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~Stanton Gla....
No, wait. THAT loser did NOT say THAT.
Nevermind.
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“Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.”
~Stanton Gla....
No, wait. THAT loser did NOT say THAT.
Nevermind.
As a renaissance camper, I feel compelled to share that my worst camping experience involved no cats, but our dog (yes, we brought her along). We were camping at this "site" that was more a swampy X marked in the woods, where like, the only amenity was the banjo players knew where to find you. Period.
There were BLACK CLOUDS of mosquitoes. Of course, I made the husband set up everything while I waited in the car. Because.... I don't get along with skeeters. I made a hasty and rapid beeline for the tent, from the car.
Unfortunately, an ablution had to happen. I ventured a fair distance from the tent, but the mosquitos were biting me the WHOLE time. including my ...., as I abluted. It was awful.
I'll admit that after I buried my ablution I was like... Perhaps I should grab that rock there, to like, seal the deal, so to speak but I could literally FEEL my blood being drained. It was awful, and I was like, "You have done a good enough job Anna, just go back to the freaking tent."
Only an hour later we let the dang DOG out for a bit, and mosquitos didn't bother her a BIT I guess,, because she came frolicking toward the tent with my ablution in her mouth, toilet paper streamers hanging from it in a cheerful manner all HAPPY like she had found some sort of PRESENT.
It was my honeymoon so like, I was new enough in marriage to feel horrendously embarrassed about my lack of stone usage. But well, not bad enough to NOT make the husband wash the dog, mainly because I felt he would do a better job.
Much as it is the persons you love who can really hurt you, it's not the feral cats you gotta worry about, it's your own idiot pets. Feral cats just keep you up at night....
RV RV vaper ALL the way. LOL.
Anna
There were BLACK CLOUDS of mosquitoes. Of course, I made the husband set up everything while I waited in the car. Because.... I don't get along with skeeters. I made a hasty and rapid beeline for the tent, from the car.
Unfortunately, an ablution had to happen. I ventured a fair distance from the tent, but the mosquitos were biting me the WHOLE time. including my ...., as I abluted. It was awful.
I'll admit that after I buried my ablution I was like... Perhaps I should grab that rock there, to like, seal the deal, so to speak but I could literally FEEL my blood being drained. It was awful, and I was like, "You have done a good enough job Anna, just go back to the freaking tent."
Only an hour later we let the dang DOG out for a bit, and mosquitos didn't bother her a BIT I guess,, because she came frolicking toward the tent with my ablution in her mouth, toilet paper streamers hanging from it in a cheerful manner all HAPPY like she had found some sort of PRESENT.
It was my honeymoon so like, I was new enough in marriage to feel horrendously embarrassed about my lack of stone usage. But well, not bad enough to NOT make the husband wash the dog, mainly because I felt he would do a better job.
Much as it is the persons you love who can really hurt you, it's not the feral cats you gotta worry about, it's your own idiot pets. Feral cats just keep you up at night....
RV RV vaper ALL the way. LOL.
Anna
Anna, still vaping, dear one? I must have missed the topic here. (I DO skim at times.)
Still vaping. Renaissance Vapers, RVs, camping, terrible camping stories.
It's in the lounge this thread, isn't it? If not I apologize.
Anna
It's in the lounge this thread, isn't it? If not I apologize.
Anna
oh wow is it New Year already?
...............
I looked and it is! hahaha. No wonder they kept talking about people in new York for the New Years celebrations all morning.. hahaha
just never dawned on me. lol..
Years ago I went to a campground at a park in Indiana called Racoon Lake. I was warned to watch out for the racoons and the rednecks. Not kidding. The racoons would tear up anything left outside and scratch at the tents trying to get in. The rednecks started drinking as soon as it got dark and hit it until dawn. Yelling and whooping and fighting. Racing trucks and slamming tailgates. We packed up and left early next morning when everyone was asleep and found somewhere more peaceful.
The Saturday morning after I had slept all of an hour or two it began the thunderstorm. Then the sun came out. I opened up the tent flap and saw a Pileated woodpecker as big as a chicken about 10 feet away. Goodness gracious!! Giant woodpeckers... I can only imagine how big the bear are here.
