Going Camping
I’ve never really been a huge fan of “the great outdoors,” but I really want to plan a camping trip. My past experience with camping has been… minimal. I went most recently around 5 years ago, a trip that I have described in slightly more detail before , but still never gave a full tale of, and probably don’t remember well enough now to flesh out all the details. I went with my now wife and a group of friends up to Pisgah National Forest . While I won’t say this trip was awful, it could have gone significantly better. I sliced my finger open while trying to to split some wood into tinder. We went hungry the first night, because I never got a fire going to actually cook dinner. The next day, we bought some duraflame logs to get a fire going, but we still didn’t really have all the supplies and tools we needed. It was an interesting experience, for sure, but a little preparation and expertise would have made the trip much more pleasant. Before that trip, I haven’t stayed outside overnigh...