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I was pretty restless last night. At some point I was a aware that the phone had been knocked off. It was in the middle of bed near the dogs. Half asleep, I never thought about anything else being knocked off. I will start securing them better from now on.

Back in 1992, I drove cross country one summer. Sitting at Yosemite one day eating a piece of a pizza outside sitting on a large rock. I’m reading something or looking at some maps and I turn to reach for the pizza. It’s gone and I look like about 10 feet away and there is a squirrel dragging...

It turns out if you don’t close the drain plug on a cooler it will leak a lot of water. Yep we drained the water from the cooler and threw in a new bag of ice in our cooler we had drinks in. Put it back in the tow vehicle and when we went to pack up this morning we discovered there was water in...

Yeah, the teacher & school administrator in me wants to see everyone & for everyone to know where the stand. Rule breakers will search out places where they can do what they want.

At home we use like that too. Ours sits under a carport that use more as back porch. We have used the galley several times for larger gatherings or just being outdoors.

This happened at a campground near us recently. A bear swam up at someone’s campsite in Twin Lakes Campground on Lake Hartwell. The campground is surrounded by Clemson University’s Experimental Forest and some other land used for agricultural research. Bears used to rarely be this far from the...

We had a campground host in Bryce Canyon who was a former Camp Inn owner. He was full timing & had an Airstream then. He was a good campground host. In Yellowstone at one of the big campgrounds in 2016, I had to get the campground host to get the people across the road to quit fighting over a...

Not bad here today. Only in the low 80s.

The campground hosts are in big campers & with AC running, probably didn’t hear it. The one on my loop is farther away too. I think the campground hosts mainly keep the bathrooms clean & check the sites after you’ve left. If they heard a problem or someone reported something they’d take care of...

We were up already getting breakfast ready on a quiet morning when the stillness of the morning was broken at 6:22 am by a circular saw at the campsite across the ravine. If you read yesterday about the squirrel people, you might have guessed it was the same people and you are correct. Everyone...

And that campground & picnic area near it are both great. 5K ft elevation. & it is the oldes campground in the GSMNP. Tables in picnic area are giant slabs of granite. Long way from most of the park which keeps the crowds away.

He’s retired now, but the greatest ranger was Ranger Jack at Balsam Mountain Campground in the Great Smoky Mountains NP. People loved or hated him, most loved him. He made keep clean campsites. The place is 10 miles from town & he was keeping the bears out which he did. He would walk the...

Currently camping and the dog kept wanting to go down the ravine behind our site. On the other side is another loop in the state park we are camping in. I could hear something running around in the leaves on the ground & finally saw it was 2 squirrels fighting over something. Looked like some...

In SC, we’ve probably had the AC on for at least short stints in all 12 months at some point. Sometimes, you use it to control the humidity because to turn the heat on would roast you out of the house. 94 this week and I’m camping at the moment, so it is definitely on in the camper.

My wife found it a few minutes ago where Camp Inn had posted it. She asked, “ Do you know who Sweeney is on the CI Forum?” Me, “Yep.” Nice job. Now I have a voice to hear when I read your posts here. You folks will have to meet me in person to hear me, I avoid being recorded at all costs.

We are on our third Corgi. They herd cats, the first was bad to do this, children, soccer balls, pretty much everything. I have to play soccer every night with Archie. He’s a little over a year old. We live near a field where hot air balloons launch. They have a special bark for a hot air...

Thunderstorms and more thunderstorms.

Saw that in Yellowstone with people getting out of their cars with lots of Buffalo crossing the road in the Lamar Valley. Couldn’t believe how stupid people were. Seen it in the Great Smokey Mountains with the elk there as well.

Close to 90 today in SC & it was hot at Track practice. Another week of that & about 3 weeks of school & then we can camp some. At least it will only be in the 70s through the weekend.