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Mr. Luddite

On 6/21/2015 10:56 AM, wrote:

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 10:03:40 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On one of the many trips to Florida I drove the F-350 towing a Scout
Center Console. I was by myself (my wife and I don't travel well
together) and I decided to make the trip a camping adventure in the
style we did as youths. I bought a cheap pup tent, a sleeping bag, a
mat to sleep on, along with the cooking and coffee making basics used on
an open fire.

Stopped at a campground somewhere in Virgina the first night and set up
camp on the edge of a small lake. After night fall I tried to sleep but
couldn't. Even with the mat, the ground was hard as a rock. Finally
started to doze off after midnight only to be awakened by a bunch of
ducks quaking and parading in front of the tent. Miserable night. Got
up the next morning and tossed the tent, sleeping bag and cooking gear
into a dumpster. Stayed at a Best Western the next two nights.

Sorry to hear you don't travel well together. My wife and I do that
quite well but we do live a little farther out of the dirt. ;-)

"Camping" for us is a regular hotel room, not a suite. We prefer
renting a house.

The problem with traveling with my wife is that she wants to stop every
hour or so at rest areas or at shops that she sees advertised on the
road. Then she sleeps while I drive. I like to "get there".

When we had the places in Florida, I'd drive and she would fly down or back.