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[getaclue]

hooray for lockdown! And I am so sorry to hear that. You are definitely in my prayers! Can I ask your first name?

My first name is Cheryl.

 

[Dragonfly216]

God speed on your recovery, Cheryl! May your days be long and filled with joy.

 

[pickitfarm]

Daughter update.

~Made it 250 miles on this bad boy today

Like many here, I have been enjoying reading your post about your DD's trip. The pictures and stories have been amazing...Thank you for sharing.

 

[Highcotton]

Wisher, that sounds like soooooo much fun, and pass the s'mores.  There is nothing quite as good as food cooked over a wood fire, in my opinion.  If you are going during the day, but coming back home at night, consider taking extra meat to cook at night, then take it home to freeze for later use.  I used to do that with pork chops, and hamburger.  Cook it about 3/4 of the way done, so it' won't be too dry or overcooked when you re-heat it.  You can take some of the hamburger patties, chop them up, and use them in spaghetti sauce too, and the campfire flavor comes through.

My kids are in their 40s and the best and most told stories are about our many camping trips. On the first trip it rained all weekend. The kids left the tent window unzipped and it filled with water. I thought that was the end of camping but everyone could not wait to go back and talked about how much fun it was. There is something about camping.

 

[Wisher1000]

I think my favorite part is that you have to go/walk to the top of the hill (half a mile) to get any bars on your phone!! Close enough that you can call for help if you need it, far enough away that nobody wants to bother.

 

[Highcotton]

I think my favorite part is that you have to go/walk to the top of the hill (half a mile) to get any bars on your phone!!  Close enough that you can call for help if you need it, far enough away that nobody wants to bother.

That's true. Most of our camping was before cell phones so camping was getting away from phones. Now rhere is almost no escaping them.

 

[Bunnylady]

I think my favorite part is that you have to go/walk to the top of the hill (half a mile) to get any bars on your phone!! Close enough that you can call for help if you need it, far enough away that nobody wants to bother.

Oh, Heavens, Wisher! You realize that if you'd been out there with 7 teenage girls instead of guys, you'd have had to camp on top of that hill or deal with withdrawal symptoms.

 

[Wisher1000]

Oh, Heavens, Wisher! You realize that if you'd been out there with 7 teenage girls instead of guys, you'd have had to camp on top of that hill or deal with withdrawal symptoms.

Nope, no way, no how..... unt uh! I have a hard enough time with the occasional visiting girlfriend, there's no way I'm taking a bunch of girls camping.

ETA: Now that you mention it, there was no drama, no arguements, no pouting, and no whining the whole time we were out there, either.

It's certain, God knew what he was doing when he ignored my prayers for a girl and gave me three boys!

Please, all you wise old chicken keepers, check out this mystery and see if you can explain it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/868366/chick-developing-in-freshly-laid-egg

 

[ChickenCanoe]

God speed on your recovery, Cheryl! May your days be long and filled with joy.

Amen.
May all of our days be long and filled with joy.
Now lets get to it.

Like many here, I have been enjoying reading your post about your DD's trip. The pictures and stories have been amazing...Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the comment. Even though I knew I created a couple of amazing travel monsters, I'm still dumbfounded when I think about what she's doing right now - and she's doing a good job at it.
In the last year she had contemplated, no, more than contemplated - made concrete plans and arrangements to work in the Virgin Islands for the winter and then off to Africa.
Last year she decided she was going to ride camels in the Sahara, so a trip to Morocco and other points in North Africa were planned. In the end she changed her mind and chose SE Asia. I imagine it was my son's trip to Thailand and Cambodia that may have swayed her.
Isn't that just like a woman to change their mind?

My kids are in their 40s and the best and most told stories are about our many camping trips. On the first trip it rained all weekend. The kids left the tent window unzipped and it filled with water. I thought that was the end of camping but everyone could not wait to go back and talked about how much fun it was. There is something about camping.

The first camping trip I can remember, I may have been about 5 but definitely the first of many "interesting" camping experiences. It was my family; dad, mom, 2 sisters, brother, myself, along with a couple of my brother's friends. I think my brother and his friends had just turned 16 because one of them had his own car. It was a fishing/camping trip to a nearby large river. Back in those days, nylon had barely been invented and certainly wasn't in wide use for tent making material. Tents were thick canvas, heavy and bulky. I don't remember where we got the tent but I do remember it was huge and we had no tent poles. My dad came up with the idea of using 1/2" black iron pipe for poles. That worked pretty well till the storm hit in the middle of the night. To make a long story short, the poles weren't firmly in place. One fell on one of my brother's friends head, knocking him out cold. Then, the rest of the tent collapsed. We all spent the rest of the night sleeping in cars. The rain didn't let up and we had breakfast in the rain. I believe that's the first meal of my life I remember. Fried eggs, in paper plates full of rain water. I remember having to drain the rainwater off of the plate to eat. Apparently, back then, weather forecasts weren't the norm.
You really can't make this stuff up.
If this generates any comments, I'll tell the tale of my father cooking breakfast over a fire at a fancy country club.

I think my favorite part is that you have to go/walk to the top of the hill (half a mile) to get any bars on your phone!! Close enough that you can call for help if you need it, far enough away that nobody wants to bother.

Sounds like the Missouri Ozarks.

That's true. Most of our camping was before cell phones so camping was getting away from phones. Now rhere is almost no escaping them.

WAAAAY before cell phones.
They still amaze me. About 10 years ago, after a 90 + mile float, nearing a town (Van Buren, MO), where I was supposed to meet up with the wife and kids. I turned on my phone and was amazed to get a signal at river level and could call her. I off loaded my gear from the previous week into her car and my son joined me for the rest of the way to the cabin at Big Spring (North Americas largest spring) where we stayed for our autumn vacation.
http://www.bigspringlodgeandcabins.com/

Oh, Heavens, Wisher! You realize that if you'd been out there with 7 teenage girls instead of guys, you'd have had to camp on top of that hill or deal with withdrawal symptoms.

My wife's sister has 6 girls - all one year apart in age. No boys.
We used to take a long hike every Thanksgiving, either before dinner or after. My BIL isn't an outdoors type. One year it had snowed and he had on nice leather loafers and wasn't enjoying the hike. He said, the dentist would have been more fun.

Nope, no way, no how..... unt uh! I have a hard enough time with the occasional visiting girlfriend, there's no way I'm taking a bunch of girls camping.

ETA: Now that you mention it, there was no drama, no arguements, no pouting, and no whining the whole time we were out there, either.

It's certain, God knew what he was doing when he ignored my prayers for a girl and gave me three boys!

Please, all you wise old chicken keepers, check out this mystery and see if you can explain it: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/868366/chick-developing-in-freshly-laid-egg

I went to the thread and contributed my 2 cents.

By the way, when did the cent sign get taken off of keyboards?

 

[pickitfarm]

Thanks for the comment. Even though I knew I created a couple of amazing travel monsters, I'm still dumbfounded when I think about what she's doing right now - and she's doing a good job at it.
In the last year she had contemplated, no, more than contemplated - made concrete plans and arrangements to work in the Virgin Islands for the winter and then off to Africa.

Last year she decided she was going to ride camels in the Sahara, so a trip to Morocco and other points in North Africa were planned. In the end she changed her mind and chose SE Asia. I imagine it was my son's trip to Thailand and Cambodia that may have swayed her.
Isn't that just like a woman to change their mind?

It is our right to change our minds.