Welcome to the Girl Next Door Podcast. I'm Kelsey. And I'm Erica. In every episode, we bring our

different perspectives to honest, funny conversations that feel like chatting with good friends.

We started this show years ago when we were next door neighbors and still haven't run out of

things to talk and laugh about yet. Today, we're chatting all about camping, which will include RV camping, since Erica and her family

have become pros at that more recently. We will talk about how to get started camping if you're a

beginner, share what we cook and eat while camping, plus give you a rundown of our best tips and hacks and gear.

For Friends of the Show, we'll be sharing our least favorite aspects of camping and how we deal

with them. So think of this episode, like a big old sleeping bag of useful camping advice,

all packed nicely into the stuff sack of one podcast episode. Love that metaphor. Thank you. Does that work?

Okay. So let's start with how we each got started camping, why we choose to sleep out in the woods

sometimes, and then give our best advice for anyone who wants to try camping but feels intimidated.

Okay. I will say we never camped as a kid.

Okay.

I was a city kid.

We,

my family was not into that.

I really didn't camp even as an adult until we moved out to Arizona.

And I will say,

where you live matters.

Like here we have way less bugs in general.

Um,

more mountains.

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