Anybody else go without AC?

[Denece]

We camp in the arid West so even on the hottest nights a fan and using a damp beach towel ( the thin kind) as a blanket and we're happy campers. Of course we very seldom have electricity available.
If we camped where it was humid... Then I guess we would use a small window A/C and genset. That would complicate the heck out of things. Do most campgrounds where you camp have power?


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[Bill Nolen]

It may be hard for some of you to believe...but, there was a time in the US where only very rich families, and commercial businesses had AC!

In the small town in the SW (Pop: 35,000) where I lived as a child, the majority of the people were only was exposed to cool air when they attended a movie or entered one of the banks, plus one or two other businesses.

Many families slept outside on blankets or a mattress with the hope that there might be a breeze to cool off the heat. Of course, the bugs had a feast! My grandparents wet sheets and laid them on their bed to cool off!

Maybe that's the reason I think that the inventor of home size AC's should be a Saint!

I've never believed that there was any thing noble about laying sweating all night, when cool air was available. I did my share of sweating in a tent when in the Marines, but, that was not a choice!

Bill

[MarkyVasquez]

We have to have an AC. I live in South Texas and the temperatures get up to 118 degrees. We camp mostly in the southern part of Texas. This week it'll be 95 degrees, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Welcome to winter in South Texas.


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[steve dunham]

Originally Posted by MarkyVasquez

We have to have an AC. I live in South Texas and the temperatures get up to 118 degrees. We camp mostly in the southern part of Texas. This week it'll be 95 degrees, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Welcome to winter in South Texas.


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We also are forecast to have shorts & T Shirt weather this weekend.
Temps in the upper 30's to low 40's with sunshine.

[TheWanderers]

Originally Posted by steve dunham

We also are forecast to have shorts & T Shirt weather this weekend.
Temps in the upper 30's to low 40's with sunshine.

Steve, people who don't know will laugh and think you're joking.

[steve dunham]

Originally Posted by TheWanderers

Steve, people who don't know will laugh and think you're joking.

We,ve had a very mild winter so far . Many outdoor events have been curtailed or canceled. The ice conditions on many lakes is poor. What little bit of real cold weather we've had has been preceded by snow insulating the ground and lake ice. The snow plows went through at 6 AM this morning in anticipation of the warm up this weekend . I am not a warm weather person and if it stayed in the 60's to 70's all summer it would be fine with me .

[MRClaus]

most have air and heat ? so if you do not have air do you have heat ?

[BillE]

just add a 10lb bag of ice when you need it

[GregandTeresa]

I can remember as a child pressing my nose to the window screen just praying for a breeze on the hottest nights. I can also remember my wife and I camping in a tent on Cumberland Island Georgia in the middle of the summer once and only once. We still camp on Cumberland Island, but only up to April or after September.

So to us, yes, AC is a must for camping. We don't want to be limited in anyway to when we can camp.