From: bdowning@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Downing)
Subject: Re: Trip Report: Guns n Chainsaws
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix & Think_Tank BBS
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:03:11 GMT

In article <1992Nov10.132465.9187@burp.com> ddimwid@burp.com (Delburt Dimwiddy) writes:
>
>   We'd just gotten the new truck and got a little crazy and decided
>to go camping.  We invited our next door neighbors, Skeeter and Winnie,
>to come with us since we had so much room.  We dumped some of the kids
>off at my Moms and some off at Mildreds Moms and the older ones we got
>to stay at friends houses.  I sure am proud of having so many kids but
>they are a pain sometime.
>   Anyways, we loaded up the truck with the dogs and Skeeter and Winnie
>and left town early Saturday morning about 10 and soon we were on our
>way to the mountains to a campground near the Indian Peaks.  The truck
>ran great, we were able to do 75 and 80 miles an hour up the hills and
>I was glad it had that big 8 cylinder engine.
>   We were disappointed though when we got there because they had this
>stupid rule that you had to have a permit to camp there.  The
>campground was full anyways.  We were gona head back to town but a
>fellow there told us to head north past rocky montain national park and
>we could camp there without a permit if we wanted.  I was getting kind
>of set on watching wrestling after all but everyone else said what the
>heck so we drove on.
>   We finally came to places that looked pretty good way out in the
>boonies but no one was around so we weren't sure we could camp there.
>So we kept going until we saw a place next to where someone else was
>camped.  We figured it must be okay even though there wasn't any tables
>or toilets around but we guessed that it would do.  The people there
>must have been sleeping in their tent or something because they wernt
>around.
>   First thing we did was get a big fire going.  There was lots of wood
>around but Skeeter had brought his chainsaw and wanted to use it so we
>soon had a big pile of fresh firewood.   Making the fire wasn't easy.
>It took a little gas to get it started but soon we had a huge blaze.
>Even then we still had to put more gas on it from time to time.  Those
>aspen we cut down didn't burn worth a damn at all.
>   It was getting towards dinner time so the gals started fixing dinner
>while Skeeter and I fixed up the camp some more.  We cut down some more
>of the trees around there so we could sit on the logs and make the
>place just like home.
>   We never saw the people next door.  They just up and drove off kind
>of fast like they was in a hurry or something.  They even left this
>little raincoat behind.  It had a hood and lots of pockets and was
>called a north face gortes or something like that.  I didn't need it so
>I gave it to Skeeter since he wanted something to wear when he works on
>his car.
>   Dinner was great.  Steak and hamburgers and hot dogs with potato
>chips and beer.  Can't beat a meal like that with a stick.  It was even
>better because it was cooked outdoors.  While the girls cleaned up we
>sat around drinking beer and listening to Guns n Roses on the tape
>deck.  Skeeter and I agreed that this was about as good as it gets.
>   It got dark and we stood around the campfire for a while talking
>about all the great TV shows we were missing.  That's when Skeeter,
>that scoundrel, pulls out a little portable TV.  We plugged it right
>into the lighter hole on the dash and then we had it all.  Sitting
>there in the wilderness next to the fire while being able to watch TV
>is really special.  We finally got sleepy so we all crawled in the
>truck even though we had a tent because we were worried about bears.
>   The next morning after breakfast while the girls were washing the
>dishes Skeeter and I played with our guns.  I had that Dirty Harry
>Special that I had never shot before.  Its a great gun, loud with a
>strong kick.  We soon had shot up all our beer bottles and cans from
>the night before.  We shot at a lot of birds and squirrels but never
>hit anything except I did accidently shoot the truck.  But it wont be
>nothing to fix.
>   We decided to see what kind of four wheeling my new truck could do.
>It was real impressive.  We could go just about anywhere we wanted.  It
>didn't matter if there was a road there or not, this baby would do it.
>It would run over little trees like they weren't even there.  By having
>Skeeter lead the way with his chainsaw we were able to make it all the
>way to the top of the little hill next to camp.  We drove it all over
>the place for hours and we didn't have to use the road hardly none at
>all!
>   We left for home after that since it was past noon and I didn't want
>to miss the football game.  We had a great time though and Skeeter and
>I want to do it again next year.  We're gonna buy some trail bikes when
>we get some money so we can get way back into the woods next time.
>

Gollllllllllleeeeeeeee!!! Kin I cum wid ya an bring ma ATV?!?


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