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Originally Posted by BigV
Do you actually camp much, tw?
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My hoodge poodge experience is camping on the light. Using the car some as a distant and secure storage shed. Usually using a camp site that I can even bicycle to a bar for further mostly liquid necessities.
Camping for me is mostly a desperate hole to collapse after doing too much 'exercise'. Often by morning, I may still hurt so much as to be ready to go home. However for some reason, after a few hours, I find myself at it again - working too hard.
One item I did not recommend but that I find necessary - a short wave radio. Yes there may be plenty of roads out there, a shower facility, but still not much to fall to sleep to. The radio also doubles as an alarm clock. There is this slow, stiff rerise in the morning best accomplished before anyone else is concious.
BTW, two best parts of camping. One is sneaking off for breakfast and coffee at a diner some miles down the road. Second is that one night I really deserve the expensive steak at that roadhouse.
Notice how this differs from western rockies camping. All woods are safely bordered by rivers and roads - we can't get lost. Much too easy to do too much physical labor all day and still find fresh tap beer at night.
That shower facility is essential to semi rural camping. BTW, I also bring a 5 gallon bucket to wash sand off the floor just before I take a shower. Keeping a clean sleeping bag when you will be crashing soon is important.