We just got back from a week of camping and had a wonderful time, the weather was great our campsite was very nice. Anyway, on our second night we had new neighbors move in across from us and they had a truly unique approach to camping. Their tow vehicle was a small Chevy pickup and they were towing a homemade trailer about the size you would use to tow a lawn mower. It had plywood sides with a set of homemade cattle racks attached at the top. They had it full of coolers etc and we just thought it was a somewhat different way to carry all their stuff. Turns out it was their "camper". They unloaded their stuff, got out a blue plastic tarp and tied it to the trees around their camper as a roof, inflated their air mattress and they had their camp set up. There was no back to this trailer at all, it was wide open and any critter could have wandered in without anything to stop it. Plus the lack of privacy, which did not seem to bother them as much as their neighbors wished that it had. Then, another couple arrived with a screen room and used it as their tent. This has most definitely been the most unusually thing we have seen to date.
That IS strange.
We camped this past weekend and one of the three guys in the camp next to us slept in a hammock stretched between the lantern pole and a tree with a tarp suspended over him. I ended up introducing myself and congratulating him for being "hard core" and he just grinned and said "Yeah, it got kind of cold with the wind blowing up under me."
Then there was the popup about 6-8 spaces down from us. It was popped up, but they had removed the bunks and all the canvas, then they had fastened rippled aluminum siding all the way around it and added a small window in the back. Really strange looking; I almost didn't recognize it for a p'up. I had to wonder if they were sleeping in the dinette every night. If so, they must be short!
Many moons ago, in Tuckahoe State Park on the Delmarva peninsula, A bicyclist pulled into the site across the road from us, ate a spare supper, affixed a number of large, black plastic garbage bags to the perimeter of the picnic table with stones and small logs, and crawled under with his sleeping bag. When we got up the next morning, he, his shelter, and his bike were gone.
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