The Great Outdoors is a Great Way to Spend a Family Vacation
If you've recently gone to a sporting goods store shopping for camping gear, hopefully you took your credit cards. Sitting around the fire on a moonlit night listening to the peeper frogs is a great experience to share with your friends and family, but why does it have to be so expensive?
Human ancestors "camped" for millenia without seam-sealed geodesic tents, UV light water filters, and self-inflating mattresses. How did they survive for years in the wilderness when that root in your back is killing you from just one weekend? Perhaps we've grown too soft, and we camp to remind ourselves of those survival instincts.
Camping is a wonderful experience for solo adventurers and families alike. However, you don't need to spend a lot of money to have a good time. Everyone nowadays is on a budget; you don't need to change your camping vacation plans. Just use a few of these simple tips to help you camp on a budget.
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