The BREAD Camping Page: CampFest 2000

For this year, there's both pictures and sounds... what I'm going to try to do is to group the sounds with the pictures that're most relevant for either time frame or actual subject. The sounds are VBR encoded MP3s. Almost everyone's computer will play MP3s, and if yours doesn't, do something about it! Now... on with the show. :)

Okay, this picture needs some explanation. If you go to http://www.adcritic.com and watch this fake commercial, you might understand. Heh heh... and you can also see the pile of camping crap that just BoB and I brought for the trip. Mind you that I supply all of the tents as well as air mattresses and cooking stuff. That's mostly why the pile's so big. *grin*

BoB's amazed at the beauty of my car, and if you've watched the commercial that explained the last picture, you'll understand why he's amazed. Heh heh...

Here's a picture of BoB. This, I believe, is the most intelligent he's looked since university started... damn university is sucking the intelligence out of us!! Sounds: BoB and I say Good-day. BoB (the alcoholic) and I crack a couple cold ones and decide to sound like a beer commercial. I belch in the continuation of the commercial. I annoy BoB by slurping my beer. Heh heh... Noises the microphone makes inspire BoB into thinking of his own version of Star Trek. Oh great... The fire's hissing, probably because I was using wet wood that was chopped down earlier in summer 2000. Ah well... it was free. Heh heh...

This is me the first night of camping, which is also when BoB and I recorded the tracks I mentioned above. Also, this seems to be my only pose for CampFest 2000. I'm not sure why I've got my mouth open in every picture, but that's the way it is. Note to self: close mouth next year when camping. Sounds: Like my nice blue chair? I do... I talk about a nifty feature of my new chair... heh heh... poor BoB. I come up with a new game to play while camping... not something for everyone. :) One of the last campers to be on our site was Eli. He was a jerk... I like my hammocks, but you should've seen what the last group left on the ground underneath my one hammock. :P BoB has the solution to DavE's many yawns. I think the beer was making me sleepy... it was a long day fighting with the meal tent from hell. A really rotten skunk-smell wafted over our site, and we figured we could counter it all on our own.

Here's AchKmeD on the first night as well. He'd just finished his shift at midnight being a security guard and brought a trunk-full of wood to us, we rewarded him with an empty bottle of beer. Heh heh... Sounds: AchKmeD thinks he's allowed to sit in my chair... and I'm pissed. It's my chair, damnit! Heh heh... I finally get AchKmeD out of the chair, while he and I make stupid 'wood' jokes. We're guys, what can I say? AchKmeD's drinking on the job. Well, not really.

Geez, AchKmeD... haven't we taught you anything? Make her carry the stuff while you sit back with the rest of us and have a beer. She'll *expect* you to be her servant for the rest of your life if you keep it up! By the way, the infamous meal tent from hell is to the right of the picture... what a pain in the ass it was to set up, then it blew over when it ended up getting windy later in the week. Ah well... it's been a good tent even though it needs constant supervision... :) Sounds: I bitch about the stupid meal tent, then BoB recounts his experiences with a hammock.

Time for dinner... I believe it was chili-burgers, but I'm not sure. Maybe they were, by the look on AchKmeD's face... seems that the beans already got to him. *grin* Chili compliments of Chef BoB.

Here's AchKmeD, flaunting his (ahem) well-toned abs... he's a great source of embarrassing pictures, I've noticed. Heh heh...

Okay, remember how I mentioned (on 1999's page) that AchKmeD still hadn't learned not to play with fire? Well, here he is again. I guess it's not fair to pick on him about playing with the fire, since we all did, but he's the only one I've got pictures of. Ha. Looks like the remains of a box in there too... heh heh... boxes never get boring. Sounds: A rare insight into the mating ritual of the AchKmeD... AchKmeD needs a charcoal filter for his ass. AchKmeD, being drunk, ate the heel of the Wonderbread. Heather tries to explain why you shouldn't eat the heel. Once again, AchKmeD provides us with more entertainment. He never ceases to amaze us. Heh heh...

Okay, here's me with my spill-proof, drunk-proof coffee mug courtesy of the local car dealership. I never drink coffee, so I was at a loss as to what I should do with the mug 'til I figured that I could put my drinks in it and not worry about spilling. Good call, eh? Heh heh... you'll also notice my nice comfy blue camping chair that I'm sitting on. Got that this year... I recommend one to anyone who's out for a fun camping trip. It's even got a little holder in the arm for a beer or drink... heh heh. My type of chair. *grin* Sounds: I go through the details of how everyone's feeling. BoB's the only one that's normal. :) AchKmeD keeps trying to steal my 26'er of rum... lucky I keep catching him. Unfortunately he got to my mug of pop (for mix) first. Ah well, so my drink's going to be a bit stronger when I add the rum. lol! I'm no longer sober enough to put two words together in this clip. It was bound to happen. After drinking all night, this is the best way to focus on the world around you. *grin*

I bought two hammocks this year. Not much to them, but they're nice and comfortable and they were cheap. Heh heh... ElRoY's demo-ing the new gear looking satisfied. Doesn't take much, eh ElRoY? :)

The point of this picture is to show you folks how much fun ElRoY has with shovels. Here's a story... when I was working at Long Point in 1998, I brought a shovel over to our site for the guys to play with. That's when this all started. ElRoY thought it'd be fun to start digging holes and burying things in them or covering those holes up with garbage bags and sand to make traps. The people of 1998 tried digging a trap to catch me when I finished work one day, but instead got BoB's mom. Ha... that'll teach ya! This year it was a lawn chair modified into a lounger... good job ElRoY!

The end result of drinking all week. Heh heh...

Another postcard shot. This is a picture taken by me standing on the top of the sand dune at the side of our campsite facing the beach. See why I picked this site for the second time? I believe I'll pick it again this year. Note from DavE: I tried to get the site again for CampFest 2001, but some dork reserved it for a whole month and had it for the whole time that I wanted it. Jerk... I was going to toilet paper their equipment, but I thought better of it, since I can use the toilet paper much more effectively for what it's really meant to do. *grin*