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One of the things I love about camping is that you can be a mile up the road, and a million miles from home.
You live at your own pace - you are not tied to meal times.  If you want breakfast at 7am or 11am, it is up to you.   I love to get up early and sit outside with a cuppa.  I will sometimes have a bowl of cereal then, and have a cooked breakfast later in the day.
Sometimes we've sat around site just chilling, other days we've had full days out.   It us up to use - no itinery to stick to.    In the past we've looked at things to do in the area, decided yes we will do that tomorrow, come the next day we've looked at the weather and changed our mine.    Or done spur of the moment things on what was going to be a day chilling.

OK over the past two years, especially last year, thanks to serious illness and a couple of family deaths, we were not able to do any weekends away - but we started camping so that we could get weekends away, when we lost the use of a static.
Just getting away from it all makes a huge difference  - recharges batteries and destresses.

 Last year we put our tent up and the heavens opened the rain was coming down side ways, my jeans (beginers mistake lol) were dripping wet! so I took them off and finished pitchin in my mac. We were laughing like big kids and the tent went up so fast. its funny because if i have to pick up my daughter from school in the rain alll I do is moan lol

so I agree its so much more than camping

Quote: Originally posted by newbie-campers on 20/5/2011

does anyone else find that a weekend away slows you down and recharges your inner batteries?

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Yes, absolutely!  That's what it's all about.

Glad you love it so much, and wishing you many years of chilled happiness in a tent!

FoO

i agree totally like you all i have had a shocking 2 years, have had not one but 2 cancer scares a blood clot i lost my job as a result of it, finally had all the bad bits taken away and felt like getting back to work, started my new job and my dad was diagnosed with an aneurism, he is now housebound and dying at home (his wish), i work full time in sales (stressful enough), i have 3 children, one of which has an attention defecit and i help my mum care for my dad, there are days when i just dont know how im going to get through.

the one thing that keeps me going is the fact that my amazing husband is very supportive and we get away for a night or two whenever we can with the kiddies, because as soon as that tent goes up my life relaxes, its like a button that just switches you off and it heaven and i love it

life is good when you camp

I prefer to camp over long weekends, so that I can have 2 short weeks on either side.

A long weekend about once a month from April to Sep is usually enough to recharge my batteries.

DK