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Camping Stories on 07 14th, 2009 |
one responseA short version of my first Pemberton story. Driving to Pemberton and getting a flat tire on the way there and of course no one knew how to change it and we were in the middle of nowhere outside of a reservation. A car full of guys going to Pemberton as well pulled over and helped us put on the spare tire and then we had to drive under the speed limit for the rest of the way. Got to pemberton and had to wait in those god awful lines in our cars…while someone told us to conserve energy and push our car (that did not happen)…two hours later we got our wrist bands and were told to go down the road and park our cars in a lot and wait for buses to get us.
While we waited we drank…bad idea, because there were no bathrooms and people were running into the bushes. (NOTE: we left early in the morning so that we would not be setting up our tents in the dark). After about an hour of waiting and NO buses coming at all people started to get a little pissed off…another hour passes and everyone who was sitting in the parking lot with all of their camping gear started getting a little belligerent…probably because everyone had been drinking. The event staff were telling us all sorts of different things and the finally we decided we would just drive ourselves over to the camp site…when we tried to leave the parking lot in our car (after we had repacked everything…our driver was also a little tipsy) the guy at the gate told us that if we left with our car we wouldn’t be able to come back. so we unloaded again…dropped a bunch of stuff that was deemed unnecessary (chairs, bottles of water, warm clothes) and started to walk down the dark highway. Then a guy in a semi pulled over and asked us if we wanted a ride…i jumped in no questions asked…he was super sketchy and looking back on it now, not a smart idea, but we were fine. he then dropped us off at the wrong entrance and the guy at the gate said that we had to walk back and go to another gate. my friend started to cry (and guys can not handle it when girls cry) and then they were like ok we’ll let you in…but first you have to give us any booze that you have….WTF, as we all know, what fun is camping if you don’t have booze. So I pulled out the empty mickey of vodka that we had drank while sitting in the parking lot and said THIS IS ALL WE HAD AND WE DRANK IT WHILE WAITING FOR THE DAMN BUSES.
Then we walked to the camp site and had to set up our tents. we both had a two man tent so we were each gonna sleep in our own…mine was borrowed and i had no idea how to set it up…I thought i set it up properly but then when i got inside it fell on me. By this time it is close to 11:30 and we are exhausted…mostly because we were so enraged. We slept in the same tent for the duration of the trip because I didn’t want to have mine fall and suffocate me in the middle of the night…so we put our bags in one tent and us in the other….but then on the last night someone (I am assuming someone extremely drunk or high) broke into the tent and stole our bags. THe next morning we found all of our stuff spread around the whole camp site…awesome.
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