Okay Fargo.. :D

Tent, uneven ground, crappy air mattress, sweltering heat, and no internet. And thousands upon thousands of my closest friends. Sorry if I'm pissed off, but I am. I didn't want to go. My wife talked me into it. Her dad is big into camping and I respect him a lot but it was miserable. Not my idea of a good time at all. And the worst part is that my daughter has at least 15 mosquito bites and she's still miserable even though we're back home.

To be fair, the day we spent at the Sand Dunes was fun. I'd just rather have a hotel with air conditioning, Wi-Fi, and a pool. We could do all the same things as camping minus the heat, bugs, and cactus.

Mosquito bites strengthen your character. [/calvinsdad]

Next time, say that you want to pick the campground and find one that has cabins onsite. All the grilling and canoeing and marshmallow roasting fun of camping, but you sleep in an actual bed and drink real coffee and take a real shower.

Maybe with the name Hilton written on the side of the "cabin".

Does it count as camping if the walls are canvas and the Wi-Fi is from my phone's hotspot feature?

I could try that. I may get laughed at for suggesting it as camping, but I could try it. Realistically, I think my wife and kids will go camping while I stay home for a weekend of self-introspection during which I play video games, binge watch TV, and eat bad food to my heart's content. And do some golfing and/or disc golfing with my dad.

I'll have to ask the experts. Offhand, I'd say yes to canvas walls, no to Wi-Fi.

We stayed in one of these and it was delightful. We were visiting friends in Ann Arbor and decided to make an extra day of it. My wife was *really* kind of leery about it, but it ended up being the highlight of the trip. And our five-year-old can't wait to do it again. It's totally fake camping (I say this as someone who did a week off-grid up in the Boundary Waters), but it's crazy fun.

I don't mind camping, but it always be with my wife and a bottle of wine, and there will be no other people invited.

And it will always be as high up in the mountains as humanly possible, because #### any temperature above 70 F.

I feel like I really should have known this, but you're married? Was it recently (past 4 years), because I had no idea. Mazal tov!

And when I was a counselor in Jew Camp a couple summers ago we went camping for a few days at a time. Sleeping bag to sleep under the stars and one of those disposable grills for dinner. It was great. There were tents but I don't think I ever used one. The camp sites that didn't have shower facilities were a little tough though (though that's what swimming/water hikes were for).

I fogot that Thawmus was happely married too! Congrats Thawmus again!

I don't mind camping as long as a lady is under me.

The ground Is softer on that way.


BUT the Last time I was on camping a hot old lady smile at me WHEN I was in front on my former lady. My lady got angry at me asking me who she was and I knew I knew her but not from where!

Finally in the middle of the night I wake up and I scream: "Is the mom of one of my friends!"

Bad thing was she was camping too close to us.

My former lady did not believe me and I spend the rest of the time trying to NOT find the mom of my friend just in case she was NOT with the dad of my friend.

You are a COUNSELOR?!

Of Jew COUPLES?!

I had never see Jew couples discussing on the street EVER!

YOU must be doing a really good job.

2 year anniversary next month.

And The Box of Carlos has been opened.

No no no. Not OF Jewish couples. I was a counselor a couple of years ago (as in 2 years ago).

But beyond that I have no idea what your post means Carlos.

EDIT: Ohhhh I get it. Carlos meant "counselor" in the couple's therapy sense, not in the "camp counselor sense." Clever world play Carlos (if intentional). Maybe you are a secret English academic

That said, it does remind me of an interested New York Times article from a couple months ago.


Woo What are the special plans? How'd you guys meet? etc. etc.