My First Camping with New Tent
By Jian Shuo Wang on 2009-04-06 22:45 · SportsI am a very happy customer of my new Quechua 2 Seconds Air III (Quechua is the brand name, 2 Seconds implies that by throwing the tent into the sky and the tent will be installed in 2 seconds. Air means they have window on the side, and it is called Air Cooling System, and III means three adults can sleep in it). So far, all the promises in the name turned out to be true.
I was so excited that I told Wendy that I want to go out and setup the tent at 7:00 AM. But actually, I held my impulse, and behaved mature enough to go out only after 9:30 AM.
This is my tent, on the top of a slop, facing to a lake. I made a stupid mistake to tune to the size of the photo from my Nokia phone to be MMS, which is the smallest format, so the photos are very small and blurry.
Here is the view outside the camp.
The view out of Tent
Below are the pictures of the side window - the air cooling system, which worked very well. It is cool inside, and people want to get back to tent when the Sun gets hot.
Yifan loves the tent as much as I did, and he enjoys running up and down the slop for many times. Yes. It is him running - he just had haircut in the morning.
Friends are More Important than Tent
In the tent, I pulled out my mobile phone and start to send SMS and call my friends. Within one hour, Run, Linda, and their lovely 6 months old Xiaomi came. Then Michael came with his mom and lovely 10 year old dog. Then Wang Chen came with Xia,and their 2 year old Xiaopao. Of cause we also have Yifan joining us after his unpleasant haircut (He don’t like haircuts as most kids, obviously).
We hung out from 9:30 AM to about 5:00 PM, when the Sun is low on the sky. We brought beers and snacks and chat. We joked that it is a beer festival.
I will write about the meaning of travel (Why People Travel). Alan de Botton reminded us that before we go out to somewhere far away, pay attention to your surrounding first. This camp place is very near to where we live, and I believe the happiness, and relax time we got was not less at all from a 1000 mile trip.
Thanks my friends for coming, and I will definitely hold another one very soon.
12 Comments
Glad you can enjoy the spring time weather, it's very nice between the cold winter and the hot and humid summer.
With strom sewage pond on the side, power transmission above you and residential buildings across the street........
This is not camping, this is homelessness!
Runliu has updated his blog recently !
BTW, was it cold and moist in your camp in this season ?
http://www.kotulas.com/guide-to-the-good-life.htm
When our kids were little we used to set up a tent in the back yard from time to time. Was that "camping"? Not by the usual definition. But, was it fun? You betcha!!
as i said, click above to see the actual place for camp in action..
You are so cute.:)
And please do not like so many chinese which is leaving lot of trash on site. But I believe you will not.
Regards