I enjoy certain aspects of camping. I won’t say it’s my favourite thing in the world, but there are things about it that I appreciate.
Things I like:
- Chats around campfires
- The lack of showers
- Drinking a beer or two (also around the campfire)
- Waking up in nature
- Seeing our kids playing together without electronics
Things I don’t like:
- Being either too cold or hot (in Yellowstone we were both: we went to bed too hot and woke up freezing)
- Biting insects
- Setting up tents in crappy weather
- Crappy weather in general
Here’s a quick video I recorded of our camping experience in Bryce Canyon (I’ll be talking more about this destination in a coming post):
In the US, at least, camping is really easy. Especially car camping: each site typically has its own fire pit and animal-proof storage unit (according to the local fauna – in Yellowstone it was bears, in Utah it has been either been desert foxes or organized gangs of killer squirrels). Everything is very convenient: you can…