15 points
Go Camping by Corrigan NnN
August 22nd, 2006 11:12 AM
Two friends and I attempted to go camping. We didn't get there til late and the sites were all filled up. So we just carried our stuff down to the beach, ate some peanut butter sandwiches and watched the shooting stars. We didn't pitch a tent in order to be lower profile and I soon discovered how water likes to condense on things at night. This is known as 'dew'. MY one firend went back to the car to sleep there where he was discovered by an ambiguous authority figure (park ranger, state trooper, home owner who drives a crown vic?) with a flash light who told us leave. By this point the sun was almost coming up, so we rode off into the sunrise.
0 vote(s)
Terms
(none yet)2 comment(s)
posted by the white bread cancer on August 23rd, 2006 9:40 AM
I salute you for camping where you weren't supposed to. Much of this country is still pubilc land, read YOURS (see http://www.blm.gov/), but when you're not in the desert it gets harder, especially on coast lines. State parks I don't even count as public anymore, with most running $20+ a night. So much better to just pull off the road and sleep wherever--I can personally recommend cornfields and vineyards. It's a terrible thing when a weary traveller (or weekend camper) can't find some cozy interstice in the obtuse patchwork of public and private jurisdictions out there. Try carrying 1:20,000 scale maps (http://tinyurl.com/4qol6) that show all the old minesites and graveyards and bed down there, John Muir style.
I've gotten into the habit of not even bothering to reserve a campsite on the beach-side camps; I just build a lean-to on the beach with driftwood.
It's better that way.