Camping's all white, but you can keep it

WA Today ^ | January 9, 2012

[SJackson]

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Wouldn't get away with that headline in the US. As to G. A. Cohen even used camping as an analogy for why socialism is still the ideal way to organise society., maybe, we can all be socialists on vacation and take an all inclusive cruse. With no add ons. Or similar resort. And let the capitalists make money.

[Lazamataz]

Good Lord. What is this wuss gonna do when the whole world goes Mad Max?

[NYTexan]

The outdoors would be great if it weren’t for all that damn nature out there!

[SJackson]

The author is talking about vacations. We can’t all do an Obama/Pelosi Hawaii trek. I guess camping vacationers will be prepared, though I’ll hang with the deer camp guys.

[PowderMonkey]

"Glamping"? Australia? Jeepers!...

[Uncle Ike]

I concluded years ago that “Having to put on shoes to get to the ice machine” is about as ‘roughing it’ as I care to get....

;)

[xp38]

He will have to deal with Wez

[Puckster]

Indluding the “wuss” you beat me to it.

Such a sheltered child he is.

[beandog]

I agree with you. It was fun camping when I was a kid, tried it once as an adult and hated it.

[Minn]

I guess there’s some point in there somewhere that pulls the title together with the content of the piece. But damned if I know what it is.

[cripplecreek]

The trick is to find a place with decent bathrooms and showers.

[SamAdams76]

Here is the link to the article on camping mentioned in this piece. Hilarious but mostly true.

I did my share of sleeping under the stars when I was in the Marine Corps. I spent more than a few nights dragging my sleeping back out onto the desert floor in the Mojave desert to watch the starry skies and hoping that scorpions don't crawl into my boots while I sleep.

I kind of liked camping out back then because the alternative was sleeping in a crowded, hot tent listening to other Marines scratching themselves and snoring all night.

Since getting out of service, camping with the family is not so much fun. Listening to my sons whine about mosquito bites and having to walk everywhere. Getting up in the cold morning to get the coffee heated up and breakfast ready, feeling scuzzy for lack of hot showers. Trying to keep the bugs and animals away from the food. No thanks, the closest I'll get to real camping is renting a cabin or an RV.

[dfwgator]

ROTFLMAO!

[ctdonath2]

For many, camping is the only way to afford a vacation.

[raybbr]

[ctdonath2]

Knife, firestarter, meds. I'm ready to camp!

[freeangel]

“What is this wuss gonna do when the whole world goes Mad Max?”

LOL I imagine he will long for the good ole days of turndowns and mints on the pillows.

[gaijin]

Tanveer Ahmed is a psychiatrist and Herald columnist.

A guy from a brown country full of blowing sand and devoid of infrastructure wrote this...?

[raybbr]