[speaker001:] okay do you go camping very much
[speaker002:] no I've haven't gone camping in years but it's something that I've done in the past how about you
[speaker001:] uh we try to go once maybe twice a summer uh
[speaker002:] well that that's pretty avid to me
[speaker001:] we uh just you know for like a short weekend or something we don't go for the long you know week long thing
[speaker002:] uh-hum
[speaker001:] but uh we usually go to uh a lake area you know where the campsites are and do that uh
[speaker002:] right do you tent camp or do you have a camper
[speaker001:] oh no no no a tent
[speaker002:] that's what I I you know that's how I camp too that's how I define camping the rest of the rest of that is really really not the same as a matter of fact my my my
[speaker001:] me me too you're really roughing it yeah
[speaker002:] you know the majority of the amount of camping I've done has been really roughing it um as a little girl I'd go with my dad and my uncle and my brother and we went to the Boundary Waters area in Minnesota so
[speaker001:] oh
[speaker002:] that's that's really wild
[speaker001:] yeah are you here in local Texas I mean
[speaker002:] yes I'm in Austin where are you
[speaker001:] I'm in Garland
[speaker002:] oh
[speaker001:] right outside of Dallas so we um we have a five year old and we started taking her she was pretty young when we started uh camping with her
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh the kids love they they just love it it's wonderful for them to be outside
[speaker001:] I know I know I know and then they and they you know there's no TV and they don't have all these modern toys and they have to use sticks and rocks and stuff like that to play with
[speaker002:] exactly yes
[speaker001:] and I like that it's pretty fun
[speaker002:] well how it really is a good a good family thing to do yeah and
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah we we try to uh go with another couple that have children also and uh that makes it a lot more enjoyable plus you know we don't have to go out and buy all the equipment and stuff you know we kind of split it up uh
[speaker002:] um-hum good planning
[speaker001:] yeah because it gets it really does get expensive if you if if you don't want to rough it all the way
[speaker002:] exactly
[speaker001:] you know even with sleeping bags those are running you know good thirty dollars a pop and so we've built that up but no want one bad do you
[speaker002:] you're right you're right do you have a boat no oh I well actually I would you know what I would love I would absolutely love a sail boat that doesn't go along with camping but now that that that's what I would like to have
[speaker001:] oh yeah yes I would too
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] would too we usually uh like I said we try to go to a lake my husband and this uh other couple that we go with her husband um they like to um is it scuba dive and so we'll go to a lake and uh where they can go do that we're close enough so they can do that and the girls can play on the beach area okay
[speaker002:] um-hum and I wanna play on the beach area too that's what I would do you know I'm just sitting here listening listening to your accent and thinking what a good time the computer's going to have with that
[speaker001:] yes yes that's fun really am I pretty Texan
[speaker002:] you're pretty Texan yes but you know you know what's really funny um I've had people tell me that I have a Texas accent and I mean there just is no way I've not picked one up
[speaker001:] no you don't you don't sound like it to me
[speaker002:] I've only lived here about six years so if if if I have one it must be very very slight but the Yankees can hear it
[speaker001:] yes yes oh well that's true that's true I see I don't think I do but um but a lot of people do say I sound like I guess I have I guess more of a twang to my voice but sure am I've lived here all my life but anyway uh
[speaker002:] um-hum are you a a native Texan oh well good for you have you ever been to Austin
[speaker001:] yes yes we went last summer actually
[speaker002:] there how was I'm wondering I'm really not that familiar I know there're some good places to go camping along the uh the lakes
[speaker001:] oh is there okay well we didn't go camping we just uh we did like um we drove down to Houston to visit friends and went went to Galveston and uh to San Antonio and then up to Austin and and kind of uh you know doing the sight seeing type
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] stuff so we didn't go camping that would be fun though to go that's one thing my husband wanted to do was on this summer's vacation was to go and camp wherever we went and I said well I'd love that but
[speaker002:] it takes a lot more planning
[speaker001:] it does and and ever once you know on my summer vacation you know my week long vacation I want to be a little bit pampered you know by a hotel or whatever
[speaker002:] um-hum right exactly exactly yeah
[speaker001:] so we're hoping to do like a three day weekend there's um a thing called Pfeiffer Rim I don't know if you've ever heard of it
[speaker002:] no I haven't
[speaker001:] it's uh there's a town called Glenrose I think it's around two hours from here and uh it's got it has like dinosaur tracks
[speaker002:] oh that sounds
[speaker001:] and stuff like that and it's got one of those wildlife parks
