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Interesting camping story.

I live in Western NY and drove 5 hours to PA to go camping. Rather limited where I'm "allowed" to travel. I check online prior and it looked nice and private. My friends and I got there and instantly found that PA State parks don't allow alcohol. (You have got to be ****** kidding me.)
Strike 1.
So we drove to the site and upon arrival we noticed that you could spit accurately on the sites on either side of us and the 18 person camping party to the left were within hugging distance. Private my ars. I mean these sites were right on top of each other and there was people walking around everywhere. I could have put up a tent in my front yard and got more privacy.
Strike 2.
We sat in the truck a few minutes to absorb all of this and here comes a park Ranger. He questioned our alcohol supply, which consisted of numerous handles of booze, wine and more booze. When I camp, I get right after it. He said he needed to take it because it wasn't allowed. I asked "what if we leave?" and he replied we could then keep it.
Strike 3.

I didn't even get out of the truck, we all agreed to leave. So I drove 5 hours home.

The next morning I found an amazing camping spot in NY (PM me if anyone is interested).

2020.......
Ya see there, a man with his priorities straight. Although, I wouldn't have made it past the sign that stated no alcohol but I am assuming that was at the behest of your camping companions.

PA and booze don't mix, state owned liquor stores manned by postal clerks and I didn't like the disgruntled that close to the whiskey. Beer stores for cases, can't by a 6 pack at a convenience or grocery store, have to buy it from a bar.

After reading that bolded part of your post, I am officially withdrawing my camping protest and wish to be called Ranger CC. Hand me a jug and bring on the bears.
 

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Ya see there, a man with his priorities straight. Although, I wouldn't have made it past the sign that stated no alcohol but I am assuming that was at the behest of your camping companions.

PA and booze don't mix, state owned liquor stores manned by postal clerks and I didn't like the disgruntled that close to the whiskey. Beer stores for cases, can't by a 6 pack at a convenience or grocery store, have to buy it from a bar.

After reading that bolded part of your post, I am officially withdrawing my camping protest and wish to be called Ranger CC. Hand me a jug and bring on the bears.
Who am I kidding CC? I had my mind made up on the first strike.

LOL @ bolded.....
 

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I wouldn't have made it past the sign that stated no alcohol but I am assuming that was at the behest of your camping companions.

You would have Coach, that sign no longer exists in the wild, round here. It now decorates the inside of my Garage, right above my Bar in the man cave.

PA and booze don't mix, state owned liquor stores manned by postal clerks and I didn't like the disgruntled that close to the whiskey. Beer stores for cases, can't by a 6 pack at a convenience or grocery store, have to buy it from a bar.

Again, one of those things we don't have to worry about round here. In this State, you can buy a six pack from the Girl Scout cookie stand at the corner of the block. But no worries, if bad comes to worse, we'll just fire up the still if we have to. I mean, that's really why we go camping to begin with!

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After reading that bolded part of your post, I am officially withdrawing my camping protest and wish to be called Ranger CC. Hand me a jug and bring on the bears.

Somehow, I figured you might come round..... :thumbup:
 

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Morning Pops. Morning Fellas and good morning to all who stop this way to visit the thread.

Leon, I am encouraged by your motivation on the Chicken Stand front! So if you get your fryer going and I get mine up, we all of a sudden, have a franchise! Cowboy Beans as a side option will put us over the top. I feel like I've stumbled upon a marketing Genius with you!

So, as I mentioned a week or so ago, I cleaned up the back yard, trimmed all the bushes and trees etc. So the way my yard sets up, I have a back lot with a detached garage, two full sized tough shed barn sheds, all of my vehicles we don't drive every day and my trailers etc. Then I have a side yard, which is the kids and the Dauchshund's yard. Then, there is my wife's yard, which sits inside the back lot and left of the side yard. It's a good size yard, fenced in and it's also my Wife's yard. This is where the majority of the trees, rose bushes and associated plants and foliage reside. This is the jungle that most of the work went into. What did I do with all of the brush and weeds and trimmings etc.? I threw them over the fence into the back lot. Why am I rambling on about all of this? Well, I'll tell ya why. I managed to pull in a favor yesterday and I got a 30 ft roll off dumpster dropped off so that I could clean up everything. That came yesterday at about the worst time of the day. So there I am, out there in the middle of the day (which is not where you want to be in NM during the summer), filling this thing up and let me tell you, there was a lot to clean up. Pretty much filled it completely up but man was it hot, like 100 plus temps. I about had a stoke so there is a good chance that I've suffered brain damage from yesterday. An now you know why I'm rambling but the good news is that everything is all cleaned up! You want to know the real kicker? Today it's like 92 degrees, overcast and really pretty nice out. That's just the way it works sometimes.....

