Camping Season is here!

[Mikekoz13]

Hey Mike, wait until you hit your 50s!!  

I'm very rapidly approaching 49!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Scottish Ambassador]

Yes. I am just about to try pitching my new 3 bedroom tent for the first time. I should be ready for season 2010

My new 3 bedroom, 8 man tent is so darned big, it wont fit in my garden  .

Have enlisted a friends garden (sic, field) to put it up in tomorrow night 

[GASlick]

Our trailer is a 30' bunk house.  Has quad bunks and queen bed. LOVE IT!!!!

Our last tent trip was in 2007, Labor Day in September.  It rained and rained and rained. Our air mattress was a water bed and everything was soaked.     I told my wife then, "That's IT! never again!"  May 2008 we bought the trailer and everything is WONDERFUL!  A/C, power, water......ahhhhhh!  I still use the bathhouse though, just because the wife and kids fill up the tank with their water use. That and I like long showers.

I'm sitting outside now enjoying the park.  Most everyone left this morning (Sunday) as the weekend is pretty much over.  We will be here until Tuesday.  Only 30 minutes from home, but it's like we're in a different state.  Drinking beer and loving life!

As far as staying sly, I just shave at the sink after my shower in the bathhouse.  Get some odd looks sometimes, but hey, gotta keep the look up!  I spray my head with bug repellent too if they get to bad. Or wrap a bandanna around my head.  That seems to work.    hhhmmmmm.........where's my beer?

[Alexander215]

Our trailer is a 30' bunk house.  Has quad bunks and queen bed. LOVE IT!!!!

Our last tent trip was in 2007, Labor Day in September.  It rained and rained and rained. Our air mattress was a water bed and everything was soaked.     I told my wife then, "That's IT! never again!"  May 2008 we bought the trailer and everything is WONDERFUL!  A/C, power, water......ahhhhhh!  I still use the bathhouse though, just because the wife and kids fill up the tank with their water use. That and I like long showers.

I'm sitting outside now enjoying the park.  Most everyone left this morning (Sunday) as the weekend is pretty much over.  We will be here until Tuesday.  Only 30 minutes from home, but it's like we're in a different state.  Drinking beer and loving life!

As far as staying sly, I just shave at the sink after my shower in the bathhouse.  Get some odd looks sometimes, but hey, gotta keep the look up!  I spray my head with bug repellent too if they get to bad. Or wrap a bandanna around my head.  That seems to work.    hhhmmmmm.........where's my beer?

Dude, never EVER spray directly after a shower yeooooouch haha

[Timmay]

LOL I just read thru these for the first time.  You all got me wanting to go pitch my tent.  We have a two room tent that we enjoy alot.  Only thing I dont like about it is how everything can get really damp in the mornings, but there is nothing better waking up at sunrise, everything is quite, the birds are churping.  Walking over to the smoldering camp fire and firing it up wiht a nice cup of coffee.   Dang it...now I got the itching. 

Several years ago we had a camper but sold it after my wife had our youngest.  We hardly ever went camping the next two summers so we really didnt miss it, now we do.  The last few weeks as we are out driving somewhere my wife will say, Hey Tim look those people have a camper.  Wonder if they want to sell it? Im like duhhh if they wanted to sell it, dont ya think they would have a for sale sign on it?  Here's your sign.  BOY THAT DIDNT GO OVER TOO WELL, let me tell ya! LOL

So we are on the hunt for a good bargin.  So if anyone wants to sell their camper, just haul it up here and we would be happy to take it. 

Happy Campin' y'all.

[zzaapp]

I was never much for trailers either..... until I reached my mid forties and realized that sleeping on the ground makes all my old sports injuries hurt like Hell.

Sleeping on the ground isn't the problem...  ...it's getting up off the ground in the morning that's the problem...

Hey GaryT,

The Colorado is a nice classic tent trailer.  Nice and simple.  I was trying to find one of those when I happened upon the '66 Apache tent trailer that we use.  Nothing inside but two beds, two benches and a table, so it's not gonna spoil you.  We still have to pack as if we are tent camping, but the sleeping arrangements are off the ground and a lot more comfortable for us over 50 types.

[GASlick]

We're back home now, glad to be home but already planning our next trip.  Boy I love camping!  Nothing smells better than breakfast being cooked outside over a fire.

Oh well, few weeks we will be back at it.  Did have a problem though with the battery.  It is brand new, but won't keep a charge.  Do any of you experienced trailer campers have a suggestion?  It's a brand new battery, so I'm thinking inverter? corroded cables? I did clean the connectors as best I could.  I didn't have a wire brush so I did the best I could with a grill cleaner!  LOL

[GaryT]

Hey zzaapp, Yep, that's the way we like to camp. With the Colorado you're basically sleeping in a tent that's off the ground. We cook outside, eat outside and do just about everything outside. Inside is reserved for sleeping and perhaps playing a game or something out of the weather! Actually the main thing we like it for is the fact that it sets there in the driveway until we are ready to go. BUT it has our stove, lantern, cookware sleeping bags etc. So we just have to throw a few things in the car and we're ready to go!!

[zzaapp]

Hey, GAslick,

Just a couple thoughts.  Even a new battery can have a bad cell. 

Also, try disconnecting it from the trailer, charge it on a battery charger and see if it will hold a charge. 

If you ran the refrigerator on a charging line from your tow vehicle while traveling, check to make sure you turned the 12 V switch off when you switched to propane.  With some three way refrigerators, it is possible to have two power sources on at the same time, and the fridge will drain a battery very quickly.

   

[Dome of Steele]

It looks like you already posted a pic of some of your camping slick!