[speaker001:] all right um what kind of recent camping experience do you have
[speaker002:] well there are several things that we've done as a family um as far as uh when we go on vacation we have four children and so it's difficult sometimes for us to afford the hotel all the time
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and so we take our tent and we pitch it and our kids are just great at camping my husband and my son are scouts and are very adept at that kind of thing and so it makes it a successful thing you know we just pitch the tent and we find the campgrounds that have facilities which is really nice because there are a lot of them across the United States now
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] and um and uh uh like I said our kids are just really good and we have a four year old and even he's not any big problem with it
[speaker001:] oh that's good yeah
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I I think it's uh it's a lot of fun uh my camping experiences have been mostly with my son who was in the scouts he's he's huh he thinks he's an adult now but uh we started camping with the cub scouts
[speaker002:] uh-huh  um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh camped uh you know for several years with the with the Boy Scouts and and went to some of the scout uh camp sites around and we've had really had a good time uh
[speaker002:] they're nice too
[speaker001:] with that
[speaker002:] yeah um and I was a den mother for a while too and uh like they have a thing called Mom and Me and that's right you'd go out with them even the mothers do and camp over night
[speaker001:] oh yeah um-hum yeah but uh our first uh first camping experience was uh the fathers took the the uh Webelows I guess it was camping uh and we went over to uh a lake over in East Texas and we my son and I borrowed a one of these pop up trailer tents
[speaker002:] oh how fun
[speaker001:] and it rained it started raining about the time we left home and it rained uh like that was a Saturday morning and it rained all day Saturday and it was still raining Sunday morning we went over and set up camp and you know stayed there over night we couldn't do anything so as soon as we woke up Sunday morning we you know we had breakfast and then we all came back home
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but I think he and I were the only ones that stayed high and dry so to speak
[speaker002:] yes yeah
[speaker001:] but uh most of the most of our camping experiences have been you know pup tent type of you know little two men tents on the ground and sleeping in a bed roll you know and that kind of thing so it's uh
[speaker002:] um-hum we did have a really bad experience uh we went to Corpus Christi one year and um while we were there we uh had camped on kind of a sandy ground area instead of uh the hard firm uh dirt ground
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] and in the night there came a very um windy type weather and it blew our stakes out and and the the tent fell
[speaker001:] oh yeah that that that's always bad when the tent falls on you in the middle of the night
[speaker002:] yeah yeah so that wasn't too exciting but good experience for us to know that we definitely didn't needed to do the stakes into a firm ground
[speaker001:] yeah right yeah you need to be on higher ground sometime you don't want the if there if it's going to rain you don't want the water to run down into your tents so
[speaker002:] yeah exactly exactly
[speaker001:] but uh yeah we had we've had some really good experiences it it's been several years since I've been camping but uh as a matter of fact my son uh is camping now he camps every weekend he
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh how fun
[speaker001:] he's uh involved with the uh Scarborough Fair down at Waxahachie and he goes down there on uh Saturday on uh Friday night
[speaker002:] oh uh-huh
[speaker001:] and camps and stays uh Friday night and Saturday night and then comes back home after it closes Sunday
[speaker002:] and stays so
[speaker001:] so he has a tent that's I guess he's got a permanent tent site for his tent stays down there all week you know and he just goes down and spends the weekend down there
[speaker002:] well that sounds great yeah
[speaker001:] so he's really having a good time camping and and you know his experiences that he got from scouting have really you know been good for him uh from that he he lost interest in scouts but he still uses what he learned so
[speaker002:] see that's that's very nice the only thing I think about camping is when you have to cook outdoors and you don't always have to do that but um we have a dutch oven and and we found some really fun recipes that we can do in that that are quite tasteful
[speaker001:] yeah yeah you know you uh do you do the cooking in the coals where you wrap everything in foil and
[speaker002:] we've done that before uh-huh
[speaker001:] but yeah that's we uh my my wife and I took the uh the scout leadership training program
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and we really had a good time with that we did have a uh I guess it was a raccoon that came into our campsite and stole some of the food you know that we didn't have set up I think it actually went into the tent with uh with a couple of ladies that were in our group you know went in an and got stuff out of their tent
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] but uh
[speaker002:] oh jeepers
[speaker001:] but they uh you know it was uh it was a fun time and we we've enjoyed camping what you know what little we've done uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] we're not
[speaker002:] well I think camping is one of those things that you can make memories with so I think it's a wonderful activity and it's just
[speaker001:] right yeah we uh we went uh one time one time with a uh another group or with the the scouting group but it was the parents uh you know it was a family camp out and one of the things was that uh the uh we had uh uh a couple that were uh from India
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] and they demonstrated cooking some Indian food out you know on a on a little gas burner type thing out there you know it was part of our our entertainment you know for the thing they cooked some kind of uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] of an Indian uh pastry type thing on a in a skillet skillet you know so it was really it was really interesting we went to uh down to Glen Rose to the uh where the dinosaur tracks are and there's a campsite you know down there in that area that we uh that we went to
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah well I'm from Utah and before we moved to Texas and uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] I I see the different kinds of camping there are you know like the mountain camping and then here it's mostly flat land
[speaker001:] right  um-hum
[speaker002:] and um I'm not sure which I like better it's kind of nice to be on flat land but
[speaker001:] yeah yeah right well yes
[speaker002:] but I think you get a more scenic type thing in there so
[speaker001:] right yeah so if you haven't camped down around at that place down around Glen Rose you might enjoy that uh it's you know it's got some it's got some hills and stuff down there so
[speaker002:] no I don't think we've ever gone there oh that sounds nice
[speaker001:] yeah but uh yeah you know well I've enjoyed I t and uh make you make me want to go camping again you know okay thanks
[speaker002:] well thank you I've enjoyed talking to you well go go go have a good day um bye-bye
[speaker001:] you too bye-bye