Brrrrr. That was the temperature in the North Carolina mountains last weekend. We had been checking the weather forecast every day before we left so we were prepared. Kinda. We brought all the requisite cold weather gear. Bruce even insisted I go buy some rainboots — thankfully, I [...]
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C-O-L-D
Posted in Family, camping on October 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A Week Away
Posted in books, camping, travel on June 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For us, a week away from home was spent between the north Georgia mountains where we slept snug in our sleeping bags and along the Atlantic Ocean coastline of southern South Carolina where we slept on top of our sleeping bags under a sheet. The music of the Bluegrass festival was great; the [...]
Turning over a new LEAF
Posted in camping, music, travel on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We got back from our latest camping adventure earlier in the week. Overall, the trip to North Carolina was fun; we were able to set up our camp during a beautiful day, had rain and cold nights, were able to strike camp and move an hour further up the mountains to Hugh’s neck of [...]
Leaving for LEAF
Posted in camping, music on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’re off to the Lake Eden Arts Festival in Black Mountain, NC. This will be our third trip up there. Mountain air, lots of music, nights in our new tent, coffee and tea under the stars, Spam and grits for breakfast and fried egg sandwiches for lunch! Then we go further up [...]
LLBean – thanks
Posted in camping on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sea Green King Dome Tent #4 is its name.
Our new tent arrived earlier in the week. It replaces the $20 tent we bought last year out of the classified ads — the one we got to determine whether we really enjoyed camping before we invested much money. It was fine, unless it [...]
No Campin’
Posted in camping, travel on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This was the weekend we were supposed to go back up to the North Georgia Mountains to the Cloudland Canyon State Park. We were looking forward to another camping adventure. However, as we kept checking the long term weather we realized the temperature was going to be way toooo cold to camp, so [...]
‘A Campin’ We Will Go – continued
Posted in camping, teaching, travel on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re back from the North Georgia Mountains — and yes, it was cold, especially the first night, but not horribly so. However, MacKathy, earlier in the week, made flannel pillowcases for our camping pillows. I found an old flannel sheet that had too many holes to mend, but too much material to [...]
Cold Air and Hot Music
Posted in camping, music, travel on October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We spent the weekend in Black Mountain, NC at the Lake Eden Arts Festival. We arrived early at LEAF so we could set up our campsite and be rested when the festival started Friday night. We had both been battling a stomach virus earlier in the week. The drive up there seemed rather [...]
More Camping
Posted in camping on July 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is what we learned on our latest excursion. You don’t know know fast you can move until a wasp is chasing you. Don’t wear tennis shoes in the rain — in a tent, they’ll never dry out and will smell like a dead thing.
Our last trip was to the north Georgia mountains [...]
Storms and Squirrels
Posted in camping, life, travel on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our camping site had electricity and its own resident squirrel and a very handy port-a-potty.
The 180 degree view of the lake from our own personal peninsula was spectacular. We camped at the Army recreation area up at Thurmond Lake, about a 45 minute drive from here. By going during the week, there were [...]
