Sharing Camping Woes…
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Camping Woes by Jacquie Biggar
The Canada Day long weekend is just around the corner. It’s time to plan your holidays!
It’s the first real weekend of summer, so camping is a must for many families. On our very first camping trip, (our honeymoon) we bought ourselves a supposedly idiot proof tent and headed to the beautiful Rocky Mountains in Jasper, Alberta.
First off, I’m scared to death of bears, so why I thought I could stay in a tent, IN THE WOODS, I’ll never know.
We get to the campsite around lunchtime, and thinking the tent would take an hour at the most, decide to have lunch and do a little exploring first. If you ever get the opportunity, go see the Athabasca Falls, beautiful.
But I digress. Arriving back at camp around three, we proceed to open the box holding the tent. There were an awful lot of pieces in that box. No problem, my DH says, we can do it.
There were problems, many problems. Soon steam was rising from both our ears as ‘a’ wouldn’t quite fit into ‘b’ the way it was supposed to. So I must have read the directions wrong, right? He wasn’t listening to my clear directions, correct?
Some kind neighbouring campers, overhearing our bickering as dusk fell, took pity on us and came over. They put the tent together in two minutes flat. We must have been close.
When it turns dark in the mountains, it’s really dark. There were No street lights, why were there no lights? The tent had No solid walls to protect us from whatever was rustling those bushes at the edge of the campsite.
Then I had to use the washroom. Everything, EVERYTHING, throws a shadow when you’re using a flashlight. I swear to God, my life flashed before my eyes so many times on that trip to the outhouse, I grew a head of grey hairs.
Back in the tent, I tossed, I turned. Hubby snored. I froze. I’d never been so cold in my life.
Tenting was not all it was cracked up to be. I slept in the car. With the doors locked.
This is more my speed,
How about you? Any camping trips you’d like to share?
©Jacquie Biggar 2014
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This book is the perfect mixture of romance with an action packed story line to keep you turning the pages. The author does a great job of drawing the reader into the world of ice hockey and the murky world of match fixing and deals with the mob. Mac Wanowski is a champion ice hockey player and, with him on board, his team looks set to win the season. This does not suit everyone and Mac is seriously injured while playing in a match two weeks before the final. He is sent away to a remote cabin in the mountains to heal. The team’s doctor delivers his niece, Sam, a physical therapist who desperately needs a break, to assist Mac with a speedy recovery. Little does he know that she has been offered the opportunity to obtain a contract as the physical therapist to Mac’s team but, in return, she must slow down his recovery.
When Sam meets Mac her soft heart quickly goes out to him, especially when she learns of the loss of his wife and unborn baby in a terrible accident a few years previously. Sam is also attracted to the taciturn hockey star and she can sense it is reciprocated. Sam makes a decision to try to help Mac and ensure that he is able to play in the final match of the season but she is unaware that there are other, much more dangerous people lurking, who are determined to keep Mac off the ice.
I enjoyed the character of smolderingly sexy Mac, with his heartbreaking past, and the sweet and big hearted, Sam, with her history of financial anxiety and determination to succeed in a male dominated profession.
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Jacquie Biggar is a USA TODAY bestselling author of Romantic Suspense who loves to write about tough, alpha males who know what they want. That is until they’re gob-smacked by heroines who are strong, contemporary women willing to show them what they really need is love. She is the author of the popular Wounded Hearts series and has just started a new series in paranormal suspense, Mended Souls. She has also contributed to several successful anthologies.
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I do not camp. I used to when I was younger, a lot younger, but not now. Show me a condo with a kitchen and balcony and I am in. Loved this post though.
Lol, your way sounds WAY more peaceful, Carla. Thanks for stopping by to comment!
I loved to camp when I was younger. We always hiked miles into a lake or sometimes the top of a mountain and set up our 4-man backpacker’s tent for ourselves and 3 children. Absolutely the best spot to wake up in the morning. Now my old bones protest sleeping on the ground. But one of the scariest moments we encountered when camping was on the Al-Can Highway, between Alaska and Canada and the lower 48 states. We were driving in a caravan of three cars and pitched our tents in a park/rest area. Should have been safe. Around eleven p.m. some men drove up to have a drinking party. They yelled at us and then started shooting off their guns. We wondered if the others were surviving, as we could only keep our heads down. They finally left after an hour or two. We checked the others. All OK, but I think I would have preferred wildlife.
On, my goodness! Glad no one was injured, Nancy. That is an issue with tents- the canvas isn’t much protection from the elements, animals, or bullets!
No. That was the only time I was frightened while camping. We were all worried about what was happening to the others, as we knew we were ok.
Your post brought back a lot of memories, Jacquie. You like to “camp” the way my daughter does. Motor home or motel.
I’m a camper from way back, Jacquie. We had a small rig, my kids’ dad and I, and stowed it in the Pocono Mountains in PA. We had a snowmobile and am ATV. One night I put a pan of baked Ziti in the snow as the pan was too big for the tiny fridge and a bear came along to steal it. The snow was 3 feet high and the bear’s butt kept rocking the little rig. I was petrified. The then hub told me to go to sleep. “It’s only the wind,” he’d said. The next day we found the pan about a mile away from the rig, licked clean and smelling gamey.
I’ll take a hotel any time now. Joe and I had a motorcoach, a 30 foot hotel on wheels called a Winnebago, but that’s another story. Suffice to say, it has to go.
Memories…
Loved the post.
Hugs!