“Glamping,” is short for Glamorous Camping, and has become very popular. This type of camping appeals to people who want to experience the great outdoors, but without all the inconvenience of being outdoors. So are you camping or glamping? Here’s how to tell the difference.

1. If your “bathroom” has a sign that says “Do not drop objects in the toilet, they are very difficult to remove,” you are camping.
2. If there is a line outside the outhouse and every person is holding toilet paper, you are camping.
3. If you sleep through the night and get a good night’s rest, you are glamping.
4. If you don’t have to chop wood and build a fire to heat your coffee in the morning, you are glamping.
5. If at night you are telling ghost stories around a campfire that you built, you are camping.
6. If at night you are binging the Scream movies in a 30 ft RV, you are glamping.
7. If there is an insect swimming around in your soup and you just scoop it out and then keep eating, you are camping.
8. If you find yourself standing outside your tent at 2am trying to decide whether to pee next to the tent, or risk making the hike to the community toilets, you are camping.
9. If your bed is made for you after you get up, you are glamping.
10. If zipping up your sleeping bag is how you make your bed in the morning, you are camping.
11. If you adjust the temperature with a remote control for the air conditioner, you are glamping.
12. If you adjust the temperature by fanning yourself with a Chinet* paper plate, you are camping.
13. If you make s’mores out of stale graham crackers still in your camping gear from last summer, mini Hershey bars leftover from Halloween, and partially burnt marshmallows, you are camping.
14. If you eat S’mores Oreos and skip the roasting mess, you are glamping.
15. If your evening is ruined because they ran out of the surprisingly robust Merlot you were enjoying, you are glamping.
16. If your evening is ruined because your brother-in-law Larry brought beer without twist-off caps and then dropped the only bottle opener in the latrine (see #1 above) then you are camping. (Yes, he was opening a beer in the outhouse)
17. If the crust on your blackened trout has just the right blend of cayenne pepper, dry mustard, and cumin, you are glamping.
18. If the crust on your blackened trout is black because it burned to the bottom of the skillet, and tastes like the morning’s burned pancakes, you are camping.

Finally, if you come back from your adventure in the great outdoors refreshed, not covered in bug bites, and looking forward to doing it again, you have been glamping.

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