i don't know um do you do a lot of camping
well my husband and i haven't done a whole lot of camping we but we bought a van last year and we were hoping to to do some camping in the van
yeah
um we did go camping in Arkansas not Arkansas Oklahoma uh last year in we camped in a tent
and uh there were two other couples with us and there was uh state park
oh so yeah um up here some of the state parks are really nice and some of them aren't some of them are pretty rough
and it was really nice
really
um yeah they they just have like outhouses they don't have like a shower room or anything yeah but some of them are really nice they have showers and full bathrooms
um
um but i don't know i i've been camping a couple times but i'm not a real avid camper uh a lot of people i know are but um i don't i don't know that
i i don't like really camping in the rough i like the the
the little niceties like having electricity available and running water and showers and things like that
yeah in fact we went we went once to a lean-to and it um i mean there wasn't any electricity on the camp site but it was all right but we only spent two nights there i wouldn't want to spend more than two nights
i wouldn't want to go for like a week but um
yeah that would that would be much
two nights is good
um especially there was a little store close by
so it was pretty nice
yeah the campsite that we went to was an area that it's right on a big lake and there's a lot of boating out there and we we went up there uh to hopefully
be able to get on the water a little bit but it was still uh it was still too cold
oh really oh
yeah it it was pretty early in the year
um yeah up here you got to wait till August August till the water warms up well it's not that bad but it's still pretty chilly
yeah
um i don't know i was i have a tent and i slept out in it in the backyard and stuff but the thing thing about camping that bothers me is you've got to pack everything
and another thing is the thing seems to get it's dirty you know so you can't keep the dirt out of the tent and
yeah
i don't know we have a seven year old it's pretty funny like stay out
yeah we we have a we have a dog and that's just about as bad as a kid
yeah boy he he doesn't go in and out of the tent a hundred times
um-hum
and use it as a play uh they they like to play in them
yeah i don't know how you can really keep uh the inside of a tent clean other other than you know taking your shoes off right before you walk in or something
yeah i don't know
and and sweeping it out everyday it's really hard to to keep the sand and dirt out of it
yeah well what what we were doing we were just going to say we're just going to sleep in the tent and hang out at night
so you know no going in and out and or what he wants to do we had brought his friend along was play in the tent it was like no this is not working you can't do that you get tent all dirty
plus you get it all wet because we were at a beach site too
did
um-hum um did you have another a big tent like uh um
for like a looks like a sitting area type you know like a two room type tent
no no but you know i was just thinking of getting one those for the yard because they they are really nice and um up here we have uh we have quite a few mosquitoes at nighttime
yeah yeah we don't really have a problem with that um in these areas um
and even even when in Oklahoma when we camped i really didn't notice a problem with bugs and i noticed that i know that i said that's i've i've lived back east before um and
yeah they're terrible they're really terrible uh but there is this one campsite
that it that some of them are known that there is one that's out in this big lake and it's it's it's mosquitoes are terrible and then this uh there's this other one that's more up in the mountains but it surrounds a man-made reservoir
and there's no bugs that's the whole thing that everyone told me oh i'm i was going to go to Little Little River State Park
they go oh that place is great there's no bugs but oh okay because uh we were having a big a really big problem up here in certain areas we were really affected that bad
hum
but really bad it um almost destroyed the the tourism in one town because of the mosquitoes they're so bad yeah that was it's a really nice area i've been there before and it's
really
i i couldn't imagine get living just sixty miles north of them but they were plagued they were plagued with them with mosquitoes
and you can go out outside in the daytime all right but the minute the sun went down that's when it seems like the minute the sun sets the mosquitoes come out
hum
i mean just the very second it's really strange they uh they must uh
work on that you know the
the it gets cooler when the sun sets and then they all come out
well have you ever have you ever taken any of those um
what do they call this citronella lights have you ever used those
oh oh yeah yeah i never really noticed how effective they were
but um because that wasn't really i i bought them and i didn't really get to use them like oh there's mosquitoes let's turn them we just sort of lit them
um-hum
and um we weren't bothered that much by mosquitoes so we didn't really contribute it to that but
um i think in an area that's really thick with mosquitoes i can't see all this little uh smoke buckets i call them how they work but they they're suppose to work really well
yeah
oh i'm in my paperwork here that's what i do when i wait for a phone call i get in my paperwork
hum
oh
to find my most important parts
but i don't know i don't know if i'm going to go
go i wish was an avid camper and i could really talk about like gardening or something i can talk about that a lot but um
um-hum
i do want to go again we just moved to a new house into a house so i don't see camping maybe in the backyard but i don't see going on a camping trip probably till next summer
yeah i'd i'd like to go camping cross country
um
i just got married less than two years ago so we don't have any any children yet um
so it's easy for you to go
and yeah so it's easy to pick up and go and so we have a van and we can just throw a couple of sleeping bags in the back of it
um
oh God
so it's it's not really i guess camping the way people most people picture camping in the tent but
i don't know but that sounds like my kind my kind of
camping it really does
yeah
okay um well um
that that is the best way to do it is to have a a nice vehicle where you can have everything in it plus your tent
yeah or or get my brother has a real nice pop-up
yep
and he just he just tows it behind his truck
um
and he he's got three kids so his kids'll sleep in the truck in the in the back of the bed
um and they sleep in the pop-up
well those they're kind of nice but they're also um flimsy when you really look at them but then when you get inside they're really nice you know
yeah
everything's really nice but then when you look underneath it it's just got these little wheels and this just this uh little axle it's like oh my and then a big windstorm it would pick you up
yeah he did have a problem uh
when he went camping last year in uh Beavers Bend Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma Oklahoma
um a storm a storm came in and it started raining really heavy and they were all everybody was trying to flee the campsite and everybody was getting stuck in the mud
oh jeez yeah what do you what do you do when you get a i mean like a really violent storm like a tornado just stay in your truck
and the
i i mean i wouldn't stay in the um
well theirs was so bad and they were so close to the water that the water was coming up and they had to get out of there
oh
so did were they successful
yeah they yeah they were
but it took them a little while
but yeah they they decided that that was enough camping for the weekend
yeah so did they get stuck
no they ended up getting out they ended up helping several other people though that were that were stuck
yeah huh wow so they evacuated it
yeah yeah they the whole the whole campsite was evacuated i mean some i think some people that had fairly sturdy um
wow
vehicles or whatever if they had like a Winnebago or something and they were farther in away from the water i think they stayed
yeah
but everybody that was real close to the water ended up it was either that or their truck was going to go floating downstream
i know i i always i like to like to get right on the water yeah where the campsite it's so it well like i don't know we have lean-to's up here i really like them like they say they're kind of
yeah
it's kind of more dirty than anything you know just just
they have them right at the campsites
yeah they're they're lean-to's they're um yeah they're pretty nice they're they're uh
wow
it's like a little house except the whole face is open and the one time that we went we got one it was overlooking the water but it was a big embankment i wanted to get one right on the water
that was then when we had uh an electrical storm too and it was really it was neat sitting there watching it i mean it was raining when we called in home everybody said oh we were worried about you in that storm
