Camping

With Memorial Day just around the corner camping season is about to begin. I’ve been told camping is cool again and although I had sworn off campfire stink and mosquitoes and ticks years ago, it looks like I’m going to be hitting the campgrounds pretty hard this summer.

The best part about taking up camping a decade after my last attempt is the camping equipment is totally different and much more comfortable, or so I’m told. One of the biggest improvements in my comfort will be the jump from tent to camper. Which of course means, plumbing!

Outdoor cooking has also changed drastically but it doesn’t really matter because there is something particularly yummy about even a hotdog cooked over a campfire. And I can definitely survive on hotdogs and marshmallows for a couple days.

Now the biggest camping dilemma is what to wear? There’s really not a lot of new advancements in women’s clothing for camping. But I’ve been warned that a base layer is important at night, even in the camper. Other than that, I think I’m going to pack a little bit of everything since I don’t have to try to fit it all in a tiny tent anymore.

Kate Moss Glamping

Camping has gone from being the cheap way for families to vacation together to the cool way to get away and enjoy the outdoors, and it’s far from cheap these days.

Celebrities across the globe have embraced camping, maybe it’s a way to escape the media and their daily lives or perhaps it’s a chance for them and their families to experience Mother Nature. Whatever the reason celebrities are a big reason that camping has become the cool way to vacation.

In addition to the changing approach to camping, camping supplies have changed as well. Our family’s first tent didn’t even have a floor, you slept right on the ground. Today’s tents not only have floors but you’re expected to have raised air mattresses, sleeping bags made of the highest quality materials and additional rooms attached to your tent. And that’s just the sleeping situation, the cooking situation has changed so much it might actually have you yearning for the days of hot dogs on a stick half cooked over a campfire 

For the fashionistas in the crowd, camping has also changed the way we look while camping. I remember layers of clothing to be peeled off or reapplied as the temperature changed, no showers, and lots of lotions, those to repel bugs and those to prevent sunburn, or going way back, those to improve tans. Today glamping has hit the campground circuit and campers are boosting the appeal by adding as much glamour as possible. Glamping is officially used to describe the camping clothing people are choosing, but it’s beginning to stretch to the accessories and I’m sure eventually having the latest and best of everything will be a part of glamping. So if you want to be cutting edge in your family vacation, go glamping!