Camping

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Somebody I know from school 🚸 passed this along knowing how much I love to camp ⛺ and spend time in the wilderness. But I hate campgrounds. My comment:

I don't do campgrounds if at all possible, I don't like camping anywhere I am in ear shot or eye shot of others. I like to be able to have big fires, listen to music, drink beer, pee where ever I want to, burn trash, shoot guns, and pretty much do whatever and whenever I please. Things that are generally not considered neighborly behavior. In other words, camp at least a quarter mile from anyone else and often much more remote wild country then that. 

I'll stay at a rustic campground with pit privies when it's the only option but I try to avoid even that for wilderness camping. But I really don't like doing that if at all possible. I live in the suburbs and I have neighbors when I want to be around other people.

While a lot of my colleagues are settling down buying houses and raising families I'm living in a jam on rather threadbare moldy apartment on the bus line. Saving and investing money wherever I can for when I don't have family locally, move out west or down south into a small off grid cabin heated by wood I chop myself and a small solar system on sufficient acerage that I can have bonfires, burn my trash, hunt and trap, four wheel and hobby farm. In a state with low taxes and not a lot of regulation or zoning codes.