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August 5, 2007

Camping?

I'm on vacation for the next two weeks - woot! This first week will be spent mostly at home since Dale is still working and then next week we will be at the Cape. While I have a very generous amount of vacation time, this is the only time of year that I take two consecutive weeks. It's wonderful, I tell you.

But perhaps it has gone to my head because I don't know what came over me on Friday morning but I called Dale at work and suggested a mini-camping trip for Sunday/Monday. We haven't camped in years and needed to update our equipment a bit. After scouring the garage and making a trip to the store for a new tent and stove, and stocking up on groceries and packing the knitting and the dog, I think we've got everything we need.

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Did I mention we're only going for one night? Go ahead, you can laugh now.

I'll be back on Tuesday. If I survive, that is.

Posted by Carole at August 5, 2007 10:00 AM

Comments

As a "camper" myself...I'd NEVER laugh! Have a wonderful trip!

Posted by: Robin in VA at August 5, 2007 10:15 AM

It would take more than that to get me camping...like a two-bedroom, two-bath RV with air conditioning! Have fun!

Posted by: Marcia Cooke at August 5, 2007 10:17 AM

Car camping rocks! Have fun.

Posted by: Kat at August 5, 2007 10:36 AM

Hooray for camping! Have an awesome time!

Posted by: sprite at August 5, 2007 10:38 AM

OMG, you forgot a wheel or two, and you clearly don't have enough totebags filled with knitting WIPs! Silly knitter - don't you know you're supposed to bring 10 hours of knitting for every 1 hour of actual time spent away? ;-)

Have fun!

P.S. I only camp in hotels.

Posted by: DebbieB at August 5, 2007 11:52 AM

LOL! I wouldn't go camping for love or money - so I suspect that's only a fraction of what I'd have to take...building materials, mosquito netting, etc.
But I know how much a lot of folks enjoy "roughing it!"
Have fun!
(((hugs)))

Posted by: Knitnana at August 5, 2007 11:59 AM

I would never laugh. The incremental increase in stuff you would need to camp for a week vs. one night is surprisingly small. Have a great time! I love the feel of outdoor night air when I go to bed at a campsite and when I wake in the morning. (The walk to the bathrooms @ 3am, not so much.)

Posted by: kmkat at August 5, 2007 12:17 PM

That doesn't look too bad. I see you took the important things...knitting and dog! LOL

Posted by: Lynette at August 5, 2007 12:55 PM

Have fun! You are brave to camp -- even for one night.

Posted by: Kathy at August 5, 2007 1:30 PM

I absolutely will not laugh. I pack just like that when we camp. In fact, I had a table exactly like the one in your car! We have cool camping taste!

Posted by: Susan at August 5, 2007 2:07 PM

Have a great time!

Posted by: Amy at August 5, 2007 2:25 PM

I'm quite envious! Have a super time.

Posted by: margene at August 5, 2007 2:31 PM

Ok, I am laughing, but then I am evil, what can I say! :-) Actually last weekend, I went up with some friends to a cabin last weekend and we brought up so much stuff, you would have though we were gone for a week!

Posted by: Wanda at August 5, 2007 2:54 PM

Goodness, only overnight? All of a sudden I feel better about my overpacking tendencies...

Posted by: Chris at August 5, 2007 3:23 PM

Funny! I used to do the backcountry thing, carry it all on your back, walk miles, etc. Now, I camp like you, but with maybe a kayak or 3 on the top of the car and now the two dogs and a kid. Must be why it's more of a vacation to hang at home! And btw, you were an inspiration for me to ask the doc about an early screening for colonoscopy, went Fri, all ok.

Posted by: lisa at August 5, 2007 7:52 PM

hah - you pack like I do!
have fun my friend.... are you sure you took enough knitting?

Posted by: Teyani at August 5, 2007 9:59 PM

The amount of supplies required for camping is what keeps me from doing it. But I do "cottage." :) Hope you have a great time!

Posted by: Beth at August 5, 2007 10:11 PM

Yeah it kind of snowballs, doesn't it? Frightening.

