camping: preparation

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When artname heard I was thinking about going camping, he did three very helpful things:

1. Let me borrow his tent.
2. Found and mailed me tent assembly instructions.
3. Advised me repeatedly to make sure it was light out the first time I tried to put the tent together.

So I carefully determined what time sunset would be last night, and left early enough to get to Butano State Park with plenty of daylight left.

Here are some things I didn't realize before I made the trip:

1. Sunset, calculated astronomically, happens long after it's gotten dark in "a secluded redwood-filled canyon".
2. The instructions Barry had sent me described a tent tantalizingly similar in construction to Barry's tent, but not actually the same.

After nearly an hour in the dark with a flashlight, I had enough of the pieces attached in one way or another to feel like I could stop.

Comments

[artname.livejournal.com]

uhhh. Well. You've made your bed, now go lie in it. Lay? Lie, I think.