Chillin' With The Boys

I finally ended up driving to the campground Saturday morning, cold and rainy the whole way, wondering what good could come of this. My brother and Dad were hanging out there already, most likely huddling around the heater in my Dad's old camper trailer. It looked like the whole weekend was a wipe and then it cleared up around noon. Then four of us went for a long hike around the park and during that time we found that my Dad had been just about any place in Florida that you could imagine. It turned out to be the perfect weekend to sit around the campfire and we did a whole lot of that. It's interesting how things change when there is no television, no internet and nothing much else to do. Of course, the one difference was that everyone had smartphones and even while having the old-fashioned fireside political talks, each of us was checking our email, so perhaps it was not quite like the good old days, but it was close enough!