[speaker001:] what kind of camping do you do down there
[speaker002:] well we have gone to several places
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[speaker002:] um there's a real nice area north of here close to the Oklahoma border
[speaker001:] do you do you have a camp trailer or do you just take tents and sleeping bags um-hum
[speaker002:] no we take tents tents and sleeping bags is what we use
[speaker001:] take the whole family
[speaker002:] yeah we do uh we haven't gone in a while because we have a three year old and we're waiting for her to get a little bit older but we have two older kids and we take them
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[speaker002:] and uh it's fun I mean we're not avid campers
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[speaker002:] but um I guess our the funnest camping trip we had was was when we went up north close to the Oklahoma border that's north to me um
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[speaker002:] and we stayed for about three or four days and the weather was very nice that's one thing you have to consider down here because in the summer it gets so hot
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[speaker002:] that you know nobody wants to do anything um oh uh one time we went to Arkansas and did some camping
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[speaker002:] I'd almost forgotten about that six years ago I guess
[speaker001:] do do you go up in the mountains or mainly stay in campgrounds
[speaker002:] well we didn't really have any just second what is it getting worse and worse okay um uh no we really didn't go up in the mountains
[speaker001:] you basically just go with the KOA campgrounds or something like that
[speaker002:] well this was a uh it wasn't a KOA what was Frazier what was that that we went to in Arkansas it was a park it was a state park
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[speaker002:] yeah it was a state park
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[speaker002:] um and they had trails you know that we could go on
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[speaker002:] uh we were going to go on the river but the river was so high that year it'd been raining so much that they wouldn't let anybody get on the river
[speaker001:] huh I'll be
[speaker002:] yeah there were a lot of snakes around
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] oh it was Snake River oh Snake River with a lot of snakes in it
[speaker001:] uh-huh my experience at camping is a little bit different um we do we do do a little family camping but I do a lot of elk hunting with uh bow and arrow elk and deer hunting
[speaker002:] uh-huh oh wow
[speaker001:] and uh so I I we go back into the mountains using horses and and uh go and we'll pack in sometimes as far as ten miles back in just on horseback and we'll stay for ten days and
[speaker002:] oh wow
[speaker001:] and that's a lot of fun but it's it's not real uh conducive to taking my wife uh she doesn't appreciate being away from civilization that long and
[speaker002:] yeah yeah
[speaker001:] and uh no electricity and no you know we you you take a bath in the creek and freeze to death while you're doing it but uh
[speaker002:] yeah oh my gosh that's really roughing it
[speaker001:] uh it is but it is fun
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] of course I guess it takes the right personality
[speaker002:] have you only done that once or you've done that several times
[speaker001:] no no I've done that lots of times
[speaker002:] you love doing that huh
[speaker001:] yeah it's in fact I as far as I'm concerned I don't get enough
[speaker002:] really oh wow
[speaker001:] um but we'll probably go during the summertime on uh like a three-dayers probably two times and then as soon as fall comes on and the hunting season starts
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[speaker001:] uh we usually get one big one and then one big one that'll last probably ten days and then one or two small ones for two or three days at a time
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum TI switchboard well you've done a lot more camping than I have actually my husband's the one that's really the avid camper he you know has a lot more experienced and and he makes it a lot of fun for everybody though because he knows
[speaker001:] yeah um-hum yeah
[speaker002:] when you when you go with someone that's experienced and knows how to do things and it's a lot often fun for everybody else
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[speaker002:] and
[speaker001:] yeah I agree it's it's always fun to go with somebody that knows how to cook over an open fire that's a little that's a little different than uh you know heat control at home and and uh uh you can have some lousy meals out there or you can have some great meals um
[speaker002:] oh yeah uh-huh yeah that's true when we were in Arkansas we'd been camping for about three days I guess and I was already tired of sleeping on the floor
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[speaker002:] and we ran into a lady that told us about a resort area up there and we checked into one of these resorts and got to sleep in a a nice bed and that that was camping the right kind of camping to me
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum well it makes a difference we're we're set up with uh camping cots and uh and uh uh self inflating mattresses and and and things like that and then and then it's not so it's still not like home but it's uh
[speaker002:] yeah right makes a little bit more comfortable
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[speaker002:] yeah do you have kids that you take along
[speaker001:] yes well yeah but they don't come on the big trips they're very small too I've got a a six a three and a about a one one and a half and
[speaker002:] yeah oh wow you've really got your hands full
[speaker001:] yeah and they they enjoy the day ones we'll run up in the mountains like uh when I get off work sometimes and we're not we're not very far we're forty five minutes from some
[speaker002:] yeah uh-huh
[speaker001:] some real nice mountains here and we can go up there and build a fire and cook hot dogs and that's really not camping though that's kind of a picnic's what that is but but
[speaker002:] oh that's great uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] but they enjoy that
[speaker002:] that's great that's great