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sooo...
i did get a campsite!
first one was...
not so ideal
bunch of people on quads
which I didn't mind
what I DID mind
was the constant
HhuuuHuumm
Huummm
mmmuuuHhuhumm
brruummmHuuum
of these damn people running
the generator on their trailer
from FUCKING
9 am to 9pm
the first day
i could handle it
especially since i got there late
but that second day
trying to read
and BReeYuuMmhuuummHuumm
was killing me
so i moved down the road
to another spot at a river
super packed
but waited...
...and waited
and waited...(3+ hours)
and FINALLY got a spot
just in time to
I had got tired of waiting
and walked the dog
came back right at
the time they were leaving
so, I sit here in the woods
on the RIVER
reading an anthology
about the beat generation
(kerouac, Ginsberg etc..good stuff)
and finally this wolf
gets
a
little
peace
i needed it
life has been real
but this was the delectable frosting on a strenuously created brownie
thank the gods for the
q u i e t
places
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may the wolves, coyotes and nocturnal birds be the only noises dividing the night quiet. It's not dissimilar here, St Francois County in Missouri is the "Mecca" of outdoors activities, and I camped here dozens of times before moving here. Bear scat was spotted on the road directly behind my house, two were found/caught/released here in the past month, distant Wipper Wills and owls pierce the sky when I am out on my patio, a night creature myself.
Enjoy the quiet and the river. Congrats on landing the spot! :)
Why do people go to where everybody else is?
If I go to the beach, or river, I try to go where the least people can be found.
Preferably none.
In negative numbers, if that's possible.
One time we went to the river, some brats (20-something year old brats), fuck knows what they were doing, but they put their motorcycle IN the river (it's a shallow part of the river) and were just
R E V V I N G
the egine, loud as possible. Punctuated by a few howls.... not a wolf-inna-woods kinda howl, more like a fucking 20-year-old-brat kind of howl.
Loud, noisy, and everybody else in that river had to put up with the
AWFUL
noise pollution.
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I am glad you found a quiet spot, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs, maybe? are very nice company indeed.
I would like to see if I can find a paperback copy of Aldo Leopold, and of Thoreau. I have them in pdf but, seriously, A Sand County Almanac on a screen feels a bit -quite a bit- off.
Addendum. I always liked the beats, too. I was pleasantly surprised, in my forays into chinese poetry, to find out that they had in high esteem a lesser-known chinese poet called Han Shan, 寒山, or Cold Mountain. "Lesser known" because he doesn't figure in the usual anthologies, such as the 300 Tang Poems 唐詩三百首, because his poetry was written in the vernacular and not the regulated "learned" poetry of the likes of Du Fu 杜甫. I'd like to find a paperback of Red Pine's (bilingual) translation.
Poetry, that's where it's at.
Reading anything good?