Who goes camping?

[sesame]

Originally Posted by DL_NL

I like to sleep in a tent because it's cheap (I prefer two weeks in a tent over three days in a hotel, if the weather's half decent) and because I like waking up to the sound of birds instead of a hotel wake-up call and housekeeping banging their trolleys against the door.

I agree whole heartedly. Righto!

Originally Posted by GRH

I don't want to have to walk miles on end just to procure water which I then must boil to make drinkable

I always carry my water. But in case I am crossing a mountain or a forest, I am sure there would be streams or waterfalls to replenish my water. Just do some thorough enquiry about waterholes in case you are in an arid region. Regarding boiling of that natural water, :D I never do it. I just drink it directly from the source. My dad, who had been a civil engineer by profession, warned me of hill diarrhoea and such diseases... but I never got any. I just take that risk. I just like sweet sparkling clear water.

Years ago, when I hesitated to drink water from a spring, with fragments of green moss floating in it, one of the locals laughed at me and said, "Hey, have you not heard of Vitamin-C? Thats what the green stuff is!" Of course he was kidding. But from that day, my inhibition left me. I have even drank yellowish river water, which precipitated silt; and managed to digest it! I believe its all in your mind.