Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:16:25 -0230
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Defining Camping
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LOL! Bernie, that story reminds me of an incident many many years ago. I
had just finished my freshman year in college, and a friend from school was
visiting me in NY. We drove into the city through Harlem (having gotten off
the highway in a silly place), then got to my neighborhood. My friend, who
grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was flabbergasted that I expected her to
get out of the car in this clearly dreadful and dangerous urban spot.
A month later I went to visit her in Tennessee, where we drove around the
countryside and she talked about bears in the forests. I was floored that
they would cavalierly hang out in the woods, at night no less when you
couldn't see the bears.
I'll take stealth camping in a busy middle class neighborhood of a US city
any time over finding some backwoods spot where there's no one around if you
have trouble and your van clearly doesn't belong there!
Joy
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Bernie <berniej@gmail.com> wrote:
> Amazing the experiences that are filed under heading camping.
> Finding that camping spot that is just right can be tough.My wife and I
> were
> in middle of nowhere and I was on the hunt
> for this off the beaten track rustic campground.
> I think I was looking for a BLM site that was very seldom used.
> The road got progressively worse and I wondered what lay ahead.
> We pulled into a very primitive campground with one beat up
> truck and two chained up wild looking and now barking dogs.
> This guy was set up like he had been there 6 months.
> A very wild looking guy was now looking at us with an expression
> of "whose that coming tramping on my doorstep".
> He had a couple of very serious looking rifles in the back window
> of this truck and by this time I was wanting be just about anywhere
> but here. Only stayed in a KOA once but bring it on now!
> The way he was set up this was obviously home and
> I wouldn't want to be the one to explain to him why it wasn't.
> He was living off the land obviously and we did talk and he explained
> where he had deer hung at this primitive camp not far away.
> This was more information than I needed.
> This wasn't deer season and I think they call this poaching.
> Often wonder what happened to him.
> It was a short conversation and we didn't exit the westy.
> Entering a isolated campsite to find a armed and in my estimation,
> not altogether stable, individual is a bit disconcerting.
> It's all camping experience eh what?
>
> Bernie
> Vancouver
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