Let’s Go Camping!

“Babe, I got it!”

Tigro hoped that she did not see him rolling his eyes. He could only imagine what her suggestion was going to be.

“What are you thinking, Lisa?” he asked.

“We can still go on vacation,” she said proudly.

“How’s that? You know that we don’t really have the money right now, Lisa.”

“Must I always have to correct you? We don’t have the money for airfare and hotels, but we do have the money for camping!” Lisa said triumphantly.

Tigro was certainly interested now. He had been camping countless times as a kid, but hadn’t ever dreamed that Lisa would want to go camping with him.

“You want to go camping? Are you sure?” Tigro asked. “I just want to make sure that you know what you’re getting yourself into; there won’t be any blow dryers or anything like that when we go camping, you know.”

Lisa didn’t mind that he saw her rolling her eyes at his comment. “Leave it to you to assume your stereotypical notions,” she replied. “I’ve been camping many times before, with family, with friends, with past boyfriends, too.”

“Oh,” Tigro laughed. “No, I didn’t know that. Maybe you should have told me that last part before we started seriously dating,” he said playfully.

“Mmmhmm, and I probably know more about camping than you, Tigro.”

Tigro brought his laptop computer to the kitchen. “I think I know of a site that should have great deals on camping stuff. The company is Backcountry Edge BackcountryEdge.com and their website is. Let’s check it out!”

Lisa was not going to hold her breath on this one. She had seen more than one of Tigro’s well-intentioned plans goes awry. So, while he waited for the web browser to find the site, she made a list of all the things they would need for their upcoming trip into nature.

“Lisa! Come here and take a look,” said Tigro excitedly.

Preparing to be disappointed, Lisa meandered over to the computer and reviewed the BackcountryEdge.com webpage.

“Awesome, Tigro! I’ve never seen such low prices like these for such high-end brand names! Is it real?” Lisa asked, more than half seriously.

Tigro chuckled, “It’s no mirage, Lisa. BackcountryEdge.com is more like an oasis. All of their gear is new and they only pack the most high quality products at ridiculously low prices!”

Lisa had already grabbed her list and checking off items. “Okay, T, we could either go with a backpacking tent or an ultra light tent for now since it’s still warm out, but we’ll have to purchase a mountaineering tent for when we camp out in the winter.”

Tigro asked tentatively, “What’s a backpacking tent? And, you want to camp out in the winter time? Are you nutty?”

Lisa knew that she had him now. “The great Tigro doesn’t know his tent types?” she mockingly asked. “I knew it! I knew that I was more knowledgeable about camping than you! Oh, c’mon, with the help of BackcountryEdge.com, I’ll make a seasoned camper out of you yet!”