So that happened . . .

[awty]

I was so pleased with my new brand new camping gear I decided to go away for the weekend. I set up the tent put my new lights up, set everything out inside, then put up my new chair and table outside.. I set light to my disposable barbeque and went to get some beers from my car. When I returned with my beer and frozen burgers I noted that my new table where I had put the barbeque had a smouldering hole where the barby was and the grass was on fire.
I had a takeaway instead.

This is EXACTLY why I don't camp.

Boru

Every time I ever went camping (which wasn't all that many times) it rained.  There is nothing quite so fun as being stuck in a two man tent with another person and a very soggy Golden Retriever.

When in basic training and out on bivouac in the foothills of Alabama we set up in red clay that had been rained on for the past three weeks.  While in this glorious little camp - it freakin' snowed.  Like it had never done there before...cold, wet, miserable, with red clay everywhere it shouldn't be...that was my last camping attempt.  Screw that.  The roughest I want to experience is a hotel that has Wi-Fi but the pool is closed.