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netmaestro wrote: But now we've taken over management of a campground in Kelowna, BC

Gosh... I just went through Kelowna on the long week-end on the way to Oliver, BC to visit friends. Would have been nice to hook up and have a beer, and see how your solar powered egg fryer worked out

Danilo wrote:I also do vacation without internet access and without notebook. That's what vacation is for, isn't it? Vacation is for relaxation.

Heck, I code for relaxation as an escape from...stuff. "Vacations" are too often just obligatory trips to visit family.

Good to see you back, Netmaestro.

Visiting family is not a vacation.

My next vacation time is Feb 2014. I intend to travel by car, solo,
to visit my old friends in another state and see my old haunts. My
wife and kids are not coming. It's a vacation from them, too.

(And no, not having marriage trouble. Just want to be by myself).

Nice to see you back!

PB wrote:I used to go camping with my siblings and parents years ago.
We used to go for 2 or 3 weeks max, so not very long, but all
we had was a gas bottle for an oven, water jugs, and batteries.

No internet, wifi, electricity, running water; nothing. Washed in
the beach or river (we swam a lot) but did use the toilets in the
campground. Nothing like the sound of rain on your tent at night.

They were some of the best times of my life.

Funny how that works.. We would go camping with another family, usually over the weekends (3 days or so). You'd have to drag me from my computer kicking and screaming, but then by the time it was time to go home I didn't want to leave.

We dug our own bathrooms out of the ground. Camping along the Shenandoah River in Virginia.

> Shenandoah River in Virginia

Just Googled that... looks like a great place to camp!

It really is. Out in the middle of nowhere.

It's about a 3hour trip from where we lived in Maryland, I think. The last leg of driving was always kind of hairy though. Going up and down mountains while riding the brakes in 3rd gear always put me on edge. But then when you get to the point its gravel roads, it was always just barely large enough for 2 vehicles and you had buses (canoe outfitters and such) driving those roads too, lots of blind corners with no guard rails as well.

We would camp at landing 16 which was the last landing for a long long ways down the river. We even went tubing starting from a point at this old bridge that crosses the river just before the paved road ended. That was kind of cool, slow deep spots, but lots of shallows with mini waterfalls and stuff to ride down. We went down past 16 one time too, but that scared the shit out of me because there is one point you have to go over where there are hydraulics and we knew people had died their before (yeah great thing to tell kids going down a river...). I freaked out when I started heading down the center of that area, where the hydraulics were too. But I guess I lived to post about it.

There is nothing like waking up in the middle of the night, and it is pitch black. If you think walking in your house in the "dark" is hard. Step outside a tent at midnight and try to find your way without a light... my god

It was all good fun though. And there were lots of beautiful views to see. We have pictures I can probably go drag out some time, of some really nice views. I wish they had digital cameras back then, and that I had one. I would have been more into photography I think.

There was one point along the road where you could hike from, and was spacey for parking. It was also right at a cliff/hill that you could walk up to and look from. It was amazing and we almost always stopped just to look or take pictures.

Zach wrote:Camping along the Shenandoah River in Virginia.

I used to live in Woodstock, Virginia, in Shenandoah County in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley. We were close to the Shenandoah River and I spent a lot of time fishing and canoeing on the river. So beautiful and a lot of memories.