My friends and I decided to go camping.
We were fully intent on “roughing it” and spending a weekend in the woods doing things the old fashioned way.
As it turns out, when your campsite is only a five minute drive from a Walmart, it is very hard to rough it. When we ran out of bottled water, no one was cool with drinking water from the stream, so we went to the store and bought some more… plus some chips, too! When the winds picked up and we couldn’t keep the campfire going, we went and bought a space heater that ran off of the car engine. It turns out that you can’t melt marshmallows over a space heater the same way you can a fire, a lesson we learned before going to buy another space heater, one that wasn’t covered in sticky goo. With only one space heater, everyone tried to cram into one tent to sleep, but there wasn’t room for us all. I turned on my phone flashlight and used a stick to scrape some of the melted marshmallow from the other space heater. After about an hour I got it to work, but the goo on the heating coils started to burn, so I was warm in my own tent, but it stank to high heaven! We decided that if we ever go back we will rent a huge RV so we can have controlled heating and not have to worry about any of this. Campfires are cool and all, but no replacement for a good heating system.