Re: Re: can you say tent?

["Kim Lemons" <klemons@wah.nu>]

See now I knew I wasn't the only "nut case" out there willing to sleep in a
tent...<g>
  --Kim


-----Original Message-----
From: Trishmare@aol.com <Trishmare@aol.com>
To: rides2far@juno.com <rides2far@juno.com>
Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Date: Sunday, January 09, 2000 10:44 AM
Subject: RC: Re: can you say tent?


>In a message dated 1/8/2000 12:56:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>rides2far@juno.com writes:
>
><<
> So that's why I'm the last to leave the fire ever time!  Say what you
> will for your campers, but I love it when everybody hangs around the fire
> and visits after a ride. (when my horse is too mellow to get in trouble
> and I can finally relax and leave him at the trailer unattended).  If you
> rush back to your cocoon for a hot supper, you're missing the best part
> of the sport.  Now that I think back on the year, the best camp fires and
> visiting were at the rides with the least prestige.  Go to one where you
> could walk on aluminum rooftops from one end of the field to the other
> and you can hardly get anybody to visit.
>
> Angie >>
>
>     There can sometimes be advantages to this phenomenon too, though
Angie.
>At the Bear River Ride in northern Michigan last year, as soon as genuine
>nightfall descended, bringing with it the chill, damp air a north Michigan
>pine forest exudes at that time of year, everyone in camp disappeared into
>the safety of their heated campers . . . or their friend's heated camper.
>Knowing that the interiror my lowly tent would be little warmer than the
>outside air, and without the cheerful light and crackle of the camp
campfire
>besides, I held my ground by the fire.  True . . . right at first I was a
tad
>lonely . . . but then the silence and majesty of the star-spangled velvet
>vault above and the brooding dark trees around joined me by the fire . . .
a
>wayward band of coyotes began to seranade, somewhere in the distance (I
>rather doubt the camper people could've heard them), the comforting
>background whisper of horses munching or occasional moving about on their
>picket lines joined the whispered night music, and I ended up very, very
>content.  It was a spiritual and very soul-filling experience.  I felt
sorry
>for the deprived souls in the campers!
>     Of course, I was nearing the bottom of that bottle of fine chardonney
I
>mentioned in an earlier post, and perhaps it wasn't just the transcendence
of
>the night I was feeling . . .<g>
>
>Trish & pretty David,(ps, does anyone realize how difficult it is to sleep
>shivering in a tent under layers of blankets, whilst the heater of the
camper
>next to the tent keeps kicking on and off all night . . .!<g>)
>Grand Blanc, Michigan
>
>
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