how to have a relaxing camping trip

It’s a beautiful fall Friday afternoon, and you are getting ready for the world’s greatest camping trip ever! Its crisp and sunny, the leaves are crunching under your feet as you load the jeep up with sleeping bags, tents that take an hour and a half to put together, safety equipment, rope, food packed in coolers, and the most important thing, lighter fluid ( a very essential part of very camping trip, seriously, never forget it.) You have our route mapped out, which should always be your first step: picking a state park and how to get there. Secondly, registration is fairly different in every campsite but normally the registration building is located in some sort of wooden building near the entrance of the park. If you get lost, don’t worry! There are park rangers everywhere. This brings me to my next point; never ever bring alcohol in a state park. The beer idea might be fun for awhile until you get kicked out, or set something one fire, or a bear breaks into your cooler and gets drunk. Always remember it is all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
So now that you are registered, we set up camp! This is my least favorite part of the whole camping experience; however it is the most imperative to you. Ok, so you need to pick the most level spot to lay your tent down. Try to avoid the rocks. They are not fun to sleep on. When one builds a tent, lay the tent out first so it looks like the 2-D version of what it will be. Next, assemble the poles, and always read directions! Last, do not forget the steaks. Tents tend to fall down when it is windy and people get stuck. The whole ordeal is not a pretty sight at two in the morning. Nextly, make sure that the food is very far away from the tent. This is just so we avoid contact with nasty bugs, sticky people, and bears. Normally around state parks there are bear boxes to lock the food and used plates in. If there is not, this is what you do. Grab the rope and throw it over a high branch limb. Attach the food bag to the rope and pull to the required anti-bear height. Now that we have the shelter and the food situated. It is time for warmth and lighter fluid!!!!
This is my favorite part and my job when we go camping, I am the fire starter. To build the perfect fire, one must start small. Around the campsite there should be fallen brown twigs. Pick the dry brittle ones. Normally one has to rummage through the dried leaves and pines needles to find them. Make sure the twigs aren’t green. If they don’t snap, do not use them because they will not burn. Take the collected twigs and stand them upright, like a tipee. Then roll up a ball of paper (any kind will do) and pour lighter fluid on it. Place the unlighted soaked paper into the middle of your tipee. Then ignite it and slowly add to the flame while increasing in stick size. Soon you should have a have a blazing fire. You and your friends should than gather round to cook dinner. My family normally makes hobo dinners, which is uncooked steak and frozen potatoes and any other kind of vegetable you would like. Douse it in some steak or hot sauce. Put in foil and then set it by the coals to cook. Never put the hobo dinner directly in the fire. This dish takes about thirty minutes and is easy clean up and yummy, especially after a long day of setting up camp. After dinner equals relaxation time, fishing, Frisbee, cards, and reading are all included in this. Eventually it will grow dark and everyone will gather by the fire to swap ghost stories or make smores (which is just as essential to the trip as lighter fluid.) ghost stories are particularly scary in the woods when its chilly. The stars shine brighter, you cannot see anything but each others faces, and the slightest scampering or snapping of twigs makes people jump and scream. One by one people start moving off to their tents to go to sleep and crawl into their sleeping bags. Then you wake up in the morning and go fishing. See camping in its self is about down time and relaxation. It is about getting back to nature and being with family and friends, just as long as you have the basic necessities to camp, like tents and food, you should be great. The camping experience always creates itself just make sure you bring lighter fluid because it is not fun being cold and hungry.