Camping!
What an incredible weekend.
So, Wednesday and Thursday I was bed ridden with a fever, and I was very weak on Friday. We were supposed to meet at our Starbucks around 4. Waited around about a half an hour to get all set up. There were three vehicles, 8 people.
First stop was to get gas before heading for the mountains and Selina's car wouldn't start. They (mostly my manly Jeremiah) fiddled with it for a good half an hours. I don't know exactly what happened but it got up and running.
So we got going down 168, around lots of curves, then we hit the main mountain elevation. Jeremiah's clutch got stuck and it overheated. We had to stop for awhile to let that cool down. Eventually, we got going again.
We went up to Shaver lake for a stop. Town of 1,500 in the middle of nowhere. Really, there's like nothing around but trees and mountain paths for hours.
Up we went, past the Shaver Lake Dam, very cool.
Then the nightmare of roads came before us as the sun was beginning to set. It's not a Park, it's a National forest, so it's not all that easy for tourism. A one lane, curvy, bumpy, hilly road of DEATH!! I was actually VERY scared, you couldn't see around corners, there were hills and drops, hairpin turns... and Jeremiah drove pretty fast (in my opinion). And then there were cars headed in the opposite direction every now and again. Like I said, one lane road with limit sight and room. Scary!
We were a good 45 minutes in after a hillside, high up hairpin turn when we are going slightly downhill and there's a truck in front of us. They had a turn out, we didn't, but they didn't stop. Jeremiah had to hit his breaks. They just sat there, staring, for a moment when THUMP! Angelica hit us with her SUV.
She didn't know now to drive on her brakes and D4 the whole way. The breaks overheated and she couldn't stop. Luckily, no one was hurt, but her tire was ripped off by a rock and her front driver side smacked our back passanger side light. Acutally, we weren't even sure if Jeremiah's truck was hit until we saw the light was broken (you can hardly tell though). Took me a moment to even remember getting hit. It wasn't bad.
But we did lose an hour or so while they (mostly my manly Jeremiah) changed her tired. I was on car duty, to slow cars around that hairpin curve so they wouldn't smack into our caravan, and to call out cars we saw coming from the other way, too.
Surprisingly, everyone was in high spirits. I told some it was just the adventure, the journey, and I had so much fun freaking Dalia out when the sun was setting by just saying "Blairwitch."
Things turned out great, though, despite the crash, and we got going again. This time, I think it was Josh Muster who took the wheel of Angelica's car.
45 minutes later the sun had left us and we found a spot to camp. There were a few campers around and our area kinda sucked. I was so impressed with Jeremiah's leadership skills.
No fire, too late to find firewood, and tired, we all went to bed with high spirits.
Er, sort of... heh. Selina, Angelica and Dalia all shared a tent. You know, girl talk happened, and it went on for quite awhile. Jeremiah and my tent was about thirty yards away so we didn't hear much, but you know how girl talk is.
Sadly, I was still too sick to "do" anything with Jeremiah. I was happy though I didn't show just how fevered I still was and helped out as best I could.
Anyway, there was a pause when Dalia asks, "Can you hear us?"
"Yes." I think it was John Muster, he was staying up and watching the stars. Very clear out.
Well, the girl talk kkept going and every now and again "Can you hear us?"
"Yes."
And it was apparently some very embarressing girl talk.
At one point, someone asked the girls to be quiet, that they wanted to sleep. It was quiet for about five minutes then Dalia goes "Are you mad?"
OMG that was so funny, the whole camp began to laugh.
Lots of laughs on that trip. Lots of good on-liners, too, like Dalia wanting to sleep in and yelled at us as we woke up "This isn't fucking IHOP!" We got a lot of follow up jokes with that one.
We ended up moving to a different camp site right next to the one we had. It was right next to the Lake Edison Overflow river thing... the only issue with this near perfect area was that there was nowhere for the girls to go tinkle in the daylight.
All but Dalia, Selina and I went hiking. I really had been wanting to go but knew I wouldn't be able to keep up. If I'm competative in anything, it's hiking. I love it! Sadly, I napped instead but it was pleasant.
Heh, they were only supposed to be gone 30 minutes but were gone for like 1 1/2 hours. We were all napping so we kinda didn't realize. ^.^ Angelica got a nice scrape from a log, bruised bright the next day.
It sounded like fun, I want to go next time.
Dinner was provided by our chef Jeremiah with tri-tip on the camp fire. It was really good, even though I couldn't really taste with the sinus cold thing/whatever I had. I could still tell it was devine.
Talk around the campfire and smores until 1:30.
The next morning we got up to Jeremiah's yummy breakfast of eggs, bacon, hash browns and sausage, then packed up to leave. Selina and Dalia had to leave us after we stopped at a place to sit in hotsprings. Some of us jumped into the snow-melted river. I did that, actually, it was soooo fun, one of the few brave ones, but I regretted it as soon as I got out and up in the sun. Sickness + ice cold water is not fun.
We stopped later on to make lunch (ramen with left over tri-tip and corn) then headed home.
The spirits were high, the temperature was nice... ah, that was a good trip..