I stuck around for the ceremony as I was in a pool betting on how long it would be before the bride and groom got in a fist fight. lol. I had drawn 'after midnight' meaning they'd make it past midnight on their wedding day before one punching the other. I won. They duked it out at about 2am when the groom told the bride "you poke me in the eye again and I'll punch you".... "Alright that's it girl" thud, thunk, splat. He punched her then body slammed her then she got up and karate kicked the guy in the head and fell over like a rock. It looked like a Mike Tyson pay per view where it lasted like 32 seconds.
It was a once in a lifetime experience I had no desire to repeat, yet it was kinda cool to say I saw how the h.e double hockey sticks angels celebrate a wedding in the mountains.
I stuck around for the ceremony as I was in a pool betting on how long it would be before the bride and groom got in a fist fight. lol. I had drawn 'after midnight' meaning they'd make it past midnight on their wedding day before one punching the other. I won. They duked it out at about 2am when the groom told the bride "you poke me in the eye again and I'll punch you".... "Alright that's it girl" thud, thunk, splat. He punched her then body slammed her then she got up and karate kicked the guy in the head and fell over like a rock. It looked like a Mike Tyson pay per view where it lasted like 32 seconds.
It was a once in a lifetime experience I had no desire to repeat, yet it was kinda cool to say I saw how the h.e double hockey sticks angels celebrate a wedding in the mountains.
!Happy New Year Renaissance vapers! I have not purchased any vaping gear yet. LOL. I seem to be saving for something, potentially the new mortgage but I've been plenty unfrugal over Christmas so I'm good with it,
Worst place to camp of all time: Chincoteague Island. Any place where they freaking do fly overs with insecticide is Not Good Seriously, Also, the wild horses are worse than wild bears. They are oddly unpredictable like you could be petting one all friendly (if you do not know, I know) and the next second it is kicking you in the face. Do not leave your picnic supplies out and unattended, because they won't eat them ALL but they will tear them all to shreds in this passive aggressive way.
The best thing to do is to run at them screaming loudly and like, most of the time they just look like you and go, "Meh. I will kick you or destroy your foods later."
The mosquitos and sandflies.... OH MY. It's really really bad, there's not really anything you can do for protection from the flies, either. A hazmat suit maybe.
I camped there way more than I wanted to . The first spouse really loved it there, so Ii went there once pregnant and slept in the car because the tent was Not Good Enough. Another time, we rented this little house. That would have been better but the kiddo was of the prime age to be eating san, so he cried all night trying to "digest" the sand .Oh, I tried to stop him but the flies were distracting me.
I don't get when the first husband liked it so much (or other people, my class went on a "habitat" field trip" once, and I got in trouble for writing an essay all about how it was uninhabitable to humans.
It should be, not an actual know, beloved camping destination. I mean, it's all "Come meet the wild horses and bird watch! You can swim in the ocean!"
I'm like, it's more similar to "Come get eaten alive, the locals will detest you because you get to LEAVE and the wild horses may maim you and also the ocean smell heavily of dead ocean wildlife and the ocean is a muddy brown most of the time so you won't see the jellyfish."
Anna
Worst place to camp of all time: Chincoteague Island. Any place where they freaking do fly overs with insecticide is Not Good Seriously, Also, the wild horses are worse than wild bears. They are oddly unpredictable like you could be petting one all friendly (if you do not know, I know) and the next second it is kicking you in the face. Do not leave your picnic supplies out and unattended, because they won't eat them ALL but they will tear them all to shreds in this passive aggressive way.
The best thing to do is to run at them screaming loudly and like, most of the time they just look like you and go, "Meh. I will kick you or destroy your foods later."
The mosquitos and sandflies.... OH MY. It's really really bad, there's not really anything you can do for protection from the flies, either. A hazmat suit maybe.
I camped there way more than I wanted to . The first spouse really loved it there, so Ii went there once pregnant and slept in the car because the tent was Not Good Enough. Another time, we rented this little house. That would have been better but the kiddo was of the prime age to be eating san, so he cried all night trying to "digest" the sand .Oh, I tried to stop him but the flies were distracting me.
I don't get when the first husband liked it so much (or other people, my class went on a "habitat" field trip" once, and I got in trouble for writing an essay all about how it was uninhabitable to humans.
It should be, not an actual know, beloved camping destination. I mean, it's all "Come meet the wild horses and bird watch! You can swim in the ocean!"
