okay
okay
they suggested that we uh discuss what we think of when we say camping
yeah what do you where do you like to camp how do you like to camp
oh i can camp just about most anyway camping or uh
motor home is nice uh travel trailer pop up
i used to uh live in the Ozarks and uh liked to go up there and just take a backpack and strike out into the woods
oh really
oh
you really rough it then
yeah
uh-huh do you do that very often
i haven't done it in quite awhile since i moved down here But i used to do it
uh-huh
uh-huh
quite a bit
you'd have a lot of hills in that down in that area
yeah yeah it was real hilly
yeah
that would be really great
take a twenty two and go out
pardon
take a twenty two and find a creek
uh-huh that sounds like it'd be fun did you go alone or with a group or
i used to go with my brother we just lived up there
uh-huh
uh-huh oh that's great long as it's not raining
yeah
it gets kind of i we used to have one of those little caves you can go back in
um-hum
get out of the rain
really
oh that would
but i don't know much about camping in Texas
uh-huh well i'm in Pennsylvania
you're in Pennsylvania
yes
i didn't know they did this
are you in Texas now
yeah
oh okay
yeah i'm down here at TI
most everybody i've been talking to is from Texas but uh we're up here in western northwestern part of Pennsylvania
i used to be in Ohio it's some pretty country up there
uh-huh well you kind of know what it's like then
so
yeah but we've uh we've done uh
many types of camping we've we've done tent camping and
we had access to a motor home which is really super great if you don't want to rough it too much
yeah you can get the
and uh
they have some nice camping grounds you know that have the water piped out
uh-huh
uh-huh
just set it up and get out of get out of the city for awhile
right just get you away from the everyday things that are going on we when the children were smaller we used to go to uh Delaware along the ocean ocean most every year
and that was fun we stayed mostly in state parks
and uh we really enjoyed that
tell you what i'm losing you
huh
i said i'm losing you you're getting fade you're fading out
oh maybe my dropping my phone is that better
yeah that's
oh but
so what you try take a vacation every year and go out and camp
yeah well we used to we don't as much anymore but uh we used to we kind of slowed down a little bit
but uh
i think the worst the worst thing is when it's raining if you get a rainy season and you happen to be camping
yeah
then it can be kind of bad
i know the rain bring out the snakes or used to bring them out in the Ozarks
uh-huh
that's kind of kind of rough when you got to fight snakes off when your sleeping
i don't think i would like that what kind
uh Copperheads mostly
oh those aren't too pleasant
no they're
yeah we have some of them around here
you probably have more there though i would imagine
yeah one year they were they were just everywhere i don't know what it was we had a real rainy spring and then it was all year there was
oh
uh-huh
just Copperheads everywhere
uh-huh but you still backpacked and camped out
yeah well i lived down in down in the bottom of a big hollow and we had to
pretty much hike out most of the time
uh-huh
if it rained we were stuck back in there had a four wheel drive so we could
uh-huh
uh-huh
you just get used to it
yeah i guess you know enough to look where you're walking or sitting or whatever you're doing yeah
yeah
yeah i would think i would think a cave would be could have problems like that too
yeah this cave that we used to go in was little it was small it was more
uh-huh
yeah it was just big enough for a couple of people to sack out
uh-huh is your brother younger than you or
yeah he's about a year and a half younger
uh-huh uh-huh
well that's great that'd be a lot of fun you have a lot good experiences from that yeah
yeah yeah it was
saw a few bears
did you really
things like that
what black ones
yeah
yeah
that would be exciting
yeah the first first couple of times it's pretty scary but uh
after that you realize they are just as afraid of you too so
yeah yeah they're usually more afraid of you than uh you are of them usually
but
they're on the increase in this area
oh really
um-hum
i don't know if they don't have them up there do they
the black bear oh yeah yeah the population's been really really up they've uh
yeah oh do they
they've had longer hunting seasons than that up here even to get rid of more of them because they were uh increasing so much
yeah they down here they they stopped for awhile or they really made it hard to hunt them i don't know what it's like now i haven't been back up there in awhile
uh-huh
yeah
but uh we we really like camping i i must say that uh
we have we really have a lot of fun a lot of memories in that from camping and uh
well it's good to get out and smell some fresh air too
yeah yeah
so
it's just so it's a lot of work too it's uh getting you know getting ready and taking care of everything but it's um
yeah
it's really refreshing
so
well i think we're about to run out of our time
i think so
well it was really good hearing from you and i hope you get back into camping again and do a little more of it
yeah
yeah i'm sure i will
okay thanks a lot and you have a good day okay bye-bye
you too bye
