Today's paper has an article about a new trend in camping where people don't have to experience bugs and dirt, "or even wilderness". Examples cited include luxury trailers, glamorous yurts, beautifully appointed treehouses, themed cottages designed by different architects (including one cottage at a mere $1700 / night with trees painted on the walls and a ceiling painted like a night sky -- woohoo -- god forbid you should step outside and look at the night sky). One camping cottage includes fireplaces, jacuzzi tubs, Italian linens, radiant floor heating. Campers can toast s'mores, the fixings for which are delivered by Mercedes station wagon.
"It's not camping, but it's basically saying you can kind of experience the idea of camping but not get dirty," said the director. And a camper said "I don't like bugs, so it's perfect, because if you want to be outside you can be: It's kind of rustic in a nonrustic kind of way, without having to cook your own meals. Even when you go for your massage there is that outdoor kind of feeling to it. There are a lot of windows in the spa."
OK, enough looking at the paper. I'm about to go outside and get bits of tree all over me as we stack the last part of the winter's wood next to the soaking wet forest.
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Weird. As someone just back from camping, leaky tent on an island and all.
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