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FReeper Family Table - It's Campers' Turn!!!!!!!!
Free Republic | June 16, 2005 | Gabz

Posted on 06/16/2005 6:26:24 PM PDT by Gabz

Good evening ladies and gentlemen!!!!!

Camping seems to be a huge favorite pass time with many of the member of our little group and I would like to give the afficiandos of it a chance to expund upon its merrit (and drawbacks)

Have at it folks - please do your dangedest to convince those of us with no interest why we should give up things like hot/cold running water, indoor plumbing, and electricity for a weekend or a week or longer without any or all of them.


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To: Zacs Mom

That VW van is exactly what I camped in while we prepared the two tents for cooking and sleeping. Had a space heater because when we arrived in B.C. it snowed the first night!


21 posted on 06/16/2005 7:43:51 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: Happygal

I don't know about injections, but you can do a number of things to keep them at bay. These include using DEET (most bug repellents have this as an ingredient), wearing light colored, loose fitting clothing, don't camp near shallow standing water if possible, keep your tent screen closed and only open it to the extent that you need to get something and when you're ready to enter it to sleep. Catnip is supposed to work better than DEET and has no real side effects (like DEET may have) except for a possible allergic reaction. Vitamin B1 and lavender oil are also touted as effective repellents.


22 posted on 06/16/2005 7:45:26 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: TADSLOS

Best memories: simplicity and getting to know myself on the inside. Raising my daughter without the "bells and whistles" of this world of ours. She is now a naturopath/herbalogist and is raising her two daughters with real appreciation of nature.

Worst: black flies and mosquitoes! I had a beekeepers hat, wore long sleeves/pants and used three different kinds of bug spray. I couldn't wait for the first frost to kill the little devils.


23 posted on 06/16/2005 7:47:50 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: Happygal

Avon has a product that works well, as does lemon oil. DEET has been accused of being very bad for the nervous system.


24 posted on 06/16/2005 7:49:22 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: Happygal

A lot of people swear by Skinsosoft lotion.
Some people say drinking a shot glass of vinegar a day
keeps them off.
I personally always used the WW II jungle juice that was
100% DEET but you can't hardly find it any more.
Now the best you can get is Army Surplus "ARTHROPOD" repellent. Not messy and seems to work, fairly inexpensive
too.
Try baking soda on those bites, wet it and cake a little on
each one.

What I hate worse than mozzies is CHIGGERS!!!
There is modern stuff you can spray yourself with but
tucking your pants in your socks and dusting yourself at the ankles and belt line, cuffs with powdered sulfur works
as good. you can get it at any pharmacy.

I used to have a 18' teepee and it was lots of fun too,
harder to put up but very comfortable.


25 posted on 06/16/2005 7:49:34 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: sarasota

black flies...I HATE 'em. Worse than mosquitoes IMO.


26 posted on 06/16/2005 7:49:50 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: tet68

You can also consume sulfur tablets over the course of a few days before you go into the woods to ward off bugs. Pretty effective but has an anti-social side effect.


27 posted on 06/16/2005 7:51:30 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: tet68

The best thing for CHIGGERS is a red hot needle stuck
right in the center of the bite....

Well at least that what you would put up with if it would
make the itching stop.

Usually a drop of clear nail polish on the bite will smother
the little buggers after a bit.

Don't scratch, it only irritates them and makes them frisky.


28 posted on 06/16/2005 7:53:32 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: TADSLOS
Thanks. I kinda knew about the sprays. When I was in Greece I used them; took garlic tablets (mozzies don't like them); wore a mosquito repellant bracelet on my arms (and ankles); never opened the door of our apartment when the light was on at night; had a mozzie repellant plug-in in the wall; and sprayed the apartment with fly-spray every night before we went out to kill any bugs in the apartment before I got home.

I still got 50 infected mozzie bites.

Someone mentioned to me that there is some sort of injection a person can get if they are allergic (as I seem to be) to mosquito bites. I just haven't been able to find out what it is yet.

29 posted on 06/16/2005 7:53:46 PM PDT by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: sarasota
Sorry to sound beligerent, but I'm allergic to Avon products. (I'm also allergic to Clarins products, even though they are SUPPOSED to have only natural ingredients).

I have very fair, Irish skin.

30 posted on 06/16/2005 7:59:40 PM PDT by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: tet68
Thanks for the advice, although I'm not familiar with some of the products - they don't have them here in Ireland.

As to the baking soda - when I was a kid, I was always coming down with hives in the summer. My late Mam remedied the itch by making a paste of bread-soda and water (until it became the consistency of icing/cake frosting). The itch went almost immediately.

31 posted on 06/16/2005 8:03:43 PM PDT by Happygal (liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
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To: Gabz

I like the outdoors, but I hate sleeping in a tent.

My kids usually wake up in the middle of the night, and I have to walk them to the bathroom. It's usually cold at night in California at the places we camp, and I can never go back to sleep. After a few days, I'm totally exhausted.

My husband wants to get a tent trailer.


32 posted on 06/16/2005 8:07:00 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: sarasota
I really enjoyed the bus except that I could never find a way to cool off the inside....whether it was parked or traveling down the freeway at 70mph with all the windows open. We tried using asmall window A.C. unit, which helped a little but not enough to make it really comfortable in the Texas summer heat.

I'll bet a small space heater could actually heat it up enough to take the chill off though ~ ah - the good times! lol

33 posted on 06/16/2005 8:09:33 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Zacs Mom

That looks like my kind of camping!!!


34 posted on 06/16/2005 8:09:53 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: luckystarmom
I cannot begin to tell you how much I enjoy it!! After years of sleeping on the ground, trying to cook over smoky damp wood camp fires (sometimes at altitudes where water would boil but not really cook anything) and squatting in the bushes to pee, I now feel like I'm in the lap of luxury when I camp!! (I admit, though I like it all, the indoor plumbing is probably the most welcome feature for me)
35 posted on 06/16/2005 8:18:13 PM PDT by Zacs Mom (Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
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To: Happygal
Oh! I've been to music festivals since - but I've always stayed in a B&B.

sounds like a good plan to me!

36 posted on 06/17/2005 5:16:09 AM PDT by Gabz (My give-a-damn is busted.)
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To: TADSLOS

Very good advice.


37 posted on 06/17/2005 5:19:31 AM PDT by Gabz (My give-a-damn is busted.)
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To: Zacs Mom

What great pictures!!!!!!!!!!


38 posted on 06/17/2005 5:20:58 AM PDT by Gabz (My give-a-damn is busted.)
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To: MotleyGirl70
It always seemed more funny when it happened to someone else though.

That's for danged sure!!!

39 posted on 06/17/2005 5:21:41 AM PDT by Gabz (My give-a-damn is busted.)
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To: tet68

Now that is what I call adventurous!


40 posted on 06/17/2005 5:24:08 AM PDT by Gabz (My give-a-damn is busted.)
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