Walking and camping

Camp Day is a global feast, this year happening today on Sunday November 19th, celebrating the outdoors. This day has been around since the early 20th century.
Whether you prefer hiking and pitching a tent in the woods or sleeping under the stars by a campfire, this is a day of reconnecting with nature and enjoying adventure!
Recreational camping and immersion in nature goes as far as the 19th century, more specific from the 1850 ies on, when transportable tents were “invented” for urban inhabitants, in a time that cities became industrialized and people felt the desire to escape urban chaos to reconnect with nature. A phenomenon occuring around the same time when artists and writers became inspired by walking in their creative work.
Tents in the 19th century were still heavy and often transported by sailing boats, camping trips organized along the Thames were highly popular.
This way of camping changed in July 1897, when the Briton Thomas Hiram Holding, at the age of 52, designed and made a very small, lightweight tent which could be carried on a bicycle and on foot, when he set off on a three-day cycle-camping tour in south-west Ireland with his son Frank and two friends.
In the years after, and a book by Thomas Hiram Holding, Camping in the wild became a worldwide phenomenon, till today, and even more after the pandemic, when our perspective on traveling and adventures changed.
We discovered that adventures and traveling don’t have to be fast, big or remote.
Adventures became micro-adventures and traveling became vertical, discovering (again) what is near our home and in the nature around us. Camping and walking is micro adventuring, deepening connection with nature and flow, when consciousness and action fall together, in an even more deep sense of connection.

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