Camping, the smells, the quiet early mornings, getting up with the sun blazing on the tent canopy. These are things that make my heart soar. (not sour like I wrote the first time! :-D )
Coffee around a camp fire on a chilly morning, bacon sizzling in the pan, the light smoke from a smoldering fire. Yes, I have good memories. Since becoming a parent, and raising (now double-digit year old) kids, I have realized that not everyone enjoys camping.
These kids of mine like some aspects of camping, but not others. Sleeping in a tent, eating outdoors, lighting fires and some aspects they enjoy, but no electronics, nothing to do (“walking again??”), and no air conditioning are definite downsides to them. If you’ve ever been camping with friends who just didn’t want to be there, you can imagine what it’s like to drag along kids, who … just don’t wan’t to be there.
All things come to those who wait and either my kids will enjoy camping again, and desire to go, or they’ll leave home, and I’ll take my wife to some nicer “glamping” places around so that we can enjoy the good parts of being together, outdoors.
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