mn campers: How many of you turn your outdoor shoes round to increase ease of shoe donning as you exit your tent?

[Slubberdegullion]

trouty's dh.

Lucycat and me, but only at night.

snigger of delight @ resurgence of slubbers anally retentive campign threads.

i used to be a bum in tent kick the shoes of kinda gel. now i have dd to chastise me so crocs get lined up in awning @ camper door.

It might be anal, but as you know there is nothing wrong, indeed it is laudable position if your camping moto is SAFETY FIRST

What if there was a meteor crash?
or an attack by a bear?

You want to be out of that door with crocs on pronto (with sheathed knife that is kept under the pillow in hand).

yes crocs are well known for their defensive propertys i the event of a meteor attack!

how are the mice?

7 mice are a gonner.

You can't fight a meteor with a croc, this is true, but if there was a dense meteor strike over North Wales that brought civilisation as we know to a standstill (looting, vigilante-ism, fishing for eels in streams using only a sock) then I would be EXTREMELY glad if I had rescued my sensible and quick drying footwear.

i need a new pair. saw some in costco yesterday but i was overcome by enormonity and was rendered incapable of making a decision

Oh dear. You should have just closed your eyes and pointed. They are all of equal ugliness.

I have costco bargains in pastel pink.

tbh it was costco in general, lifetimes supply of pesto, inflatable canoes, entire bathrooms, 150 croissants!

But there you go, Batiatric, camping supplies for a whole week: croissants, pesto, leisure activity and decent bathroom.

We don't do this. [sniff]. Five of us, with shoes/flipflops/cloggies/wellies each - we'd have to climb over a footwear mountain range to get in or out of the tent! Our shoes line up sideways along one side of our maHOOsive porch. So you have to remember to step out left foot first if you want to step straight into footwear.

yes, it can get a bit overwhelming. I love all the little stalls at the end of aisles with retired folk being animated about beef jerky.

And the supersized cakes and the cake decorating ladies behing the perspex window.

Did you not have a list?

The un-regimented costco browse trip is always a bad idea.

Prettycandles. That seem eminently sensible. I like how you have thought through which foot you are exiting with.

i jsut tagged along with my sister, she reminding me it was a reccy trip and i didn't have to buy anything.

am tempted by inflatable canoe!

You don't need an inflatable canoe. No one ever needs an inflatable canoe.

Focus on the crocs next time.

Slubber's right, you don't need the inflatable canoe. Get the inflatable dinghy. Don't worry about whether there's a lake or whatever near your campsite. Inflatable boats make brilliant camping sofas! Just remember to turn it over at night and tether it so that it stays put.

We have our shoes upsidedown - I really dislike the idea of putting my feet in and discovering visitors (again toes curl with awful memory) We're fairly lackadaisical though, only camp once a year or so - so no crocs, but we do have a camping doormat (every time we camp there are torrential downpours. Expect floods in Norfolk during this summer half term)

I generally chuck my shoes anywhere before bed am usually too drunk tired to care, no crocs here either. Have been known to run barefoot to the loos at 6am. NOT pleasant.

My friends have two inflatable canoes. But they do have a very large caravan with equally large awning. This is ok, as it allowed them to rescue us last summer during the pop up tent drowning in a force 8 gale with torrential rain incident. Not that the canoes were used then. Just the caravan. I think the canoes would have transformed into helicopters or attractive hats in that weather.

see Bird, if you line them up and night even if you extremely drunk you would avoid such a thing occuring. tbh the thought of bare feet on a campsite loo block floor is far worse than discovering some insectoid in my shoes.

serinity, that seems like a nice orderly way of doing it. Again you have weighed up ease of don vs threat of shoe intruder.

PrettyCandles noooooooooooo nonononononono
camping sofas = slippery slope to caravan with satelite dish

ah xpost with bramble. There you go you see.

Inflatables do increase the probability of camping in a caravan

DH wants a canoe. I often remind him that if he continues with some things he'll be up a creek without a paddle, so maybe he wants practice.
DH also wants a caravan or a tent trailer. He won't, however, countenance the idea of a roof box or a trailer for camping paraphenalia.

Of course we turn them round. But we do not wear crocs. I have standards you know

a caravan eh bramble? Not in your drive surely? We are in a conservation area you know .

LadyBiscuit, standards schmandards. The croc is the ultimate camping shoe (along with the flip flop and the welly). You need to let yourself go a bit and embrace the inner beauty of the plastic orthopaedic shoe.

I wear flip flops but I have to confess they are a bit shite in dewy grass. But crocs! I suppose I could keep them in the shed with the camping equipment ...

Ha! You have clearly never gone camping at 6.5m pregnant! Never ever again will I compromise my comfort. (I camp for the children's sake. Give me 5* hotel any time )

Stomps off huffily in her pink Cloggies - which are better than Crocs because they don't have any holes to let in bits of yuk.

yes. hmmm. He has had various thoughts about keeping it at Abersoch. However, his mother has a rather large drive area in front of her house that I'm sure would accomodate a pantechnican. I really don't think it's going to happen, as I require funds to be used otherwise.
Anything might be better than the state of the driveway at present, it looks like Bazrha.
Yes crocs are the thing for late night dashes across the dewy grass.