where in California you live
uh it's near National it's near uh San Diego it's called National City
okay i was down that way once but i don't think i remember that is it on the coast
yeah it's just a little rinky-dink town but
most people don't go there it's really not a good neighborhood
i went all the way down to Imperial Beach once that's far as i went
yeah it's nicer down there
uh-huh
unfortunately i need to be near near the naval base so
my choice of living quarters is limited so um are you ready to begin
yes i guess we're gonna talk about camping is that right
right
okay i'll push the button hang on
okay
all right there we go
so do you go camping at all
well yeah my wife and i like to camp um usually just on short trips like a weekend or long weekend
and we generally go to uh State or National parks
yeah my husband and i like going for the long weekends we usually like going up to one of the camping grounds that have a lake near it
because we like to fish and camp
uh-huh yeah well we don't really care for fishing anything that that resembles work uh so we just uh what we do is hike and take pictures that's about all
yeah i i like hiking unfortunately around here there's not too many spots to do stuff like that
well Texas has a pretty nice system of state parks we've got um state parks just all over the place on different kinds of terrain and most of them
yeah i'm from Arizona and they've got a lot of it there too
they've also got desert desert uh i don't know what you call it but
uh
sites in the desert they have a special name for it
well Texas has every thing from desert to uh swamp so i don't think they have too many
i don't think i'd like the swamp but mountains and deserts
they don't have too many swamps in Arizona i don't think i don't think i've uh seen too many swamps in Arizona
huh
no it's pretty much dry
now we may do some camping camping in Arizona though i've got uh my uh brother and sister and father all live in Sedonia now Sedonia yeah
oh really do you know where Mayer's at
what is it
Mayer outside Prescott
Mayer
oh yeah uh
yeah
i i think i remember going through there is that between Prescott and Jerome or over the other way
over the other way it's actually if you blinked you'd miss it
uh-huh well it be
yeah i think i do remember a little wide place in the road called Mayer well anyway they uh everybody there says that you know there are places you can camp uh right around Sedonia there are
oh there's a lot of beautiful camping places around Sedonia and they're getting they're getting more of them
yeah
uh-huh
they're just doing it slowly but surely
but um i like the rustic kind of camping
yeah well we we do we like actually we like to get off uh where there aren't too many people around
yeah
we did find a nice uh prospect uh down on the gulf
um there's a uh national wildlife wildlife refuge called Urandus i don't know if you've heard of it that's where the whooping cranes go in the winter or at least where a lot of them go
uh-huh
and uh there's and island right off that called Matagorda and uh you can take a ferry boat out there and it's uh completely uh pretty much anyway complete wilderness island
oh that'd be neat
sort of like a big sand bar you know you wanna make sure there aren't any big storms coming
really
but uh then you can uh take a uh take a little bus across the island to the to the gulf side rather than the bay side and uh
right
it's really nice out there lots of sea birds
that sounds like it'd be nice
yeah unfortunately my husband and i haven't been able to go camping because i just had two kids two two boys and
all at once or all at once
huh
well no no i spaced them about a year a part
uh-huh
but until they get a little bit older we really don't want to take them out camping with us
that could be difficult i've seen a few people had small babies camping but uh didn't look like any of them were really enjoying the experience very much
yeah when i go camping i like to get out and hike and do things and when you have little kids you really can't do that very much
yeah well i sort of like to feel less tied down rather than more tied down when i go camping and
right that's the object of it you know get out and feel free and do things you don't normally get to do
uh-huh
but um yeah we haven't got to go lately but when we go we we're from Arizona so when we go back on vacation next year we'll get to go
which should be nice
well i really like Arizona i like uh uh a couple times this last year i've made it up to Jerome just to enjoy the altitude and everything and it's really
neat up there somehow
it is actually
i met the town historian
