The family and I had the chance to take our annual camping trip during the kids spring break from school. We have found a campground in Alabama that we really enjoy and have been going there for at least 4 years.
We tent camp so we try to find a nice level spot, free of roots, rocks, pine cones, etc. We thought we had a pretty good spot until the storm rolled in on Friday. We then realized that our tent site was basically the holding spot for water that ran from 3 campsites up from us. We basically chose a spot that was in the middle of a huge puddle.
Fortunately, we were able to move the tent during a break in the rain because it rained for 8 hours straight, Friday night into Saturday morning. I do not like packing up wet camping stuff but it seems that every time we go camping it rains and it usually rains on the last day or so when we have to pack up.
I will say that I have learned from this latest experience to take a look at the drainage of the camp sites before putting down your tarp and setting up your tent.
We have learned and were lucky we put up a blue tarp over the top of our tent. We saw a couple dumping buckets of water out fo their tent on Saturday morning. We stayed dry because of the blue tarp we put over the tent.
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Forget camping. Go to the beach.
Anyone raised by our dad always has a blue tarp and a roll of duct tape handy ... well and some toothpicks and epoxy!!!
That's why you don't go camping.....
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