Camping

Megan and I went camping this weekend at Rocky Knob, one of my favorite campgrounds on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We had a nice time barring some minor problems.

1. It was windy. Really windy. Really really windy. We got virtually no sleep on Friday night as we laid there waiting for the airplane to hurry up and take off. Or a tree to fall on us.
   
2. Tied with the wind for fun was the air mattress. Yes, when you're car camping you can really camp in what is probably an overly luxurious manner. So we have a queen size air mattress we bring with us and inflate. And in this case, inflate again. And again. Yep, about every 3 hours. Fortunately, we were already awake from the wind or it would have really been a downer. Later Saturday, we spent some time driving to buy a new air mattress.
   

We did learn another thing. If you have a pound of hamburger and are planning to make coal burgers, you should really just make 4 and not 2 burgers. The cheese/meat ratio is all wrong with 1/2 lb burgers. Oh, and that's also a lot of meat.

Other than that we mostly lazed around, swinging in our hammocks (thanks Brian and Teresa - those really add to the luxuriousness of the camping experience).

To finish up our luxury camp, Erin, Megan's sister, bought me a small camp espresso pot. This was its first outing. I didn't follow directions (duh - I'm a guy) and I apparently wasn't supposed to tamp the coffee in (like one would for every other espresso maker in the world). Let's just say it was a little bit strong.