Some may agree, some may get their feathers ruffled.

[cndlzrus]

We still tent camp with the scouts, that when I truely appreciate our little PUP, even though I think its too small for my family, it so much better that being on an air mattress in cold weather.  

But we take in stride that we are camping, we are outdoors, we are away from all the electronic, media and other BS that the world throws at us...  

So I think, no matter what you camp in or how you camp, Nature is best  when you really take time to absorb it in....

[ForestCreature]

Damn, my feathers are ruffled!!! Only because we haven't been able to get out and dry camp back in the woods like we really like for the past couple years.

I REALLY miss being back in the woods, hearing nothing but nature, elk in rut behind the camper in the fall. Millions of stars in the (blackened) night sky, northern lights if you are lucky enough...don't get any of that camping in the state parks around here. I miss hearing the Loons call early in the morning or at laughing dusk. The waterfall or fast river flowing next to camp. Or even the bear passing thru looking for stuff they aren't going to find. Thanks for reminding us of what we are missing!

Those who haven't been there will never understand the closeness to nature and life you feel when out off the beaten path.

[ilovecamping]

Next to the last trip out this fall we had a site with elec only.  We were unaware they had shut the water off and we would not be able to fill our tank.  We made do with an igloo water cooler for our water, which we refilled from a cousins home as needed.  DGD thought it was terrible to not have running water but we made it fine.  We heated water on the stove or in the MW so I can't say we had it too rough.  The idea is we still had a good time for 4 days even though we had no running water.  
We too have done the roughing it and wouldn't mind dry camping in the right weather and without DGD.  I'm not sure she could do without her movies at night but otherwise she would do fine just being outside all day.