theCryptofishist wrote:BeyondIndigo wrote:(Ahahahahaha "more camping experience than I do." My "camping experience" consists of three days in a field when I was seventeen. My learning curve at BM is gonna be steeeeep. Don't worry though, I'm not an idiot, I fully realise that the environment demands my respect and I'm researching desert survival in my other browser right now. Getting dehydrated or suffering heat stroke are NOT things I want on my to-do list at BM.)
You weren't doing that wacky Prince Philip Challenge thing, were you?
LOL the Duke of Edinburgh Award? No. I used to belong to a Christian youth group in my young days and we all went to this big Christian festival.
I spent the entire time acting extremely Un-Christian. I left the group a couple of months later.
But yeah, that's my only camping experience to date. Still I'm at least attempting to get my head aroung the basic principles, unlike my boyfriend (who hasn't yet decided if he's coming) who keeps asking me things like "So will you at least be able to charge your phone?" There are only so many times you can say "I will be in THE DESERT. You know, the actual DESERT...? Like in those documentaries?"
Then I showed him the desert on Google Maps. I demonstrated that I can do at least five scrolls in either direction on my ipad and it's all BLANK SPACE. I THINK he's starting to get it now.
At the moment my largest concern is about the environment once I get there. Camping for three days in England, which is quite a temperate country (unless you listen to English people talking about the weather. Never listen to English people talking about the weather. Truthfully we have no clue what bad weather really is, but complaining about the weather is like our national pastime) is, I anticipate, quite different to camping on an unforgiving, dry ancient lake bed with dust storms and ridiculous temperature extremes where you can get headstroke, dehydration, playa foot, playa LUNG, altitude sickness...
I have no intention of not taking this environment incredibly seriously.