Camping

So you want to go "camping" huh? Lets see, just slap some wheels on your house and tow it to somewhere remote. Set up your portable satellite reciever, watch some crap like "Will and Grace" while eating a reheated a tv dinner from your microwave. Then, finally go outside (gasp!) and make a fire with purchased firewood, sit around it for an hour (too smokey, don't want to get smelly), then go back inside to catch the end of Law and Order, and sleep in a bed with a matress and sheets.

That is not camping, that is closer to a boring barbeque in your back yard. These disgustingly big "campers" should banned from camp grounds. Unless you have some medical condition, there is no reason why you should go camping with a camper. Camping is supposed to be a way to escape the life sucking inventions of society and get back (as close as you can) to nature. How can you do this when you're bringing all the nastiness of society with you?

On a related note, we hiked a trail to the beach, despite it being closed due to "High Water". I thought of it as sort exciting. No one else would attempt the trail and here we were sloshing through knee deep black water lurking with who knows what. On the way back we met a family headed in the same direction, and spotting our bare, soaked feet, inquired as to how deep the water actually was. We told them and they (rather, the parental units) decided to turn back and just drive. When given the option of braving a possibly dangerous and flooded trail, what kind of person would decide to drive? A lazy person with a dying sense of adventure!

There are too many of these people around, pulling their 8 ton campers, driving to the beach, and resigning themselves to dull, predictable lives. Don't be one of them.