Don't Forget The Screen Tent When You Go Camping

I have been going camping since I was 5 years old. My dad would pack up my older brother, me and the dog in the car and away we went. They were just short weekend trips, but as everyone knows, camping with your dad is nothing but a positive experience as a child. It had a huge impact on my life and can on your family's as well.

There are many great memories of those days gone by, but, oddly enough, the memory of the hot sweltering summer weekends with mosquitoes galore sticks out like a sore thumb in my mind. Endless cans of bug repellent used to ward of our tiny attackers still had very little affect.

What those days taught me were two things, one, no amount of bug repellent is formulated well enough to keep them off of you and two, invest in a screen tent. When we purchased our first screen tent, many, many years ago, it would hardly even stand up to the quality of some of today's standards, but it did provide us the protection we were looking for from the flying insects.

Now that I am a father and love to take my kids camping, I refuse to let them go through the buggy days of summer that I went through, although my dad jokingly says it made me stronger. I said it just made me itch more.

I use a screen tent with every trip. I set it up on the site over top of the picnic table and because I have a 12x12 tent it is large enough to store a lot of things underneath the tent so I do not have to constantly put things away at the end of the night and pull them out first thing in the morning.

I do this not because I think bugs will infiltrate my camping gear but because the screen tent is also a great protector from the rain. Needless to say I have gone camping where I stood out in the rain in my poncho. Oh the oodles of fun it was, ok, well not really, but it does make me appreciate the screen tent that much more.

If you are new to camping, maybe thinking about getting into it or even a seasoned veteran, spend the few extra dollars and get yourself a screen tent. It will be money well spent. Trust me on that!

By: Bruce A Tucker

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Mr. Tucker is the senior editor for Vacation Nation, an online vacation resource where you can learn about various destinations and travel tips.

Mr. Tucker is also a regular contributor on Mike's How-To Blog, an online resource that explains a step by step approach on How to do just about anything.