Betrayed!

[elleflies]

I was lured here under false pretenses!

Here being Colorado, and when my parents told me what we'd be doing it involved camping - which I am more then okay with. Our initial conversations involved me having the tent with the sleeping bag. When I arrived, sometime between departing and arriving, the plans changed and I ended up in my grandparents trailer. I was not too pleased.

There's a huge difference between a trailer and a tent. In my mind, there is nothing like waking up in the morning, all warm and snug in a sleeping bag, poking out your head and feeling a cold blast of air, sunlight filtering through the tent, condensation on its sides, the sounds of the early morning creeping in. It's amazing and I love it but I hardly ever get to experience it anymore. It seems these days that camping seems to be more and more tied with trailers and campers. That's not the way it should be! *sob*

I was tempted to be all defiant and to just lay a sleeping bag out under the stars and shun the trailer completely, but my jet lag got the best of me and I succumbed to the sweet temptation of a bed. I'm so weak.

Living in New York this past year and then coming home to Colorado, which is the state I am originally from, was like a breath of fresh air. I didn't realize just how much I missed the West (and the South for that matter) I can see here - there are mountains in the distance, clouds in the sky and stars at night. Manhattan is stifling by comparison. I'm glad I experienced living on the East Coast though - it made me appreciate where I'm from and made me look forward to going back someday. I don't know when, but someday. I'm having too much fun traveling around the world right now and I don't want to give that up. But I think ultimately, I'll be much happier in the West or the South.

Comments

[burstoflight.livejournal.com]

Send me a postcard from Colorado! :) ;) Pretty please? ;)

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

I'll see what I can do, but I leave tomorrow so no promises. But I will try.

[veracity]

Here my idea of camping is staying at 1 or 2 star hotel. I'm sorry, but as a high maintainence type, I hate doing anything that involves sleeping bags, bugs, critters that eat my food or try to get it before I can, eating over a campfire, or any communing with nature that extends more than two hours outside, I'll pass.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

That seems to be the general consensus *g*

There is a reason I've not made it to Yellowstone yet - and that is it.

[veracity]

*laugh* Well, you know. I call roughing it by staying at a Days Inn. What can I say? Really roughing it is a Red Roof Inn.

I used to camp, with the Girl Scouts and no. I don't think so. Not again. If it doesn't have AC, cable...room service, screw it. *laugh*

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

My version of comfort camping is a tent, a sleeping bag and a campfire.

Everything else is for wimps *g*

This is why people don't go on camping vacations with me. Once they find out what my version of camping is it's next to impossible to get them to go. Wimps :)

[veracity]

Darlin', that's cause they got sense. Sleeping bags? Bugs? Campfire? Hah! No thanks. I can go to the park and commune with nature, then come back and enjoy the AC or heat.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Then I shall not tell you about the time I went backpacking in Colorado for a week. That was really communing with nature *g*

My nickname is The Bug Lady if that explains anything about me. :)

And I do enjoy modern conveniences, I just appreciate them more when I haven't had them for awhile.

[veracity]

*snort* I refuse to go without my perks, absolutely. Spoiled and a city girl, all the way through.

Bugs are nasty, by the way. Absolutely. Unless it's a Lady Bug. Screw the rest.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

I was raised camping and hiking and doing all that fun stuff.

That's another common opinion *g* I'll refrain from pulling out the tarantula and giant millipeed pictures in that case...

[veracity]

Hiking?? That's exercise. *shudders*

Bugs just make me gross out, mostly because my aunt and cousins used to live in a house where cockroachs and piss ants were everywhere. So, that might have something to do with it.

[elrina753.livejournal.com]

Lol. When you hike in the right places you forget its exercise.

And I like bugs, but there is a certain level of grossness to them and what you just described is pretty gross. I'm gonna go with Ewww on that one. (my bugs were happily contained in tanks which allowed me to always know where they were)

[veracity]

*snort* I never forget if I'm exercising.

Bugs are very...*shudders* I never have liked them, but going to that house everyday before school made me gag. You can keep the bugs; I'll keep the gerbils and rodents.