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back from camping. technically back sunday cause the weather saturday was crap then sunday night none of the adults slept a wink. Howling wind, smashing rain and then a thunderstorm rolled in around 6am. We all got up and went "nope, done with this" and bailed early. Spent the last day cleaning and drying and putting everything away. trying to convince the mrs that its time to ditch the tent and upgrade to a campervan or something. Be a bit less at the mercy of the weather.
I love my tent, a van just doesn't have the same appeal. And the camper trailers really are just a tent on a trailer that take away any flexibility.
Flexibility is good. But a bit more resilience against the weather would be better. Especially with the toddler. having to set the tent up again on the front lawn to dry out is a pain in the neck. And yeah you'd have to set up the pop top again, but at least you can do that in the driveway and dont have to peg the whole thing down so it doesnt blow away. We only have a mid sized suv so space is always an issue. If we had've had a van last weekend we would had raincoats at least. Forecast didnt call for rain so we didnt bother.