Posted on 01/08/2012 1:01:25 PM PST by SJackson
Hear hear!
SSSSHHHHH! What is the matter with you???? ;-))
I've never been to OZ but from what I've seen on TV, there are just too many bugs and snakes and other lethal creatures out there for me, and I've spent a whole lot of years in the tropics.
What a whiner! Camping is fun! Take the right gear and food and you will not be cold, hungry, bored or cranky. We used to cook some great meals on an open fire, including steaks and shrimp. You won’t melt in the rain unless you’re the witch in a fairy tale. It’s only water, as I said ‘what a whiner!’. I love camping and wish we did it more now that the kids are grown.
No better way for a father and son to bond together than going camping.
After getting married 4 years ago, camping ended. My wife’s idea of roughing it is Holiday Inn.
I think that’s great. I’m a couple years short of you and still backpack, but my wife leaves that alone. Trailers and vans are fine. With the crazy luggage restrictions, I’d love to see a conversation about flying and camping/backpacking
Very few Africans and Central Americans live in Australia. Probably less than 0.5% of the population. The largest nonwhite ethnic minorities are aboriginal Australians, Vietnamese and Indians.
Camping is good for everybody. The key is having too many hungry kids at the site. Hungry kids in packs will do anything: collect every splinter of kindling and burnable wood and leaves, neaten up the whole campsite using branches as brooms, collect rocks to encircle the fire, everything in their power and imagination for those s’mores.
And no pooftahs!
He's Australian. I'm guessing fewer blacks and hispanics, and I don't know how the describe the native population.
Help me weld more spikes on the dune buggy.
Unless you try to do it with women, children, or pets; saddle stock that you haven't lived with for at least 5 years and can't control, anybody else that hasn't camped for at least a week in all kinds of weather and you are in an area where you might be able to see or hear another human and that is less than 1/2 day hard drive from the nearest lightbulb.
I think campgrounds are fine. I like the desert too, only time I’ve been to Vegas was cause they have an airport. Any what you mention, wildflowers, plateus, et all are great. As a midwest person, I’ll tolerate the mosquetos, mostly, rather than the snakes. And the hot springs scare me. Not cause of who has been in there, but who climbs in my ear. But isn’t that what camping, presuming that’s not what one does for a living, is about. Different experiences.
Max Max is a movie script that resembles nothing we've seen in history. Even Somalia is nothing like Mad Max.
Done backcountry, done old Holiday Inns. I prefer the former. Unless you're in the backcountry, you can bring a bar with you. Locks, no.
Used to worry about such things, but the desert is huuuuge, and people tend to cluster in very specific areas. The trick is to prevent the enviroweenies from regulating or shutting down the popular areas, as all that does is displace the weekend warriors out to the more remote areas starting the cycle again
Once they reached Boy Scout age, we did hiking/camping, mostly on segments of the AT.
My daughter liked it so well, she was an outdoor adventure instructor for her high school and for her college. My son joined the U.S. Marines, so it apparently didn't bother him either.
Since we've gotten heavily into dog trials, now we mostly are in a camper or staying in a motel nearby the trial site. But that's because we have 3 lively lady Labs to look after.
The Labs are first-class hikers - I put the Ecollars on them but that's just for insurance. My old mare was too much of a fussbudget and too tall to camp with (16.2 TB) but she loved foxhunting.
my wife thinks that camping is a hotel with no room service
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