looks great!
I wish all of the campgrounds up here were not over run by noisy chattering dancing monkeys

 

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Yeah... Neighbors can make or, definitely, break a camping trip... We try as much as possible to shop around for low load camp grounds when we make reservations...

 

Welcome, qlcantu! Glad you found us. Looks like you're making the most of your Patriot.

Glampers! I just learned a new word. However, I understood the definition from an experience my Wife and I had some years ago. We'd done a week of primitive camping and whitewater canoeing between campsites on the St. John River in northern Maine. The last day we got to Allagash where we had a campsite with the modern convenience of an outhouse (that was older than we were). Don't ya know along comes what you call a glamper -- a perfectly nice older couple with a luxurious camper -- when they put up the awning with the string of lights around the fringe our little group laughed so hard we were in tears. Maybe it was just the exhaustion of a week on the river and some early summer heat, but it stands as the best belly laugh I've had since puberty.

 

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Hi Ignatz… Our philosophy has always been that if you're not in a tent you're not camping - Maybe you're RV'ing or 5th-Wheeling or whatever you want to call it but it's not camping. That doesn't mean you can't have creature comforts... The fan in our tent might be battery powered but it's still a fan... (Plus all the camping gizmos, whatchamacallits and stuff I can assemble feed my Tim-the-toolman side...)

We're always looking forward to our next trip...

 

Went primitive camping on private property in Virginia recently.







Basically set up camp friday, did Peter's Mill Run saturday, then packed up sunday. Still in the figuring out what works best for me stage of my setup, it's a bit "glampy", but it was nice to have a hot meal at the end of the day.

Lots of neat camp setups there; a couple ground tents, a few rooftop tents and one guy who slept in the back of his KL. I personally had an Alps Mountaineering tent with an Ozark privacy shelter, and slept on a Thermarest Ridge Rest with a sleeping bag. Kinda wished the bag was larger but otherwise it was actually the best night's rest I've had in maybe years. :surprise:

 

Hi Flameware… Gorgeous camping area... Doesn't look glampy to me - looks just right! I like the little privy tent... I've almost pulled the trigger on getting one of those a couple of times in the past... How big is the carry bag for yours? Although the campgrounds we frequent all have bathrooms and most have hot/cold showers, at 3:00 o'clock in the morning it'd be nice to take care of business without having to walk down the road or stumble off into the surrounding woods...

 

I have the "instant" pop-up version, it doesn't pack very small. It's about the same as my camp chair and table, so around four and a half, maybe five feet, if I had to guess. Pretty easy to set up though.