So, Wednesday and Thursday I was bed ridden with a fever, and I was very weak on Friday. We were supposed to meet at our Starbucks around 4. Waited around about a half an hour to get all set up. There were three vehicles, 8 people.
First stop was to get gas before heading for the mountains and Selina's car wouldn't start. They (mostly my manly Jeremiah) fiddled with it for a good half an hours. I don't know exactly what happened but it got up and running.
So we got going down 168, around lots of curves, then we hit the main mountain elevation. Jeremiah's clutch got stuck and it overheated. We had to stop for awhile to let that cool down. Eventually, we got going again.
We went up to Shaver lake for a stop. Town of 1,500 in the middle of nowhere. Really, there's like nothing around but trees and mountain paths for hours.
Up we went, past the Shaver Lake Dam, very cool.
Then the nightmare of roads came before us as the sun was beginning to set. It's not a Park, it's a National forest, so it's not all that easy for tourism. A one lane, curvy, bumpy, hilly road of DEATH!! I was actually VERY scared, you couldn't see around corners, there were hills and drops, hairpin turns... and Jeremiah drove pretty fast (in my opinion). And then there were cars headed in the opposite direction every now and again. Like I said, one lane road with limit sight and room. Scary!
We were a good 45 minutes in after a hillside, high up hairpin turn when we are going slightly downhill and there's a truck in front of us. They had a turn out, we didn't, but they didn't stop. Jeremiah had to hit his breaks. They just sat there, staring, for a moment when THUMP! Angelica hit us with her SUV.
She didn't know now to drive on her brakes and D4 the whole way. The breaks overheated and she couldn't stop. Luckily, no one was hurt, but her tire was ripped off by a rock and her front driver side smacked our back passanger side light. Acutally, we weren't even sure if Jeremiah's truck was hit until we saw the light was broken (you can hardly tell though). Took me a moment to even remember getting hit. It wasn't bad.
But we did lose an hour or so while they (mostly my manly Jeremiah) changed her tired. I was on car duty, to slow cars around that hairpin curve so they wouldn't smack into our caravan, and to call out cars we saw coming from the other way, too.
Surprisingly, everyone was in high spirits. I told some it was just the adventure, the journey, and I had so much fun freaking Dalia out when the sun was setting by just saying "Blairwitch."
Things turned out great, though, despite the crash, and we got going again. This time, I think it was Josh Muster who took the wheel of Angelica's car.
45 minutes later the sun had left us and we found a spot to camp. There were a few campers around and our area kinda sucked. I was so impressed with Jeremiah's leadership skills.
No fire, too late to find firewood, and tired, we all went to bed with high spirits.
Er, sort of... heh. Selina, Angelica and Dalia all shared a tent. You know, girl talk happened, and it went on for quite awhile. Jeremiah and my tent was about thirty yards away so we didn't hear much, but you know how girl talk is.
Sadly, I was still too sick to "do" anything with Jeremiah. I was happy though I didn't show just how fevered I still was and helped out as best I could.
Anyway, there was a pause when Dalia asks, "Can you hear us?"
"Yes." I think it was John Muster, he was staying up and watching the stars. Very clear out.
Well, the girl talk kkept going and every now and again "Can you hear us?"
"Yes."
And it was apparently some very embarressing girl talk.
At one point, someone asked the girls to be quiet, that they wanted to sleep. It was quiet for about five minutes then Dalia goes "Are you mad?"
OMG that was so funny, the whole camp began to laugh.
Lots of laughs on that trip. Lots of good on-liners, too, like Dalia wanting to sleep in and yelled at us as we woke up "This isn't fucking IHOP!" We got a lot of follow up jokes with that one.
We ended up moving to a different camp site right next to the one we had. It was right next to the Lake Edison Overflow river thing... the only issue with this near perfect area was that there was nowhere for the girls to go tinkle in the daylight.
All but Dalia, Selina and I went hiking. I really had been wanting to go but knew I wouldn't be able to keep up. If I'm competative in anything, it's hiking. I love it! Sadly, I napped instead but it was pleasant.
Heh, they were only supposed to be gone 30 minutes but were gone for like 1 1/2 hours. We were all napping so we kinda didn't realize. ^.^ Angelica got a nice scrape from a log, bruised bright the next day.
It sounded like fun, I want to go next time.
Dinner was provided by our chef Jeremiah with tri-tip on the camp fire. It was really good, even though I couldn't really taste with the sinus cold thing/whatever I had. I could still tell it was devine.
Talk around the campfire and smores until 1:30.
The next morning we got up to Jeremiah's yummy breakfast of eggs, bacon, hash browns and sausage, then packed up to leave. Selina and Dalia had to leave us after we stopped at a place to sit in hotsprings. Some of us jumped into the snow-melted river. I did that, actually, it was soooo fun, one of the few brave ones, but I regretted it as soon as I got out and up in the sun. Sickness + ice cold water is not fun.
We stopped later on to make lunch (ramen with left over tri-tip and corn) then headed home.
The spirits were high, the temperature was nice... ah, that was a good trip..