There is a thread that debated where is the "red line in the sand" of living at home and... camping. Many interesting opinions. Many who just do not understand what camping... really means to many of us.
Camping (short definition): Temporary lodging or shelter.
A log cabin off the grid, I consider "camping".
A tent out in the back yard of a residence for overflow of guests. "Camping".
A tent packed in along the Appalachian Trail on a three week hike. Camping.
A $200,000 RV parked at the Sandia Casino parking lot. Camping.
An Airstream parked at your relatives Ranch. Camping.
An Airstream hooked up at an RV Park with an Arcade, Theatre, Swimming Pool. Camping.
A day or month in the National Forest/BLM dry... camping.
Stranded along a gravel road waiting for help. Camping.
Hike (short definition): A walk.
A hike begins with the FIRST step and ends with the LAST step. There is NO minimum or maximum HIKE.
Camping, Boondocking, Rockdocking is a State of MIND. You could be in the Andes of South America within the wreckage of a Boeing 707 that crashed into a hanging glacier. Left for no survivors until one shows up after a period of time that there are survivors. (The soccer team some decades ago.) Camping.
IF your HOME and Residence is a trailer... you are not camping. If your trailer is your home and residence and you are moving... you ARE camping. Once you consider yourself at home, at any location... it is your state of mind that might consider this home... or merely a camp until a permanent place to stop is found.
If I ask you how "far is up"... who is correct? Same with camping. Some consider camping sleeping in the back of a pickup truck with sleeping bags and a shell for a roof. Expand that idea to this same vehicle, add a hitch and a 25 foot trailer. Just because the trailer is a self contained "home" when on the road, you are camping. OK, now I have some of you thinking. Hmmm. Does having a toilet and shower make it NOT camping? Even dry camped out of the back of a pickup you can take a five gallon bucket, screw a toilet seat onto it, place it over a dug hole... toilet. A five gallon water bag, heated in the sun and used for showers... a shower.
When, as a kid, living in a log cabin in the Montana forests... it was home. Now visiting... it is camping. Parking a trailer next to the cabin is camping. Moving into the trailer is....? There is the red line... we hear about.
Camping does not need the blessings of the "camping fairy". It is individual. A State of Mind.
MY Camping, I named Rockdocking for convenience, and YOUR Boondocking are entirely different, yet camping. I do either at will. Many would never venture across this "red line" which we put upon ourselves to move into a more remote "aspect or appearance" of where camping begins or ends. It is DEGREES of dependence upon what preparations you have brought on a donkey, a mule, a horse, a pickup truck, on your back, within a cart, a trailer... and the list goes on and on.
Marco Polo traveled in Caravans from the Far East. Camping. Although, their camping probably was better than those with the temporary housing the locals called, homes. The Pit Houses of the American Southwest Indians more than one thousand years ago were NOT camping... these were their homes. Their temporary shelters were merely that... temporary. Even if it meant sleeping under a Pinon Pine with pine needles as bedding.
A trailer does not have to be Spartan of modern conveniences to be camping. Does a wealthy person need to carry all of their wealth on their person to remain... wealthy? In some parts of the world you do WEAR your wealth for status. It may seem Spartan to you, but to them in the Amazon jungle your having a wristwatch and sewn clothing is wealth beyond their grasp.
I might be camped at Sam's Town RV Park in Las Vegas, or in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico and consider both... camping. It is not my home. I am not staying until I have to leave for one reason or another. It is the DEGREE of camping. Much like the first and last step for a "hike".
Where is YOUR "red line"? Why is that so? What would you remove from your Airstream or trailer to make it a camping experience versus a ????.
Camping (short definition): Temporary lodging or shelter.
A log cabin off the grid, I consider "camping".
A tent out in the back yard of a residence for overflow of guests. "Camping".
A tent packed in along the Appalachian Trail on a three week hike. Camping.
A $200,000 RV parked at the Sandia Casino parking lot. Camping.
An Airstream parked at your relatives Ranch. Camping.
An Airstream hooked up at an RV Park with an Arcade, Theatre, Swimming Pool. Camping.
A day or month in the National Forest/BLM dry... camping.
Stranded along a gravel road waiting for help. Camping.
Hike (short definition): A walk.
A hike begins with the FIRST step and ends with the LAST step. There is NO minimum or maximum HIKE.
Camping, Boondocking, Rockdocking is a State of MIND. You could be in the Andes of South America within the wreckage of a Boeing 707 that crashed into a hanging glacier. Left for no survivors until one shows up after a period of time that there are survivors. (The soccer team some decades ago.) Camping.
IF your HOME and Residence is a trailer... you are not camping. If your trailer is your home and residence and you are moving... you ARE camping. Once you consider yourself at home, at any location... it is your state of mind that might consider this home... or merely a camp until a permanent place to stop is found.
If I ask you how "far is up"... who is correct? Same with camping. Some consider camping sleeping in the back of a pickup truck with sleeping bags and a shell for a roof. Expand that idea to this same vehicle, add a hitch and a 25 foot trailer. Just because the trailer is a self contained "home" when on the road, you are camping. OK, now I have some of you thinking. Hmmm. Does having a toilet and shower make it NOT camping? Even dry camped out of the back of a pickup you can take a five gallon bucket, screw a toilet seat onto it, place it over a dug hole... toilet. A five gallon water bag, heated in the sun and used for showers... a shower.
When, as a kid, living in a log cabin in the Montana forests... it was home. Now visiting... it is camping. Parking a trailer next to the cabin is camping. Moving into the trailer is....? There is the red line... we hear about.
Camping does not need the blessings of the "camping fairy". It is individual. A State of Mind.
MY Camping, I named Rockdocking for convenience, and YOUR Boondocking are entirely different, yet camping. I do either at will. Many would never venture across this "red line" which we put upon ourselves to move into a more remote "aspect or appearance" of where camping begins or ends. It is DEGREES of dependence upon what preparations you have brought on a donkey, a mule, a horse, a pickup truck, on your back, within a cart, a trailer... and the list goes on and on.
Marco Polo traveled in Caravans from the Far East. Camping. Although, their camping probably was better than those with the temporary housing the locals called, homes. The Pit Houses of the American Southwest Indians more than one thousand years ago were NOT camping... these were their homes. Their temporary shelters were merely that... temporary. Even if it meant sleeping under a Pinon Pine with pine needles as bedding.
A trailer does not have to be Spartan of modern conveniences to be camping. Does a wealthy person need to carry all of their wealth on their person to remain... wealthy? In some parts of the world you do WEAR your wealth for status. It may seem Spartan to you, but to them in the Amazon jungle your having a wristwatch and sewn clothing is wealth beyond their grasp.
I might be camped at Sam's Town RV Park in Las Vegas, or in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico and consider both... camping. It is not my home. I am not staying until I have to leave for one reason or another. It is the DEGREE of camping. Much like the first and last step for a "hike".
Where is YOUR "red line"? Why is that so? What would you remove from your Airstream or trailer to make it a camping experience versus a ????.
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