| 9/7/2008 9:18:24 AM | tent vs camper camping | | ladygodiva1
Fredonia, TX
age: 74
| I've camped and slept on nothing but a quilt on the ground with another to cover me. After I married, we camped in a wonderful tent. after my divorce, as soon as I had saved enough money , I bought a tent with a top screen. I love it because I can look up if it isn't raining and see the stars as i go off to sleep. Two years ago, my brother bought a pull behind pop up tent camper with two great big beds. I wasn't real crazy about the idea, but wnet without my tent to save space. I was so comfortable that it was easy to forget about the tent. i could even look out the window by my bed and see the stars.
After three trips with the pop up of my brothers' I am longing to sleep on my airmattress in my tent. At my age, however, I had to make a compromise. Bought one of those bed height queen size blow up beds and except for the time it takes to blow it up, I love it. Haven't taken it camping yet. will get back to you with results.
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| 9/12/2008 9:10:01 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
rockinmomma
Miami, OK
age: 57
| When I was in my twenties, it was motorcycles and tent camping.Now that I am in my fifties, I camp in my little class B motorhome.
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| 9/14/2008 8:16:08 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
chempy77
Morgantown, WV
age: 33
| Tent camping... even better with an air matress but not necessary
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| 9/14/2008 8:25:01 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
mcbean07
Saint Jacob, IL
age: 41
|  Since I am getting older tent camping is not as fun especially when it seems to rain everytime I go. I purchased a used "pop up" camper and I love it. It is just as easier to put up as a tent (maybe easier) has beds that are comfy and keeps me dry!!! It also can store alot of the camping equipment and easy to pull with the van.
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| 9/14/2008 10:25:44 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
hunterdan
Vaughn, WA
age: 53
| Which do you prefer? I have always had tents... but now that I'm getting older, a camper is starting to sound pretty good!  
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| 9/16/2008 2:38:09 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
missedagain
Prineville, OR
age: 64
| I have had trailers, motorhomes and now a truck camper on a 4X4. I have tent camped with big tents, horse packed into the wilderness and lately motorcycle camping. There is a place for all depending on where, when and weather. I do not enjoy a tent at 40* in constant rain.
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| 9/17/2008 9:25:44 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
mooseslayer
Fairbanks, AK
age: 33
| Well I like both. My family has always had an RV but I do like tents and after a hard day fishing or hunting with your ladie nothing is better than a romp in a tent
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| 9/27/2008 6:09:44 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
61sunshine
North Augusta, SC
age: 64
| Just returned from the beack love camping
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| 9/27/2008 6:20:57 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
atruegiver69
Cleveland, OH
age: 48
| The wiser (ya older) you get, there are some pleasures that you dont want to give up (your bed). The main thing is to stay out there, if thats where you're happy, never give it up. Ed
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| 9/27/2008 3:51:58 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
4evr6y
Morgan, VT
age: 67
| we're just a bunch of neo/hobo's
and we are in the forests,deserts and mountains...by the ocean and even found in an ocasional Wall Mart
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| 9/29/2008 10:14:05 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
empirebear
Empire, MI
age: 58
| I enjoy camping alone just as much as with someone. Set up, grab my fishing pole and bait and sit on the bank for hours. Gets no better than that Ain't nothin' like it girl, rippin' lips and campin'
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| 10/5/2008 6:51:50 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
brashdoc
Chehalis, WA
age: 57
| I am privileged to enjoy both & living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest with the mountains, lakes, ocean, etc. it is simply awesome.  When I want to really get away, I get the backpack out & go to my favorite hiking spot in the Mt. St. Helens (the one that came alive in 1980 and lost her top!) Volcanic Nat'l Monument area by backpacking in and tent camp. It is the most peaceful spot to be and just get away. It is trails where no motorized vehicles can go and I camp at a lake full of trout and a beautiful meadow with wild strawberries and blue huckleberries are. The only sound of mankind you might hear is an airplane going over or the occasional 'fish-on' hehehe.  I agree with Trublu, I use my throw 'em in the air tent and when it hits the ground it is all set up!
I also have camped in a truck with canopy/camper (was hunting in Montana one year where the below zero temp hit and it sure is nice to have propane!! . I helped get some people to roof my uncle's house and he gave me an older 19' class C motorhome for my efforts. I was grateful and I have used that to travel to various state parks and also for hunting. May post some pictures sometime on some of my various adventures. I do have 2 pics of a recent hike at Mt. Rainier here in beautiful Washington state & one of a beautiful sunset & of pics from Alaska on a recent trip.
