Camping out (Sea Otter Classic part 1)
It's been a long time since I last wrote. Why? I got into the routine of life that didn't include blogging. What changed? A few things with the subject being the majority of the change. So on with the blog ...
Sea Otter Classic is the biggest bicycle event (I think) that starts the bicycle event season in the US. About a month ago I saw online that the festival dates are April 12th to the 15th of . After an initial check with the office I signed myself and made the arangements (flight, hotels, camping registration) to get myself to Laguna Seca (just outside of Monterey) California. As the date got closer even my bosses at work said I deserved the time off (I'll be away for 6 days, of which 4 are working days). The last item in the arangements list is what makes it completely different: Camping??? The last time I campped out was 10 years ago and even then I tagged along. This time I took the initiative and decided to camp out the 4 days of the festival.
As a little kid I remember we (my family) went out on a lot of camping trips. After my younger brother was born everything stopped and we didn't do anything anymore. I missed that a lot and always dreamed about one day doing it myself, but since I never really learned what it means to camp out and having high expectaions and low demands garantees the feeling and taste of personal failure.
This time it was almost the same. I was sick most of last week so I didn't buy the camping gear needed to camp. So today before I drove from San Francisco to Monterey I went and bought a tent and a sleeping bag. I bought the simplest tent and sleeping bag. Knowing the target I didn't want to just buy best and not use it. Obviously these are only the 2 basics for camping, but since I don't know what it means to camp out I'm giving myself the benefit of the doubt to learn to camp while trying.
Stay tuned for more updates from Laguna Seca :-)
Sea Otter Classic is the biggest bicycle event (I think) that starts the bicycle event season in the US. About a month ago I saw online that the festival dates are April 12th to the 15th of . After an initial check with the office I signed myself and made the arangements (flight, hotels, camping registration) to get myself to Laguna Seca (just outside of Monterey) California. As the date got closer even my bosses at work said I deserved the time off (I'll be away for 6 days, of which 4 are working days). The last item in the arangements list is what makes it completely different: Camping??? The last time I campped out was 10 years ago and even then I tagged along. This time I took the initiative and decided to camp out the 4 days of the festival.
As a little kid I remember we (my family) went out on a lot of camping trips. After my younger brother was born everything stopped and we didn't do anything anymore. I missed that a lot and always dreamed about one day doing it myself, but since I never really learned what it means to camp out and having high expectaions and low demands garantees the feeling and taste of personal failure.
This time it was almost the same. I was sick most of last week so I didn't buy the camping gear needed to camp. So today before I drove from San Francisco to Monterey I went and bought a tent and a sleeping bag. I bought the simplest tent and sleeping bag. Knowing the target I didn't want to just buy best and not use it. Obviously these are only the 2 basics for camping, but since I don't know what it means to camp out I'm giving myself the benefit of the doubt to learn to camp while trying.
Stay tuned for more updates from Laguna Seca :-)
2 Comments:
That sounds great!
Have a wonderful time and come back with a lot of stories to tell!
WOW, have fun. You are living in SF now? or is that just where you are staying during your 6 day vacation before camping.
How funny what you say about the camping gear. When I went on the 1st trip to the USA, I got all excited and bought a tend that was on sale, sleeps 3 ppl. I never used it. My brothers got to take it with them on thier trips to Austrelia, so perhap it had some use.
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