FenderP
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As long as I've been camping, multicolored lights (sometimes just plain white -but where's the fun in that?) in the camp sites have been an interesting part of the experience. I've often wondered how it got started, maybe to help folks find their site after a 2 a.m. call of nature -it would be trouble to unzip the wrong tent, or just a way of personal expression, something else, all the above. Anybody know?
I have always loved this part of the camping experience -string 'em up all over your tent, around your RV, in the trees of your camp site, wherever. Take a walk after dark and check out other folks lights in the campground, what type they have, what they've done with them. We always had red, white, and blue rope lights around the belly of our Casita when we had it. I spelled my initials out with multicolored lights in a shrub in our camp site once. I've seen other people do some creative things as well, but mostly a path around the camp site, around the shelter over the picnic table, etc. To me, it is still a cool thing to do. Is it a tradition? Maybe. I don't know.
Sadly, I have noticed recently there seems to be fewer people doing it for one reason or another. I know there are parks that have "dark sky" certification and that is to be considered I guess, but it seems like there is more to it than that as only a few parks we've been to are dark sky parks.
Hopefully the tradition, if that is what it is, isn't dying. I'm sure we will keep it up because we like it and we hope others do too because we like seeing other people's lights as well.
To light or not to light? What do y'all do? Have you noticed less people doing this? Does anyone know how the practice got started? It would be cool to hear some other theories on it and how some of you feel about it.
I have always loved this part of the camping experience -string 'em up all over your tent, around your RV, in the trees of your camp site, wherever. Take a walk after dark and check out other folks lights in the campground, what type they have, what they've done with them. We always had red, white, and blue rope lights around the belly of our Casita when we had it. I spelled my initials out with multicolored lights in a shrub in our camp site once. I've seen other people do some creative things as well, but mostly a path around the camp site, around the shelter over the picnic table, etc. To me, it is still a cool thing to do. Is it a tradition? Maybe. I don't know.
Sadly, I have noticed recently there seems to be fewer people doing it for one reason or another. I know there are parks that have "dark sky" certification and that is to be considered I guess, but it seems like there is more to it than that as only a few parks we've been to are dark sky parks.
Hopefully the tradition, if that is what it is, isn't dying. I'm sure we will keep it up because we like it and we hope others do too because we like seeing other people's lights as well.
To light or not to light? What do y'all do? Have you noticed less people doing this? Does anyone know how the practice got started? It would be cool to hear some other theories on it and how some of you feel about it.