Sounds like quite a voyage, like you are planning to leave forever and never return again, want to "say goodbye" to places you remembered.
I don't camp any more. Sleeping in a tent is very hard on my bones, regardless of what kind of sleeping pad or inflatable mattress I buy. Trying to find campgrounds that are accessible by car and yet do not service RVs is difficult. I'd equip a light truck for living/traveling in, once upon a time I had a '63 Microbus that was perfect at this sort of thing. Much lighter duty than today's behemoth RVs. I'd go out for a trip and sleep in the bus two-three nights in ad-hoc campgrounds or real campgrounds, then take a night or two in an inexpensive small-town motel where I could do the laundry, etc. Worked out well. For when I did camp, it was always from a motorcycle. Light tent, room for two in a pinch, ground cloth, small campstove, cooking utensils, etc etc. Buy food/water/etc for the next two meals. Pitched that tent in god only knows how many places across the US and Canada. I think I still have it. It's probably pretty ratty by now. There are good books and many sources of information on the web. The basic tenets of travel remain the same no matter how you do it: go as lightly as you can manage comfortably. Godfrey On Jul 7, 2006, at 8:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I plan to move in 6-8 months out of California. Probably. Most likely. > Finances and all that, plus the humongous amount this condo will > now sell for. CA > housing prices are outrageous, but I might as well benefit from > it. :-) > > Being a third generation Californian, this will be a wrench. And > having lived > here so long, I've seen a great deal of California. But I have not > seen a lot > of it for a long, long time. > > So I've been making plans to revisit some old familiar places > before I leave, > like Santa Cruz, Lake Tahoe, Siskiyou County, and Yosemite. And > quite a few > other places. Like I am considering a trip up the coast to catch a > lot of > redwoods and visit some spots that have some family history attached. > > Then when I sit down to figure it out, seems like if I want to see > everything > I want to see it could run into big bucks (motel rooms are > expensive these > days). So I started thinking I may have to do some tent camping to see > everything. Starting probably in August. > > Never camped alone as a woman, bit intimidating. I did do a fair > amount in my > thirties with a group. But that was a long time ago. :-) I might > eat out all > the time and only camp over night. Haven't decided. Anyway, these > trips will > definitely be photography oriented. > > Been sort of figuring out the basic camping gear I need for tent > camping. No > frills. No backpacking. > > Anyway, anyone with any suggestions about camping gear I wouldn't mind > hearing them. I also wouldn't mind hearing suggestions on tent > camping in general. > > Tent camping to me means the camps are easily accessible by car and > no RVs > are involved. > > TIA, Marnie aka Doe > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