May you all enjoy the awesome privilege we have under God's heavens to experience the joy of camping in the great outdoors. God bless, Doc
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| 10/9/2008 2:23:21 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
saveddave
Perrysburg, OH
age: 54
| Love tents,anything else isn't really camping,but as I'm a bit older now,I have a twin air matress with a portable pump to blow it up with.Sure miss California though,the mountians and the beach,everythings pretty flat around here.
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| 10/9/2008 7:30:18 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
billericachick3
Billerica, MA
age: 39
| I love tenting, and sitting by the camp fire telling stories. It's nothing like it!!!! Then waking up to the Coleman stove to bacon and eggs.....What fun!!! With 6 kids in my family thats all we did is camp in the White Mountains...Loved it! I didn't get to do it this year with my kids, because I was afraid to go alone with just the kids and me.....Not to sure it's smart...Maybe next year I can find someone to come along....
But again have to say tenting....
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| 10/11/2008 12:10:55 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
1haoleboy
Hilo, HI
age: 49
| +
Tent camping is camping; sleeping in a camper, is a RV lifestyle.
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| 10/11/2008 12:41:25 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
fishingmom
Lake Alfred, FL
age: 55
| use to love tent camping, these old bones cant take the ground though and since I own a truck, Im thinking of adding a camper to the back too like someone mentioned. Toss in the fishing poles and head out for a weekend. 
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| 10/11/2008 12:49:29 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
chickadee66
Arcadia, FL
age: 68
| Now thats my idea of camping fishingmom
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| 10/11/2008 12:53:05 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
fishingmom
Lake Alfred, FL
age: 55
| thanks and if there is a local man that wants to fish.. let me know 
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| 10/21/2008 9:59:51 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
redneck_don06
Laquey, MO
age: 22
| i usually sleep in a tent when i camp but we have a camper trailer that we fixed it was a popup camper we use it ta haul the camping supplies in it comes in handy when it isstorming and your tent is all wet
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| 10/30/2008 2:40:42 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
murphy_r
Irving, TX
age: 26
| an Rv? are you sierous? thats for Rich f*gs and old people
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| 10/31/2008 12:52:39 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
snowboard101
Spokane, WA
age: 38
| the trick to tent camping if you are car camping is a cot. it lets the air flow under you. nothing has turned more people off from camping than a hott a** tent! but what do i know i only own a bivy sack now!
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| 11/1/2008 12:23:45 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
talldude123
Albuquerque, NM
age: 34
| I do both. I have a tent and my dad has a 5th wheel which I take advantage of anytime I can. Especially during huntin season.
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| 11/9/2008 12:49:32 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
magicpanther
Camarillo, CA
age: 49
| Well lets see now camping vs Land Yachts. For myself I prefer the backpacking and tent, but then again since this IS the 21st century with laptop internet cards, and cell phones along with a membership at 24 hour fitness for showers I also enjoy living in my converted short bus  and run my business out of it.
Think about it, I save the rent towards my own, why pay someone elses mortageg, and if you don't like the neighbors you move, tired of the view, you start it up and move, then again I am lucky I do this in Sunny Southern California.
Have to agree with one poster though the mind may say you're 26 the body reminds us now and again we're not so THAT is why Mules and Horses were invented.
Anyway I prefer the tent and the backpack/mule, go where people can't take civilization with them, how many times have you been in a campground where others have all their lights going the music full and drunk and obnoxious, you don't come across that 5 to 100 clicks in, 95% of the time you meet up with good people, even a few rare old hippies.
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| 11/9/2008 8:00:08 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
vanwinkle
Graham, TX
age: 58
| Camper/tent: Each has it's good points.
I'll go with the tent-more versatile.
But, then, ... Oh well...
I say, use what Ya got--just go campin'!
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| 11/9/2008 12:22:51 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
mckenziemom02
Indian Trail, NC
age: 27
| i have always use a tent.. but i think that a camper would be nice...
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| 11/10/2008 11:05:43 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
sweet_taurus
Laytonville, CA
age: 58
| To me.. camping isn't camping unless it is tent camping. My oldest brother " camps" in his rv... a motel on wheels lol. When I used to go with him and his family camping, I would still set up my own tent rather than sleep in the RV.