I'm like, it's more similar to "Come get eaten alive, the locals will detest you because you get to LEAVE and the wild horses may maim you and also the ocean smell heavily of dead ocean wildlife and the ocean is a muddy brown most of the time so you won't see the jellyfish."
Anna
So is this the camping trips from hell thread? Unlike Kat I'm not great in skimming back to make sure I'm on topic.
And happy new year to all you campers. Who are still among the living.
And happy new year to all you campers. Who are still among the living.
For me it is, LOL. Renaissance Vapers, RVs, camping, camping tragedy. It's an easy progression.
This is not so much a camping field trip exactly but my senior class (you do all this fundraising and stuff) went to Costa Rica. We could not afford the :"best" of all tour guide services, they may have been the worst, actually. Our first "hotel" had bedbugs, that was a BAD TIME and where I learned to fear, hate and detest bedbugs. When I signed my "bedbugs clause" on the apartment, I was not afraid for ME, but for everyone AROUND me. They will go through like, electrical sockets and move about from place to place. There is a heat "eradication" treatment (supposedly) but I was like, "Um, I am sorry, you are just gonna pay tor replacing all my stuff."
But yea, night one bedbugs, we stayed in this crazy little town where one of the tour guides lived and they were CONCRETE block "motels" with no door locks or electricity just this sort of "cot." It was kind of like prison, actually. One chick got her stuff stolen and was like "I am going to FIND it" but came back empty handed and refused to say what happened. I had a meltdown in that town (I was suppose to go on an jungle hike and like, see some power plant that had never been seen)and made them call my parents and I demanded they "remove" me immediately. My parents said no, the heartless creeps. So I stayed behind and slept in the tour guide's bed (normally gross, but it had mosquito netting, making it SO GREAT I had a feeling of safety I never had before on that trip). A pal remained behind as she had been bitten by a large spider, and watching her ask for an egg for breakfast in a town where no one spoke English in mine... I mean, she laid the egg and everything it was SO COOL.
Also, our guide but almost plunged off a cliff on this dirt road up to some mountain, really, 1.5 wheels were OFF. Fortunately (I pointed out maybe I should decamp) some OTHER crappy tour guide service came by and "helped" with like a chain and some reverse.
I was heavily in favor of NOT getting on the bus again--ever-- but like, we did. Saw a live volcano and ignored the tiny don't go beyond this point sign and went and lit cigarettes off the lava. It did blow up later that night, and in the US there would have been dire warnings and maybe a fence. LOL.
Also, my spider friend needed treatment and we went to a "hospital" and it was all nice, and airy and run by like, I think some religious place, I really wanted to stay there for ever. I also got treated for my poison oak because we'd gone crazy wandering through some cloud forest, I guess I touched some.
The coffee was amazing the beer was strong and freely available to you in like, any place you went as a minor.. Plus other things. Sometimes you had to fend off some dudes ,but that almost felt like a positive compared to everything else.
I did not keep a journal, I was in revolt (we were supposed to keep one) but I just wrote up my experiences upon my return. Per my teacher, "There are parts of this journal that make me laugh until I cry."
I have no idea WHY because Costa Rica was HER idea, I wanted to go somewhere civilized. Also, the parents all compared notes I guess, and future classes were forbidden to go overseas.
I don't know why that was even a necessary prohibition I mean I hear places like New Jersey and Delaware are really nice. I had no need WHATOSEVER to go to Costa Rica but I was not consulted, really. The teacher was all like (she was a biologist) "I have found Alberto and his brother and we can afford to be guided through Costa Rica!" Oh, yay!
I have also found that a fair percentage of Albertos are not to be trusted. Etc.
Anan
Anna
This is not so much a camping field trip exactly but my senior class (you do all this fundraising and stuff) went to Costa Rica. We could not afford the :"best" of all tour guide services, they may have been the worst, actually. Our first "hotel" had bedbugs, that was a BAD TIME and where I learned to fear, hate and detest bedbugs. When I signed my "bedbugs clause" on the apartment, I was not afraid for ME, but for everyone AROUND me. They will go through like, electrical sockets and move about from place to place. There is a heat "eradication" treatment (supposedly) but I was like, "Um, I am sorry, you are just gonna pay tor replacing all my stuff."
