Are you a camper?<\/p>\n
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I used to think the only way I wanted to camp was at a Holiday Inn or some other kind of hotel\/motel.<\/p>\n
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When you have a son that’s in scouts and you are a single parent, you learn how to. Children get so excited about camping and they want to share what they have learned with their parents – who are often not interested at all in the camping scene.<\/p>\n
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There are many humorous stories about my son and me camping. I’ll never forget the night we were cooking “Beaufort Stew” when camping at the beach. As I was placing the potatoes, shrimp and sausage in the pot of boiling water, my son said “Mom, something fell in the stew….there goes another one.” I laughed it off only to find him with a flashlight aiming the light on two big Palmetto bugs that had just fallen in from the tree limbs above.<\/p>\n
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Needless to say, we went out to eat that night.<\/p>\n
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So when I started dating a camper – and one that really would rather primitive camp, I thought I was in big trouble when he convinced me to go camping with him one weekend.<\/p>\n
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I am a “seasoned” camper now and really like going to state parks camping.<\/p>\n
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I just returned from a two night stay at Santee State Park which was just a hop, skip and a jump from where I live. We had a great time even though the weather was a bit hot. The nights, however, were perfect and we had a wonderful time.<\/p>\n
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When you go camping, you meet some of the nicest people. This time, we met a couple from Canada. They were coming back from Florida and headed back toward snow country. They were a cute couple and obviously enjoyed each other’s company.<\/p>\n
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I just bought a new tent that looks like a modern day teepee. I was quite comfortable. The cot helped as well.<\/p>\n
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The best thing about it was not having a computer there. It MADE me take a break from my otherwise hectic computer life.<\/p>\n
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I actually enjoyed the change…though I had a mountain of e-mails when I returned.<\/p>\n
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My wish for you today<\/strong> is that you give camping a try and be open to the experience. You might just find you enjoy it more than you thought AND you may just meet some new friends along the way.<\/p>\n \n ~ Joellen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you a camper? I used to think the only way I wanted to camp was at a Holiday Inn or some other kind of hotel\/motel. When you have a son that’s in scouts and you are a single parent, you learn how to. Children get so excited about camping and they want to share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,25,22,32,27,31,17,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-familyfriends-gatherings","category-friendship","category-holidays","category-living-life-to-the-fullest","category-releationships-general","category-retiremetn","category-safety","category-teenagers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reflectionsfromacountrygirl.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}