Posted on 12/01/2014 8:02:25 AM PST by lulu16
PEST FREE During a family vacation and faced with an unexpected storm, we decided to rent a small unfurnished cabin at a state park. As soon as we had our sleeping bags spread on the floor, our pillows fluffed, and the room dark, a million feet started crawling over our faces and legs. Oh, the horror when we switched on the lights.
Every conceivable, imaginable creature had crawled out of the woodwork. I had never seen so many bugs in one place. On top of that, we had several raccoons circling around the cabin.
Then I remembered our tent. Not wanting to sleep indoors or outdoors for that matter, we decided to set the tent up inside. Thankfully, it was one of those easy pop up dome tents that didn’t require stakes.
After zipping ourselves inside the tent, we were finally comfortable.
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” On top of that, we had several raccoons circling around the cabin.”
Oh the horror!
Perhaps a recipe for raccoon is in order?
A Freeper wearing a sweater with a wraparound racoon;)
http://www.thefabledmarket.com/wildlife-sightings-updated.html
They should have been thankful it wasn’t a family of skunks.
In the South West US I know of people who have set up tents indoors to avoid being bitten by cone nosed beetles, also known as Mexican Kissing Bugs or Assasin Bugs. They are a vector for Chagas Disease. The dang things only come out at night when their victim is sleeping, stealthily inserting their long blood sucking proboscis in the facial region of humans. Try as one may, finding where the dang things are hiding is almost next to impossible, thus the need for an indoor bug proof tent, until WMD’s can be used to eliminate the little $hits.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae
Ok, we didn’t hunt in our tent...lol.
Man Turns his Toyota Echo into Stealthy Micro RV for Car Camping
http://tinyhousetalk.com/toyota-echo-micro-rv-car-camping/
Those pictures make me miss Colorado. I love hiking off into the mountain for the weekend. I’m not a big fan of the cold but the beauty of the mountains helped to offset the misery of cold.
my sons did this many times when they were younger... typically on Friday nights...
A wall tent, did it have more than one room, was it fitted for a camp stove? Now I am dreaming. Why hasn’t Cabela’s sent me its latest catalogue.
I love it here, but I walk purposefully with my eyes trained ahead, even in the house. But now you have me worrying about blood suckers in the middle of the night. This bug sounds like a literal nightmare.
Wood stove, one big room..love Cabela’s!
Actually, I don’t follow how an indoor tent would help them from the raccoons circling around the OUTSIDE of the cabin.
If Survival Mom’s husband was present during all this, I highly recommend he turn in his man card immediately.
I love to see how people have converted their vehicles for camping. Spent the other weekend at an RV expo in town. I don’t quite understand that at RV with room for a rock band is the same price, $79,000, as a converted Ford truck.
Indoor tent. Good idea.
I would like to visit Colorado for its beautiful mountains. Thank-you for your wistful memories.
Come to Oro Valley, AZ, where those pictures were taken. You can take an 1 1/2 hour trip to 10,000 feet where it is 20 degrees cooler than in town and be back in time to salute the sunset with a cold hard cider wearing your shorts.
Sounds like you had a fun home. I gave the neighbor kid a tent a few years back to encourage him to go camping, even if it was in the house or the backyard.
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