Camping

Have you ever gotten a note from someone you did not know that was not meant specifically for you, but for whomever found it? This happened to me once and started me on an unusual path. Before I became a camping nut, I was at a campground just milling around…

Visit any campground and you’ll see. Most of us are not camping. We’re driving our houses around. …

Tossed into the vast belly of “Ida Outanane” Mountain, swathed in the Moroccan wilderness. they call it”Solo camping”, I call it my date with solitude. Not bad for a digital nomad, eh? The chirrup of crickets, the whisper of the wind, they’re my new coworkers. …

Guns and beer and possibly a bear. — “They did an amazing job reconstructing his face.” I could hear the women behind me talking about Frank with no emotion. Just monotone opinions spewing from their fat slobbery lips. Frank had been missing for almost 72 hours. He’d gone on a camping trip with the boys on April 27th…

Whoever thought that this was a good idea? I mean, the THEORY is sound. You go camping, take a book, and are surrounded by nature in a peaceful and, hopefully, pastoral setting. What better way to sit and enjoy a good read, right? So that is the way it is…

Crisp morning air contrasts groggy head As you rub sleep out of eyes with grubby hands. A colorful tinged light floats through fabric walls, You rise. Toe stepping round and over Still slumbering bodies wrapped In polyurethane cocoons. You lace on hiking boots with still waking hands Then layer into a jacket Pungent and hearthy from the smoke of last night’s fire. Pocket seams are sticky from s’more smeared fingers Your shoulder becomes damp When you brush the walls wet with condensation Of sleeping breath. The threshold cries out a screeching protest To the silent world, As you unzip the front flap and exit the tent. The trees shake in morning greeting, A ring of rocks surrounds cold ashen evidence Of warm crackles and introspective flames Insects frolic in the prairie field nearby. You run to join their morning dance, A day of adventure awaits.

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