Shortly before I graduated from college, me and a very good friend whom I've known since Middle School decided to go camping on the coast (well, it was more like 'what do you want to do?' 'I dunno, what do you want to do?' 'Let's just start driving and we'll figure it out'
. We ended up driving north of Forks, which is on the Olympic Peninnsula.It was getting really late, and we were having trouble finding a place to camp, so we picked one that didn't have its gates closed, drove all the way to the beach access, and parked. We didn't have cash to pay for the site and they wouldn't accept checks, so we decided to bail as early as possible in hopes of not getting caught. Rather than bother setting up a tent (it was about 12am) we chose instead to wrap ourselves in tarps and sleep on the ground. Of course, during the night it started to rain, but somehow we managed to stay toasty dry and got some sleep.
In the morning, we awoke early and screamed out of there. Eventually, we found a National Park in which we were able to nab a spot. Having liquor, we decided to go to the beach, watch the waves, and get stinking drunk. I have few vague memories - we were having a 'conversation' which was basically the two of us yelling at each other drunkenly (not in anger), I taught some little kid wandering by to skip rocks, and then some Park Ranger showed up and we freaked out and busted out the IDs, thinking he was trying to bust us for underage drinking (we were both over 21 at the time) before he even said anything. He was merely concerned about us cleaning up our trash and toddled on his way.
We finished the fifth of gin or whatever the hell it was and headed back to camp, where we made our camping stew thing special: we chopped up mushrooms, steak, green pepper, onions, and potatoes, put the entire mess on some foil, added Johnny's Seasoning and a bit of water, wrapped them up, and chucked the bundles into the fire. Maybe it was just because we were drunk, but man, that tasted good!
In the morning, we just packed up and left. Andrew and I have tons of stories like this - we spent a lot of time on the coast in HS and beyond, skimboarding and goofing around, as well as in the mountains, where I spent a lot of time as a youth on the weekends as well.
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"We poison our air and water to weed out the weak! We set off fission bombs in our only biosphere! We nailed our God to a stick! Don't fk with the human race!"
DE/Mr Pants 2012
"We poison our air and water to weed out the weak! We set off fission bombs in our only biosphere! We nailed our God to a stick! Don't fk with the human race!"
DE/Mr Pants 2012
ou're so heterophobic" -Lyli