[speaker001:] um tell me something about your camping experiences Carolyn
[speaker002:] well um I have gone to girls camp a few times as a you know a chaperon or a leader whatever and uh I enjoy camping I
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] we have we have a tent and we've gone even with our family a few times out camping and have a camp stove um I guess our our my biggest memory is when we froze to death we just didn't take enough blankets and
[speaker001:] where where do you go camping at around here
[speaker002:] whatever uh we went camping at uh Lake Bonham which is is pretty close here um we went fairly early uh in the season for this area which is probably April
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] is when we went and and it got really cold at night and of course we were close enough that we could go back and get some more blankets and things in the morning but
[speaker001:] sure uh what uh what activities do you do when you're camping
[speaker002:] oh we take little nature hikes and and uh we take along games that we can play with the with the kids and it's that kind of stuff usually try to have a
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh occasionally a camp fire at night you know and roast the marshmallows and what all
[speaker001:] uh-huh well that sounds like fun I uh I grew up in South Dakota up in the Black Hills
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] and so we used to go camping my dad would take uh there's there was four of us kids we'd he'd take us you know we'd all go camping my dad and my mom and and the kids and and it was always fun uh because what I always remember is my dad would let us pick our camp spot and uh he'd always tell us you know okay look for you know a nice flat little area where we can pitch our tents and it always had to be somewhere near a a river so we could go fishing and hopefully we'd catch our supper but we never did
[speaker002:] hum
[speaker001:] but it was it was always fun we'd always mom was always prepared and she'd bring along something you know something because tradition had it we would never catch anything so we always had something along to eat but then we'd roast marshmallows roast marshmallows and it it was always an enjoyable experience uh about nineteen eighty two I moved from Rapid City in the Black Hills across the state to to Aberdeen and uh there's no hills it's flat and then I was in high school and uh couple of friends couple of my high school friends and I we'd go camping out by a river of course and and go fishing but by then of course I was able to catch uh catch some things but it was it was always fun it was a different experience camping in the hills versus camping just by a river
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know in the hills we we would do like you did your folks did you folks did would take the nature hikes and you know and look for animals and we always you know in the hills you could see quite a few different animals but go ahead
[speaker002:] well we we used to live in Utah and uh course there's lots of mountains around there to camp in and and streams and stuff that's that's a great place to go camping and the hiking is just really great
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] you know hike up those mountains is just really fantastic
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] now is there anything uh are there any mountains or big rocks a person could hike around this area
[speaker002:] I'm not acquainted with any you know I there's woods and things out in East Texas Tyler area you know there's a Tyler State Park that's uh really a nice camping area
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] but it it's just a lot of trees it's not I don't know of any place in Texas that has uh really big you know what I call mountains
[speaker001:] um-hum I
[speaker002:] the Rocky Mountains are so much uh bigger than anything that they they've got down here that
[speaker001:] right um is the one in Tyler is it been a pretty commercialized I suppose
[speaker002:] no it's not well it's not too bad they have um screened in areas you know they're not really cabins I wouldn't say I guess they could call them that but they're they're more just a screened in uh camping area or whatever they're they're not bad
[speaker001:] okay help help keep the the pests out I suppose
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] well that sounds I don't know if that can rate camping but you know it sure beats driving a thousand miles to  to find a mountain I guess
[speaker002:] yeah that's right I I take it you haven't done a whole lot of camping in this area
[speaker001:] no we just moved down in in June
[speaker002:] oh I see well you're still uh getting you're just trying to get over the culture shock still
[speaker001:] yeah I'm still trying to find my way around I tell if I can get on Central from anywhere I'm happy
[speaker002:] yeah yeah well really the ideal times to camp in this area are early spring and and in the fall
[speaker001:] okay
[speaker002:] uh it just gets so hot in the summer you can hardly I mean there's there's a lot