Camping With Longtime Friends Keeps The Bond
Me and my friends have always been close. Ever since the year we graduated, we meet up every summer for a camping trip. We don’t even have to arrange it, we just know that the second weekend in August, we head up north to our favorite spot. I grab my dreadnought acoustic guitar, jump in the van with a couple of days of clothes, and hit the road.
Some of us have different ideas of roughing it. For instance, one of us is the head chef in some super upscale Los Angeles restaurant. So every year, he hauls up a ton of food and cooks for us all weekend long. He loves it, refuses help for anything but washing dishes, and all we have to do is give him some cash for the grub. We eat like royalty! I’ll get out of my tent at daybreak and find him using hand mixers and stuff to mix up fresh pancakes!
Another one, Susan, always drives up in her small RV, which is impeccably done up with what she calls ‘home decor accents‘ so it’s like she’s still at home. She brings these huge batteries for powering the thing so she can have lighting and A/C and sit in comfort whenever she wants.
We eat and drink and reminisce over the good old days, then go for our typical fifteen mile hike up the hill. It used to be a twenty mile hike, but we’ve all gotten older and we’ve scaled it back a bit. It’s a great walk with some really majestic views.
It’s not an easy hike when you’re running on no sleep. Everyone has a case of insomnia with Dave around. His snoring keeps everyone up! I swear it was so bad the first year we were there we thought it was a bear trying to get our food!
Now our camping trips are more special since we lost of one of the gang. He was a great friend, but he sadly lost his life on a motorcycle in an accident on the highway. We miss him more than ever, but it feels like a good way to remember him as we sit around tell stories.
Our trips will likely come to an end in the next few years, what with us getting married, having kids, and all that. We’ll never stop being so close, and we’ll always make sure we still connect, even if it isn’t as often as we’d like.
Luna Rina, Chinese Shar Pei Dogs Snoring
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