bbipolar's Journal

Cape Cod is out. Boo! Not only will I miss seeing the President but I found out that the cheapest hotel I could find was $323. and that didn't give me a big laugh. I can't afford to go. It would be great to get there but I'd have to camp out on the beach. No, it's way to expensive to rent a hotel. I wanted to rent a car and between a car and a hotel I wouldn't be able to get about or get to the beach if I was in another city and had a drive. I wanted to stay in the city and shop around and drive out to the beach or stay at the beach but the prices were absorbitant. Oh well, I'm going to the beach here on the 27, 28, and 29, so I don't need any other beaches. Mike and I will have fun. We are going camping at Lost Maples at the end of Oct. We went to REI and he bought and thousand dollars worth of camping gear (things we both had during our past marriages and sold or gave away during divorces) we are starting everything all over like newly weds. We even got flashlights for our heads like the doctors wear when they operate so you don't have to hold one when you are eating or walking around at night. We got a double sleeping bag and a small double tent and very comfortable pads for sleeping on that stick together. Lanterns, chairs, cooking gear, etc.

We also have a potential trip planned for Colorado and Taos in October or early November. This hot weather won't last forever and I have plenty of long Johns and layering clothes from living in cold places. He was telling me how he used to cook steaks on a hot fire in Montana. I never tried anything like that. I just made freeze dried dinners or lived on peanut butter and jelly. But I do like the primitive camping much better than living in concrete boxes with electricity.