PUNTA GORDA — It’s not your dad’s idea of camping — pull the Coleman into an Old Orchard Beach campsite, enlist the kids to pitch the awning, scope out showers and bathrooms, connect to stuff, collect wood for the firepit, roast wieners on it and swat mosquitoes.
Born of a yen to experience nature more comfortably, “glamping” — a portmanteau splice of “glamour” and “camping” — was coined in the UK in 2005. It wasn’t until a decade later that the Oxford English Dictionary included it.
It exploded like all outdoors during the pandemic and isn’t stopping anytime soon…