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Camping Tips

Meeting Your Neighbors

One way to break the ice with neighbors just arriving to the campsites is to offer assistance when these people are backing into their sites.  More often than not it’s a traveling elderly couple. Some of these rigs are incredibly difficult to back up, and some sites are more difficult than others.

And if it’s not an elderly couple, it’s usually someone my family’s age and we strike up conversations about kids, baseball, boating, camping, etc.  It’s the best way to meet your new neighbors!

Keep Bees Out

I have been camping all my life, and all over California, and I always remember when eating outside a problem of about 20 or so bees smelling the meat BBQing, and wanting some, flying all around our food and faces. 

Here is what helps: take a pot or bigger bowl of soapy water off to the side of where you are eating.  Create a tee-pee by tying 3 long sticks at the end, making sure the 3 stick tee-pee arrangement is double the height of the pot or bowl.  Tie a chunk of raw beef to a string long enough to hover right above the bowl of soapy water from the top tied part of the tee-pee arrangement. 

The object is, the bees fly in to sit on the beef chunk to eat it, but they are not the best pilots, so they usually miss and end up in the water.  Whatever lucky ones do land on the meat, are at least not on your food while trying to eat!