Camping is kind of a skill. Throwing together the equipment and going to a park is technically camping. But unless you’re very lucky, it’s probably gonna suck.
Let me preface by saying that my friends and I all have experience camping and know relatively well what we are doing. So we all went to the same college after highschool though we all met outside of school and were from all over our state which was pretty cool. Anyway 3 of us decide to go camping on some local land to look at stars and smoke a little weed, good times yk. Only we all come to realize we have very little camping supplies without driving the hours it will take to get it from any of our parents and we have very little money. So we decided to just tough it out, fuck it we ball. I cannot stress enough how bad of any idea this is, don’t do this. We essentially brought a large tent, some snacks, some weed, and one of us was smart enough to bring a pillow (me). The night itself was wonderful, the weather was great and the skies were clear so we talked and stargazed for hours until they started getting tired.
So we file into the tent and it takes a moment before one of us says “yo did we bring anything to sleep on?”. No. No we did not. Cold hard ground it is. This sucked but I could live with it, I’ve done it before. Except, having never slept in the same room as them I was unaware that the both snore, one of them especially so when he is high. I could live with physical discomfort but the mental effort it took to not strangle them made sleep impossible for me. So around 4 am I gave up, grabbed some more weed, stepped outside, and smoked as much as I could while laying in some surprisingly comfortable tall grass looking at stars.
I do not know how they both managed to pass out that night but I’m jealous of their ability. I should have known considering I am an insomniac (not hyperbole) that I would struggle to sleep in this situation but sometimes I am not very bright. All in all not the worst experience, I’d rate it like a 6/10 because the conversation and the stars were really nice. It would have been much better if we took even the smallest amount of time to plan any of it.
So plan your camping, it can still be a blast on a whim but it will be so much better when properly plotted
+1. The joy of camping (for me) is that your experience is directly related to your preparation. You plan your location, activities, meals, sleeping arrangements, and companions, doing all of the research and investment up front to make each of those work well, taking into account weather and conditions, and then you get to enjoy a trip where everything goes well with people you care about, with the satisfaction that the experience that you are having is the direct result of your actions.
Of course, the pain of camping is that any and all of the above can go wrong, and then, indeed, it’s probably gonna suck.
Camping is kind of a skill. Throwing together the equipment and going to a park is technically camping. But unless you’re very lucky, it’s probably gonna suck.
Let me preface by saying that my friends and I all have experience camping and know relatively well what we are doing. So we all went to the same college after highschool though we all met outside of school and were from all over our state which was pretty cool. Anyway 3 of us decide to go camping on some local land to look at stars and smoke a little weed, good times yk. Only we all come to realize we have very little camping supplies without driving the hours it will take to get it from any of our parents and we have very little money. So we decided to just tough it out, fuck it we ball. I cannot stress enough how bad of any idea this is, don’t do this. We essentially brought a large tent, some snacks, some weed, and one of us was smart enough to bring a pillow (me). The night itself was wonderful, the weather was great and the skies were clear so we talked and stargazed for hours until they started getting tired.
So we file into the tent and it takes a moment before one of us says “yo did we bring anything to sleep on?”. No. No we did not. Cold hard ground it is. This sucked but I could live with it, I’ve done it before. Except, having never slept in the same room as them I was unaware that the both snore, one of them especially so when he is high. I could live with physical discomfort but the mental effort it took to not strangle them made sleep impossible for me. So around 4 am I gave up, grabbed some more weed, stepped outside, and smoked as much as I could while laying in some surprisingly comfortable tall grass looking at stars.
I do not know how they both managed to pass out that night but I’m jealous of their ability. I should have known considering I am an insomniac (not hyperbole) that I would struggle to sleep in this situation but sometimes I am not very bright. All in all not the worst experience, I’d rate it like a 6/10 because the conversation and the stars were really nice. It would have been much better if we took even the smallest amount of time to plan any of it.
So plan your camping, it can still be a blast on a whim but it will be so much better when properly plotted
+1. The joy of camping (for me) is that your experience is directly related to your preparation. You plan your location, activities, meals, sleeping arrangements, and companions, doing all of the research and investment up front to make each of those work well, taking into account weather and conditions, and then you get to enjoy a trip where everything goes well with people you care about, with the satisfaction that the experience that you are having is the direct result of your actions.
Of course, the pain of camping is that any and all of the above can go wrong, and then, indeed, it’s probably gonna suck.