Rule #1...

People ask me for camping advice pretty regularly. I understand it, I've been primitive camping in the wilds of Canada and New Mexico, done winter camping in Minnesota and Wisconsin, backpacked after mule deer and elk in several states, sand-bar camped on the Mississippi dozens of times, and the past few years had a permanent site at Goose Island.  The one rule I always follow and quote... "watch out for the trailer hitch!!"