Imagine you are at our place. You walk from the bedroom into the living room, it’s spacious and feels great with the windows open, but you’d rather get a full breathe of fresh air, so you go out onto the screened-in porch. “Wait” you keenly interrupt, “Greg, you and Selena don’t have a screened in porch.” This is true, not in our condo, but that’s now where we are. I am taking you on a walking tour of OUR TENT!
Selena smiles and continues the virtual tour in her head as she stands in the aisle at Target looking at all the multi-room tents on display in miniature. (I am convinced that Selena would have zero interest in tents if it wasn’t for the miniature displays).
We have a tent already; it’s a two-person, one room, Eddie Bauer tent that has been used once – during a monsoon. Selena insists this is way too small (“You can’t even stand upright in it!”), and as we plan a camping trip for this July, the Eddie Bauer tent is persona-non-grata.
Instead one of these McMansion tents with 6-foot ceilings and 3 or more rooms will be coming with us. Is it wrong to have a tent that has more rooms than people using it? Would it sway your opinion at all if you were the one that had to assemble it?
Sounds like a tent from the Harry Potter books…
Yeah, those tents sound bigger than my first apartment!
When I was a wee lad we had a 16 person tent that we would set up in the yard for the summer. It was crazy big. And a major pain in the arse to set up.
No, I would not say that is “wrong”… I would say it is “kick-ass”!
But, yes- it absolutely would sway me if I had to set it up. I mean, I guess as long as I put in an arguable effort, and someone else did most of the work, then that would be acceptable.
So, was that helpful, Greg? : )
p.s. Bill, I fantasize about those Harry Potter tents- like, having a house like them…
Those miniature tents are the best! I was almost fooled into thinking that camping would be fun, for me at least.
Well, I’ve been happy with my little dome tent for years but that’s because I fill it with my complete, off-the-ground, double bed (with extra pillows). And an ice-cooled, battery-op air conditioner. And carpeting.
I guess you can’t really call it “roughing it. It’s more like living in a tent. But you gotta know how to live…