I like camping. I have not done it since 1999, except that I lived in my auto over 780 days from 2000 to 2002. I used to go camping in Georgia to see a butterfly house, also visited the northern Georgia mountains. Some people in the military in the beginning of the 1990s did not like those camping exercises in the forest, but I enjoyed those, although it was a winter then. I have always like the nature, listening leaves, wind, bird singing or just by enjoying a cup of coffee in the morning sunrise on the shore of a lake. In this summer I would like to go camping. I have a good backpack and a Czech military sleeping bag for it. Do you like camping?
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I used to love camping when I lived in Tennessee. There was this place in the Great Smokey Mountains where me and my friends would go in the fall. It was beautiful and isolated.
We’d go canoeing, fishing, build bonfires. Very good memories there!
Camping in Texas just doesn’t work out the same. The 100 F heat kinda kills the mood lol.
Blessings,
Anthony
I’ve only camped a few times in my life, all when I was an adult.
Can’t say that I enjoy sleeping on the ground, but I very much like the outdoors.
We didn’t have heat in our house for 2years, I slept in a sleeping bag to keep warm.
I used to camp as a youth. I am a bit frightened of tics though
It been awhile since I have been camping. In my younger days I spent a lot of time backpacking. Now I live where lots of people comes to camp. I have a place for a bonfire So when I feel like camping I turn off all the lights and go outside to sit under the stars. I can’t see any man made lights from my house. I guess you can say I camp at home.
From the country Ridgerunner
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I love camping! We go a couple of times every summer. Can’t wait to go again.
I drove two times from Miami to Los Angeles or San Francisco and then back to Miami. I went through Texas few times. In Feb 2001 I was very tired and I slept in my sleeping bag near Dallas. Basically I slept some 780 nights on the front seat of my auto and then one month on the lawns of Miami Beach before I flew to Brussels in May 2002. It was funny when the airline person told that I had an around-trip ticket, but my passport became obsolete in few weeks. It was less expensive to purchase the around-trip ticket than just a one-way ticket.
I love camping! Me and my mum couldnt afford self catering when i was young so we went camping and When I was 13 my dad and I started going on a yearly backpacking trek, we would go anywhere with mountains, moors and just general wilderness that happened every year until my last trek when I became ill at 16, I’m starting again this year and can’t wait! I love the smell of dew on the grass and the smell of fresh rain and the sound of rain on my tent, just being out there among the elements makes me feel at one!
Those are some amazing travels! What brought you to the US to stay so long?
Blessings,
Anthony
I loved camping when I was little with my family. The biggest problem when we went camping I always got really sunburned,
I love the Great Smoky Mountains! Words just can’t describe the beauty of those mountains. I always felt like we were hiking through the enchanted forest up there. 
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Back in 1989 I went to study at a business school in Michigan, then in 1990-91 I completed my Master’s thesis in Atlanta, then in 1992 I got married in Atlanta, then in 2000 there was a divorce after which I lived in my auto over two years in many places. My physical condition started deteriorating quite a lot after two years in auto and then I took a flight to Europe in May 2002. It was fantastic to walk in Brussels at night and listen the European hymn *Ode to Joy’ at the main square of Brussels. And so on and so on …
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Nothing prettier than the fall colors in the Smokies.
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I used to love camping a great deal. I haven’t done it since my stint of being homeless and it was forced camping everyday. But I tried it again a few weekends ago and we got rained out. My kid sis bundled up in blankets, got a book, a thermos of hot coco and refused to even leave the car. She and all her gear stayed dry. My brother and I tried to pitch the tent in the rain and wind. My sis always was the smart one.
But after we had enough rain and wind and no fire and no food, my brother had booked a hotel room and I caught cold. But it was still OK. It was one of the few times my middle brother and I had a chance to really sit down and talk and open up a bit.
We are planning another camping adventure a little later on in the early summer. I’m very much looking forward to it. I’m working on trying to recapture my love of stuff I used to do.
Maybe I go camping in this summer, I should get a tent somehow.
I used to love to go backpacking. Me and some of my friends used to go backpacking in the Arkansas Ozarks in a true wilderness area. One time we found the remains of an old prospector’s camp - a shoe, a kettle, and some scraps of old newspaper dated 1906. He was prospecting for diamonds. There are a few diamonds in Arkansas. When I went backpacking I always wanted to get completely away from any sign of civilization. Now that I’m on med’s I can’t really go backpacking, because my body can’t take the weather if it gets bad. What a drag.
Same here, at least from sometime in May till around beginning of October …I can see lights in winter…none at all in summer.
Last time I camped in a tent was 2008, but again I kind of camp at home.
From my window…
Summer
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Years of scouts and parents obsessed with caravanning after. Has to put me off for life. Give me a nice hotel room any time. .
Sure, I love camping in the Sierras. Camping and fishing and hiking.
oh I was raised camping and scuba diving with my family until I was about 12. Later camping involved bluegrass festivals and that was such a blast but all my friends from college I went with are now settled with families so I haven’t gone since right before I got sick. I miss camping. and the lakes.