I camping!!!! I nature and I the outdoors.

Me and my husband just purchased a new 7-person tent and a queen sized air mattress! I am sooooooo excited and I am sooooooo looking forward to our 1st time camping together - in 3 weeks and with good friends.

I have lived in my tent before - for 2 months while living on a mountainside in Alaska, working at a fish cannery gutting fish 7 days a week. It was the most AMAZING experience of my life -- with bald eagles flying above and black bears living not too far away from us.

I grew up camping, hiking, skiing etc.. My dad is a huge outdoors enthusiast and it rubbed off on me as a kid. I used to pretend when I was young that I was a mountain lion, bounding down the hiking trails. LOL. That's a kid's imagination for you.

Nature makes me feel at peace and one with the universe. Nature is so astounding and awe inspiring. We live on a most vast, gorgeous and spectacular planet.

Anyone else love the outdoors, camping and nature? Anyone else feel this way?