What would you say your travel philosophy is regarding

Avoid camping and I avoid picking apples other than that we are fine

Hi, I'm Julia for lawn and this is NPR's life kit in this episode

We're talking about something that I'm extremely passionate about camping

But as you might be able to tell from my conversation with my mom and dad in Brazil

I did not grow up camping

Why didn't we go camping in the US?

You meet we as a family? Yeah, I hate camping

Don't have a tent I don't like

But uh, tents I'm not very mechanical about those things

So camping me at someone with some mechanical abilities and then you're going to cook

And that's how

I have a lot of production in camping

Yes, yes

Look Antonio's got a point camping isn't really something you can do without putting some thought into it

And that can be intimidating

But I do have one pretty significant note

I'm pretty sure that tent technology has improved significantly since the 1970s when my dad used one

In this episode we're here to prepare you for car camping

Which is where you're sleeping in the great outdoors but you also have access to the biggest of backpacks

A car

We're going to cover a lot of basics and because my enthusiasm for camping is several notches above my experience level

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