Camping at Mohican

   I just got back from an abbreviated camping trip about an hour ago. We went down to Mohican State Park and camped for the night. I think our first mistake was that we didn't prepare all our equipment very well. An hour before we were getting ready to leave, we discovered that much of our stuff was not in the camping tote. I think we just needed more time to prepare. Then we drove way south of where we needed to be, and had to back track to the park. Lovely scenery though...
   Once we got to the park all was well. We got our campsite all set up and were relaxing in no time. The coolest thing about camping is being able to relax - we had nothing we had to do, and no idea what time it was, nor did we care to. We actually got our campfire going without too much trouble (lighter fluid makes it so much easier!). It was so nice and quiet there, except for the church group across the way who spontaneously burst into song - "I've got Jesus in my H-E-A-R-T!" We walked around by the river for awhile, and then went back to our campsite where we sat by the fire and ate way too many Lays Dill potato chips. The temperature cooled down over night, so it was pretty good sleeping weather. I actually slept in a little this morning which I don't usually do when camping. I even slept through a bunch of kids screaming like they were beating each other senseless.
   After we got packed back up (so short a trip) we drove around the park and took in the sights. Mohican is a beautiful state park. There are some incredible views of Clear Fork Gorge. I even caught a cool picture of a large bird flying by us. It was one of those moments where usually you wish you had your camera ready, but I actually did. If it hadn't been so hot and sticky out, we would have done the hike to the waterfalls. Next time...
   We also decided that we want to get a pop-up trailer or something that one could tow with a car. It would make it so much easier to just hook it up and go camping on a Friday night instead of having to get all the tent-camping equipment together...
   And... we were listening to my iPod Shuffle on the way down there, and noticed that some of my songs have this odd clipping effect and the volume is screwy. Turns out that all of the songs I've ripped off of my CDs lately have been normalized, which I'm told is a bad thing. Now I'm going to have to re-rip them all. Fun..