This is an “everything but the kitchen sink” camping list, and if we had the inflatable version of that, I’d have brought it! Did I miss anything? Share!
So we weren’t roughing it out in the woods, but hey, this is Florida. There are no woods. (Update: We found the woods at Johnathan Dickinson State Park. We also found out we are dedicated KOA campers, where we can Glamp, but with a tent.)
In addition to the amenities we were near right on top of, we also had a picnic table, electric, water, wifi, and a fire bowl. All that was missing was room service!
We got the tent set up pretty quickly and easily, especially considering the instructions were some 300 miles away and in my front room. The air mattresses were pretty easy too. I was originally going to go with making pallets on the ground with lots of comforters, but apparently comforters, even at Goodwill, are 15 – 30$ a piece. Air mattresses it was! Once all that was set up, we spent some time playing velcro ball before we left for the water park. We left all our junk crap stuff in the tent and closed it up and just left. Which was super weird. I mean, it’s not like you can lock your tent.
before we left for the water park. We left all our Since you don’t want to hear about my running around at the water park, and since this is supposed to be more focused on my “what we actually needed” list, I’ll skip all the details about the water slides and drinks. However, before I even really get into my list, let me say, I overpacked, especially for an overnight. I was actually packing for three vacations (one hotel night, one campsite night, three days of water park, and one fancy-ass dinner), so I understand how I wound up with so much stuff. But overpacked equals überprepared. I’m perfectly fine with that. Even being overpacked, I forgot some items. This is not a backpacking list! This is an “everything but the kitchen sink” tent camping list, and if we had the inflatable version of that, I’d have brought it! This is a “we really need a trailer, and a roof bag, and a pocket universe for extra space to store all our shit” list.
I have this dream of selling all our stuff, packing a couple of changes of clothes, my laptop, my pocketbook (and all the stuff that’s usually in there, which includes my laptop), getting a tiny trailer and traveling the country. I don’t want a lot of stuff. But therein lies the rub, because having a trailer would mean most of what I had to pack would have a permanent home (like a mini fridge instead of a cooler, a bed instead of air mattresses, no need for a tent, you see where I’m going with this) and we’d have such limited space, no room for junk! Most days I don’t use 99% of the junk in my home, so is it anything I need to live with anyway? I doubt it!
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This blog post Camptastic was originally posted on Modified Motherhood.
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