There are some places I've been were a camper would've been very desirable, like when the winds are howling like a banshee in the deserts here in the west, and also on mountain tops...there's been times I've had to turn around and seek alternate locations due to very high winds...and we all know how fun it is to set up a tent in 30 MPH winds...
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| 11/24/2008 2:49:20 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
paulthecamper
Bloomington, IN
age: 53
| i have done both the tent is cool if there is some pine niddels there and a air bed sorry getin old but my camper is so cool well there you go
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| 11/24/2008 3:49:06 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
matilda1190
Leola, PA
age: 42
| I like my 23ft travel trailer. We did the tent and pop up thing for awhile but I got tired of getting WET!!! I was not one to give up when it started to rain though. I still do all the cooking out side and some over the fire. Pretty much the only thing we do is sleep in the trailer and play games when the weather is bad. Otherwise we can be found outside somewhere. It is to bad he got the truck but I got the camper...hehehe.
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| 11/24/2008 6:45:21 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
paulthecamper
Bloomington, IN
age: 53
| go for you the camper is the better of the 2
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| 11/30/2008 8:50:54 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
tatersomewhere
Deridder, LA
age: 41
| Tents definitely. I can go places that an rv cannot.....nothing like it in the world!
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| 12/1/2008 8:18:40 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
wranglerbutt247
Platteville, WI
age: 32
| I've always gone tent camping in the past, but really didn't do much of it. I have 2 and 4 year old little girls and would like to enjoy camping more with them, so I just bought a small pop-up camper. No fridge, no A/C, Small cooktop. Nothing special, but it will help me and the girls to enjoy our "bonding" time together. I can't wait!
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| 12/3/2008 6:05:05 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
snowboard101
Spokane, WA
age: 38
| no RVs at this lake! just big cutthroats!
[Edited 12/3/2008 6:06:16 AM PST]
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| 12/8/2008 8:51:11 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
wyt_h2o_girl
Ballwin, MO
age: 38
| Tents. The ONLY WAY!!! Take off on a long hike and camp where ever ! Love to wake up and find that it snowed while you were cozy in your sleeping bag!!
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| 12/9/2008 9:08:05 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
camperpaul
Zion, IL
age: 67
| You'ld love it here. I work and live in a campground...
Right now it's snowing and we are expecting 2-3 inches.
Paul
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| 12/9/2008 6:32:52 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
snowboard101
Spokane, WA
age: 38
| no RVs at this lake! just big cutthroats!
this is a pic of the camp ground, we were sitting on the peak in the pic above.
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| 12/11/2008 5:29:40 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
wyt_h2o_girl
Ballwin, MO
age: 38
| Hey snowboard, Did you hike up that or drive? Thats pretty awesome!
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| 12/11/2008 5:44:51 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
snowboard101
Spokane, WA
age: 38
| hiking all the way!! dont own any motorcycles! but i do own 2 sleds to accsess these areas in the winter!
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| 12/15/2008 11:51:11 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
camperpaul
Zion, IL
age: 67
| Yup - there are a few die-hard tenters...
We had a couple camping here this past weekend in a small dome tent.
Paul
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| 12/17/2008 4:23:06 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
wyt_h2o_girl
Ballwin, MO
age: 38
| hiking all the way!! dont own any motorcycles! but i do own 2 sleds to accsess these areas in the winter!
ROCK ON!!!!!
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| 12/17/2008 5:11:36 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
erm70
Villa Rica, GA
age: 39
| tent, definately
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| 12/20/2008 8:52:52 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
keekeetoo
Crowley, LA
age: 54
| I have a tent for those spur of the moment camping trips.I recently spent the week in a stste park in an older pop-up camper that I am going to refurbish.It was nice with electricity and running water available but it felt more like being in a cheap motel room in a beautiful location and you supply the room.
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| 12/22/2008 12:36:06 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
travlnmike
San Jose, CA
age: 33
| tents for sure
anythings better than nothing
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| 12/25/2008 7:27:39 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
im12b4real
Lucerne Valley, CA
age: 44
| personally I can't even wrap my head around campers being for camping. To me they are for traveling buit once you get to the camp sight or to the place where you get out to go find the camp sight. It gets left behind, Kind of like the vehicle that got us there.After that its under the stars or in a tent. Fires for heating water and streams to wash up in.
