{"id":399,"date":"2012-08-05T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totallyshould.com\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-08-05T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T01:14:19","slug":"day-20-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totallyshould.com\/?p=399","title":{"rendered":"Day 20 (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was inevitable. Two things, I guess, were inevitable and they happened today.<\/p>\n

First, I caught a hornet in my beard as I was riding down a hill. I quickly plucked it out with my left hand, and got a sting on my numb pinky. <\/p>\n

Second, I had to stop at the KOA. I still don’t have a great nose for camping off the beaten path, and so i wasn’t confident about finding a good place outside Eureka. I rolled into Arcata at about 4:45, and it was going to be another 30 miles until the next marked campground. I guess it’s not terrible here, but it’s a strange notion of camping.<\/p>\n

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Not really a natural area, most of the people staying here brought RVs. There are half a dozen spots for tents, and these little cabins that are just a bit bigger than a backyard shed.<\/p>\n

I guess this place serves a purpose, providing a cheap place for families to stay on their way to more scenic destinations. There are things for kids to do, and it’s orderly. <\/p>\n

However, it has been disappointing to see how many people are camping on really similar ways when they get to what should really be their destination. They pull their camper into a spot that’s barely separated from the next spot, they buy a bundle of wood, burn it while sitting around, and then go inside their portable house to watch TV. I guess that if people enjoy it then I’m not going to tell them how to spend a vacation, I just see it as an odd ritual that so many of us do, boiled down to the essentials. Non-permanent housing, access to insects and dirt, presence of burning wood. <\/p>\n

It makes me appreciate how remote and isolated some of the spots I had the opportunity to camp in we’re when I was growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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