We went camping this weekend at a state park about an hour from home.

1. Tent!? You don’t need no stinkin’ tent. 😉 Seriously, the weather was compatible with tent-less camping.

2. Thomas Landmann I mostly agree, but I didn’t chance it with two children sharing the tent. We have had BAD luck with such gambles in the past. (“There’s not a cloud in the sky, we don’t need the fly” then awake to a sudden midnight downpour) So my wife did the round-trip back home to get it while I made dinner. She almost just stopped at Walmart and bought a cheap new one (weighing the gas+time cost vs. the tent cost) but opted for just fetching ours.

3. It is true that the inclusion of wife and kids greatly affects flexibility. 🙂

4. Well, at least it was only an hour away (and an hour back.. .DOH). It was the weekend for such things, I left my laptop at my dad’s house and got halfway home before I had to turn around and go back for it… turned a 1hr return into a 2hr return. Ugh!

5. Step 1: Identify scapegoat(s). Step 2: Allocate blame. Step 3: Make minor self-sacrifice. Step 4: Lay on guilt. Step 5: Grab a cold one.

6. With sufficient whiskey, no one needs a tent in late summer 🙂

7. Hope that was the only hitch… you couldn’t have picked a more awesome weekend weather-wise.

8. Matt Haffner Agreed. It’s not often in Wisconsin that you can get a sunburn on the beach in mid-September!

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