For family gettogethers car camping can be great. I haven't done the family reunion thing in many years. If I'm not backpacking, I go to a little house we have close to Hardy Ark. No phone, fireplace for heat. It has central air but seldom used. We no longer have electronics for entertainment since someone ransacked the place and made off with everything, including my inflatable pontoon boat. I go there to fish and enjoy my solitude after I drop the family either at the pool or in town to look at antiques. I hope the meth heads that took my stuff made enough $$ to overdose.