Any advice to help me and my family not hate camping
I grew up camping. My parents had a travel trailer and our whole family went everywhere and LOVED it. My husband and I wanted to give the same experience to our kids. We bought a camper. a keystone outback. We bought a really cool pickup truck. Our camper has been nothing but a nightmare ever since.
I can’t even name the list of things that have broken/ needed replaced while under warranty/ and not under warranty. My husband did not grow up camping and he is so frustrated. We have hardly been able to go camping because of the problems.
In addition to that, the pop out camper king size bed in the back is so uncomfortable. We can’t sleep on it, even after getting a new mattress. Since it pops out on a platform (a feature that I thought we loved, that I now worn against). And I am not a complainer, but have you ever tried camping with little kids after not sleeping all night? Honestly, I’m pretty tough. I can handle it, but my husband is just tortured to be around because he is so cranky…
Am I just unlucky? Or is this camping life? Is this what I should expect as a camper these days?
The icing on the cake came last weekend when after prepping for a trip while working full-time, we have arrived to hitch up the camper, and there was a giant wasp nest somewhere underneath, and the bees were swarming so bad we had to cancel our weekend trip. My husband got stung twice, my seven-year-old was crying, my two-year-old is still asking when we are leaving for the camping trip.
Anyways, what I want to ask— and I’m open to all suggestions from burn the camper to the ground and just stay at Airbnb‘s with the kids, to look at the specific type of camper that has very little problems,
Edit: thank you everybody for reading my rant. After talking to my husband, we realized the majority of the problems happened when we first got the camper and this year. The time in between we have been having a lot of fun. I guess what I was hoping to get was any recommendations on a good brand of camper. One that might not break as often. We love the truck. Our family is young (infants and stuff) and it can be a hard time in life to try to squeeze in camping trips. Those who were kind and encouraging I appreciate it. I did feel like a few comments weren’t very nice. Sorry for whatever I said that caused your anger.