> > > I'm looking for info on those tents that pitch
> > >themselves. Anyone know about 'em?
> >
> > Camping? You mean that activity whereupon normally sane individuals go into the wilderness and sleep on the ground with bugs and snakes? No thanks.
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> lol. Well, the only snakes up here in MN are garter snakes, and they're fun to play with. The bugs are the reason for the tent. See, the tent keeps the bugs outside and you inside ;)

When I was a kid, I hated the rare occasions on which my family would go tent camping instead of going away on the boat. (Yes, it's genetic. Grew up with the things, couldn't wait to get my own.) The tent *supposedly* kept the bugs outside, but after the number of mosquitoes getting inside had reached crisis proportions, I used to imagine leaping for the door, zipping it up really fast behind me, and sleeping outside on the ground in the blissful knowledge that EVERY SINGLE MOSQUITO in the Southern Hemisphere was now trapped INSIDE the tent.

Brunnen-"glad we don't have snakes in this country"G