Thursday, June 15, 2006

Interesting side note to camping...

You do meet some interesting characters at the campgrounds. One guy reminded us of Randy Quaid, the uncle in the movie Vacation (a classic). He was travelling with 2 women, maybe a wife and sister, mother and somebody...it was hard to tell. The three of them were travelling in a car and sleeping in it. They may have been fugitives for all we know. He was very helpful when we were setting up the tent. The next morning we're chatting with him about the storm and he says that he ended up sleeping on the picnic table because he has a bad back that bothers him if he's in the car too long, which he was b/c he's driving it all day and then sleeping in it. Then he says "you guys do any rock hunting in Maryland". I just stared at him. He says "you know, agits?" I ended up having to say "I'm sorry, I have no idea what you mean by that." He actually meant rock hunting. He looks for petrified wood. I had never heard of that and thought that he either meant rockfish or that rock was some sort of nickname for an animal. He then tried to give us a piece and we had to keep gently turning him down.

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