"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Matt Barrow wrote:

Eight Feet? 64 square feet?

My air mattress is 4.5'x6'. With the 8'x7' floor of my tent, that is
barely
enough room to keep the mattress from touching the walls and let me stick
a few
items around the edges. Mine is billed as a "2-person" tent which, as
other
posters have already pointed out, really means a "2-pygmy" tent. As I
said, the
Cabela's tent isn't much larger.

The picture made it look as big as a garage! :~)

That extra foot in width would give me enough room to make sure that my
bag
wouldn't start a leak by touching the tent wall in the rain. I was also
impressed by the wind test -- I rode out one T-storm in mine and am not
anxious
to repeat the experience.

I stopped "tenting" several years ago when the bones got to rough for that
sort of thing.

Now I take the sissy way out and bought a Coleman pop-up. I actually look
forward to T-storms now.