FYI Camping as it was...

[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 '.