hi i'm wondering what what camping means to you
hi
when i think of camping i think of of bugs and sleeping bags and and tents uh like along the Appalachian Trail
oh very good that's sort of the same thing that that i do i don't think of um trailers and campers and all this stuff
no
um do you do much camping
i have never been camping
oh you've never been camping oh gee
no do you do much
well um yes and no and the uh i haven't done much recently but um up until
gee maybe five or six years ago i did a lot of it and you know i've sorry
really uh
where you live now or uh did you camp up in Maryland or
no um i used to live abroad and so i i camped a lot in um the Middle East and i was able to camp right in ruins which was always very exciting
oh okay
oh i bet
and a bit exotic for those who love bugs but
um and then when i used to come back to the states in summer we'd often go up um to the lake country in New York with my brother's family and and do camping there
uh-huh
oh okay well my cousin uh husband and and his uncle especially uh grew up camping together and uh they they just love it
and they're planning a trip uh into Canada
this i guess in about a year and they're going to spend about a week and a half camping up there
and you're not going
no this is this is a a man's trip so
oh that's too bad
so they're really looking forward to that
oh gee
so
i guess it makes a difference i grew up camping being in Girl Scouts and things like that so
and see i was i was never exposed to it
uh-huh uh-huh
so it's i i feel like i'm a little bit too uh much of a city city mouse to try doing it
oh that's too bad i think the you know there's certainly a lot of aspects you would like but maybe not the you you know the Canada men's trip but some other you know a nice tent on the the shore of a lake and
what's the best part about it to to you the the quiet the getting away
right the and the the no telephone the gee whiz you go to bed when it gets dark and you get up when it gets light
man
yeah and um i guess just just the change from the rat race
now do you usually like do you usually go and there's lots of other people around or is it pretty much much isolated
no it's uh it's pretty isolated um and to me i like that i guess too although there are people i mean you know it's really hard to get away
yeah
and i guess when when we did sites in in the Middle East of course it was with a group in order to make it safe
yes
but i mean we'd go in different parts of the ruins and and things like that but we didn't even have tents there we just sort of put out the sleeping roll
oh good grief
that that does sound neat but i don't think i i've got a quite enough nerve to do that
i know my husband's gone uh for several days on the Appalachian Trail before and he said that you can a lot of times you can go for you know a good day before you'll see or meet anybody else on the trail
right
so it's not for the faint of heart i don't think
right actually i just joined um the Appalachian Trail Walking Club or whatever they call it what uh and i'm very eager to to start uh i love to walk
oh
uh-huh
and um i'm going to start with day trips though because i don't know the territory and all and i'm not sure um my son is not eager to go and you know i think that that that might be a little eerie at first going alone
i think it would be yeah well that sounds really neat
oh but you know i'm gonna try well gee whiz i hope you get into camping some day just slowly
well
i don't know uh we talk about sometimes going up to Chincoteague
oh yeah
and uh i maybe like you said start out slow and and kind of get used to it and find out that it maybe it's not as bad as i i fear it might be
right i think that you know i guess one time recently we went up to Maine and had planned to camp
and you know the only site left when we got there was in the middle of a field and i said gee whiz for twenty dollars we can go down the road and get a a motel which we did and so that you know if the setting was right and that it's it's great but if it's just
yeah
