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Camping Intense

Instead of Miss V, you can now call me Miss Tipi, as I’ve just spent the last part of the summer camping.  That’s right, like sleeping bags, putting up tents in the rain, bring-your-own toilet tissue, wake-up-with-the-birds camping.  According to the Wik: “The participants, known as campers, get away from urban areas, their home region or civilization in general and enjoy nature while spending one or more nights, usually at a campsite.”  Keywords in that sentence:  Away. From. Civilization.  On the first day,  as we erected our 20 Euro tent as we were pelted by the younger brother of Hurricane Gustav and hoped our equally inexpensive air mattress wouldn’t deflate, I couldn’t help but wonder why people would do this as a leisure activity.  However, by the end, I was whipping up risotto on the camp fire and rigging up make-shift washing lines with the best of them.  I could get used to this whole nature lark.

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The death of the umlaut? (video)

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