Matt's on holiday from work all this week (though not from his online university courses), I'm only at work today and tomorrow. It is so hard to concentrate! I want to be on my break! Camping for Thanksgiving! I've just been told that Thanksgiving weekend is the official start of desert season (get out there and hunt you some desert boy!), so our genius plan of trying to get a choice camping spot out in the Borrego desert might be a bit optimistic. I'm sort of banking on the assumption that most people will do "the dinner" at home on Thursday THEN go camping, whereas we want to go out on Wednesday and spend the turkey day in the desert with fire-warmed pumpkin pie and fire-cooked turkey. No fancy place settings and centerpieces for us. If we can't get the favoured spot I hope we can at least camp in the same campground.
The spot we want has a little stone windbreak shelter with a fireplace and picnic table inside it, no roof, but it provides shelter from the strong winds at night while sitting by the fire. Friends of ours once took a bunch of tea light candles there and set them in the crevices of the walls, so they were surrounded by candle light.
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That sounds gorgeous. I have always wanted to camp but having never ever done so, I would not know where to start, what kit to get etc. (And did I mention I am pathetic when it comes to bugs and stuff?)
Ah yes, bugs. I'm not sure I'd be nearly so happy about going camping if we had to content with midges. We don't get so many flying biting bugs in SoCal, it's too dry. There's rattlesnakes and black widow spiders, and I'm told there are even scorpions, but I have never seen them.
Well, I hope you got your spot! And had a lovely time.
I have enjoyed reading your blog. I found it through a recent posting you did on Knitpicks. You will love graduate school. What I liked about it was, unlike undergraduate, you focus on one topic. What is your topic?
Best of luck-Jana
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