Declining a Perfect Postcard Campsite

 What makes for a perfect campsite?  This seems like an obvious question, but it really isn't.  It seems obvious that there should be a magnificent view from your front door.  That is how You Tube videos show 'breathtakingly beautiful' campsites.  But remember that those videos are selling a fantasy to armchair travelers who think like scenery tourists or vacationers.  Or they think like bougie suburbanites who confuse a great campsite with a posh gated neighborhood in the 'Foothills' of a giant city, and are attracted to a campsite with 'high property values.'

I bumbled onto such a campsite today as my little sweetheart and I biked up towards the bigger mountains in central Nevada.  And at first I considered relocating camp to this site.  But on second thought, it was not a good idea.

This superficially perfect campsite was too close to the upper end of the dead-end dirt road.  So it would force me to start out-and-back rides by going downhill.  Yuk!

A particularly pretty campsite is too likely to attract 'customers', and that is the last thing you want.  And it was a larger site that should be left to a larger group.

A spectacular view from your camper's front door just steals the thunder from your outdoor trip, whatever it happens to be.  A camper should not think like a couch potato in their living room, staring at a giant TV or looking out a window.

 What a sky we climbed through today!  

  I actually like the recent fire damage.  It makes for mood, drama, and contrast:

 

 Alas, no rain today for this part of Nevada.