Any kind of camping… except in the pouring rain where the water is coming into the tent.
PS Oh yeah and when bears are sniffing around the tent while you are in it. Or in one case fleeing another campsite and jumping over your guyline to climb a tree overhead. Yeah and moose in rut. They are actually more dangerous than bears then.
@Kidsandliz@Lynnerizer I don’t think how freaking big they are is going to register in my brain until I see a picture of a person next to a moose for comparison. (It could be Photoshopped with them at the same scale; I’m not that mean.)
@Kidsandliz@Lynnerizer Aren’t they like 8 feet tall? That’s closer to an elephant than a horse, i think. Their legs look really long; I wonder if I (5 feet tall) could walk under one.
@xobzoo I wonder how the bot can do a passable job on the fine details of things like trees and clouds but can’t seem to get human limbs and fingers right?
@macromeh@xobzoo I dunno. That looks suspiciously like another hilltop peeking over the left end of the foreground branch, and the rest of the branch is pretty sus, too. As for the tent, it looks more like a mimic to me.
@macromeh Maybe it’s us humans who have it wrong — maybe we focus in on details like the number and shape of fingers, but completely gloss over the number and shape of tree limbs?
(I do think I’m probably more forgiving on natural scenes, since I don’t expect symmetry and certain humanness. And our brains are pretty good at identifying specific humans, which relies on us being very familiar with the “baseline” human shape.)
@macromeh@werehatrack Is that the D&D mimic you’re thinking of? That’s a horrifying thought… and a new wandering monster to add to my campaign (pretending I ever get back to that).
…the adventurers settle in the for the night in a quiet area. The poor forest gnome illusionist takes 1st watch, but then gets swallowed while arranging his bedding before waking up the 2nd watch.…
The kind of camping when you’re drinking ice cold water from the stream that’s running down the side of the mountain you’re climbing, sleeping under the stars, hanging from the trees in a hammock while cozied up in a down sleeping bag! Then waking up to a hot breakfast cooked on the campfire before continuing up the mountain where the air is so thick that my teenage lungs are hurting as I looked out at the most spectacular view!
“THAT’S” THE BEST KIND OF CAMPING!
We like to go camping as a family… mostly car camping. But a few years ago we found a place called https://www.thetreehousecamp.com/ and it’s pretty much offgrid glamping. It’s about an hour away in beautiful country. We get a cottage for a few nights and put our feet up. No electric or water, but a big wood stove and a spacious campsite makes everything work great. The Antietam battlefield is nearby and that is a humbling experience, but a must see.
@capnjb I like to stay in this one state park in WV that has actual log cabins that were built during FDR’s flurry of work programs in the early 1930s. They’re only available April-October because there’s no insulation, but they do have a kitchen and bathroom. There’s no phone, TV, or Wi-Fi. The park has bare-basics cabins like yours, but the log cabins are rustic enough for me.
My aunt’s parents owned a group of cabins in the Catskills. My whole extended family camped there the last week of August every year for a decade. No phones, no A/C, campfire cooking with smores every night.
@2many2no HAHA my sister says Holiday Inn Express is roughing it… And we spent our childhood car camping with an apache tent top trailer once we graduated from a family of 5 sleeping in a station wagon to a family of 6.
Is staying at a hotel considered camping?
@kjady Yes
@kjady Sure, just give it a trendy name like “hamping”.
@awk @kjady you’re just one letter off
Camping camping.
No camping is the best kind of camping.
In a Pimped-out Super Deluxe Motor Home baby!!
/image Deluxe Motor Home
@IndifferentDude I’d consider camping in that, but nothing less.
@lisagd That one is REALLY Pimped out!! Just looked it up and it’s 1.2 Million Big Ones!!
Here’s a link with lotsa pics (wish I could afford one!!):
https://www.rvt.com/Foretravel-Motorcoach-Foretravel-Realm-Presidential-Luxury-2023-Alvarado-TX-ID10259589-UX50219
Not camping.
@shahnm or camping inside, especially during winter
winter! best way for the guys way to get away from the wives and kids. you can invite them, and they won’t come
@spacemart replace the first word with “toilet” to get an everyday alone time.
Any kind of camping… except in the pouring rain where the water is coming into the tent.
PS Oh yeah and when bears are sniffing around the tent while you are in it. Or in one case fleeing another campsite and jumping over your guyline to climb a tree overhead. Yeah and moose in rut. They are actually more dangerous than bears then.
@Kidsandliz
At around 12 years old I was totally in awe when I saw my first moose, I never knew they were SO HUGE!
@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer I don’t think how freaking big they are is going to register in my brain until I see a picture of a person next to a moose for comparison. (It could be Photoshopped with them at the same scale; I’m not that mean.)
@lisagd @Lynnerizer They are bigger than horses.
