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Posted by rustipup (My Page) on Sat, Mar 12, 05 at 1:43
Ok, time to clear those cobwebs and search your memory bank
for these camping trips:
1. BEST trip EVER !!
2. Worst trip... :(
3. camping trip you got LOST on...
4. camping trip you RAN OUT of GAS or got STRANDED on...
Best? Camping with my Nephew on a land locked bay in Lake Meade Wilderness area.
Worst? Paria Wilderness Area, Utah badlands... got seriously dehydrated.
Got Lost... never got lost... no, I'm fibbin' ;)
Decided to drive around in the Great basin and took one turn after the other. After all that jazz, my son looked at me and said "Time to head back, eh?"
My honest reply...."Uh, do you know where we came in here from? I haven't been paying attention..."
He thought dad was joking... then the challenge began.
It's hard being chewed out by a sixth grader- especially when he was right...
Ran out of Gas? Very dangerous out here in the desert.
I have picked up several people out in the middle of nowhere who were out of gas. I have never run out of gas out here. hmmmm... did get stranded when my 4 wheel drive gave out on a sandy trail. Buried up to the frame, all around. Hiked up the hills and finally came across this fellow in a pickup. He was shocked that I would take my vehicle where only horses or atv's could go...Cost me 400 dollars to get towed out, two days later.
ok, who's next?
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Best trip ever....
Me and some friends took our ATV's and loaded them up, and road to a cabin we have built way back in the hills. Then after unloading all our stuff we rode for hours in the rain in the middle of summer. Worst Trip....
They are all good trips for me I guess. One night I did pack up my stuff and leave early. Camping at a camp groud we got totally flooded, woke up with three inches of water standing both inside and outside of the tent, that one was pretty bad. Got Lost...
To me there is no getting lost, there is just new adventures. So I don't have a getting lost stories, just been slightly misplaced a few times. Run out of Gas...
Not done that one either. One time I did have an un-planned camping trip while out 4-wheeling. I got a flat and the lug wrench wouldn't take the lug nuts off so I couldn't put my spare tire on. It just rounded the nuts. Then the next morning had to walk miles and miles out of the hills to get to a phone. Needless to say I got a cell phone soon after that experience. |
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| Good thread Jerry! Best-- any of the times we head out to our favorite remote wilderness site on the lake! Every time is awesome and for each time there have been some priceless moments. Last year's priceless moment was out kayaking from the site with my daughter watching a loon family. Then sitting in the rain in the kayak watching a bald eagle that was perched in a tree by the shore line! The year before a mother moose and calf spending the afternoon at our site while a bald eagle circled above! worst-- would be a tie between the place with the power plant humming in the background that sold colored condoms in the camp store but no milk or the place in NH where golf carts zipped around and through our site at all hours, the bathroom was falling apart, and the campground looked like a trailer park with all of the seasonal campers! They all looked at us strange too because we were the transients! We left that place early! Couldn't leave the one with the power plant early because we were there to attend my cousin's wedding! Gotten lost-- I'm sure we have but I'm drawing a blank on that one right now! Honestly, I'm pretty good at reading maps and directions but my husband is not. You men might understand that he doesn't always appreciate my input in those situations! Ran out of gas-- well, I had a close call one summer when towing a boat up to Maine! Luckily, I did make it to the gas station just in time! stranded-- sort of, once when we were taking our boat out on one of our tidal rivers we packed up all of gear and got in the boat. Untied the boat at the dock and the incoming current immediately pulled the boat upriver away from the dock. Then the boat would not start! So my husband started throwing a rope to the shore to some people on the dock. The rope wouldn't reach and tide was pulling us further away. Then he finally just jumped in the river and swam to shore with the tow line. Then he pulled the boat in. We tied the boat up and he went and got the tow vehicle (at that time a van) to pull the boat out! I stayed with the boat. Then the next thing I know he was just standing next to the van and the van was running. I couldn't figure out what the problem was so I went over! HE LOCKED THE KEYS INSIDE THE VAN! He calmly told me what happened and I just lost it with hysterical laughing! I laughed so hard I fell down! This was also one of those times where I'm not sure he appreciated my input! He ended up doing something to remove a hinge on one of the back windows and then was able to open it completely. Then he lowered our screaming child through the window and sent her up front to open the door! |
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Best - camping on a ranch in Wyoming. We knew the owner and watched them round up the herd the next day.
2nd best? A campground in SC that was right on the beach and dogs were permitted to walk there too.
Worst - oh gosh who hasn't had the partiers next door? Or the tenters who came in at 3 am and drove stakes in the ground? Oh wait - in Vermont we hit a heat wave in September. We were in a conversion van with no ac for sleeping - just tiny sliding windows in the back. It was hot as you know where and we could see waves of mosquitos beating against the windows while trying to sleep. Did not help the van had blue crushed velvet upholstery
Lost - Hmmm went through a bad part of a city once that if we would have run out of gas I would not have been here now. I was ready just to hand the lug wrench out at the red lights.
Gas? Can't say we ever ran out of gas but hubby forgot to replace the radiator cap on the rv after checking the fluid. This was after a new rad. had been put in and the look on his face when steam came out was a good one. |
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| I mostly bicycle camp. Thus, some won't work for me. 1. BEST trip EVER !! My bike ride with my daughter from Corpus Christi TX to Baxter Springs KS. 2. Worst trip... :( My abandoned cross country cycling and camping trip, ended in Indiana 3. camping trip you got LOST on... Not lost, just forever roaming... :) 4. camping trip you RAN OUT of GAS or got STRANDED on... Ran out of gas, as in out of umpf, to ride further, got to be the Indiana thing again. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Monis bike camping and touring
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OklaMoni,
I knew your name sounded familiar. I read your online diary of your trip (most of the way) across the US a couple years ago and was so impressed by your strength and courage. I don't even remember what I was looking for when I came across it but, now, I had to go back and read it all again and was just as impressed the second time reading it. Now I'll have to read all about your second attempt. I would love to be able to ride across the country like that but congenital hip and knee deformities pretty much limit me to very short trips on a bike. I'm so glad you found this forum and posted here, now I can read about your other adventures. Glad to see you here!!!
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| Our best trip was camping in September in South Dakota at Custer State Park. The crowds were gone, the weahter was perfect and we had more fun watching a little red squirrel get ready for winter. The campground was almost empty during the week and we had bison and Dall sheep visit our campground. There is so much to see and do in South Dakota. Our worst trip was 2 years ago, also in September, in several Kentucky state parks. The ranger at the first park was nuts...there were very few campers in the park and we were quietly sitting outside our camper at 9pm reading and having a glass of wine. He drove by, stopped and threatened to arrest us because there is no alcohol allowed in the park. Who knew...we are from Wisconsin where you can't camp if you don't drink... hehe!!! The weather started out hot and just got hotter, it was over 100 degrees after the 4th day and we did not have air conditioning. On the first day we decided to take a tour of Lexington, but when we arrived to catch the bus they had already left...there is a time change and we did not know it. They would not refund our credit card. On our last day in Kentucky we were driving down a back road and saw a guy walking up the road with a gun over his shoulder and 5 or 6 squirrels in his right hand hung by their tails. I was so ready to leave. |
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