[speaker001:] Uh, what sort of camping do you like to do the most?
[speaker002:] Uh, well, I, I do, uh, real rough type camping. I have a motor home [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Huh, rough type, huh [LAUGHTER]?
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER] Uh.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah, motor homes can be a lot of fun.
[speaker002:] Yeah, they really are.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] They really are. I've, I've enjoyed it. I've never actually done any, uh, like tent camping, but, uh, one of these days I'm going to try that, too.
[speaker001:] Uh, that can be a lot of fun, too.
[speaker002:] Yeah, like to go visit, uh, the national parks and state parks and, and, uh, just get out and see nature.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] How about you?
[speaker001:] Well, so far my wife and I have pretty much had to stick with tent camping.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] This summer we went to, uh, the Smokey Mountain [NOISE] National Park.
[speaker002:] Oh, how great.
[speaker001:] And, uh, stayed about three or four days in there. It was wonderful.
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker001:] Nights were cool enough to where they're comfortable.
[speaker002:] Um.
[speaker001:] And the days were nice and warm and, it was beautiful, beautiful few days.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh. That's great.
[speaker001:] It worked out particularly well, especially considering she was, what, six months pregnant.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] So [LAUGHTER],
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] I don't know, it worked pretty well. It was one of those, uh, those, dome type pop up tents.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Nice and quick and easy to put up.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Packs away nice and small and, about had to be something like that getting around in a Pinto.
[speaker002:] Well, that's true, that's true.
[speaker001:] It was a lot of fun.
[speaker002:] I guess the last real, uh, camping trip I took was, has been a couple years ago.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah?
[speaker002:] Uh, I went to California up to the Sequoias.
[speaker001:] Wow, that's got to be beautiful territory.
[speaker002:] Yeah, it's gorgeous, I love the big trees. Just, just the drive up through, uh, up the coast line
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] and then cut over in, into the, into the parks, it's gorgeous, though.
[speaker001:] What, like, Sequoia National Park?
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Uh.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, yeah, I had been there before when I lived in California, but that's my first trip back in, oh, goodness, um, um, thirty years maybe [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] But, that is God's country, it has to be.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Do they still have the, uh, the scenic, uh, roadways that cut through the center of some of those trees?
[speaker002:] Uh, no, they don't, they, the last one, well, the first time I was there, the, the tree was still standing, but it has since come down.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] Yeah. But, they are huge. If you've never seen them, it's, it's very awe inspiring.
[speaker001:] No, so far, New Orleans is far west as I've gotten.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] Well, New Orleans and, uh, Minneapolis.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, well, there is lots of pretty country further west.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] We're hoping one of these days soon after we're out of school to head that way.
[speaker002:] Yeah. Yeah, and you just need to take the little one.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] Show them all the, all the pretties before they go away.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] They seem to be trailing out quickly.
[speaker002:] Yeah [sniffing], because there is lots to see [NOISE]. There is, course, the [NOISE] the Grand Canyon and, uh, the Painted Desert is, is real pretty, [baby crying] in a different sort of way.
[speaker001:] Yes.
[speaker002:] And, course, the, the Sequoias and the Redwoods and [breathing], and you get up into Bryce Canyon and Yellowstone and, uh, the Grand Tetons are gorgeous, too.
[speaker001:] I imagine.
[speaker002:] Yeah,
[speaker001:] I would imagine they are.
[speaker002:] Course, I, I guess I'm partial to big tree country.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] I don't know why I got stuck down here in Texas now [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker002:] I think it's called a job, I don't know [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Uh, not a whole lot of forestry down there, is there?
[speaker002:] No [LAUGHTER], not around here.
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] Not around here [NOISE].
[speaker001:] Place is forested with c-, with those concrete trees.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, lot, lot of concrete and glass, you know.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Well, I guess that's God's place, too. Anyway,
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] Uh, what do you figure has been the longest trip you've taken camping?
[speaker002:] Uh, probably the, the last one that I went to California I took, uh, three weeks.
[speaker001:] Three weeks.
[speaker002:] And I was actually on the road a little more than three weeks.
[speaker001:] Yeah, the whole family, then, was
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] in on this?
[speaker002:] Everybody [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] Yep.
[speaker001:] That would have to be a blast.
[speaker002:] Yeah, it really was, it was great.
[speaker001:] What, well, you went out from Texas up in, into that area?
[speaker002:] Uh-huh, yeah. We went, uh, we took the southern route and went, went through, uh, uh, the Grand Canyon, again and we stopped at, uh, uh, Las Vegas for a couple of nights, and then, uh, went into Malibu in California over on the coast.
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] And then we went up the, the Big Sur Highway all the way up to San Francisco.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] And, uh, and then cut across through the wine country.
[speaker001:] Oh, wow.
[speaker002:] And then went down to, to, uh, Sequoia National Park.
[speaker001:] Okay, Big Sur Highway, that's, uh, where you're pretty much in view of the ocean almost all the time
[speaker002:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker001:] aren't you?