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roughing it? ROUGHING IT? HA! naaaaa camping is fun, not 'roughing it'. People camp to explore and appreciate nature, to experience our world... You could even look at it in a way that its a slightly more up-market version of how our good old cave men friends evolved before houses, power, water from a tap, etc.
i have been camping all my life but I hate camping in national parks because they restrict you so much these days... if you find a nice spot in the middle of no where, a bit of a river or something, and the weather is right, BELIEVE me when I say you can have a great time. Yer sure your hair might get dirty, your face might break out, and you won't put on makeup for a week, but if you put all that aside and let yourself go with the flow, it can quite honestly be relaxing...

I grew up in Alice Springs and there are some really nice rivers around. My family and 2 other close families used to just go out for every long weekend or even for a week at a time! we used to find so many things to do, such as drawing fishing, blowing up air mattresses and floating along the gentle river current, reading a book, exploring through the place, everything. and because we didn't camp in national park we even took the dogs wif us, fished, and had big open camp fires... our tents could be as far apart as we wanted and yer...
basically camping (in the right weather) is the best thing, you can relax and don't really have major restrictions on your freedom (within reason of course) so if you ever consider camping because you haven't done it before, go for it! don't listen to the 'roughing it' bit, if you do camp and find you dont enjoy it, so be it, but definitely give it a go some time, coz its the best fun...

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