@Kidsandliz @Lynnerizer Aren’t they like 8 feet tall? That’s closer to an elephant than a horse, i think. Their legs look really long; I wonder if I (5 feet tall) could walk under one.
@Kidsandliz @lisagd @Lynnerizer I found this:
@lisagd @Lynnerizer The question is not whether or not you could walk under one… it is whether or not you could walk under one and remain in one piece.
@lisagd @Lynnerizer
Camping is great until the cops show up and start tearing down the shantytown you spent weeks building.
@tweezak you are very liberal with your definition of camping.
@hchavers @tweezak If Texas officialdom can call it “camping”, so can anybody else. (As in “Camping on any public right-of way is prohibited.”)
@hchavers I used to camp under couch cushions in our living room when I was a kid. Maybe I was in training.
Tent camping, of course.
/showme the best kind of camping
@mediocrebot Good bot.
@xobzoo I wonder how the bot can do a passable job on the fine details of things like trees and clouds but can’t seem to get human limbs and fingers right?
@macromeh @xobzoo I dunno. That looks suspiciously like another hilltop peeking over the left end of the foreground branch, and the rest of the branch is pretty sus, too. As for the tent, it looks more like a mimic to me.
@macromeh Maybe it’s us humans who have it wrong — maybe we focus in on details like the number and shape of fingers, but completely gloss over the number and shape of tree limbs?
(I do think I’m probably more forgiving on natural scenes, since I don’t expect symmetry and certain humanness. And our brains are pretty good at identifying specific humans, which relies on us being very familiar with the “baseline” human shape.)
@macromeh @werehatrack Is that the D&D mimic you’re thinking of? That’s a horrifying thought… and a new wandering monster to add to my campaign (pretending I ever get back to that).
…the adventurers settle in the for the night in a quiet area. The poor forest gnome illusionist takes 1st watch, but then gets swallowed while arranging his bedding before waking up the 2nd watch.…
@macromeh @xobzoo Yes, it is.
The kind of camping when you’re drinking ice cold water from the stream that’s running down the side of the mountain you’re climbing, sleeping under the stars, hanging from the trees in a hammock while cozied up in a down sleeping bag! Then waking up to a hot breakfast cooked on the campfire before continuing up the mountain where the air is so thick that my teenage lungs are hurting as I looked out at the most spectacular view!
“THAT’S” THE BEST KIND OF CAMPING!
@Lynnerizer At least, until the giardia symptoms hit…
@Lynnerizer @werehatrack you have to drink enough alcohol to kill all the bacteria and then it’s all good. That’s the best camping.
@tweezak @werehatrack
I’ve always been one to live dangerously!
I’ll be happy with any camping as long as people will take the whole “silent hours” thing seriously and let me sleep
In every camping trip there’s always one guy/group that talks in the campground at night—and at night, sound travels far
@heartbleed And that’s if the campground isn’t overrun with pagans who are intent on keeping their drum circle going 24/7…
“Fancy Hotels” are my favorite type of camping.
We like to go camping as a family… mostly car camping. But a few years ago we found a place called https://www.thetreehousecamp.com/ and it’s pretty much offgrid glamping. It’s about an hour away in beautiful country. We get a cottage for a few nights and put our feet up. No electric or water, but a big wood stove and a spacious campsite makes everything work great. The Antietam battlefield is nearby and that is a humbling experience, but a must see.
@capnjb I like to stay in this one state park in WV that has actual log cabins that were built during FDR’s flurry of work programs in the early 1930s. They’re only available April-October because there’s no insulation, but they do have a kitchen and bathroom. There’s no phone, TV, or Wi-Fi. The park has bare-basics cabins like yours, but the log cabins are rustic enough for me.
@capnjb This is the one I stayed in this year.
@lisagd That looks great!
Where in WV is it? I’m not too far away.
Hampton Inn
None. None camping.
My aunt’s parents owned a group of cabins in the Catskills. My whole extended family camped there the last week of August every year for a decade. No phones, no A/C, campfire cooking with smores every night.
Wilderness camping was the best thing ever when I was a teen.
Now all my campsites have to have Hilton in the name.
@2many2no HAHA my sister says Holiday Inn Express is roughing it… And we spent our childhood car camping with an apache tent top trailer once we graduated from a family of 5 sleeping in a station wagon to a family of 6.
The hotel kind
@Star2236
pitching a tent in a hotel lobby will generally result in some weird comments and/or a visit from the local constables.
@chienfou @Star2236 Sleeping in the middle of the hotel lobby floor is not recommended unless you’re Andre the Giant. (It happened.)
@Star2236 @werehatrack
that’s cool. On a side note… I worked with him once.
@chienfou @werehatrack
That’s really cool. Was he nice? When we were little my friends neighbor looked identical to him.