Jobs, Leon, dbrp, Xelda, zrin, Trouty, ksk, RGV, Coach, RWB, Ranching, SW, John, Jan, Corso and Colo, I hope all of you are doing well this Friday! Have a great weekend folks!

Everybody, be great this weekend. Don't be dumb, don't be rowdy or disorderly, don't be mean and don't be miserable. Instead, be happy! Go out of your way to plan it if you have to, just make it happen because all of you deserve that.

OK everybody, gonna wish everybody a great, great weekend. Have fun, enjoy the weekend but remember, be safe, keep yourselves well and come back and be ready to go on Monday. We need you guys, we need every hard working hand on deck and we need that now, more then ever. So work hard, play hard but be smart about it.

Gonna kick off our Friday with this tune for everybody. This song is about hard working every day Americans and it goes out to all of you who do that as a part of your everyday lives. Fridays are meant for you and who better to represent that then Merle Haggard! Here's Merle signing Working Man's Blues.

 

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Morning Pops & Peeps!

Interesting camping story.

I live in Western NY and drove 5 hours to PA to go camping. Rather limited where I'm "allowed" to travel. I check online prior and it looked nice and private. My friends and I got there and instantly found that PA State parks don't allow alcohol. (You have got to be ****** kidding me.)
Strike 1.
So we drove to the site and upon arrival we noticed that you could spit accurately on the sites on either side of us and the 18 person camping party to the left were within hugging distance. Private my ars. I mean these sites were right on top of each other and there was people walking around everywhere. I could have put up a tent in my front yard and got more privacy.
Strike 2.
We sat in the truck a few minutes to absorb all of this and here comes a park Ranger. He questioned our alcohol supply, which consisted of numerous handles of booze, wine and more booze. When I camp, I get right after it. He said he needed to take it because it wasn't allowed. I asked "what if we leave?" and he replied we could then keep it.
Strike 3.

I didn't even get out of the truck, we all agreed to leave. So I drove 5 hours home.

The next morning I found an amazing camping spot in NY (PM me if anyone is interested).

2020.......
You should check out the Hunter Mountain area in the Catskills. I used to go there during the Hunter Mountain festivals, and it was great. Wake up, take a cold shower, head to the Country, October, Alpine, or whatever Fest, have a great day, then head back to the campsite and get lit.
 

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You should check out the Hunter Mountain area in the Catskills. I used to go there during the Hunter Mountain festivals, and it was great. Wake up, take a cold shower, head to the Country, October, Alpine, or whatever Fest, have a great day, then head back to the campsite and get lit.
I would have stayed at the camp, staying lit, guarding our belongings and provisions unless I got too lit, then I might barter them.
 

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You should check out the Hunter Mountain area in the Catskills. I used to go there during the Hunter Mountain festivals, and it was great. Wake up, take a cold shower, head to the Country, October, Alpine, or whatever Fest, have a great day, then head back to the campsite and get lit.
I will definitely check it out, sounds right up my alley.

I don't know if you've been to Letchworth State park, but it's freaking amazing. The only reason I don't camp there is because it's not much of a getaway being that I grew up there and went there constantly. But man is it gorgeous. NY in general is really misunderstood with regard to the landscape. Everyone thinks NYC when they think NY. I like the Adirondacks too. Limekiln lake is awesome.
 

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I will definitely check it out, sounds right up my alley.

