This is a pleasant post about a family camping in the desert of Kofa. Lots of pics accompany the brief text.
Posts Tagged ‘desert’
“Marine Corps Nomads: Kofa Camping Trip”
Sunday, December 6th, 2009“Desert Girl on Kuwait: Camping on Friday the 13th”
Sunday, December 6th, 2009This is a perky post about a camping trip that wasn’t in the desert of Kuwait. Some bad language, so skip it if that sort of thing offends you. I found it interesting and know exactly the sort of hysterical “oh my God we’re all going to die” kind of giggling the author experienced. Might as well go down laughing, I guess… but all ends well.
“Exploring the Southwest Desert USA: Camping in the Desert”
Sunday, December 6th, 2009This is a detailed list of instructions for desert camping in the states of Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico, including long-term camping as allowed by the Bureau of Land Management. A click on a banner entitled “When a Mountain Lion hunts you, are you prepared?” leads to a broken link, but serves to remind the visitor that he or she may not be at the top of the food chain in this environment.
Winter is an ideal time to visit the desert southwest, as daytime temperatures are not as extreme as they are in the summer, but of course you have to be prepared for precipitous drops in nighttime temperatures, as usual. This website and its many pages will help to ready you for camping in the desert southwest of the United States.
“Travels with Sheila: Camping in the Sinai Desert of Egypt”
Saturday, October 24th, 2009Okay, suddenly I want to camp in the Sinai, and yes, I want a taciturn ex-Marine to carry my bags. Especially if you get to ride on camels…
“High Desert Camping” by miserychick
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
myserychick says at the beginning of this travelogue that she doesn’t have a bucket list, but that this trip would be on it, if she did; well, I do have a camping bucket list, and this trip is definitely on mine, so I really enjoyed coming across this post on her blog. She includes lots of nice photos that make living vicariously a good bit easier for me. You can just see her tent in the background to the left in this picture she took.
(Just so you know, she does drop the f-bomb once, but she’s simply reporting what actually happened; I would have left it to the imagination, but that’s me.)
I would have to be in much better shape to do all the hiking they did in that heat (which I’m working on), but I would love to establish “One Small Square” to observe and sketch from in the desert for my nature notebook (see my post, Nature Activity for Camping Trips), and, being as I am utterly new to that environment, I would purchase the following book as a guide– reading from it would get me even more fired-up for the trip, too!
Anyway, this post isn’t as much about what I would do as about what miserychick did, so go read her story here.