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1/28/2019

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     A few years ago a friend of mine emailed me the following hilarious list of little known facts about camping that I'm sure fellow campers and backpackers can appreciate.  As for myself, I can absolutely confirm more than a few of these:

Suntan lotion bottles always have a habit of exploding in your backpack.

Upon hiking 8 miles into the wilderness for a weekend camping trip, you discover that you forgot to pack toilet tissue.

The new lightweight rain-proof tent you bought leaks.

The very first marshmallow roasted over an open fire always bursts into flames, and/or falls into the fire before you can enjoy eating it.

Insect repellent cans usually run empty after spraying just a single arm or leg.

You are always 1 stake short when setting up your tent.

The package of marshmallows you brought, got too hot and partially melted forming a single globular sticky mass. 

Catsup bottles, when first opened, have a habit of exploding in your face. 

No matter how fast you are, you can’t out run bees when you are eating something sweet.

Matches always find some way to get wet.

If the tent instructions claim it only takes 5 minutes to set up the tent, figure on spending at least 2.5 hours to set it up.

The  new puncture-proof air mattress you bought will go flat on the first night of camping.

After you completely set up your tent, you discover several large hard rocks have migrated to underneath the floor of the tent.

Within 10 minutes of arriving at a new campsite, your dogs will find something smelly to roll in.

It will rain 6 out of 7 days when you go on a week long camping trip.

The number of hotdogs buns in a package is usually less than the number of packaged hot dogs.

Your tent will collapse at least twice on the first night you spend camping in the wilderness.

Your mummy bag zipper will stick closed on you and trap you in your sleeping bag when you have to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night.


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Poof!

9/24/2018

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What happens when Dragons sneeze into the wind!
 
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African Safari

12/21/2017

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          It has always been a lifetime dream  of mine to someday go to Africa on safari – unfortunately I think the closest I will ever get to African wildlife is by visiting some of the wildlife parks here in the states. I have to admit I’m addicted to watching wildlife  and when I’m not watching Animal Planet or the Discovery channel, I am surfing You Tube looking for short documentaries.  Anyway, I came across a delightfully funny animation on African wildlife that had me giggling my silly head off.  Hope you enjoy!!

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Pardon me.......

11/1/2014

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PARDON ME - A Ghost Story          

         
Two young men were camping in the woods, and having a great time drinking beer while roasting hotdogs over a campfire. All of a sudden, a wicked thunderstorm rolled in drowning out their fire. Getting soaked, the two friends ran for their truck to get out of the rain. After trying several times to get their truck started, one of the young men jumped out and raised the hood of the truck to see if there was a problem with the battery.  As he was tightening down the battery cables, he thought he heard something in the bushes behind him. He wheeled around quickly, and then during a lightning flash, he thought he spotted a menacing figure lurking in the underbrush – Chills ran up his spine. He shouted to his friend to try to start the engine.  This time, it started up and the two friends headed down the road.


          As they were driving, all of a sudden an old man's face appears and begins tapping lightly on the passenger window.  The young man riding in the passenger seat, yelled out in terror. “Did you see him?  Look out my window – There was an old man’s face there and he was ghostly pale!"  The driver looked over, and not seeing anything said, “It’s probably just your imagination.” “No really,” his frightened friend replied, “I saw a man’s face in the window – perhaps it was a ghost!”

          After a few more minutes of driving, the driver heard something tapping on his window.  Looking to his left, he spotted an old man’s pale face peering into the truck.  The passenger said, “Open the window a crack and ask the ghost what he wants - then maybe he will go away and stop haunting us.”

          So the driver, who was quite unnerved by the sudden appearance of the old man, bravely rolled down his window a bit and asked "Is there something you want?" The old man replied, "You have any tobacco?"   The driver looked at his friend, and said “Hurry, open up the glove box, and get out that extra pack of cigarettes.” So the passenger, scared out of his skin, fumbles around dropping the cigarettes all over the floor of the truck, but manages to give his friend a cigarette to hand to the ghost.   The driver then rolls up the window and his friend yells, "Step on it!"  Reaching a speed of over 95 miles an hour, the two men figure they have outrun the ghostly apparition.

          Having put some distance between themselves and the ghost, the two friends begin to relax, and start laughing again. All of a sudden, the face appears in the window again, and the two men scream out in terror. "Yikes, there he is again!", the driver yells.  “Well stop the car, and ask him why he keeps haunting us?” So the driver rolls down the window a crack and with a trembling voice could only sputter out the question, “Ya-Yesssssss?"  The ghost peers into the window and asks, “Do you have a light?"  The passenger throws a lighter out the window at him & yells at the his friend, "STEP ON THE GAS!"

           Fleeing for their lives, they are now traveling at nearly 120 miles an hour, trying to get away from the ghost as fast as they can. This time they can’t really relax because it seems no matter how fast and far they drive, they just can’t seem to shake the evil spirit.  It always seems to catch up to them. After a few minutes, they hear the tapping on the window again.  They see the ghost standing beside their car, and they crack their window open a bit.  “Please just leave us alone!”, the driver yells.  The old man gently replies, “Pardon me, I didn’t mean to scare you.  You just seem to be spinning your wheels, and are dug in pretty deep. I  have a tow chain, and I wondered if you needed some help getting out of the mud?"

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