Karaoke & Sing-along around Campfires
When we were tent camping, there will be several campsites with someone playing the guitar and other campers will mill around, uninvited, watching or singing along. Now that we are into RVing, it seems protocol changed. We would hear a couple or more doing karaoke (with their karaoke systems) singing inside their RVs. What changed? Of course, those in the tent camping are mostly young folks out to hit on someone pretty who comes along -- and I assume those in the RVs are rich old fogies. of the cranky "get off my lawn" kinds, LOL.:h
Smokeless campfire
So who among us doesn't love a campfire? It's one of the joys of being out in the woods, isn't it? Even if you are in a campground at some independent private place where your neighbors are only a spitball's distance away on either side, as well as behind and across the road. And who amongst us doesn't find the smoke seriously annoying, especially when you get a little green wood in there and the smoke chases you around and around that fire? I thought so. So for Christmas I got a Solo Stove Bonfire. I've now had it out and built a couple campfires in it, and I'm satisfied, indeed, impressed. Even with a little wet wood, it was impressively smoke-free. I'll post a video soon, but there are others on Youtube already. I was also astonished at how much heat this thing throws off. The heat is all off the flames, which themselves are glorious to behold, and I'm thinking this would make a great stove/heater inside a teepee or a yurt. clicky
Guitar around a campfire !!
After 40 years, I finally decided to play guitar again (2015).....and it's weird how you still know your chords after all these years. Last summer, I brought my guitar with me and started to play around a campfire. What happened next...... our neighbors asked if they could join us, and we had such a good time. I played some of my songs, they played theirs and everyone was singing..... I'm sure some of you folks play guitar or sing around a campfire and I thought I could share my favorite songs and perhaps some of you have your favorite ones too. Maybe that way we can have more songs to our list. So, here is a list of five songs I love to play: 1- Margaritaville (Jimmy Buffett) 2- Brown eyed girl (Van Morrison) 3- The sound of silence (Simon & Garfunkel) 4- California dreamin' (Mamas & Papas) 5- A kind of hush (Herman's Hermits)
Campfires: Love them or hate them?
For some, campfires mean bedtime stories, roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. For my wife and me, on a recent overnight at Lathrop State Park near Walsenburg CO, campfire smoke meant sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses. Never another campfire wouldn't break my heart. So I'm wondering, how do the rest of you feel about campfires? Do you love them? Hate them? Or don't care one way or the other?
