have you done a lot of camping recently
no i haven't been camping since i was about sixteen
oh okay
but uh my family used to have a pop-up trailer and we'd go camping to a lot of different places we spent two weeks in Bastrop Texas once
oh yeah
uh where's that
it's near Austin
oh okay i'm not that much familiar with Texas we've been my family has been everywhere
but mostly in Texas on the way to someplace else we've had oh gosh we've
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i've camped in a in a in a back of a van van then we got then we got a pop-up camper and then we got a trailer now they've got now they've got a big motor home so they they still do a whole lot of camping
have you ever been camping in any of the big national parks
oh gosh yes uh oh Yellowstone about four years ago four or five years ago and um
oh we did my family when i was younger we went that was just you know what we did in the summers was go to the from you know national park to national park
we had a lot of fun
when i go camping i don't i don't like to rough it i like to have some a little bit of electricity electricity and a little bit of running water
yes
me too
i'm not really into this going and sitting in a tent for a few days with nothing
oh no no i've done it but it's not fun you don't want to do it for like three weeks at a time that's for sure
God
i have some friends that go camping for a couple of weeks every summer they're both geologists and they load up their truck with their tent and they go to New Mexico
and they just find places to camp and go looking for rocks and
ooh no no
doesn't sound like a lot of fun to me uh my friend said that the last time they went uh she just got tired of the tent and it was cold at night and she got tired of eating out of cans and so they stayed in a hotel one night
oh yeah
just for fun
shaking the scorpions out of their shoes
no kidding no kidding gosh that's what the the the bugs i don't like the bugs
oh me neither me neither the the mosquitoes just keep you up all night
yeah the one good nice thing i remember about camping with my parents is they had a big hammock and they would always find a couple of a campsite with a couple of good trees to hang it in between and i could just lay in that hammock for hours
yeah
yeah that that's nice
yeah
when my family when my family camps we're the the only time you're at the camper is when you want to sleep otherwise you're just going constantly you know in all the in all the National Parks and stuff
oh
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we camped at the let's see we camped down at at Galveston two or three years ago and that that was that was fun except that they uh were having a lot of problems with dead fish on the shore and they were
and the and the smell of that was kind of gross but
we stayed in Galveston Island State Park once but if a storm blew in and it was just horrible and the sand was blowing up our camp the little camping area was pretty near the shore
oh how awful
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and there were some pretty big dunes before the the camping area and the sand was all blowing up and couldn't even go out of the camper the wind was blowing so hard because you'd get sand in your eyes
oh that's miserable
yeah it was pretty bad
yeah i had
yeah pretty bad but we had a good time in our camper we usually we usually took box games and things to do in case it rained and they my parents always let us take a couple of friends so we always had a good time
yeah
yeah it's it's you it's you you always when you when there's kids you've always got to have other stuff to do because it's always gonna rain sometime and then your parents parents they drive the parents nuts
yeah
yeah and
yeah well children aren't easily entertained by just enjoying the nature
oh i know i wish i'd appreciated i wish i'd appreciated it more you uh when i was when we were camping so extensively you when we when we were younger
yeah
now i wish i could go back to those places yeah the time and i've got got a child and another one on the way so i wish i had time my my our pop-up camper just sits in the garage and collects dust unfortunately
oh gosh it makes it a little
my fiance and i one day would like to own a big motor home
mainly because he's a football he's a college football coach and we're gonna have to travel a lot
uh-huh
yeah
and it'd be nice if we had a big ole motor home and that way i could load up the rest of the wives and go to wherever the football game is and have someplace to sleep without spending big money for a hotel and and park it outside of the stadium and have a good ole time
yeah
that's true
plus it's nice to have your own stuff there yeah plus you get eating out is expensive is so expensive and
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that is nice
no kidding it really is
so it it it it's a it can be really handy to have a camper just
um
because my our family lives in Missouri and uh when we take trips home we take our pop-up with us in good weather and stay overnight at a state park or something so we don't have to rent a hotel room and that's
oh yeah
that's nice you know paying five or six dollars instead of forty
yeah no kidding
yeah well
what else
well
i think that's just pretty much it we've been on here awhile
okay
well it's been nice talking to you
nice talking to you too bye
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