Take Your 4G Phone Camping With the Kids
Camping is one of the most all-American activities that there is. Most adults can look back on their childhoods or adolescences and recall a weekend spent with their parents in the woods of northern Wisconsin, hiking trails and fishing in the river by day and shivering under the brilliant northern stars in a sleeping bag by night. Or maybe they spent a weekend with some buddies from college roughing it in Yellowstone National Park, out in the isolated but stunningly beautiful northern Wyoming, walking quietly on the trails in hopes that they would stumble upon a moose or some other hard-to-spot animal quietly grazing in the distance. Or maybe it was a week long trek on a segment of the Appalachian trail that goes through Georgia, surmounting a physical challenge shortly after getting married.
Whatever the situation might have been, your experiences while camping provided countless incredible memories, and you hope that you can impart the ability to have such wonderful and yet simple times onto your children. Not only that, but camping is one of the most economical ways to have a vacation: you do not have to pay for hotel rooms and fancy meals and entrance fees to museums and city tours on double-decker tourist buses. All you have to fork out some cash for is, perhaps, the entrance fee to a National Park, some basic camping equipment that you can use over and over again in years to come, and supplies to make some basic food, like fresh fruits, canned veggies, bread, some chocolate for energy and a treat, and some kind of well-preserved meats.
Really, the only real risk or downside to camping is the fear that you will get lost or hurt, and be in the middle of the woods where no one can find you. There are a number of ways that you can help to alleviate this very standard anxiety, and simultaneously reduce the real risk that such a situation creates. First of all, before you head out to the nearby national park, make sure to inform other family, neighbors, or friends – basically anyone who will notice if you do not return in time. You can even bring your 4G phone with you and call them at certain specified check-in times so that way they can keep track of you throughout the trip.
Before you go on your trip, you can print out maps of your destination via your wireless Internet connection. What’s more, with wireless Internet, you can likely access all kinds of information about the camping area that you are going to beyond the promotional material that is provided by the park. You can find user-based review sites and see what other campers have to say about various locations.
And finally, another great use of your 4G phone is to bring it along on trip so that you can access the Internet or emergency services in the case of something unexpected occurring. You can look up directions again, or simply call the authorities when you need an extra hand.
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