Camping

[ZoNiE]

Nothing wrong with that!

 

[highdesertranger]

I tend to shy away from places that charge you to camp. highdesertranger

 

[WriterMs]

My take on the cartoon is that "spending a small fortune" refers to people who have to go out and buy the latest and greatest gear to even tent camp. My work when I lived in MT required me to scan through mags like Backpacker and Outside each month. I was amazed at what so many people seemed to be spending so that they could "rough it." LOL

For many of us, the mobile lifestyle does still cost a pretty penny (comparatively) to start up so we can happily live in a desert or mountain meadow for free.

 

[LoupGarou]

You really don't need a lot of gear to create memories and have a good time.

I spent several nights camped on the beach of the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia with just a cot and a blanket. The sad part was the view of the night sky was ruined by the lights of a desalination plant down the coast. Those memories are priceless to me.

 

[Patrick46]

I've wondered about folks who move here from foreign countries where there are 'real' refugee camps...and they see these Americans all 'roughing it' in these krammed little campgrounds.

"What...they have refugees here in America too???"

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

"Homeless Person" is such a negtive, judgemental term.

Under our present enlightened administration, the domicle challenged - who are all innocent victims of the fat-cat Wall Street capitalists - are correctly called "Involuntary Minimalists".

Regards
John

 

[TMG51]

"Homeless Person" is such a negtive, judgemental term.

Under our present enlightened administration, the domicle challenged - who are all innocent victims of the fat-cat Wall Street capitalists - are correctly called "Involuntary Minimalists".

Regards
John

I can't quite tell if all of this is hyperbole. :-/

 

[LeeRevell]

Not all are 'involuntary'.  Many sell their S&B to embrace vanliving......   

 

[Sameer]

“Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than to the next, moves slowly over periods of years, from one part of the earth to another. Indeed, he would have found it difficult to tell, among the many places he had lived, precisely where it was he had felt most at home.”
― Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky

I am a traveler and not a tourist...!
Homeless is not a negative term. It simply means no home/dwelling. I am not homeless...how could I be?... if my home is my van? Sometimes it is boring to think and try to be politically correct...right not my thoughts are on the Perseid meteor shower and if I am in the right place in the forest...camping...in my van....to see it all of next week...

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

I can't quite tell if all of this is hyperbole. :-/

Well, mostly it was tongue-firmly-in-cheek. 

But I did 25 years with a state agency in NY, and the use of the word "homeless" was frowned upon.  "Undomiciled" was the word we were supposed to use in official report.

Regards
John

 

[Sameer]

Words are defined by clinical definitions related to how they are used in a sentence... words cannot be good or bad or politically correct. Some words have colloquial or regional definition. Sort of like..pop..soda..soft drink..etc. As a linguist I think it harms the language to place our own definition on a word and then think it is correct. A sentence is a scientific structure to be defined my rules and clinical definitions. That is how all languages works.
However, I love the cartoon and can relate when it comes to cost...just spent 18 bucks on Goat Cheese, Madjool Dates and Pecans and am going to try to replicate a tasty stuffed date delight I discovered at the Date Festival in Yuma last year and want to eat something delicious while watching the Perseid Meteor Shower starting Tuesday evening, next week, in the Forest. I am 'without domicile' .....Loving every minute....! Hahahahaha! Wheel Estate is better for me than Real Estate! Hahahaha! The day I use 'undomiciled' for the word 'homeless'....I think...please someone shoot me! It is not a word. OOPS....just looked up 'undomiciled'....Shoot me please!!!!!!!!

 

[highdesertranger]

speaking about high priced camping stuff. anybody know about Snow Peak gear, talk about expensive, geeze. worse yet, some people are Snow Peak snobs. highdesertranger

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

Words are defined by clinical definitions related  to how they are used in a sentence... words cannot be good or bad or politically correct.

Words have both denotations and connotations.  Example:

"Bob Wells is extremely enthusiastic about helping new van dwellers."

"Bob Wells is fanatical about helping new van dwellers."

The first example strikes me as having a positive connotation, the second a more negative one.  Who wants to be around a fanatic?

The phrase "differently abled" is now considered more pc than "crippled".  I think "crippled" definitely has negative connotations.  Since it is an observed fact that blind people sometimes (often?) have enhanced sense of smell and hearing - or maybe they just pay more attention to those senses than people with sight do - "differently abled" is probably a more accurate term.

(PC can be funny, though.  I was a history major in college.  I worked for a few years as an armored car guard.  I had a partner who was a Womens Studies major, and every time she used the word "herstory" I cracked up.  Amy would glare at me and remind me that she was carrying a gun! )

Regards
John

 

[LeeRevell]

Once a very rare while I find myself about to drop into using a PC term.....  I pause, take a deep breath, and continue using the correct term.  Ah, that's better!  No one has ever accused this old Dog of being "Politically Correct"!   I pray they never will.
I do find it humorous how we often enjoyed camping as kids, go into the military and find the long hikes with heavy packs a drudge, then we bivouac in the outdoors with a couple dozen other guys.  We hate it.....
Then later in life, we don our not quite so heavy packs (Hurray Nylon and Titanium!), hike some lesser distance, put up our more colorful tents, and enjoy our commune with nature!  We come full circle.   

 

[akrvbob]

The PC words discussion is off topic. Even though the topic is hard to define, I think we are off it.
Bob

 

[ZoNiE]

I am a traveller, but I return home frequently. I travel for business, so I am NOT a tourist. :dodgy: