Borrow What You Can

While we wanted to have all the essential gear to make camping enjoyable, to make it affordable, you need to use what you have and borrow what you can.

• We borrowed intertubes for our Put-in-Bay trip. Indispensable fun!
• We borrowed a foot pump from a camping neighbor when ours was lost in our gear.
• We borrowed a fishing pole when our son realized he'd left his next to the car when we left home for the trip.