The Great Outdoors
“We shall not cease from exploration, and then the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”
Outdoors experts will tell you that camping is about figuring out how to live with the bare minimum. Then there's me. I will bring everything. After decades of playing Tetris, I excel at arranging bags and boxes inside my truck to minimize the volume of remaining breathable air. While not a packrat in a classic sense, I do like the small comforts.
A generator, a fridge, and a microwave, for example. You take yesterday’s dinner out of the fridge, nuke it, and - voilà - you have breakfast. It depends on your priorities: do you like the camping process, or do you like the results? If I take a week to go camping, I don’t want to spend half of my time packing and unpacking, cooking, washing the dishes, setting up and taking down the tent.
This is a lot of fun initially, but it gets old quickly. I’d rather wake up in the morning, make a cup of coffee with my Keurig running off the generator, eat a granola bar, and go make some photos.
