Author: beeteamnov14

Poison Ivy vs. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

If you ever find yourself out on a pleasant afternoon hike on a sunny summer day and then all of the sudden you understand that the trail you chose is desolate for one specific reason: leaves of three all over the place…

… remember the sage advice of Douglas Adams: DON’T PANIC

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White Flag Breakfast

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In case you don’t recognize the look, this is a breakfast of defeat. This is the look after a night of no sleep because the tent was covered in mosquitoes, at least a hundred of which found their way inside to buzz and bite all night. This is the look of ‘…coffee…’ after a frantic pack up trying to avoid as many of the thousands as possible, unsuccessfully. This is the look of ‘get in the damn car and drive as fast as you can!’ while peeling out of the campsite. And while all that is pretty bad, this is also the look of ‘suck it, Jarod, we still haven’t gotten a hotel room.’ 😎

Today is going to be a day full of angry responses to the simplest questions immediately followed by ‘sorry, I’m not mad at you, I’m mad at the mosquitoes.’ Twice before noon, so far! 😭

Ultimate Campsite Scout: Google Earth

We prefer to camp in the middle of nowhere, so we try to avoid official campgrounds. Almost all our camping has been in places we don’t know and haven’t previously visited. It can be surprisingly tricky to find the middle of nowhere in a place you’ve never been! Here’s how we go about it: we find an area of publicly-owned land near where we want to be on google maps and zoom in. Continue reading “Ultimate Campsite Scout: Google Earth”

Uhh, you must not be from here? – Snowball

Guest post!!!! Snowball (T & J’s trusty Land Cruiser) has a valley girl accent, so you gotta bear with her while she relates our second campsite:
Oh. My. God. We drove for like 4 hours. On a highway. I was pretty much SO bored. I was all like ‘can we go over there already???’ And then, LOL, we did. The trail was, like WAY too easy, but still curvy. Like that one episode of the OC, when Tim was all over Angel, but she was only into Steve, it was pretty mellow, but still a little hard to follow, you know? Anyway, here’s a selfie.

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