agatethompson
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NKGMAN wrote:soredogs wrote:This is my first posting. I haven't done any camping yet but I plan to take off from Iowa and head south in March, to places where it is warmer. My wife died recently and it was always a plan of ours to camp or RV in the south over the winter. This first trip I will take our dog and a minivan. We'll stay in camp grounds. If I enjoy this first trip I will probably get a pop-up trailer. I am glad you made the distinction between camping, and RV'ING. Theres no such thing(in my book) as RV CAMPING. The day I set up my hammock, or tent in my living room, then I'll say I'm "Camping". ![[emoticon]](http://www.coastresorts.com/sharedcontent/cfb/images/grin.gif "grin")
Thanks for the info. Here I would like to say that you guys have improved my knowledge about camping and RV'ING
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zack0109
Newport dunes
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agatethompson wrote:NKGMAN wrote:soredogs wrote:This is my first posting. I haven't done any camping yet but I plan to take off from Iowa and head south in March, to places where it is warmer. My wife died recently and it was always a plan of ours to camp or RV in the south over the winter. This first trip I will take our dog and a minivan. We'll stay in camp grounds. If I enjoy this first trip I will probably get a pop-up trailer. I am glad you made the distinction between camping, and RV'ING. Theres no such thing(in my book) as RV CAMPING. The day I set up my hammock, or tent in my living room, then I'll say I'm "Camping".
Thanks for the info. Here I would like to say that you guys have improved my knowledge about camping and RV'ING
The forum is a dictionary of camping and RV'ing. Any revelant problem can be solved according to advices here.
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mfleming63
Middletown, VA
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I'm doing it backwards.... we started with a pop-up and now are tent camping.
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LaunchnRetrieve
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And I'm coming full circle.
Started out backpacking, no tent.
Progressed to backpacking with a backpacking tent and a wife.
Then mixed it up with a small toyota pickup with shell or a basecamp tent.
Then a VW Vanagon Camper and a son.
Then hotels when the money and economy was good.
I wanted to get back to camping and asked for a tent for father's day and found a 25 foot TT in front of my house.
Then a boat and tent.
And now thinking of dry land camping with a tent again. Not sure I'll make it all the way back to backpacking (if I do, my tent will be just a bug tent), but it's on my mind.
Tent camping rocks. Don't get me wrong, I have no complaints about bedding down in my TT at the lake, but the economy and increased opportunity of a tent are great.
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tustumena_lake
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Well I'm still a tent camper. I found this forum when I started thinking about buying a travel trailer to supplement my old age. I used to call them all camping trailers but now I know the difference ! Tents or rather tarps like I now use are much simpler. The one I currently use only weighs one pound which makes packing up and moving early in the morning great. But now that I am getting older, I'll be 58 next month, the idea of a warm comfy base camp like a travel trailer is becoming appealing to me. I think that is the direction I'm headed though I am just about going crazy trying to figure out just exactly what camping trailer, oops I mean travel trailer, I want to get. They all seem so huge when you're stepping up from a one person tarp. I think I got it narrowed down to about 18 feet as the perfect size. Its small enough for one, but big enough for four. I think.
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chopshop
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My family and I started out with a pop-up trailer and then moved on to a 29' jayco with double bunks for the kids. Lately I just purchased an Alaknak tent from Cabela's so my boys and I could do some tent camping in the winter, with a tent wood stove and cots. I'm looking forward to tent camping as is my boys. tent ing rocks!
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golf1here
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I like to tent camp but like/need to be comfortable. I hate having to crawl in and out of a tent , struggle with tent poles, and not being able to stand up to get dressed. I found the perfect solution. It is called the Standing room 100 tent. I found it on Amazon. It hangs from one of those back yard shade canopies. It is 10x10 and has almost 9' of head room! It also has two doors so you can put two or more together. This tent is big enough for a queen size air mattress, a table, and two chairs with still enough room to walk around.![[image]](http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae81/golf1here/Z_zpsbcd81206.jpg)
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nickpunt
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I was hoping you guys could give me some advice on what the best tent for camping is. I don't need a huge one because we'll probably only be sleeping about 5 people at the most but usually only 3. I was looking around online and I found this site best tentshttp://www.squidoo.com/best-tents-3-person-camping-tent and I'm considering the coleman sundome 4-person tent that I saw on the site. I know I've heard of coleman brands with other outdoor stuff so I feel like it's a pretty trusted brand? Anyways, just looking for some help on what brand tents are the best and suggestions if coleman isn't the way to go. Thanks.
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mhampton
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nickpunt wrote:I was hoping you guys could give me some advice on what the best tent for camping is. I don't need a huge one because we'll probably only be sleeping about 5 people at the most but usually only 3. I was looking around online and I found this site best tentshttp://www.squidoo.com/best-tents-3-person-camping-tent and I'm considering the coleman sundome 4-person tent that I saw on the site. I know I've heard of coleman brands with other outdoor stuff so I feel like it's a pretty trusted brand? Anyways, just looking for some help on what brand tents are the best and suggestions if coleman isn't the way to go. Thanks.
If you think you'll have 5 people sleeping in the tent, you'd better get one rated for 10 people. That 5-person rating means sleeping shoulder-to-shoulder with absolutely no room for gear. Nobody had better roll over in their sleep, either.
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4monkeys
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If it's usually 3 people, I'd look at a 6 man tent.
We had 2 adults and 4 little kids in a 6 man tent and it was tight. The kids would roll over and end up on top of each other. mhampton is right, the "footprint" for occupancy is literally laid touching each other with no room to spare. I came to look at it like "Technically they could squeeze 6 bodies into this tent" but it wasn't very comfortable or realistically feasible.
We've had Eureka, ALPs, and Kelty tents; and I put them in order of how we liked them. Our Eureka tent was older, and don't know if their quality is still the same.
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