Captain Monkeyshines wrote:Glamping is indeed the combination of Glamorous and Camping. I love it. Comfortable and cozy.
It's the opposite end of the spectrum from the "cold beans in a can, sleeping on the ground with no tent" crowd. It tends to involve high quality gear with the added bonus to foodies of high quality food. Things like Porterhouse steaks, escargot and fresh baked pies!
When you're out camping and your food looks like it was served by a waiter wearing a tuxedo - pouring your vintage wine from a beautifully folded white towel, you are glamping.
You'll get naysayers who like to say things like "that's not camping, and I camp to get away from the comforts of home" but I think they are just jelly because their back hurts from sleeping on that rock all night
*begging your pardon, I hit New Posts and posted this answer before I saw this was in the Lady Teardroppers section, does a man's opinion still count?
CAJUN LADY wrote:Sharon, I've been using the term "Glamping" for a few years now and didn't even think it was a big deal. I don't go all out with Glamping like some ladies do. I am guilty of creating my own "Candlier" to hang under my canopy and I have brought out the "fireplace" heater before to sit next to and I will have cozy throw pillows on my camp chairs and a nice tablecloth for a side table but that's always been 'me'. I don't "stage" my camper inside or out like I've seen. Frankly, I don't want "BIG GIRL PANTIES" hanging from my front window (again, like I've seen) or so much stuff under my awning that you feel like you haven't left home. I WANT to feel like I've left home but still have a warm and welcoming camp site for others to enjoy.
I enjoy cooking more when I'm camping than I do when at home. There's just something about cooking outdoors. I belonged to a group on Facebook that was all about "Glamping" and I finally admitted that I did not feel like I was a 'glamper' but merely a camper who enjoyed a few amenities. Those ladies would go all out to make it "glamporous"...too much for me. I'm a camper! I'm a camper who likes to decorate her campsite a little, not much but just enough to make you, my fellow camper, feel welcome.
working on it wrote:Sorry to interject a male voice here: after my wife inspected her (my) 99% finished, utilitarian, fully packed trailer, she said it was "cramped". OK, ladies, when she takes it out, she'll be "Cramping". I had to chuckle a bit at that!
"It's not like you're walking into the ladies restroom!"
Glamping with MaryJane: Glamour + Camping [Book]
$16 online, $25 nearby
By MaryJane Butters - Gibbs Smith, Publisher - 2012 - Hardback - 224 pages - ISBN 1423630815
MaryJane Butters' go-to guide for putting glamour into camping "Glamping, or glamour camping, one of the MaryJane's pet concepts, is about the juxtaposition of rugged and really pretty, grit and glam, diesel and absolutely darling."-The New York Times. Glamping-unleashing your inner wild while wearing a pair of fishing-lure earrings-is for every woman (or man!) who ever had a get-away-from-it-all fantasy (with a few frilly embellishments thrown in). Learn about the never-fail campfire, cooking with cast iron, how to change a flat, and much, much more. Follow the growing Glamping movement at maryjanesfarm.org and nationalglampingweekend.com. Like the infamous Calamity Jane, who said, "I figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one," MaryJane Butters coined the term glamping years ago when she founded her unusual Idaho canvas wall-tent bed & breakfast, which was featured in The New York Times Magazine and Travel & Leisure as "the place to be." Legend status achieved, MaryJane lives in Moscow, Idaho, where she runs her many businesses, which include a successful organic farm, product lines, a bed & breakfast, and MaryJanesFarm magazine. This is her fourth book.
She's far too over achieving to be a real role model. I like to think of her more as a source of inspiration.(I don't even think me and Martha Stewart are members of the same species.....)
Stacie Tamaki wrote:This was my introduction to vintage trailers that made me want one. I stumbled upon it while surfing the net one night. One look and I was hooked. It took a few months to realize that having one was doable, then a few more months to learn about them, a few more looking for one, and then a few more to design what I wanted to make it small and light enough for my car to tow. But Audree just made me squeal when I saw her. I think she's the epitome of a Glamper http://www.thefancyfarmgirl.com/the-cutest-little-trailer-in-a-country-mile/She's far too over achieving to be a real role model. I like to think of her more as a source of inspiration.(I don't even think me and Martha Stewart are members of the same species.....)
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