No camping in the back of my truck for me, I only have a Jeep, so everything will be towed in a small trailer. I have vacation now, so these short trips like you describe (camping in your truck, etc., and which I have done in the past while in school) will be less and less. I will be able to take a couple of nights and go out. I will also be going farther from any help, so I want to have everything that I will need in case I need to stay an extra day or two because of an emergency. In the past, I would usually camp in areas where there are lots of people around, or in fairly populated areas, so I only took a minimum of camping gear, and enough food to last me a couple of days at the very most. I would leave in the afternoon, and come back the next day. My dad also has a 12x14' tent that we use when we are going to set up for longer that 3 or 4 days, and which I just don't like to set up by myself, lol.