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Compared to staying in hotels, camping can be a very frugal way to travel or move! I did it with my mom when we moved across the country at a young age.
My first thought was "who does the cooking and dishes" when you go camping? Maybe your wife wants a vacation.I've tried to talk my wife into camping to save money during our vacation this year. So far, I don't even get the pleasure of hearing an answer, just a blank stare, like I'm some kind of fool or something.
She likes to camp, but I'm guessing a vacation must be more "luxurious" in her mind.
But yeah, we have camped before to save money over a hotel room. Especially on trips to the Great Smoky Mountains. We camp there fairly often.
When I was a child in the 70s we went to Disney world. Back there were two choices inside the property. The luxury hotels or the campground. Spending a week in central Florida in June in a Korean-war style green family tent was enough to temper my urge to camp for years. It was just so damn hot the whole time.Yes, I imagine it can be cheaper then staying in most hotels. It can be more work but if you are used to doing it and are pretty organized about it you could save a lot of money.
Hi Chad! I have a list of places within a 4 hour radius of my home just in case I can't get the desired site where I want to camp. SC beach campgrounds booked, ok what about the NC beaches? Best places to canoe with the pup, waterfalls, lakes in the mountains for chilling out on a summer evening, new areas with flowers blooming by month, you get the idea. Thank goodness all that reading and researching is not as much of an obsession as it has been for the last couple of years! :tinysmile_tongue_t:Yeah, state parks have not gone up, but the cost of getting sites has. A lot of parks in MA are starting to fill up 6 months in advance within hours of the rolling window opening. I am already getting sick of playing the Ticketmaster game with campsites.
X2!!! My tent and linens are cleaner than a cheap motel and taking my dog with me saves me $40 in boarding fees nightly. My 3L platypus bladder does double duty as a shower backpacking and a couple of Arizona Tea gallon containers set out in the sun during the day allows me enough warm water to shower and wash hair if car camping. A quick visit to the Farmer's Market and the butcher shop on the way out of town and I'm golden for 24+ hours until I need more ice.I simply don't like hotel rooms of any kind. I spent far too much time in them over my mapping career. And I like saving money like everyone else. It has always been hard for me to justify the price of a hotel room just to sleep in. We have developed our means to clean up just fine in the backcountry. For the price of an expensive restaurant meal we can cook up a week's worth of meals in our own little bistro with a view and ambiance that fancy places wish they had.
Away from all cares of the busy city, simple camping is sublime.