Now don't get me wrong. We enjoy camping. It's just this time was the worst ever. Wife and I started camping this spring and have been several times and loved it. Could never wait until the next time out.
Every year we take our kids and grand kids on a trout fishing trip. Usually we stay in a cabin but since we had our camper this year, everyone wanted to go camping (5 adults and 2 small grandchildren). I made our reservations, we planned everything out. Just so the wife and I didn't get stuck doing all the cooking, we decided to have a cooking contest with our kids and son in law. They thought it was going to be fun and we even bought some prizes for the winners. The kids were really excited about going!
We left Sunday morning at 6am to begin our short drive 6 hours away. By mid afternoon we were set up.
By Tuesday night, my son and I both started feeling bad. Both my son and myself came down with the flu that night. Granddaughter (1 year old) we believe had symptoms but not to our degree. My son only being 18 got over it in 12 hours. For me (50), it took more like 48 hours. Wednesday night, my son in law came down with it. Thursday my wife came down with it.
Some may ask could it of been something that we ate or drank and the answer we believe would be no. One small piece of information I left out though is my daughter watches several kids. The Wednesday before we left, one of them became sick and so did my daughter and my grandson. They had visited us at home that Tuesday night. So I believe we were infected then. While camping, my daughter and grandson did not become sick.
So, 7 days in a 31' camper and 5 of those days 5 people were sick. Our kids left on Friday just to get away from it all once they got better. I had to extend our stay until Saturday just so my wife could travel back home.
We have never been so glad to be back home in our life. Words even came up "should we sell the camper?" but both of us agreed we have had such good time before, we don't want to lose that. We want that to continue. We're not going to let 1 bad time make our decision.
We've talked of when our next trip will be but both of us believe we will wait a month or 2 before venturing out again.
I used to say, "my worst day of vacation is better than my best day at work." I have to think on this one now for a bit.
Every year we take our kids and grand kids on a trout fishing trip. Usually we stay in a cabin but since we had our camper this year, everyone wanted to go camping (5 adults and 2 small grandchildren). I made our reservations, we planned everything out. Just so the wife and I didn't get stuck doing all the cooking, we decided to have a cooking contest with our kids and son in law. They thought it was going to be fun and we even bought some prizes for the winners. The kids were really excited about going!
We left Sunday morning at 6am to begin our short drive 6 hours away. By mid afternoon we were set up.
By Tuesday night, my son and I both started feeling bad. Both my son and myself came down with the flu that night. Granddaughter (1 year old) we believe had symptoms but not to our degree. My son only being 18 got over it in 12 hours. For me (50), it took more like 48 hours. Wednesday night, my son in law came down with it. Thursday my wife came down with it.
Some may ask could it of been something that we ate or drank and the answer we believe would be no. One small piece of information I left out though is my daughter watches several kids. The Wednesday before we left, one of them became sick and so did my daughter and my grandson. They had visited us at home that Tuesday night. So I believe we were infected then. While camping, my daughter and grandson did not become sick.
So, 7 days in a 31' camper and 5 of those days 5 people were sick. Our kids left on Friday just to get away from it all once they got better. I had to extend our stay until Saturday just so my wife could travel back home.
We have never been so glad to be back home in our life. Words even came up "should we sell the camper?" but both of us agreed we have had such good time before, we don't want to lose that. We want that to continue. We're not going to let 1 bad time make our decision.
We've talked of when our next trip will be but both of us believe we will wait a month or 2 before venturing out again.
I used to say, "my worst day of vacation is better than my best day at work." I have to think on this one now for a bit.