled guy, but my pickup gets us to the places we want to be. We like off the grid and are set up to do it.
So hello to all and thank you for allowing us to join your fine group. You guys have some great ideas!
dave and regina
We realized on our last few trips, with both the trailer and the slide-in that we spent most of our time in the canopy screen room. With the slide-in, we also brought along a 14 x 8 ' tent, where we would go if the weather got more than a drizzle, but not a storm, to read or whatever. The slide-in was used if the weather got really bad (and it really did a few times) or we wanted to watch something on the laptop. So 90% of the time in the screen room, 5% in the tent, 5% in the camper. Camper lost out.
So here we are back. We like our tent, we can set it up in about 10 minutes. Canopy takes maybe 15 minutes. All the various crap I bring to make camping comfy (hey, I'm in my 60s now and want comfort :-) ) take another hour to set up. Over the years I've built a bunch of things and added things to make outdoors more homey for us. Solar system, inverter, an icemaker (no kidding, small and works great), queen sized neverflat air mattress that runs off the 12v system. Oh, and lest I forget, on demand hot water.
Yep, no backpacking for this old disabled guy, but my pickup gets us to the places we want to be. We like off the grid and are set up to do it.
So hello to all and thank you for allowing us to join your fine group. You guys have some great ideas!
dave and regina
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