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Yes, you can do this! A newish Web site called Campinmygarden.com enables you to connect with folks who’ll let you pitch a tent in their yards for a small fee.
It’s the same online community concept established by sites like Airbnb.com and Couchsurfing.org — only you’ll sleep outside the house, rather than inside.
Adventure Sleeping at a Mountain Resort in Germany
by Amanda Arnold | November 30, 2011
Do you wish to dangle from great heights while you snooze?
Yes, you do. And you might as well do it in Bavaria, Germany, at an adventure resort called Waldseilgarten. Here at the mountain retreat, you will have three sleep-up-high options. They are as follows:
Last weekend, I strapped 30 to 40 pounds of camping gear to my back and hiked through Colorado’s wild-flowered Rocky Mountain National Park. I figured the pack would feel heavy, but I didn’t read How Altitude Sickness Works. So I was surprised at 11,000 feet when this happened: rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, malaise, the chills, headache, loss of appetite, slight nausea, not being able to add and subtract quickly in my head, mean thoughts …
Do you really need travel underwear?
by Amanda Arnold | July 25, 2011
On Saturday, I was browsing around the REI store, when I came upon a lacy, pale pink pair of underwear with a tag that read: “6 weeks, one pair of underwear.”
The point of these one-pair-per-trip “travel undergarments” is to save you some room in your luggage or some weight in your backpack — which can be very important if, say, you’re going ultralight backpacking, and mere ounces in your pack really matter.
Strapping all your stuff to your back and then drudging with it through the wilderness is kind of painful. What you need is a llama.
Not only will it lend you inner peace with its soulful llama presence, it will carry your things on its back — be those things a cooler of marinating steaks, a camping grill and a bottle of wine for dinner, or a tent and sleeping bag for a four-night long camping trip.
Is it a sign of better economic times? Or a sign that road tripping seems like a better idea when you’re broke? (Or is it simply the “Mad Men” effect?) The Airstream camper, the kind of retro aluminum camper that Dr. McDreamy called home back when I used to watch “Grey’s Anatomy,” is selling like hotcakes.
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