Car "Camping"

I went car camping with the Boss this past weekend. It's been so busy ever since this is my first chance to post about it. Car camping is not like real camping. You get to bring almost all the comforts of home and get pretty much none of the benefits of real camping. We had an ulterior motive in that we were at a campground in the middle of where we want to buy some land and the days were for scouting.

I borrowed a nice stove from Heavy-C (thanks again) which made cooking a breeze so combined with the Boss' culinary expertise I ate like a king a weekend! Not at all like real camping when I mostly eat gruel fancied up with artificial meat flavours. We sort of lucked out weather wise as it was a mostly sunny four days in a very rainy summer. We did wake up one morning to discover the tent leaked but a quick tug under the ubiquitous overhead blue tarp that signifies an occupied campsite in Ontario solved this issue.

The flies were cruel which I guess is due in part to a cool wet summer so far keeping them out longer and the fact that Silver Lake Campground in a triangle of dry dirt between Silver Lake, Highway Seven and a swamp.

The neighbours weren't that noisy but honestly, I don't get the whole going off to the park to drink beer thing. At least not once you're of an age to have your own apartment.

So basically car camping to me is most of the negatives of camping, rain and bugs and critters stealing your food but none of the serenity and non-pollutedness (less pollutedness?) that makes camping great.

We did get a lot of looking done, didn't find the dream location yet but that's probably for the best.

And the lake was nice.