LivingLarge
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I'm still trying to figure out why anyone would want to camp out in a tent when they come to the campground in a big ol' RV with all the comforts of home. Not this city slicker. lol
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Rvndave
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Usually when you see a tent on the same space as an rv, it is for the kids or company.
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Tvov
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Rvndave wrote:Usually when you see a tent on the same space as an rv, it is for the kids or company.
Yep! Will be doing that this weekend... daughter has a friend coming, so they will probably be using a tent.
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hotbyte
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Rvndave wrote:Usually when you see a tent on the same space as an rv, it is for the kids or company.
Last trip we had 2 sites, 1 5'er and 4 tents for 13 people. DW and I along with DD and a friend slept in the 5'er. DS and his friend were in 1 tent. DD boyfriend and 4 other boys stayed in 2 tents. DD boyfriend's parents in the 4th tent. Wouldn't want to even attempt sleeping 13 in our 5'er  We all did cram in it for about 2 hours during a storm. Lost campground power...boy was that fun
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abc40kids
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Same here always a couple tents in the 5er for the kids.
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Campfire Time
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My adult daughter still camps with us frequently. She has a tent and loves the privacy that it affords her. We love the privacy having our small trailer to ourselves. Occasionally, she will stay in the trailer with us, but that's rare.
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mtnbiktn
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Backpacking folks traveling will stay at campgrounds on their way to and from destinations, folks on a budget stay there etc. Tent camping at Wal-Mart is still in the infancy stage although it will not be long till it is main stream 
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Im a long time tenter, back country camper/hiker and hunter...I've spent weeks in the bush with only my dog and a back pack and sometimes a mountain bike...
then I bought a TT...
so let me tell you a story...
So my ATV website plans a big weekend every year, about 40 of us go camping for the weekend... most of us tent... So my brand new TT arrives on my driveway a week before the last big camping trip. I pondered "do I take the camper or do I take the tent"... so I took the camper 
the weekend was in sept, in this province its pretty chilly on September nights, a degree or 2 above freezing...
well, the first morning in my TT Im woken by this terrible "thwack!... thwack!...Crack!" just outside my window.. so I roll over and part the venetian blind with 2 fingers and I see my friend in the next site over and his family is all hunkered down on dirty dew soaked logs wrapped blankets shivering, while he is splitting wood to make a fire... just at that point my nasty furnace kicked on, blowing this terribly hot air up under my comforter...I watch as my friend gets his coffee percolator out of a wooden box and gets some water out of a jug on the picnic table, and then he tries to light his dew soaked coleman to get coffee going.. just as I hear a "tic... grbl grbl grbl".. my coffee pot timer had expired and my coffee was brewing... I watched as my friend, with his family now warming by the smoky fire, and his coffee pot on the coleman is doing the "pee-pee" dance as he runs off to the campground washroom...hearing that my coffee maker was now making that steamy sound and knowing coffee was ready, I got out of bed, walked the length of the trailer to the washroom, did my business, brushed my teeth, made coffee and sat at the table to have a bowl of cereal with the milk that I took out of the fridge...
the above all dawned on my while sitting at the table, I even had a moment of embarrassment...so my cereal done, dishes in the sink, I took my coffee mug and poured the contents into one of them blue ceramic coated steel camping coffee cups and stepped outside... walked over to my friends camp site to say good morning...
feeling like I had this big arrogant aura around me I said "... that (place expletive here)'ing campers mattress is terrible to sleep on..." then my friend said (regarding my camper)
"yeah, we'd never like to camp like that"
at that I saw a couple of other site members who were wakening in their slide outs and I walked over to their sites to say good morning, they looked out the door of their slide in truck camper, wafted with the scent of bacon I was invited in for breakfast and morning whiskey... where the conversation went something like this,
"... can you imagine packing up 2 kids and your wife, all your gear a cooler full of food and stuffing them into a stinking tent and freezing like in this cold weather ?"
to that I replied,
"yeah, we'd never like to camp like that"
PS: this is a true story !
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BENT ARROW
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We did this a few weeks ago, MH parked by the river with a 10'x12' tent on the bank to eat and relax in. No bugs cawling on us or in our food, our bathroom and beds 10 feet away. We still enjoy sleeping in a tent after riding the ATVs in on a trail miles from everyone. Getting up when it is just getting light and sitting by a fire is something we don't seem to be able to do from the MH but we see beautiful dawns when we use the tent and ATVs.
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I still like to camp from my kayak or backpack a few times a year in places that can only be reached by water or trail. Other than that, give me an RV any day!
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