Camping Car Show

　　I joined a camping car show in Makuhari Messe in Tokyo. The scene took me back to my childhood.
　　In my childhood, my family often made camping trips. I think that it was mainly for saving money, but the camping trips were a lot of fun for the kids. Our family's first car came to my house when I was 10 years or so. Since then, the camping trip has become our family's standard way to spend vacations. The effects of my parents being avid campers are still living in my soul.
　　After his retirement, my father remodeled a van into a camping car by himself and enjoyed domestic trips with his wife. I thought that it was an ideal living on pension experience. Around that time, the car navigation system started in Japan. I presented a portable car navigation device to him. It made him happy in a big way, because his wife didn't want to see maps in a car as she got carsick easily. The device helped him drive on the pre-planned route.
　　However, the portable batteries of those days didn't have enough ability to be used on camping trips. If the present portable batteries and various electrical components for camping were to have been developed 10 years early, my parents would have been interested in camping cars before me.