Yo. Midwestie here. I love camping and fishing and I would love to be away from the city lights for a while. I love the stars and I so rarely see them in Chicago..
Yeah I totally get it.
Some times we go to Michigan, Wisconsin, sometimes we take weekends and go down to Florida. And it's always funny because the girls in my class are grossed out when I tell them about hooking works and cutting them in half to have more bait.
They don't like bugs in my class
I don't have a phobia, I just severly dislike them. Plus, how am I entitled to smite them when I find them in my room if I go and bug them in their own ''room'' outside? they're just as entitled to eat me alive while camping as I'm entitled to smack them with a slipper if I find some creepy crawlies under my bed.
@garlog, appreciate you being on my side but... no, i'm not. Anteaters must eat to survive. My survival is not tied to smashing crawling things under my bed. :P
"Not knowing how to put up a tent"
You can get small tents nowadays that basically put themselves up.
"not knowing how to build a fire"
...Yeah, that can be a problem. It's mostly about placing the larger pieces of wood correctly so you don't suffocate the fire. Past that you can just use newspaper for kindling and soak it with kerosene or something. It's fun. You could also just avoid a campfire all together and cook with a propane burner.
"not being compatible with nature"
What dos this mean? Does nature physically reject you?
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· 9 years ago
*walks outside*
*nature fucking hates me*
*tries to feed bird*
*pours too much bird seed*
*5 thousand birds dart at me*
*They all fucking Brave Bird my ass*
I meant it in terms of being really pale so you get sunburned easily, or not being coordinated enough to maneuver your way through countless trees, or not being athletic enough to walk up hills, things like that. Unless you're doing a very unadventurous, boring, watered down version of camping, it actually takes some kind of strength, coordination, and skill to be out in the wild for several days, and a lot of people might not be cut out for that.
Camping definitely doesn't need to be adventurous. I usually just wander a fair ways into the bush, set up camp, find a river, fish, and spend the rest of the time eating and drinking alcohol. Maybe smoke some weed, do some shrooms, depending on who's coming with me.
I physically reject nature. I'm allergic in some way to anything that is or has been alive (or to something it exudes). Sometimes it's severe, sometimes it's almost nothing. The most severe is my hay fever.
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Some people don't know how to build fires at all. And some have horrible phobias (aka me, of all sorts of bugs) or horrible allergies or are physically not ready for the wilderness, be it via personal fitness, knowledge and/or intelligence pertaining to survival, or physical or mental disability. Actual, full on camping can be very hard for certain people. And what you do seems to be somewhat less hard than actual camping.
Closest I've gotten to hunting is fishing, but we do that all the time so it's k.
Some times we go to Michigan, Wisconsin, sometimes we take weekends and go down to Florida. And it's always funny because the girls in my class are grossed out when I tell them about hooking works and cutting them in half to have more bait.
They don't like bugs in my class
Got it
You can get small tents nowadays that basically put themselves up.
"not knowing how to build a fire"
...Yeah, that can be a problem. It's mostly about placing the larger pieces of wood correctly so you don't suffocate the fire. Past that you can just use newspaper for kindling and soak it with kerosene or something. It's fun. You could also just avoid a campfire all together and cook with a propane burner.
"not being compatible with nature"
What dos this mean? Does nature physically reject you?
*nature fucking hates me*
*tries to feed bird*
*pours too much bird seed*
*5 thousand birds dart at me*
*They all fucking Brave Bird my ass*
How could be so foolish