Camping for Dummies

Most of my friends know that my idea of camping is a hotel without room service. My camping experience is limited to some formative trips with the boy scouts which is probably why I'm so adverse to traveling without room service, even if the only item on the delivery menu would be cold Spam.

Amy keeps extolling on the virtues of "Car Camping", which is what Sara and I are doing here at Oshkosh. I can safely say that the only advantage to car camping is that the first thing you see when you exit your tent is your car, which really isn't a virtue, only a reminder that you can easily drive to that hotel with room service.

Let it suffice to say that I have come ill prepared for the full-on camping experience, and were it
not for the fact that a Walmart exists less than a few miles from here, my daughter probably would not be speaking to me now.

Granted, there is something unique about camping next to an airstrip and waking up to the sounds of a squadron of P51, V12 Merlin engines pushed to the stops as they roar overhead. For her part, Sara constantly points out the tricked-out, mega motor homes and asks why we didn't bring one of those. By the end of the week I may be asking myself the same question.

David