Yeah, I do some backpacking and carry minimal gear in some contacts, but I think car camping is all about comfort.

There's no reason to rough it out there.

You've got a car to do all the work to carry all your stuff.

Go crazy.

I'm Christine Zier-Klissette.

I'm Kyra Blackwell.

And you're listening to The Wirecutter Show.

Kyra.

It's us again in the studio.

We are approaching kind of a white whale of an episode for us today.

It's been a very divisive topic, camping.

I am a camper. Our producer, Abigail is a camper. We are on team camp.

You and Rosie are on team hotel.

Glamping, you know, at minimum. But we have decided to enter into the world of camping on this episode and talk about it.

Rosie was so afraid she didn't even want to come.

I know.

She just didn't want to be here.

She's away.

We are reasonable people.

We know that people love camping. It's a great hobby or thing to do in your free time. It's just, you know, the barrier to entry seems a little high. Yeah, it's true. I mean, you do have to have like a certain amount of gear and a certain amount of knowledge to do it. But I do think it's something that a lot of people, maybe they've never done it, maybe they want to bring their family, maybe they want to experience going out into nature in that way, or maybe they used to do it. And it's been a while and they're trying to remember how to do it. So we are going to talk today about car camping, getting into car camping. For people who aren't really familiar with camping lingo,

me.

This is basically where you drive to a campsite.

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