#TTOT Round-Up: Camping Travel

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Here's the round-up of this week's #TTOT on "Camping Travel!" 

Q1 via mcmedia: Advice for non-campers to get the most out of camping.

• CaptainandClark: Make sure your sleeping bag is warm enough. No one likes to freeze in their sleep
• retrotraveller: Sound carries... snoring and other things! Take some ear plugs
• SaraKateTravel: Don't be afraid of...the dark, but also nature!! There may be spooky noises but not *all* of them are made by ferocious creatures
• MalloryOnTravel: A good Thermarest or equivalent self-inflating mattress is the campers best friend, comfortable insulation
• hjortur: Don't take yourself so seriously. Put down the mask, laugh at your messed up hair, wrinkled clothes and enjoy

Q2 via traveldesigned: What is your funniest/disastrous camping story?

• FreakOutOfTown: Watching my camper come loose and roll away behind the car
• Inga_Ros: When we poisoned our own and the neighbors kids by roasting marshmallows over toxic logs
• TheMinuteTour: Didn't think we'd need to worry about rain, so didn't put up the 2nd layer of the tent. at 4 am: HAIL
• RunawayBrit: Not my story but my dad once woke up in a tent with a toad lodged in his armpit
• TravelingEditor: Camped in a field of sheep that liked leaping onto tent-shaped hay mounts - and presumably hay mount-shaped tents 

Q3 via ae_carhire: Ever woke up w/ something in your tent that shouldn't have been there?

• JauntingKerrs: Hillbillies tried to break down our camper door complaining the internet was down & couldn't do online poker
• foodieintl: Bugs and lizards, but really, they SHOULD be there. My tent was on their turf
• laranicotra: Luckily not INSIDE, but lots of QUOKKAS outside the tent on Rottnest Island, Australia
• LandingStanding: 5 Inches of snow in the summer
• crozul: Yes, a stranger! And when we camped in Egypt, a camel
• thomaswingham: A snake...of the non-poisonous kind...tried to snuggle up with me once. Not my type

Q4 via SandraFoyt: What is the one extravagance that you must have on camping trips?

• KevinMims: For summer camping, give hammocks a try - so comfy! The shelter itself can be considered an luxury
• Annora: Butter for my fresh fish and toilet roll
• jbranigan: Good wine & cheese and a nice crusty bread
• retrotraveller: Extravagance - pimped my bed roll by buying gold blanket & pillow in Xinjiang market China
• HotelPRGuy: 500 thread count sleeping bag. Luxe baby
• AboutLondon: A hotel

Q5 via mapthegap: What's your favourite camp-side food?

• BespokeTravels: Smores, always
• jayne_a_broad: Grilled whatever meat, rice, veggies, and spices
• foodieintl: Everything tastes better around a campfire. I love warm runny eggs on fire-toasted bread
• HipTraveler: Grilled cheeseburgers, roasted marshmallows/smores (and anything served on safari)
• jbranigan: Freshly caught fish is always great, but unreliable, at least in my family
• flyingwithfish: Grilled chicken and what-ever-you've-got soup
• shelleyduff: Instant coffee, can't live without my caffeine
• LandingStanding: S'mores with Resse's Peanut Butter Cups... EPIC

And there you have it, "Camping Travel"!     

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Have YOU got anything to add to the "Camping Travel" discussion? 

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