So.....I really want to start a dialogue here (I HATE THAT PHRASE!!!!) :) I want to get honest opinions from ALL of the Beattys about our summer camping extravaganza. I know that there is a plan, somewhat loose at the moment, to go to the Lost Coast and do a long hike there. I believe that loose plan is set for sometime in August. If anyone knows more, please fill me in. I am not sure how many days that hike will take etc etc etc.
Secondly.....how does everyone feel about a desert hiking soul-search circa the end of May beginning of June? If we get on it fast, we may be able to reserve camping down at Havasu. Or perhaps we want to get a house at the Lazy Lizard Hostel in Moab for a couple of nights (a whole house rents for about 130-180 for a night and sleeps about 17 people!!! or more!!!) and then doing an overnight hike out in Canyonlands one other night and a couple of day hikes at Arches???
Any ideas kids??? How many of us want to go on both? Any friends?? (nick, ryann, stan, les, phil...etc) What weddings might fall during what dates??? (Martin's, Ruebi's, etc.....)
Do you even want to take on TWO camping ordeals? I certainly do. Despite my full blown BRAThood last August at Glacier I am left with only beautiful memories now and not the icy cold shivery senses that made me so upset back then. Sorry, I know it took a while for me to not be a jerk about it. I think my main "beef" was with the weather and how it didn't give me the warmth I craved. But I think of our overnight hike....rainy as it was on the way back...and I am in love with it. Dad TOTALLY should have come!! I loved playing cards in the late night starry cold. I loved that funny video that the guys made and also cooking meals together in that little square. I know I am owning up to my own true Beattyhood when I say " I AM SO SORRY FOR BEING MEAN, PLEASE FORGIVE ME".....I even think back to the grouchiest moments for me and I laugh now, like seeing Mikie and Dad fight like cats and dogs, like hurrying to the payphone with a dollar in change to sob to Art for the 4 whole minutes it bought me. Even at the top of Logan Pass (on the way home) when it was icing sleet down on the car and I stayed inside the fogged windows and thought about how I'd rather be AT WORK then in Montana.... OH HOW WRONG and very dramatic I WAS and am!!! I love being with my family, and I also love that we (i.e. "I") have our drama and our livelyness and our loudness and our indecisiveness and our sentiments. We are so NOT a boring family..we all are extremely strong characters and that is what makes our vacations so fun! I promise, to myself and to everyone in our family, that I will be MUCH MUCH nicer and more peaceful this year. I PROMISE!
Please post any ideas other than these two as well!!! and soon!! I want to help get this trip organized and well thought out....enough to at least eliminate some of the little issues that traveling can create.....I want us to be super communicative with each other and make sure we all get the right dates off work, figure out some kind of car pool plan, have a meeting to fig it out right prior to the trip.....
Do you like this idea???
Or this idea???
Or might you have some other ideas????
But no matter what......thank you so much, all of you amazing favorite people of mine ever.....for this idea.
8 comments:
Wow, first time i've ever heard you say this stuff. hmmmmm, what's going on here?! jk. i mean not about it being the first time. that is true. anyway i'm glad you like glacier honey...now onwards!
i vote Lost Coast in July (?) to avoid both Ruebi and Martin's wedding date conflicts.
i vote a trip to the Southwest/four corners area with part of it in moab for sometime in may. when is the texas trip matt and amy? oh wait, but i'd also be up for another frolic into the grand canyon. that would be super fun. so i'm open.
i just feel ready to go everywhere and do it all! so exciting to start planning. january is the PERFECT month for it.
oh, and watch The Cove.
Bring it on Adie- and plan it!! Matt and I are going to TX for Easter. So we are wide open for May (well, for a long weekend). Could we do Lost Coast over 4th of July maybe? My family camping trip is in June, at the end I think. So for Matt and I we either need them like right on top of each other, like we would leave my family's early and do the lost coast or we need it like far way from my familys just to be able to get the time off. I would for sure do Grand Canyon again just needs to be during the peach festival! Sorry, I'm so demanding-I'm a Beatty dang it and I don't want to miss ANYTHING!!!
actually, my fams trip is june 14 -18, so it's not really the end. peace
and another thought, we could do something helpful, somewhere
yeah amy, ACTIVISM OR INACTIVISM! remember how you picked up garbage on your way out of the grand canyon. i think at the VERY LEAST we could do something like that on every trip we go on. make the world a better place. making connections with people and nature is wonderful too, and definitely part of it, but doing something completely selfless and in service of others, now that is a GREAT idea.
OK.....well, no matter when you want the Lost Coast thing to be, Ruebi's wedding is now gonna be in mid-Septemeber!!! So all the summer months are free!!!! I love the Peach Festival too! Dang! I can't really decide. In a weird way, for reasons beyond me, I think I am leaning towards Havasu.
But getting that giant house at the Hostel in Moab would be so rad. I do think the Four Corners could be a bit much because anything that involves multiple cars driving in our fam seems to take forevs.....but maybe it could work. I like the idea of getting to a certain place and staying pretty much put except for day trips. Isn't the four corners far away??
i just realized that there is also a suggestion floating around of kings canyon/sequoia in california...joey mentioned it tonight. any thoughts peeps?
that floating "suggestion" has become hardcore planning. excellent. I will try to post soon after I receive some materials on those sweets parks and some ideas manifest themselves.
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