Have fun! (and remember camping=more $$ for beer and lobster...) ;o)

Posted by: JessaLu at August 5, 2007 11:40 PM

Hope you had a great time! Enjoy your time off!

Posted by: Kelly at August 6, 2007 5:39 AM

I am not laughing. It takes almost as much in the way of supplies to camp for one day as it does to camp for a month (not that anyone has ever survived camping for a whole month).

Hope you had a great time.

Posted by: jessie at August 6, 2007 5:49 AM

Hehe. Hope you had fun! Weather was perfect yesterday- but today? Hoping the rain misses you.

Posted by: Manise at August 6, 2007 6:27 AM

Oh no, I'm not laughing. That is nothing compared to what my husband brings for camping weekends. He is ready for the apocalypse.

Enjoy your time off. I will be doing the same starting Friday for two weeks. I CANT WAIT!!!

Posted by: Donna at August 6, 2007 6:47 AM

Have fun!!

Posted by: Karen at August 6, 2007 6:59 AM

i don't camp or do but only when others are in charge. i wouldn't know what is appropriate to bring or not.

Posted by: maryse at August 6, 2007 7:03 AM

Yup, looks like all the proper supplies are well laid up. And you can always note that you NEED to bring lots of fire wood - it's simple much too expensive to buy it at campgrounds, and you usually aren't allowed to cut your own onsite anymaore... and it's the firewood as takes up most of the room, right? Anyhoo, hope you have a grand time. (Just got back from two weeks of vacation myself, so I can appreciate. Now, if only I had time to get all those pics out of my camera...)

Posted by: Chris H at August 6, 2007 7:18 AM

please don't tell me you are drving out back and setting up in the back yard.

Posted by: blogless sharon at August 6, 2007 8:58 AM

Have fun!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Kim at August 6, 2007 9:07 AM

Hey, that's how I like to camp!

Posted by: Erin at August 6, 2007 9:28 AM

You're both reenactors. This should be a piece of cake. No laughs here. Only jealousy (as usual). Hubby joined the Navy so he always had a bed, his meals cooked for him, a bathroom, and central air. Girls and I love camping but only go when he's away and the next time is November- I dobn't camp in the freezing cold!

Posted by: Lisa Castellano at August 6, 2007 10:07 AM

Ha! Your car reminds me of the first time I went camping with my husband! Huge Rubbermaid containers and coolers and a coal starter thingy - awww, the days of car camping were fun!

Posted by: elizabeth at August 6, 2007 10:21 AM

It looks like you packed light to me. Of course, that may be because my idea of camping is staying in a hotel that doesn't offer room service. I have camping trauma from school trips in my teens and have sworn that I'm not EVER CAMPING AGAIN.

Posted by: liz at August 6, 2007 11:03 AM

And may I aasume that's mostly knitting and doggie supplies? Have a great time!

Posted by: Carol at August 6, 2007 12:31 PM

What?! No spinning wheel?!?! ;)

Posted by: Jessica at August 6, 2007 4:43 PM

I can not laugh. I'm entirely certain that my husband would probably pack even more than that for one night.

Posted by: Paula at August 6, 2007 5:49 PM

I can not laugh. I'm entirely certain that my husband would probably pack even more than that for one night.

Posted by: Paula at August 6, 2007 5:49 PM

I can not laugh. I'm entirely certain that my husband would probably pack even more than that for one night.

Posted by: Paula at August 6, 2007 5:49 PM

Hey, you might as well bring what will allow you to have a good time, right? Otherwise, why go at all?

Posted by: Rachel at August 6, 2007 8:15 PM

I'm laughing. How much knitting did you bring?

Posted by: Laurie at August 7, 2007 6:14 AM

That's funny..a few summers ago, JR and I decided a fun way to spend some summer weekends would be to camp. We have spent the last two years collecting tent, sleeping bags, camp stove, lantern, pots and pans from garage sales, etc, etc. Know what? We camped once...in our back yard! But, I do like the thought that if we ever did want to go, we have all the stuff ready to load into the pickup!

Posted by: Lynne at August 7, 2007 1:01 PM

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