The Buckets by Greg Cravens for April 21, 2021

Might just as well camp in the backyard.

Simple solution: Tell him he has to carry a tent, and you’ll go as far as HE goes.

In Scouts, we’d setup near the cars and go for a 15-20 mile hike the next day. There was always the kid that had three canteens of water, and never drank any of it.

You lead, Dan’l Boone!

I always preferred the “Western” camping format…Best Western Motel!

I remember this. And after I grew up, we built a cabin by the lake. Much better!

Classic “dump” camping. You pull up in your car, dump everything out and set up, then dump everything back to leave. How most BSA and GSA camping trips are done.

When I was younger I did the hike all day to the campsite with a big backpack full of everything I needed thing

I’m content now to stay in the trailer on our friends property, and spend my hiking time on the mountain behind it

I like to hike in (fill in you favorite national park), go back to my hotel, shower have a nice dinner in a restaurant, drive back into the park, look at the stars, go back to my hotel ( air conditioned of course ) and sleep in a nice comfortable bed. Then repeat it the next day.

Young Edward is correct; if you can get there in a car, you’re not camping.

Let the kids carry everything, especially the heavy tents, coolers, heck everything.

But then we’ll lose our wifi signal.