john smith wrote:

Seriously, it takes a well experienced camper to bring only what is
essential to camp at OSH. Most pilots are fliers, not campers. Most
don't own the requisite camping and cooking gear to make a home away
from home with the plane.

I hear you! When we used to go camping with the Boy Scouts, we had two types of outings for the boys:
tail gate campouts and backpacking. I always thought backpacking was easier, because by definition
there's just less stuff to pack. Oshkosh camping on the other hand seems more like tail-gating. With our
C-182, there's just a temptation to throw in more stuff as long as there's room for it. This year, we took
the back seat out to make packing easier, and all it did was let us take more stuff. It's nice to have the
pop-up awning, table and chairs, but I'm sure we could get by on a much smaller scale by reverting to
"backpack mode". Either way, it was a great time!

Mike