FYI Camping as it was...

[Joe Hogan]

in the old days

 

[lostinfla]

Been there. No thanks. I'm too old and non pliable to be sleeping on the ground anymore, (without AC)

 

[MemoriesByTheMile]

Why is that considered the old days? Still see people in tents and still see people using campfires.
Big difference between camping and traveling.
We are definitely in the traveling group and NOT in the camping group. Love our creature comforts a bit too much and the idea of sleeping on lumpy ground is not something I would pay to do as fun activity.

 

[Rollin Ollen]

Back in the day we used to do some back packing into the wilderness, That ended when the wife said "Unless you pack a flush toilet and a hot water shower with us, I'm not going". So started our RV life.

 

[Rosy]

Back in the day we used to do some back packing into the wilderness, That ended when the wife said "Unless you pack a flush toilet and a hot water shower with us, I'm not going". So started our RV life.

I would have just left her at home.

 

[Kevin D Pem]

Why is that considered the old days? Still see people in tents and still see people using campfires

You answered that for yourself!
Young=tents, and well . . .
Old = well a distant memory, for some!

Even if I know many transiting back to the younger "Old days!" Guess it depends on how you see yourself!

 

[DennisT]

Just had vintage motorcycle races at mid Ohio a week or so ago.

There were six guys that road their motorcycles from Canada, crossed at the falls.

They had tents, camping chairs, etc along with cooking equipment packed on those bikes. They were trail and road bikes.

These were not younger gentlemen either

So there are still those that do but, being full timers now, no way you are getting the a/c or dishwasher away from us.

 

[Boat Bum]

I have a hard enough time getting up from the ground under ideal conditions; sigh...

 

[Holdmybeer]

I often see families tent camping at State Parks. No TV, no A/C and it always seems they're having a really good time.

 

[DennisT]

I often see families tent camping at State Parks. No TV, no A/C and it always seems they're having a really good time.

Growing up we did tent camping all the time. Blowing up our air mattresses with nothing but lungs, swimming and fishing in the lakes, having to eat a whole 1/2 gallon of ice cream because dad wanted some and no freezer, and so on.

The technology we left at home consisted of three television channels and rotary phones - didn’t miss those at all.

We always had a good time. It was really nice when we upgraded to the pop up tent camper though.

 

[JBright11]

We tent camped for 11 years when we owned our boat. Blow up mattresses, battery powered ceiling fans, pump up lanterns and a couple of gigantic coolers. Great memories.

Sold the boat, reluctantly, but just didn't have the time with job changes and all that comes with getting older. Bought a used 26' TT several years later and camped on annual vacations and weekends for several years as time allowed.

More job changes and the explosion of technology that allows for remote work allowed us to trade the TT in on our Bay Star and now I don't need to be on vacation to travel. It is so much easier to just throw some things in the coach and hit the road. Starlink and mobile options keep me connected and productive while roaming around.

I don't think I could go backwards now if I tried, but I sure wouldn't trade each step in this journey for anything else.

 

[purring along]

We started tent camping while traveling on our motorcycle before pulling a time out camper behind the bike. The memories are great, but after purchasing the first motorhome in 2014 I will just call it memories.

 

[John&Andrea]

The tent camping in the day for us was fun. Heck I think our daughter was potty trained on a toddler potty in the woods.
The first thing we did when we bought the Concord was buy a new mattress. Nuf said.

 

[team bradfield]

spent our honeymoon (2 weeks) in a tent in the Shawnee national forest, 3 kids later, we had so much camping gear, 3 room tent, screenhouse, various cooking methods, coolers, air mattresses, chairs, tables, fishing gear, kids toys . we went looking for a utility trailer to carry it all, tired of loading/unloading. Wife said why don't we look at a TT, the rest is history, loved those days

 

[Neal]

I really enjoyed tent camping and hiking in my youth. Then I learned about bears. That ended.

 

[lostinfla]

Brings me back to our introduction to "camping". We had a boat and used it less and less, then the wife said, "why don't we sell the boat and go camping?" I said "I'm not sleeping in a tent anymore", and she said, "no, we can get a small camper". At this time, the economy was stagnant and nothing was selling, so I confidently said, sure. As soon as we sell the boat, we can look at campers. I put the boat up on Craigslist on a Thursday, a guy called on Saturday and it left on Sunday. The wife had already picked out a 18' Palomino Puma pull behind that she saw on Craigslist, we looked at it Sunday night and Monday afternoon it was sitting where the boat used to sit behind the house. We lovingly called it "The Cramper". Went camping at a park about 5 miles from the house just to make sure we had everything covered, and at that point, we were hooked. Over the next 12 years, traded that for a Jayco class C, then for a Baystar 32', and finally (hopefully) the 37' DS. After 10 years with the DS, I couldn't imagine "down sizing" and losing all the amenities that have spoiled us.

 

[John&Andrea]

I told Jim recently I didn’t really didn’t get into Glamping but three TVs, AC, now Starlink and all the other things. We do not do this to “rough it “ any more. Not to mention electricity and water on site. Now it’s hard to stay somewhere with out FHU.
I remember at a site back in the late 80’s cooking on the Coleman stove and I realize, there is electricity on the site. It all started changing then.
Good memories but I think we all like our comforts these days.

 

[sanda]

I often see families tent camping at State Parks. No TV, no A/C and it always seems they're having a really good time.

They are having fun but they usually have cell service to keep the kids from getting 'bored '.