Three Essentials for Primitive Camping — A Lesson in Living Through a Pandemic
Everyone and their mother are camping this year.
COVID-19 has people avoiding air travel, hotel stays, and anything else that requires being indoors. It’s also put a major damper on typical outdoor activities like water parks, amusement parks, and sleepaway camps.
With John and Jane working from home for the foreseeable future, and Joey and Janet starting many more months of homeschooling, the entire family is itching for options to get out of the house.
For those who cannot afford month-long VRBO rentals, loading up cars and Camper Vans and going camping is the obvious choice to unplug and recharge.
Because everyone wants to be outdoors, however, our state and national parks have become more like amusement parks than great escapes. There’s a steady stream of hikers on the trails and campgrounds are teeming with families and pets — all vying for a bit of outdoor time. Such is life in a pandemic — you leave your neighborhood in search of peace and quiet only to find your neighbors have followed along.
Who can blame them? Getting out in nature is good for the soul, even if it requires waiting-out lines at park entrances to get there.
