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Camping - the old fashioned way..... |
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We don't feel bad at all 'camping' in a trailer. Thirty plus years ago we had a vehicle - a utility - and that was it. A mattress in the back, a couple of sleeping bags, and a plastic 'fly' to keep the worst of the rain off. We're not that young any more..... |
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Managed to get between two trees for this site. Only it was on our own land. Spent a week knocking down weeds. For normal camping, we didn't carry the water drum. Note the fruit packing case for a table. |
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In Australia in early 1970. Not far off the road leading to Tin Can Bay. We were on a jaunt from Brisbane to Cairns, just for fun, and had lousy weather the entire trip. The return trip to Brisbane was via Longreach. |
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Taken just outside the east boundary of Death Valley National Monument. Not even a pick-up bed to sleep in. The back seat folded down, the table was sized to bridge the gap to the front seats. A good thing we're both small. "Cosy" just isn't quite the word. But it worked. |
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We arrived in the US in the middle of 1970. It was the fall of 1972 before we had a two week vacation. Yellowstone National Park was the destination. We had heard reports of snow that far north: "Let's go anyway, we can always turn around and come back." Had an SLR camera shutter freeze, and it had spent the night in the VW with us! This photo was taken in Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. Black lava flows, and a solid overcast didn't help the photography. Again, we needed a 'fly' for some protection from the elements. As it turned out, only about four drops of rain. |
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By 1974 we had graduated to the opulence of a tent. This photo was taken in Cottonwood Canyon in Anza Borrego State Park, California, south of Palm Springs. Mostly desert, with some interesting historical places in the area. This camp was about 200 yards above a natural spring in the canyon. Any closer and we would have prevented the wild animals from coming in and drinking during the night. |
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A tarp can be rigged in a number of ways - rain shelter, wind deflector, or shade. Here up by the south fork of the Kern River, we set the tent under the tree. It still has the sap marks on it! (We still have the same tent - in 2002. It hasn't been used in about six years.) |
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In the late 1980's, in Fish Slough north of Bishop, California. Had our friend John Bayer along on the trip. The larger propane-fed stove was his. By this time, trying to find and buy any tarp that wasn't 'blue' was almost impossible. |
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The bane of all road travel - "Road Construction Ahead". On Hwy 395 in California. 'Clicking' on this image takes you to the next page..... |
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