Tent or Camper

[Chris]

When you go camping what do you like to use?

Tent
or
Camper?

Personally, I love the tent. It allows me to really get away from the so called comforts we have everyday. Let's me just relax and enjoy the night air.

Naturally I dislike it when it's 100+ degrees out...but I try not to go camping in such conditions.

[TexasT]

If you're going to use a camper then you might as well stay at home. The only situation I can see anybody really needing a camper for is if they have a bunch of small kids. Otherwise it's tents ftw.

[jashoffa]

My wife and have been going camping since the first year we were married. I love going and it really just is nice to relax by the campfire at night. We started out with a tent and used it for a few years. I wanted a camper and due to the law in Iowa the only way to pull a camper and a boat is with a 5th wheel. Well we all know how much they are new. I wanted to get a pickup camper but the wife thougt it would be too small inside. Then in the spring of 2006 I saw a low profile 5th wheel camper for sell. It was older, a 1988 and I checked it out and thought, this is it we found our camper. I called my wife and told her about it and the next day we looked at it and 2 days later the deal was made and the camper was ours. They guy dropped it off at our house for us. the hitch came with it but I didn't have it put on yet. that weekend we used my dads truck to pull it for a weekend of camping. I have never looked back. Now camping is a much easier task. No packing the truck we just load the food, clothes and dogs, hook up and off we go! It lets us camper earlier in the year and later in the fall. I don't like going when it is too hot either, even with the AC I want it to be nice and I want to spend most of my time outside.

[Zen900]

Tent.

I tour on motorcycle. Many times I avoid the hassle of motel hunting on weekend nights. I can find a campsite anywhere. Air mattress is the key. Motels have become prohibitively expensive. $105 a night in tourist areas like the Blue Ridge.

[flcaptainbill]

I just got a pop up camper but the wife is not a fan of tents so for us it is probably Pop Up or stay not go. I do have two children (2 and 6).

[Triggerjerk]

Some of us, myself included live so far out in the woods that we do not need to go camping. If I did, however, I'd take a camper. Speaking for myself, once you're over 50 you don't want to rough it any more than you have to.

When power is out due to storms, that's all the camping that I need. I've bathed in the brook in the summer when trees came down on wires (three days) and huddled by the fireplace during winter outages. That's enough roughing it for me. No electricity or running water for days at a time.

[billy]

im with triggerjerk on this one.
but im not anywhere near as old!

[AK Hunter]

TENT

I like getting so far out that you not only hear the call of the wild, you can hear it breath.

[SilentSoul]

I have not been camping in at least 10 years, I plan to go again either fall of this year or next, and like AK say's it will be a tent and far away from anyone or anything.

[JBS]

I got all the camping I wanted in the ARMY. Now, my idea of camping is Best Western.

[Dallas]

Between my age, the Army, and Boy Scouts I'm about camped out. I still go with the Scouts occasionally but for the most part I get a room at the Best Western too.

[two-70]

I like a tent but dont camp much any more on count of stupid people ( idiots ) that want to get drunk and cause trouble it seems, i could camp when i hunt would be safer but who knows any more least with a camper you can lock the door

[ezearln]

Well the Missus and I ain't exactly youngsters anymore so we use a slide in camper on the pickup. It's always provisioned so if we get a wild hair and want to go camping it's all of 30 minutes and away we go. Did the tent camping quite a bit when I was younger, but I find after a full day of fishing or hunting I like the convienece and creature comforts even a simple slide in camper provides.

[jerry]

Both. I have a travel trailer on a permanent spot. I don't tow it much due to gas prices. This is more of an economical 2nd home than camping. I like tent camping too. Won a new tent at a fish fry raffle last night. Donated my old one off to one of my son's friends.

[ArkansasHunter]

Chris, Texas T when you get a few more years on you a camper is more comfortable and you feel safer.
Lets not forget too when nature calls you have a nice convenint place to use in the camper.
Your own restroom.

[rondog]

I'm 51 and 320 lbs. Homey ain't sleepin' on the ground, thank you.

[cubbieman]

Originally Posted by Zen900

Tent.

I tour on motorcycle. Many times I avoid the hassle of motel hunting on weekend nights. I can find a campsite anywhere. Air mattress is the key. Motels have become prohibitively expensive. $105 a night in tourist areas like the Blue Ridge.

$105 a night is nothing, you can't find a decent room in alaska for under $200 in the summer

I'd take a camper, but i'm not the outdoorsy type

[KP90DC]

I started camping, in a tent, through deer season when I was in high school and for about 20 years after. I hadn't camped for many years, and this spring I bought a 30 ft. travel trailer and permanently set it up in the middle of 160 acres that I have in the country. Wife and I have camped there all summer and thoroughly enjoyed it. There is a difference in what you enjoy in your 20's, and 60's+.

[Big Dog]

I'm 50 years old, a bit north of 350 pounds, 6'4" of native Floridian.

I enjoy using a tent. As said above - air mattress! During my MC weekends, I use my 3-man dome tent and a twin-sized air mattress - I sleep better than at home. The nightly call? Face the door to the creek, slip out and the world is my urinal.

Now, I have a smaller and lighter bivy tent and a narrower air mattress- more cramped but still comfy.

A camper is just a motel room on wheels.

[Idaho Dave]

Tent if I have too, camper if I can. The older I get the less fun it is to sleep on the ground and the harder it is to get up once I'm down there.