21
July
2007
I just found the cutest Web site - Let’s Get Primitive, The Urban Girl’s Guide to Camping. That is so genius. Looks like it is based off a new book with the same title. Are we urban or more suburban?? Oh, well I have to get this book!
As you can see from the Web site, they have a contest going. Here’s the information:
Calling campers, wannabee campers, and writers with a sense of humor. Ten Speed Press is running a 500-word essay contest. Tell us your worst camping trauma. Share your backcountry disaster. Spill the beans and you could win a nifty 2-person Coleman tent, a camp cocktail set, and a copy of Let’s Get Primitive! Essays will be judged on originality, humor, writing style, and degree of calamity by the Queen of Camping Mishap, me!
Somebody please enter! This is hilarious!
Posted: Camping
21
July
2007
Have you ever seen the movie ‘Troop Beverly Hills’? How they went “roughing it” and after two hours, ditched their campsite for the comforts of the Beverly Hills Hotel. Many people it seems are now embracing the outdoors - but with the luxuries of home (or a resort). FYI - a SU glamping trip is in the works!
Interesting…
Ditch the Smelly Sleeping Bag and Go Glamping - Glamorous Camping, USA Today - March 6, 2006
NEW YORK (AP) - Did a bad experience turn you off to camping? Maybe your tent leaked in a rainstorm or you shivered all night in a borrowed, smelly sleeping bag. Or that thin foam pad you were trying to sleep on didn’t do much to protect your back from the rocky, uneven ground beneath your tent.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Tour companies and resorts now offer luxury camping, and the term “glamping” - shorthand for glamorous camping - is starting to turn up in reports from the United Kingdom and Canada. The New York Post recently mentioned “glamping” in an article on a new website for luxury travel, www.globorati.com.
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Fluffing It, Newsweek - May 19, 2007
Forget dirt, bugs and cold rain seeping through canvas. Camping doesn’t have to mean roughing it anymore. A range of cushy tents and designer accessories has created a popular new kind of outdoor holiday: “glamping,” short for glamorous camping. The revolution started in Britain, with Kate Moss and Sienna Miller combining mudproof Wellies and coutoure mini-dresses at festivals in Glastonbury. This year Marks & Spencer will stock a special glamping line, including floral tent pegs ($7 each; marksandspencer.com).
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Doesn’t it just sound like these people are wusses? Be brave! Get dirty! Don’t use your cell phone for three days! It’s called getting away, communing with nature. No luxuries. That’s my kind of camping! 
Posted: Camping