[speaker002:] that sounds great
[speaker001:] yeah I think that'll be fun so we're going to try to do that like on a three day weekend go there and
[speaker002:] have you ever camped out of state
[speaker001:] no I haven't
[speaker002:] you know where you should try sometime is Colorado it is beautiful absolutely beautiful
[speaker001:] where is it I've just been up there skiing and well we've driven through you know but but not you know camping or anything but I would love to camp in the mountains
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum yeah Estes State Park is fantastic
[speaker001:] that's what my girlfriend says yes she loves that place she loves that she says that's where we need to go sometime
[speaker002:] well see you need to go there it is it's you know it's it's high canyon and uh and there's this little mountain lakes and it's very peaceful and um in in the early fall time um
[speaker001:] oh um-hum
[speaker002:] I can't remember what type of trees they are but they all the leaves turn yellow and it's just brilliant and yes you would you'd like it very much I know you would
[speaker001:] oh I love that that's neat that's neat well I used to go camping all the time as a a Girl Scout
[speaker002:] I was too
[speaker001:] all the time I got real used to it then I felt like we roughed it then
[speaker002:] yeah uh well we did well we did you know we really did I mean I just don't understand these people that think taking an RV and parking it and sitting inside and watching TV and having your microwave it's not camping
[speaker001:] right yes exactly I mean we had to make the fires and dig latrines and everything
[speaker002:] exactly right right I mean that is it
[speaker001:] you have to get poison ivy and all that good stuff to really be camping yeah well do you you haven't say you haven't been in years
[speaker002:] right oh no I haven't I'm um I'm a struggling single mom and um yeah thank you um it's you know time is precious money's precious um and
[speaker001:] oh gosh bless your heart  yes
[speaker002:] it it it it I just haven't haven't been able to do it and you know what that was one of the things I really thought I'd like to do with my children you know again and the I'm a little bit fearful of trying that just women you know I I
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh I don't blame you I don't blame you at all years ago it would have been fine but
[speaker002:] yeah and I I really now now now I I have gone on one little vacation just the girls and I we drove down to Port Aransas and rented a little efficiency you know and and had a marvelous like two nights and
[speaker001:] oh yeah yeah
[speaker002:] that was great and even at that it it was like the first time that I ventured you know out of the city by myself and and you know I I stayed in a nice place but it's still it's real different not to have another adult with you
[speaker001:] um-hum yes I know I can imagine no I don't blame you not nowadays
[speaker002:] you know I'm just a chicken I know lots of women would do it all the time but I haven't I haven't quite adjusted you know
[speaker001:] yeah now are you with TI down there
[speaker002:] well I I was with TI until January I uh I left TI in January hoping to strike out and find a job where I could make some money
[speaker001:] good
[speaker002:] so well it it was a it it was a good plan but I haven't yet I got into sales and I'm selling um telephone systems
[speaker001:] have you okay oh oh that's neat
[speaker002:] and it's it's fun and it's interesting but it also um pretty challenging and I haven't I haven't started making money yet
[speaker001:] hum it's hard isn't it
[speaker002:] so yeah it's it's hard so
[speaker001:] now how old are your girls
[speaker002:] eleven and fourteen
[speaker001:] oh goodness they're
[speaker002:] yeah so I'm old oh
[speaker001:] oh you're not old you're not old at all
[speaker002:] well excuse me just second honey I'll be with yeah go ahead
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] there's some one at the door so well I'm I'm going to listen we always
[speaker001:] oh okay do you need to go
[speaker002:] check and see if we should answer the door at night so yeah so well I've enjoyed this and uh
[speaker001:] yeah well that's very smart yeah me too and good luck how many have you made so far calls
[speaker002:] I I haven't made any I've been just a recipient
[speaker001:] oh have you oh well this is only about my second one I've ever made I've been a recipient on the others how many have you had so far do you know
[speaker002:] I think I've had about four yeah yeah yeah it's well you know when I had to set huh this is my my Gemini nature you know it's like what are you interested in and it's like virtually anything I'll talk about anything with anybody
[speaker001:] four that's good very good yes yeah I don't
[speaker002:] and it's it's been real interesting the different personalities that I that I run across
[speaker001:] you bet you bet I know yes I always try to find out where they're from you know because it because it is neat neat it really is well then I guess I'll let you go so you can go get the door and
[speaker002:] exactly um-hum um-hum well thank you and um I enjoyed talking with you you have a good time camping when you go next time think of me all right bye-bye
[speaker001:] you me too thank you okay thank you bye-bye