Random Holidays

If you love camping (and why wouldn’t you) you know that it’s the kind of activity where you take the good with the bad. The joy of the outdoors, nature, fresh air and sleeping under the stars can just as often be summed up as voluntary torture. Sometimes the weather doesn’t cooperate, the equipment fails and the ground is a cold, hard reminder of the comfort in which you could be sleeping if you’d just had the sense to stay home. Of course, had you stayed home, you’d be missing out on all that nature. The mosquitoes, spiders, tics, sudden storms, poison ivy, ah nature. Think of all the lonely vermin.

Lucky for them, there are those who won’t let things like crippling diseases, poisonous insects, vicious animals or life-threatening weather deter them from a camping trip. Goodness, no. Those things (and the great stories that result from epic adventures) are what makes a trip worthwhile. As long as the story can end with, “and that’s how I narrowly escaped certain death,” it’s all good. A couple wet matches, a sharp knife and some twine are all these die-hards need (or want) to make it through the trip. And if need be, they can make their own twine.