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| 12/27/2008 12:44:29 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
surcaster
Taunton, MA
age: 55
| A tent or a teepee..the only way to go
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| 1/1/2009 11:19:53 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
longhair1
Ashburnham, MA
age: 47
| Hi, I have had the luxury of a 36' 5th wheel toy box of several years now and it is what it is. I do enjoy bringing my toys with, but do miss roughing it from time to time. Also this is not the kinda thing you take off the beatin path.
The van thing has been sounding pretty inviting lately. Can park that a lot closer to the hiking trails.
Todd
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| 1/9/2009 9:16:02 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
derbydriver4evr
Cincinnati, OH
age: 42
| tents for sure!I'd rather pull my boat or racecar than a camper behind me. And I also camp in all types of weather.With the right gear,you have all comforts of a camper in a couple of gear bags.
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| 1/9/2009 9:27:26 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
justjim234
Ayden, NC
age: 58
| I have 3-4 tents depends where I'm going. Have a light weight 20 by 20 canopy that is used as kitchen living room shower and can service 10 -15 folks camping around me.
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| 1/15/2009 8:04:50 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
tx_blu_eyz67
San Antonio, TX
age: 43
| i think all is good but i luv to use a tent.can always throw an air mattress in there
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| 1/15/2009 2:56:05 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
cowboy305
Rochester, WA
age: 58
| For the summer road trips I travel light with a tent. I also have a camp trailer that I use every November when I go elk hunting. It isn't much of a camper but the roof doesn't leak and the heater works. Western Washington in November gets too wet for the tent.
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| 1/20/2009 3:51:11 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
acting_out
Fort Myers, FL
age: 47
| Get the picture!
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| 2/2/2009 7:39:33 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
writermom
Ansonia, CT
age: 45
| I love tent camping. I am small enough to fit into a junior tent and surrounded by down blankets and cozy stuff while it is cold and crisp from night air makes tent camping fantastic.
[Edited 2/2/2009 7:41:20 PM PST]
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| 2/7/2009 2:37:37 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
raventalon
Belleville, IL
age: 49
| 
The Tent Cot
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| 2/7/2009 5:00:44 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
mark_penn_state
Farmingdale, NJ
age: 48
| I actually live all summer in a 25 foot trailer trailer. It has been on the same site for 4 years. I went to a week long concert, one summer with my tent. I had been there twice before with a borrowed RV. I would take the RV.. more room, dryer.. all around a better time, but the tent was livable. and my son and I had a great time.
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| 2/9/2009 3:44:32 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
chickadee66
Arcadia, FL
age: 68
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The Tent Cot thats a cool cot were could I buy one?
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| 2/10/2009 8:33:51 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
camperpaul
Zion, IL
age: 67
| I "googled" it for you...
See http://www.tentcot.com/indexa.html
Paul
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| 2/11/2009 12:34:50 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
fishingmom
Lake Alfred, FL
age: 55
| A tent or a teepee..the only way to go
I aint sleepin in no teepee if I come back home to visit 
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| 2/13/2009 6:38:05 PM | tent vs camper camping | |
trublu5ft2
Saint Joseph, TN
age: 53
| I had the chance to camp out in a teepee. It's alot more roomier on the inside then it looks. It was alot of fun. I have camped in an RV and camper and they are nice.. but.. I dunno... just seems to lack something that tent camping has. Tent camping can be made to be alot more comfy these days too
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| 2/14/2009 7:33:39 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
fishingmom
Lake Alfred, FL
age: 55
| Ive owned RVs and tents, and loved it all. But with my back, its hard to get off the ground without a hoist Im not totally against tent camping, and would do it again. This time though I would get an air mattress, to get my off the damp ground some.
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| 2/14/2009 8:37:21 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
trublu5ft2
Saint Joseph, TN
age: 53
| Yeah gotta have that air mattress! I let it air up while pitching the tent. Gotta have my old coffee perculator too! lol Nothing like that first cup of coffee when I stumble out of the tent before heading to the lake to fish!
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| 2/14/2009 9:46:34 AM | tent vs camper camping | |
fishingmom
Lake Alfred, FL
age: 55
| Yep! love the old perculator on the fire.. I remember dad doing that when we went camping as kids. OK, it was a coleman stove, but still it was perked outside and not inside in a Mr Coffee 
Im going to have to start collecting gear again I guess
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