Hammocks Online

When my wife and I retired from our jobs as school teachers at P.S. 107 in Brooklyn, New York, we wanted to start a new chapter in life. For most of the last 30 years we had lived in close proximity to top-notch restaurants, museums and urban parks. Unfortunately, we also had to deal with the hustle-and-bustle and rudeness that came along with city life.

As a respite, we bought a cottage upstate and began going there for weekend excursions just to preserve some sanity. In time, we sold the Brooklyn apartment and began living in the cottage full-time. We bought matching patio hammocks and stretched out in the summer evenings to enjoy the sunset. At times like that, I certainly don’t miss the roving bands of drunk hipsters and blaring car horns of the city.

In my youth, my friends and I would take every possible opportunity to head off into the wilderness for a camping trip. The visual splendors of untamed nature were a major draw, of course – as was the freedom from our parents’ supervision. I remember a few long weekends in the woods when we would go days without showering or thinking about the stresses associated with modern life.

These days I take shorter, more civilized camping trips with my wife. Sometimes we stay in an RV, and other times we actually venture out into a tent. The weather must be absolutely perfect in the latter case, however. I’m still just as fascinated with the great outdoors as ever, but these days I’m much more likely to be found swinging from outdoor hammocks rather than “roughing it” on a hard patch of ground.