Uncomfortable Nights

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So we slept in a campervan for a while, together with permit me tell you, they tell that the best agency to larn to know someone is to conduct maintain a long automobile ride alongside them. How virtually a iii calendar week long one, is that long enough? Well, yes, yeah it is.

But that is non what I am going to utter about. What I was going to tell is that the campervan is also a piffling chip cramped. I mean, if you lot slide the bed out, you lot can’t larn to anything underneath (there is storage there) together with if i somebody is putting on their shoes, the other has to stride aside. It’s non all bad, only it is a piffling tricky to create practice at times.

The other affair that is a piffling difficult is the sleeping situation. And when I tell HARD, I hateful difficult both literally together with figuratively. The bed is non real wide, together with for a somebody who sleeps on their tummy alongside their leg thrown out to the side (me) it is non plenty room for that. So you lot conduct maintain to lay pretty much straight, if on your stomach. Or you lot tin lay on your side. However, similar I said before, it is hard. The bed is made of woods alongside a minor pad over it. So you lot destination upward laying on i side until your hip is numb together with your dorsum hurts together with your hands are asleep (yes, this happens to me a lot) together with and hence you lot gyre over until it happens on the other side.
However, the proficient word is: this is NOT the most uncomfortable identify I conduct maintain slept inwards the terminal year.

The worst was the tent.

The proficient affair is, nosotros traded it alongside these overnice people for a used Lonely Planet Europe (about a thirty dollar value new, hence mayhap xv dollars used). The bad word is, together with it’s non the tent’s mistake (or S&Rs!), the solid set down is difficult together with it’s mutual depression temperature together with my sleeping bag, which is supposed to hold upward proficient downward to xl degrees, isn’t.
We went through a few stages of uncomfortable tent camping.

(1) THE WORST: No padding/mattress. Rocks beneath me. Can’t curl upward inwards my also minor sleeping bag. The air current was blowing hard. It was virtually 33 degrees outside.

(2) RUNNER UP: Bought an air mattress. Did NOT purchase an air pump. Tried to blow upward mattress alongside lungs. Did non work. Slept on piffling air. Every fourth dimension i somebody moves, the other gets rolled off the mattress.

(3) THIRD WORST: Bought an air pump. Blew upward mattress. Heavy air current together with pelting at beach turns tent into a swimming pool. (we slept inwards the automobile that night)

(4) BEST: Blew upward mattress. Bought an extra blanket. Finally got a good(ish) night’s sleep. Still worse than the campervan.

I conduct maintain decided that the principal problem, since unremarkably I don’t heed camping, is the gear. You HAVE to conduct maintain proficient gear. Buy a sleeping pad (I conduct maintain i at home). Thermarest makes a proficient one. Spend the coin to purchase a GOOD sleeping bag, downward to xv degrees (F). It is worth it. Buy a WATERPROOF (3 season) tent (I also conduct maintain i of these at home). I gauge what you lot could belike add together to me is: AND BRING information technology WITH YOU. But carrying all that materials around for half-dozen months is non e'er feasible. But you lot volition hold upward to a greater extent than comfortable!

So, where is the most uncomfortable identify YOU conduct maintain slept? Do you lot similar camping? Have you lot ever slept inwards your car?

U is for Uncomfortable.