But yea, night one bedbugs, we stayed in this crazy little town where one of the tour guides lived and they were CONCRETE block "motels" with no door locks or electricity just this sort of "cot." It was kind of like prison, actually. One chick got her stuff stolen and was like "I am going to FIND it" but came back empty handed and refused to say what happened. I had a meltdown in that town (I was suppose to go on an jungle hike and like, see some power plant that had never been seen)and made them call my parents and I demanded they "remove" me immediately. My parents said no, the heartless creeps. So I stayed behind and slept in the tour guide's bed (normally gross, but it had mosquito netting, making it SO GREAT I had a feeling of safety I never had before on that trip). A pal remained behind as she had been bitten by a large spider, and watching her ask for an egg for breakfast in a town where no one spoke English in mine... I mean, she laid the egg and everything it was SO COOL.
Also, our guide but almost plunged off a cliff on this dirt road up to some mountain, really, 1.5 wheels were OFF. Fortunately (I pointed out maybe I should decamp) some OTHER crappy tour guide service came by and "helped" with like a chain and some reverse.
I was heavily in favor of NOT getting on the bus again--ever-- but like, we did. Saw a live volcano and ignored the tiny don't go beyond this point sign and went and lit cigarettes off the lava. It did blow up later that night, and in the US there would have been dire warnings and maybe a fence. LOL.
Also, my spider friend needed treatment and we went to a "hospital" and it was all nice, and airy and run by like, I think some religious place, I really wanted to stay there for ever. I also got treated for my poison oak because we'd gone crazy wandering through some cloud forest, I guess I touched some.
The coffee was amazing the beer was strong and freely available to you in like, any place you went as a minor.. Plus other things. Sometimes you had to fend off some dudes ,but that almost felt like a positive compared to everything else.
I did not keep a journal, I was in revolt (we were supposed to keep one) but I just wrote up my experiences upon my return. Per my teacher, "There are parts of this journal that make me laugh until I cry."
I have no idea WHY because Costa Rica was HER idea, I wanted to go somewhere civilized. Also, the parents all compared notes I guess, and future classes were forbidden to go overseas.
I don't know why that was even a necessary prohibition I mean I hear places like New Jersey and Delaware are really nice. I had no need WHATOSEVER to go to Costa Rica but I was not consulted, really. The teacher was all like (she was a biologist) "I have found Alberto and his brother and we can afford to be guided through Costa Rica!" Oh, yay!
I have also found that a fair percentage of Albertos are not to be trusted. Etc.
Anan
Anna
I'm hoping to afford a nice new mod or two this year.. two tires first though.. lol.
I'd love the dani mini mod for one of them, but I'm debating it because I'd like a high end mech or two for the box.
First world problems. Which mods to buy in 2019... I'm only a little behind.
hahaha
Happy New Years everyone!
I'd love the dani mini mod for one of them, but I'm debating it because I'd like a high end mech or two for the box.
First world problems. Which mods to buy in 2019... I'm only a little behind.
hahaha
Happy New Years everyone!
Not to bring everyone down, but I probably have the worse camping trip from hell story. We were camping in the Everglades about 35 to 40 years ago and of coarse we all got pretty wasted on a multitude of stuff which was popular at the time. There was about 10 of us there, but in the morning one was missing. We searched around and found him face down , drowned in a couple foot of water. At 16 I never seen anything like it and was totally freaked out. He had woken up in the middle of the night, fell off the pier and hit his head on his outboard motor propeller (which had been tilted out of the water) knocked unconscious and drowned. A camping trip from hell for sure. One thing I remember was one guy had to leave before the police became, he had all the illegal goods.
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So today it's 2019. I'm sitting on a sofa watching a movie while puffing on a pod. A nice grape soda style flavor.
Taking a drag, toodle puffing, renaissance vaping...whatever it's called...
I'm just stoked to have heat, a full belly and an extra $20 in my wallet here on New Years day.
And so glad to have made it this far despite some adventures that at the time seemed like a good idea....
Taking a drag, toodle puffing, renaissance vaping...whatever it's called...
I'm just stoked to have heat, a full belly and an extra $20 in my wallet here on New Years day.
And so glad to have made it this far despite some adventures that at the time seemed like a good idea....
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