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The temps were in the low 90s all week. The lows were around 77. The small air conditioner kept the tent comfortable during the day and by morning we would have our heads under the covers. We were at St. George Island State Park in north Florida.

Yes we keep all windows zipped shut with the a/c on. On our backpacker style tent the top was mesh with a rain fly over it. It stayed very cold at night. The canvas cabin tent is solid canvas with screen venting via the front and rear door screens. We will probably leave the windows open all day...

Last summer we used a 5000btu window unit air conditioner in a 5 person dome tent (low roof backpacker style) During the night when our temperatures plummet to 80 sometimes even 78 degrees it would freeze you. This year we upgraded to a $600 canvas cabin tent (8x10 with 7 foot headroom) we will...

Best advice: If you have a pension, once you are able to retire you are no longer working for X. You are working for X minus what your pension would pay you. Is it worth continuing to work? It wasn't for me.

I retired at 50 so I use to get this on a regular basis. If the person asking was some stranger in a group setting like say a party and I felt like they were trying to throw shade, I would smile, shrug and say "Whatever the f___k I want to". If I felt that it was a serious inquiry I would...