I don't know if you've been to Letchworth State park, but it's freaking amazing. The only reason I don't camp there is because it's not much of a getaway being that I grew up there and went there constantly. But man is it gorgeous. NY in general is really misunderstood with regard to the landscape. Everyone thinks NYC when they think NY. I like the Adirondacks too. Limekiln lake is awesome.
I've never been to the two you mentioned, but I agree, NY is friggin beautiful...UPSTATE. Near Hunter Mountain, there's a river with a short natural slide, if you like that type of thing....Cold as *&$#, but pretty fun.
 

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I hope you are alright and no brain damage ABQ.


Hey Xelda, thank you but if I'm being honest, Between the temps, the yard work and the Cowboy Beans, I'd bet the over on that one Girl.....
 

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I will definitely check it out, sounds right up my alley.

I don't know if you've been to Letchworth State park, but it's freaking amazing. The only reason I don't camp there is because it's not much of a getaway being that I grew up there and went there constantly. But man is it gorgeous. NY in general is really misunderstood with regard to the landscape. Everyone thinks NYC when they think NY. I like the Adirondacks too. Limekiln lake is awesome.
That was me until I drove from PA to Albany and saw some beautiful country, I had only flown into NYC, Buffalo and Rochester prior to that.
 

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That was me until I drove from PA to Albany and saw some beautiful country, I had only flown into NYC, Buffalo and Rochester prior to that.

It's funny, years ago, I dated this girl from Upstate NY. Unfortunately for me, it didn't really work out because I was poor and didn't have the money to go back and forth to NY but, I was able to go out a few times and I gotta say, there was a lot of really pretty areas if you get away from the City.
 

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Morning Pops. Morning Fellas and good morning to all who stop this way to visit the thread.

Leon, I am encouraged by your motivation on the Chicken Stand front! So if you get your fryer going and I get mine up, we all of a sudden, have a franchise! Cowboy Beans as a side option will put us over the top. I feel like I've stumbled upon a marketing Genius with you!

So, as I mentioned a week or so ago, I cleaned up the back yard, trimmed all the bushes and trees etc. So the way my yard sets up, I have a back lot with a detached garage, two full sized tough shed barn sheds, all of my vehicles we don't drive every day and my trailers etc. Then I have a side yard, which is the kids and the Dauchshund's yard. Then, there is my wife's yard, which sits inside the back lot and left of the side yard. It's a good size yard, fenced in and it's also my Wife's yard. This is where the majority of the trees, rose bushes and associated plants and foliage reside. This is the jungle that most of the work went into. What did I do with all of the brush and weeds and trimmings etc.? I threw them over the fence into the back lot. Why am I rambling on about all of this? Well, I'll tell ya why. I managed to pull in a favor yesterday and I got a 30 ft roll off dumpster dropped off so that I could clean up everything. That came yesterday at about the worst time of the day. So there I am, out there in the middle of the day (which is not where you want to be in NM during the summer), filling this thing up and let me tell you, there was a lot to clean up. Pretty much filled it completely up but man was it hot, like 100 plus temps. I about had a stoke so there is a good chance that I've suffered brain damage from yesterday. An now you know why I'm rambling but the good news is that everything is all cleaned up! You want to know the real kicker? Today it's like 92 degrees, overcast and really pretty nice out. That's just the way it works sometimes.....

Jobs, Leon, dbrp, Xelda, zrin, Trouty, ksk, RGV, Coach, RWB, Ranching, SW, John, Jan, Corso and Colo, I hope all of you are doing well this Friday! Have a great weekend folks!

Everybody, be great this weekend. Don't be dumb, don't be rowdy or disorderly, don't be mean and don't be miserable. Instead, be happy! Go out of your way to plan it if you have to, just make it happen because all of you deserve that.

OK everybody, gonna wish everybody a great, great weekend. Have fun, enjoy the weekend but remember, be safe, keep yourselves well and come back and be ready to go on Monday. We need you guys, we need every hard working hand on deck and we need that now, more then ever. So work hard, play hard but be smart about it.

Gonna kick off our Friday with this tune for everybody. This song is about hard working every day Americans and it goes out to all of you who do that as a part of your everyday lives. Fridays are meant for you and who better to represent that then Merle Haggard! Here's Merle signing Working Man's Blues.


I'm all in, ABQ! The fryer is ready to go!
 
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