What I learned from camping:
- It’s best to spoil yourself
when camping: steak and salmon for dinners and the like. It helps if
you pack a Master Chef with you for just such an occasion. This is why
I take my husband with me. - Coffee tastes better percolated outside.
- Full moons are just as bright as the dawn.
- Also bring with you a pyro. They make the best campfires (um, my husband again).
- Watching a lake shimmer in the sun is better than DVR.
- Fires are hypnotic.
- If lit on fire, marshmallows are excellent carriers of fire and can easily ignite other items such as sweatshirts and chairs.
- The only time hot dogs taste good is cooked on an open fire.
- You
get a lot of exercise just doing everyday things, like walking up to
the bathrooms, taking out the trash, and hiking, so packing things like
chips, hot chocolate, and the makings for s’mores is okay. - I can get dressed laying down.
- At
night, that walk up to the bathrooms can’t be bothered with. Squatting
behind the tent is fine. Pack toilet paper and hand sanitizer. - No
matter how clean the showers are and if they get hot water, nothing
will feel so good as a steamy shower in your own bathroom when you get
home (followed by a good night’s sleep in your bed rather than an air
mattress that you suspect is losing air). - The Creator God
must really love us to give us these trees and water and deer nibbling
by and yellow and blue and orange butterflies fluttering this way and
that and grasshoppers playing along the path. - The last one I’ll tell you in another post. I will tell you this: it has to do with fire.
