I would like to purchase a family camping tent for my husband and kids – only problem, I don’t know ANYTHING about camping! I know I would like a 2 or 3 room tent, but I would like to be able to stand up in the side rooms. Some of the tents I have looked at it appears that you must "crawl" into the side tents. Is this a common thing? Also what do you suggest I purchase as necessities along with the tent? Sleeping bags, cots, stove? Any help is greatly appreciated, again I have never in my life camped so this is completely new to me.

What are some things that you find essential for camping? Things that you don’t leave home without???

I dont want a mummy bag. I want a compact rectangular sleeping bag. No more than 8 pounds. I want it to be a high quality sleeping bag without going over 0. One that will last for 8+ years while being slept in every night. I already know the difference of synthetic and Down bags. No need to explain. Thank You!!!

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Amsterdam, Netherlands by TravelPod blogger Joeld titled “6 Hours in Amsterdam” Joeld’s travel blog entry: “Wednesday afternoon I went back to the international terminal of Houston’s George Bush International Airport that I had just arrived in about 43 hours prior. After the Christmas Day KLM Amsterdam to Detroit bomb scare by the Nigerian terrorist, is it bad that I felt a little uneased when I see some really, really African dressed guys in line to check in for my KLM flight from Houston to Amsterdam? I’m not a racist, but it made me think. And I’m sure I wasn’t the only person in line kind of thinking maybe the same thing. Anyway, doesn’t matter. The last time I went to Europe I was not smart about combating the jet lag and I paid for it. This time I wasn’t going to be a dummy because I wanted to hit the ground running when I landed in Amsterdam. I had intentionally scheduled a 7 hour layover there because spending that time walking the streets of Amsterdam was much better than spending 7 hours at my friends house in London waiting for him to get home. Did that once, lame. So before the plane even left the gate I popped some over the counter sleeping pills and tried to get to sleep. Amazingly, I only woke up a few times during the entire 8 something hour flight. Left Houston around 3:45PM local time and landed in Amsterdam at 8 in the morning local time and actually felt rested (maybe economy class sleeping isn’t a …

my friend is having a sleepover/party this sat. and i dont have a sleeping bag? Im 5′4 and im a girl. Anybody have a clue where i can get one somewhere in New Jersey? Ok thanks!
also a cheap one please like under 70$ please?

I’m going camping in New Hampshire in a couple of weeks. With the weather cooling down at night lately, what would be appropriate to wear inside of a sleeping bag that will help keep me warm at night, but won’t feel constricting or overheating?
We’ll be taking my car directly to the campsite.

www.simplyhike.co.uk A great 2 season sleeping bag from Snugpak, the Softie Technik 1 uses technical fabrics to create a high performing, long lasting sleeping bag. It features an anti snag zip, compression hood and carry bag.

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Sighisoara, Romania by TravelPod blogger Travel_chris titled “Arrival in Sighisoara” Travel_chris’s travel blog entry: “Finally, i have found some time to write! I did not have access to the Internet until yesterday April 23rd when i arrived in Sarajevo. I arrived in Sighisoara, Romania on Sunday 20th of April. The trip was very long. Over 24 hours. I hopped on the train in Eindhoven at 8:02 AM (almost missed it by like 2 seconds) and got another train in Venlo which went to Dusseldorf. In Dusseldorf i got on the ICE to Frankfurt. There i needed to find an ICE train to Vienna. Unfortunately this one was 25minutes late, so i feared i would miss my night train from Vienna to Sighisoara. Luckily we had many stops on the way to Vienna, so the delay was easily brought back to just five minutes… So i finally got in Vienna around 8:00 PM. I had 15 mins to get on the train to Sighisoara so i made a quick peak through the station and got some kebab from a very funny Turkish guy just down the escalator, at the right. When i got on the train to Sighisoara i noticed the comfort (compared to ICE) was a lot less. I reserved a couchette and when i found it i noticed it was packed with Romanian, which didn’t speak English. They did speak a little bit of German, but my German speaking is quite bad… I feared a long boring night, but after some time we managed to communicate by using gestures, so the trip got kinda funny after all …

The tag says "use front load commercial washer and dryer" but I don’t have nor do I have access to one (my dryer is a front loader but not "commercial".
Serious answers only, please. No trolls just looking for easy points.

I am going camping on friday and i need a sleeping bag because the one i have is too small. I would like a pink one. Does anyone know any shops in Newcastle Upon Tyne or websites that sell sleeping bags that will fit a 13 year old that is 5 foot 3. Also it needs to be less than £5

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Laguna Blanca, Bolivia by TravelPod blogger Emanddave titled “An odd, but beautiful start!” Emanddave’s travel blog entry: “Trundled up to the tour agency for 8am as requested and drove with our fellow travellers to the border to get out of Chile and head north to Bolivia (we are coming back to Argentina and Chile at a later date by the way). Unfortunately someone somewhere had decided the road to Bolivia was shut due to snow so we had to spend a frustrating few hours waiting to find out if, and when, we could cross. We killed sometime eating breakfast and then went into town. By this time it was nearly midday and we would have to miss out some of the sights if we left much later and it would be a real rush. To make matters worse all 13 of us on the tour had to collectively agree what we wanted to do ie change route, add on more time, etc and this involved trying to not only co-ordinate several peoples itineraries but also speak several languages (Spanish, French, English). Thankfully we finally resolved it all by agreeing to leave today but spend an extra night between here and Uyuni so we did not have to rush. Not a great start but we got there in the end. Fortunately not long after the border opened so we were on the road! Had to go in 4 x 4 due to the snow (of which there was not much!) we stopped in the middle of nowhere to be stamped into Bolivia. Possibly the strangest border crossing I have ever seen with a bus …