We just went camping with my family.
So my question every single year since we have been camping is this: What are we thinking??
I decided to a pros and cons list about camping, then maybe then it will all make sense.
Cons:
Pros:
However, that one "pro" trumps all the cons and will cause us to the same thing next year, and the next year and the next. Yes we will endure all the "cons" each year because whether we are laughing because we are miserably soaking wet, biking through quaking aspens, seeing a moose for the first time, sleeping... or not sleeping, we are making memories with the ones we love.
And that truly makes it all worth it.
So my question every single year since we have been camping is this: What are we thinking??
I decided to a pros and cons list about camping, then maybe then it will all make sense.
Cons:
- It's a lot of work
- A lot of shopping, preparing food, preparing bedding, and packing.
- Packing food, packing bedding, packing clothing packing the tent, chairs, medicine, bandaids, toiletries, activities and so on
- If you have kids or a dog, you are on the lookout constantly making sure they don't fall in a hole or whatever.
- We spend so much time cooking, cleaning, putting up the tent
- Defending ourselves against bugs
- Feeling disgusting and willing to kill for a shower
- The only way to feel clean is to wash dishes to get the dirt out of our fingernails. However, you have to go get the water, heat the water in order to experience such luxury
- Relieving oneself, you must enter into deplorable conditions, but the other choice is the experiencing nature to the fullest and relieving yourself there.
- Cramped in a small enclosure sleeping on air mattresses who loose their breathe by the time early morning comes. (Marc and I slept on two mattresses and woke up in a taco. We were flat on the ground while the mattresses were winged up on both sides.)
- Whatever weather you are experiencing in civilization, it's a lot worse up in the mountains. And you deal with it. You can't go to your home that you left, you just do the best you can.
Pros:
- You are in nature and with the ones you love.
However, that one "pro" trumps all the cons and will cause us to the same thing next year, and the next year and the next. Yes we will endure all the "cons" each year because whether we are laughing because we are miserably soaking wet, biking through quaking aspens, seeing a moose for the first time, sleeping... or not sleeping, we are making memories with the ones we love.
And that truly makes it all worth it.
