Advice on camping trip with father

[u/TACBGames]

Hello all!

I’m going on a camping trip soon with my father.

We’ll be spending 8 days camping in an environment very secluded from society with no cell service.

The thing is…this feels very intense to me. Meaning, it’s not a regular trip I’ve ever gone on. It provides a lot of anxiety to step away from life and take on this great challenge.

I know my dad would be fine doing it on his own, but just again, it’s a situation I’m not very well versed in.

I guess I’m looking for advice? To be unplugged from society for that long is just a crazy thought for me. Especially since im connected to technology pretty much all of the time.

3 or 4 days sounds manageable to me, but 8 days is again, intense.

So yeah any advice on how to mentally take on this trip? Thanks in advance

[u/Henri_Dupont]

Bring a book. Trade books with him. Perhaps there are fish to catch. Bring elaborate food to prepare. Just the normal rhythms of camping and starting fires and moving camp from time to time can take up an entire day. Enjoy this time to get to know your father more deeply. Have deep conversations about life and philosophy under the stars (with plenty of DEET). Make some elaborate camp furniture out of rocks and stumps. Have a ridiculous and hilarious disaster like a flooded tent. Get through it as a bonding experience and laugh about it later. Turn off that damn phone but take some pictures (I bring a little point and shoot camera and a good telephoto camera instead of a distracting phone.)