The New York Times today reports a new trend in outdoor recreation: Glamping. Think glamour + camping. One "glamping" hostess claims that she wants to provide "the traditional camping experience like in the 30's, 40's, and 50's"--an experience that includes a lake stocked with trout and costs nearly $500 for a weekend.
Though some of these fancy camping sites have hot water showers and toilets (one even has heated mattresses), they don't have cell phone coverage or wi-fi. Well, at least there's something that keeps this from being another day at home. MSNBC even has a top-ten list for the best luxury camping trips around.
I dunno, sure, a Yurt in the French Alps with organic restaurant food sounds like a great trip, I wouldn't call it camping. I would call it just the opposite.
Full disclosure: when I climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, where you are required to hire porters, our guides would bring us hot "water for washing" in the freezing cold mornings, and it was the most wonderful camping innovation I've ever heard of. But that's another post.
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