This past weekend was splendiferous. After work on Friday I drove up to the mountains for some camping with the ol’ parental units. Here’s a picture of where we were camping. This is pretty much what you saw from our campsite, (and why I’ll never leave Idaho) :
Beautiful Stanley Lake Idaho
And while that’s really nice and all, it’s not actually the point of this post. The point of this particular post is to give you guys an important safety tip about camping.
Saturday morning I woke up to the sounds of birds tweeting and children laughing and the smell of warm pine. It was delicious. I was so happy, and peaceful and content. Then I rolled over inside my little 1.5-man tent and opened my eyes and saw this. I’m not sure how I’ve missed noticing this in the 3 years since I bought this particular tent, but I found it both amuzing and frightening:
"Keep all flame and heat sources away from this product fabric."
Because my cell phone doubles as a flashlight, I had it next to my sleeping bag, and snapped this picture.
Anyway, I don’t think it will be too big a problem. It’s not like camping tents are ever really in the vicinity of open flames or anything. And it’s not like anyone would be sleeping INSIDE this melting death trap anywhere in the vicinity of open flames. I know I mostly just use my tent for fun overnight excursions to the back yard. So I’m OK right? Right?
No problem.
Alrighty. Well, I should probably get some work done now.
Agatha82
August 11, 2010
Oh dear…just don’t smoke inside the tent
Bob
August 11, 2010
Sounds like you had a beautiful excursion, myself being stuck in the middle of the bald flat centre of the country the only decent lakes I see are when I visit my home town in North West Ontario. No mountains at home though, sigh.
Glad you had a good trip and didn’t set fire to yourself or your 1.5 person tent. 1.5 does that mean it’s only for a adult and child (that just sounds wrong), or are you legaly required to take a “little person” camping with you????
Seems like your blog is getting to me!!! All of these strange thoughts in my head now.
Bob
girl normal
August 11, 2010
I think the official capacity of my tent is 2 adults. But the practical capacity is 1.5 adults. I can’t explain exactly what that means except that whenever I try to fit another person in the tent it’s pretty uncomfortable.
Anyway, yes the trip was lovely and relaxing. Glad you’re enjoying the blog.
Conflicted Mean Girl
August 11, 2010
that made me laugh. I guess your tent is the sort that is made for camping in the basement as opposed to true camping.
I’ve always found myself nervous while drying my hair in the bathroom with the “keep away from water” warning hanging off the hairdryer and staring me in the face. I’m next to the sink! And the bathtub! AND MY HAIR IS WET!!!
murdock70
August 17, 2010
I’d just like to know who came up with the 1.5 man tent, and after you’re in, what do you do with the other 0.5 man’s worth of space?