Camping

Went camping this last weekend. It was very...nostalgic, I guess. I had a great time, but looking back I think it was about 45% nostalga. I tried telling people at work about it, and why I had a great time, and it turned out that all my best stories were from previous camping trips. I couldn't come up with a single story from THIS camping trip that would be interesting to someone who wasn't there.

I think maybe that's what getting old feels like: suddenly what used to happen is more important than what's happing this time.

God, that's depressing. I hope my next trip to Mexico's not like that. I'm too young to be old. Right?

In other news, the campsite we always use was pretty run down. We (by we I mean Eli) spruced it up pretty good, but it's time to start looking for the campsite part II if we're going to go camping on any sort of regular basis. We've pretty much used up all the really good fire-wood within walking distance of the camp-site. Plus, it'd be fun to do some real camping...backpack in everything you need, go on a real hike, and then find a place to camp.

But that sounds like a lot of work, and we don't go camping often enough for that to be worthwhile.

Maybe I am old.

-James.

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