So, I guess the fact that I'm gettin' soft isn't ALL bad!...
When I find a nice National Forest Camp... that puts me at or below my $180 buck a month camp budget (and most months we've been well under $75)... I sometimes find it hard to find much ambition to take myself from the pay to stay NF dry camp and go to huntin' hard for a straight up no nickles RV Boondock camp.
I mean, when you and the camp host, waaaaay down at the other end, are 'bout the onliest ones around, and it's a nice camp like this one, that the host has cleared out the brush and weeds from... and sunny, well, till the clouds loaded up the past two days (but even I can't blame THAT on the Forest Service!) and though the signal ain't strong here in camp, I can make it work... and I only have to go maybe .8 miles to get good bars...
... and the host watchin' over things even sees eye to eye with me on most things... yeah I know, poor buzzard...
anyway... it makes it pretty hard to crank up the motivation to go do all the exercise required to find a full RV Boondock camp... just to save the 6 bucks! :)
So, yesterday, just to keep me honest, and to take a break from the heavy duty authorin' labors I was bangin' away at all day, we went and took a tool up the forest road that runs past this Loup Loup Camp...
And, truth be known, we did find a few decent camps. The views are fairly short, due to the heavy timber in this part of the world but, they privacy is pretty good... :) though, actually bein' closer to the road, maybe not as good as here! Since there's just been hardly anyone comin' in here.
We did spot one neighbor you'll have if you should make the choice to move in up that way...
He was a bit camera shy... and all I could get was this one fuzzy snapshot, as the truck was trying to roll out from under me on a steep grade! :)
and some of ya'll might could like the architecture of some of the construction back in those deep woods.
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| *I'd hate to be the twister that has to find cows in THIS country!* |
I'm not sure what it is that catches my attention... maybe the old workin' pens just bring back memories of when I was young and purty.
But, if ya'll want more privacy and different accommodations than a dry camp in this NF camp allow, there are some of those, for zero dollars, just a few miles behind us, up that good forest road.
This 'round here is where they got the idea for the "Evergreen State" I suppose. The cows 'round here look to be carryin' calves near as big as them. A shortage of grass sure wouldn't be holdin' 'em back, considerin' there is no shortage... the place is just green... Leastways where the trees are thin enough to let some grass grow :)
Then... the water that, is, ever'where, can pump out the grass...
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| *Creeks and Lakes and Rivers... ever'where* |
Well, after all that hard drivin'... and all the hard word whittlin' I carved out 'fore the drivin' part...
Come on! Punchin' them buttons and twistin' up your brain, to crank out 4,000 words of a good story is hard work! It's a tough thing for a crusty Ol' Buster with a lame motorcycle to calculate where to hang all them comma's... and to try to figure out should this'un be a "Then" or a "Than" on top of it is an almighty difficult task
anyhoo... after all O' that... with Lily standin' guard...
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| *Lily* |
and Buck doin' his best at destroyin' another stick...
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| *A LandShark, Stick Killin' Dogs, Sunset, and Kickin' Back* |
I figured I should kick back in this Tough to endure Camp... and see if'n I couldn't do some damage to to the contents of another bottle of Land Shark... as the sun sank quietly behind the western hills... er... trees!
And I did it too! Kilt that sucker dead. Wrassled it to the ground and swallerd it up whole! :)
Kickin' Back and Whittlin' Words
Brian
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3 comments:
Hi my friend, You know one day I would just love to follow you and Heidi from camp to camp, keeping my distance too. You always find the most comfortable, peaceful looking places to camp. If you get up Seattle way or over toward the Olympic area, think about my daughter and hubby. Wish I was there. Am going to be there around the first week of November.
Forgot: fingers got ahead of head and posted before I was finished. Going there in Nov. to check out the baby bump for myself. Can't wait to pat the bump and introduce myself. LOL
We're slowly... Much slower... and a month or so earlier than last year... working our way into the coastal rain forest... and a few hundred miles further north...
... and we have to be back in Denver, for a "shower" for baby bump #2 Jasper W. Thompson, due in November... Tell me THAT don't sound like a Bronc Rider!!
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