Black People Do Camp
But we just don't like it...
Me putting up a tent during the DC Avon Walk for Breast Cancer (April 30, 2005)
I was lucky enough on April 29 to May 2 to be a part of the DC Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Four whole days of moving stuff, setting up stuff (Advanced Setup Rocks the World by the way), putting up tents, taking down tents, taking chairs and tables down, sleeping in a tent overnight in the rain and cold. Well actually it was fun. I met a lot of differnt people. Fun people. Got to catch up with some friends I hadn't seen in a while. And at the end of it all, I felt like I accomplished something. The around 2000 walkers and crew raised over 5 million dollars for local cancer research, programs, and charities. Thats a lot of money.
posted by Unknown at 8:37 PM
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I went camping with my son last October as part of a Cub Scout troup. I remembered why I hadn't slept in tent in 20+ years. My several years of camping out during geological field work (as a grad student) was living out of a pickup truck camper, where one has a little more head room.
When we moved, I sold my 4-person tent, keeping the small one. When I drug it out of the closet, I thought it would be big enough. Wrong. Add to it the low temp of 31 degrees and his waking up at 5 AM to go to the bathroom...
But we survived, until the next time...
Blog on...
good deal.
i've completed a few march of dimes walks, myself.
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