Camping Then VS Now
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Topic: Camping Then VS Now
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Subject: Camping Then VS Now
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 1:41am
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Admittedly I'm an early Boomer hence rather hippyish in my youth. You've all heard of or seen the stereotypical hippy a condition once described by a shrink as, "arrested development. It's the 60's teens and young adults sporting six button, bell bottom, jeans with tie-dyed T shirts many camping in their jalopies along the Big Sur California coastline and hanging out in Big Sur Valley. The hippy-dippy days of drugs, sex, and rock n roll: The drugs whatever was the soup du jour. Sex, well, any port in the storm will do. And rock n roll was classic Janis Joplin, Gracy Slick, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company...Cheap Thrills. Back then "peace and love" were very nuanced and subject to interpretation. But, "time marches on". Today the drugs of choice are Arnold Palmer's and Lipitor. Sex, well, only at one port in any and all storms. And, the music some country and southern rock but mainly Bluegrass. The jalopy gave way to a tent, then motels, hotels, B&B's and now to a "frog, an R-pod 177. We just spent nine days a White Horse Lake in northern Arizona's high country. One evening sitting alone at a dwindling campfire, Reta had given up on me and gone to bed, I sat there thinking how it was back then and how it is now..."what a long, strange, trip it's been". Would I go back to "then" if I could...hell NO! I like it just as it is now. Charlie Rich got it right. "can't take it with you when you're gone, but I want enough to get there on, and I ain't ever growing old...if I keep on rolling with the flow". Here's a photo album we shot at White Horse while "rolling with the flow". http://methus.smugmug.com/White-Horse/ - http://methus.smugmug.com/White-Horse/ Hope you like it. Bert & Reta ------------- Old and in the way so now it's time to play |
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Posted By: Craneman
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 9:24am
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Very cool!!!!!!!! Jo and Gary ------------- Jo and Gary, 2010-174,2011 F150 
Jo and Gary 2010 174 2011 Ford 150 |
Posted By: fwunder
Date Posted: 22 Aug 2017 at 8:28pm
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Flashback Time!! You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant Walk right in it's around the back, just a half a mile from the railroad track An' you can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a12036821/vw-electric-microbus-confirmed/ - http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a12036821/vw-electric-microbus-confirmed/ fred ------------- 2014 RPod 178 => https://goo.gl/CV446f - MyMods and Buying Habits 2008 4Runner Limited 4.0-liter V6 Yes, those are wild ponies dining on grass while dumping tanks! |
Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 1:26am
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You asked. http://www.alicesrestaurant.com/ - http://www.alicesrestaurant.com/ ------------- bp 2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
Posted By: birderdiane526
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 1:45pm
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Bert & Reta,
Awesome post & trip down memory lane! ------------- Diane and Michael 2016 179 "PIP" (PODDING IN PARADISE) 2007 Toyota Tundra BLOG:Podding in Paradise, birderdiane526.blogspot.com |
Posted By: DavMar
Date Posted: 23 Aug 2017 at 2:04pm
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Bert & Reta, Who would of thought .... hey? Great post which kind of sum's up my journey .... except I was tripping on the coast while you were hanging on the west. ------------- Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the wonder dog. 2017 Rpod 180 2016 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 Lexington, NC |