Where do you sleep when on an expedition?

Where do you sleep when on an expedition?

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In a rainforest, I'd sleep in a hammock, generally, but when I'm doing my apprenticeship, as it were, because I always start by living with remote people, I'd be in their house, usually a communal barn-like building, and, again, be in hammocks, and so on. So, on the road, walking alone through the forest, again, hammocks. I have been in tents, although it's hard -- the humidity is so great, it's better not to be in a tent. But it keeps out certain creepy crawlies and things, snakes, and so on. It can be good to be in a tent. In deserts, I just sleep under the stars. I don't think I've ever properly used a tent in the desert. Some people think they're great. I just love being out in the open in the desert. You've got to be ready, when the temperature gets way below zero; you've got to be ready to cover yourself. So you have a very thick sleeping bag, often. Arctic -- I've only used tents, ever, on the ground. People always forget the cold comes up from under you. You've got to insulate yourself, whether you use leaves or what they call carry-mats. You've got to have some sort of insulated layer to somehow build the temperature up, the insulation up from the ground.