A Comfortable Air Mattress
Is A Handy Thing To Have
I used to love camping when I was
a child. I never minded sleeping in a sleeping bag for several
days. As I've gotten older, I've discovered that my body just
isn't made like it used to be. My idea of roughing it in the
great outdoors consists of either renting a cabin somewhere or
having an air mattress in a very large tent. I'd much rather
sleep in a bed in a rented cabin, but an air mattress is second
best. After carefully shopping for a comfortable air mattress,
which I didn't think existed, we did manage to find one. The
most wonderful part of it is that it comes with a tiny pump that
inflates the air mattress within minutes. The air mattress sits
about a foot off of the ground, so you don't get the dampness of
the ground when you're sleeping. There's nothing worse than
waking up and feeling damp and wet. I never used to mind it but
apparently my body gets aches and pains when it is damp. The
joys of getting older.
We found our comfortable air mattress at Eastern Mountain
Sports. While they had lots of different types of air
mattresses, we chose this one to suit our needs the best. The
salespeople were incredibly helpful. There were many other
stores in which we had found a particular air mattress that we
liked but most of those stores did not have any sales reps on
hand to help us. We ended up paying a tiny bit more for the air
mattress but it was worthwhile because of having the
personalized assistance. I was absolutely amazed that the air
mattress that we chose came in such a small box. It didn't seem
possible. But, the clerk handed us a rather small box which
supposedly included the air mattress and the pump. I almost
laughed but the look on his face told me that he was serious.
How could a queen sized large air mattress fit into such a small
box? It did though.
So, we headed off with my brother and his wife for a weekend of
camping. After pitching our tent and clearing away all of the
rocks, we set up our campsite for the weekend. About an hour
before it started to get dark, I decided that we should inflate
the air mattress. Much to our surprise and delight, the air
mattress inflated fully within two minutes. The salesman was
right. I climbed into bed that night, moving around a bit more
than expected on the air mattress, but slept very comfortably. I
only smiled the next morning when I heard others complaining
about having slept poorly in their sleeping bags.