Camping

 

Camping sites expose people. While hotels have the ability to abstract the person to what the person wants to show when outside the room, this is virtually impossibe in a camping site. During this trip we had the opportunity to say in quite some campings and observe a lot of different people. Provided a piece of land to stay, we saw people with only a simple roof above their heads for sleeping, all the way to the ones who literally brought a full house with them. The later was really obvious when a family parked next to us on a TIR truck converted to a mobile home. The mobile home was just like a full house, except for the wheels which gave it the ability to change its location. We wondered about the purposes of this kind of traveling. It allowed the individuals to stay in their absolute comfort zone while in a very careful and controlled manner peaking out to the region and people to where they moved the house. A full dependency on the everyday life comforts while still going to some other place. A way to protect their privacy and not expose themselves so much to the surroundings is what we guessed they were looking for. Traveling can be an amazing way to meet and feel different local cultures and it requires the surrendering of some of our comforts. These can be changes of location, habits, language, family, sleeping bed, cooking, reading... all things we incorporated into our daily routine and defined as established. It's up to each one of us to find the compromise of how much we want to feels and how much we are willing to expose.