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When I was living in Idaho, I didn’t have to worry about anything hurting you that was in the water. Sometimes a little fish would come up and nibble on my toes, usually a bluegill; but there were no venomous snakes or any other kind of dangerous fish or animals to worry about. When I lived in...

I have never been on a long enough camping trip to need to purify drinking water. Most of the time, we just put gallon jugs of water into the car for drinking and making coffee with, and didn’t need anyting else. When I was growing up, and my friends and I used to be out all day long, riding our...

Unless you found the wild animal when it was very young, it would be next to impossible to tame it. and if you did get a game animal, like a fawn, and then raise it; would you even want to kill it once it was large enough to shoot and eat ? We had a tiny fawn once that had either been left by...

My son has one of those off-road types of motorcycles, that can be ridden on the highway; but is also good for puttering along through the woods and up into the mountains. He just posted a video on Youtube of a camping trip that he took up into the mountains of north Idaho, and it seems to me...

I agree that it is best to leave any unnecessary valuables at home, or at least lock in a spot in the car where they are not visible. I have not actually ever camped in a place where I was concerned about having anything stolen; but usually the only thing that I had to be concerned with would...

That sounds like my kind of camping fun, too, @Northern Dancer , or at least it did back when I was still able to enjoy that kind of lifestyle. I have never had good balance; so even back in the camping days, I chose places that didn't have steep trails, or a hard climb down to the lake or...

I agree that you can certainly pitch a tent to get in out of the rain; but being huddled together in a tent for the weekend to keep dry is certainly not much of a fun weekend trip, at least to me. Many years ago, when i was first married; my husband had a job working at a new dam which was...

When we went camping as a family, we always took along some food, and then also cooked food over the campfire. We actually didn't have anything fancy, a lot of times, it was hot dogs and marshmallows toasted over the campfire, which was always a lot of fun. it is odd, because at home, we seldom...

Actually, you can find an older RV that is in good condition and even low mileage, if you shop around. because they are notorious for getting terrible gas mileage, people do not travel as much in one of the large RV's as they did when gas was much cheaper. We moved from Idaho to Alabama, and we...

I think that more people do go on camping trips to have parties now than used to happen before; but a party like @Alexandoy is describing sounds like a happy day for everyone, and not one that would disturb other people, unless the campground was very crowded. It has been a very long time since...

I think that all kinds of food tastes better when it is fresh cooked over a campfire, or on a BBQ outdoors. Even plain old hotdogs taste wonderful when you put them on a willow stick and cook them over campfire embers...... and marshmallows.......yum ! I really don't even like marshmallows; but...

I sometimes miss living in Idaho where we had a lot of rivers and lakes to go fishing in. My favorite fish is a trout, and they can only be found in colder , running water, and not in the warmer lakes and ponds in the south. There might be trout in the Tennessee River; but I have only fished...

It warmed up here late in May, and we got the little backyard swimming pool set up thinking that we would be out there swimming around and sunbathing for the next several months. I think that we have been in the pool maybe twice thus far. Once we got into June, we started having rain, rain, and...

We don't have moose down here, but we did have them when I lived in North Idaho. If a moose was crossing the road, all traffic coming and going stopped and waited until the moose finished crossing the road ! Moose seem not to be afraid of humans for the most part, nor cars either; and if they...

I think that it would depend on where you were going camping and whether you can get a good map of the area , that is accurate. When I worked for our census bureau, we had to cover every road that was in the section we had to canvas, but the maps they gave us were not very new or very accurate...

Here is a great tutorial for foraging and identifying some wild plants. Not every place would have all of these plants; but I was familiar with some of them, and I am pretty sure that a few of these are growing out in the back yard; so I might try harvesting a few and putting a bit in my green...

My daughter has been on vacation in Costa Rica this week, and she has been posting some beautiful pictures of some of the places she has been and the things she has been doing down there. The scenery is beautiful, and they are close enough to be wading around in the ocean, and also close enough...

It looks like it will miss Alabama completely; but maybe it will be close enough that we can at least see some of it as it goes by, assuming that we have clear skies that night. I live in an area with lots of really tall trees on all sides of our house, and unless the eclipse was right overhead...

That is exactly true, @Alexandoy . These boats have pedals and when we pedal, it runs the paddle wheel underneath the boat, so it IS actually either/both of these designations. When I had mine, I also stayed close to shore. One day, I was a little too far out from shore, and the wind came up...

I have seen bear when I was out camping; but we have never had any kind of problem with one, although you do hear stories about the dangers of having them around. Mostly, we had black bear where I lived, and they would come around the house because we lived out in the country; but they never...