I started camping when a child. We would go way up to Northern California up in the mountains so my dad and uncle could go trout fishing. It was a blast!!! As an adult, I loved to camp. When DH and I got married in 2002, I found out he likes to camp, too. So, nearly every summer we do go camping. We bought a 13'x20' 3 room tent to start with and were able to take various kids and grandkids with us. Last year we bought an older tent trailer (pop up), and have only had it out once. It needs a little work, but at our ages it beats sleeping on an air mattress in the tent! :-) We do love it, though.
My funny story is that we took our friends Annie & Paul for their very first camping trip ever. We went to a campground on the Central Coast of California near the end of May. We had a great time on Saturday, then Saturday evening it started to rain. We stayed under our canopy set up over the table, then went to bed early in separate rooms in our tent. We woke up next morning to dark skies and still pouring!! We were barely able to make some breakfast, then pack all the wet gear into the back of our truck and leave!! I thought, this is the last camping trip they will ever take!! But, not true!! They LOVED it!!! They went out the next weekend and bought camping equipment, and we have been camping with them several times since.
Another great trip was the one time DH and I took out our little old tent trailer, we met his brother & SIL up in the mountains, and discovered snow still on the ground. Then we discovered the heater in the tent trailer didn't work! We had to borrow brother's extra little space heater from their big 5th wheel RV. But we had a blast!!!