I have vowed to myself, being the adventurous person that I am, to try new things this summer. It shall be the summer of firsts. I know. I’m a child and a lot of the things on my list are events or tasks that many people have done as a child but there are more people than I thought that, like me are over the age of 20 and haven’t. Things such as camping and riding a bike. Yes, laugh at me, I dare you.

Any who, the recent excursion that I have completed is camping. If you know anything about my personality, you would know that I am an exclusively indoors person. It was a fantastic learning experience, but I still cannot understand why anyone would do it for fun. Now I probably went camping on one of the worst weekends of the year. Advice: Check the weather! It rained pretty much the entire weekend. This meant no cooking, no playing in the river, no meeting people and all of this for me equaled no fun.

Besides the fact that it rained the whole weekend, it was also a small festival for a Grateful Dead cover band. All of which, in the right weather circumstances, I would have been all about. However, this weekend all my pampered ass was thinking was “How can these freaking hippies be this freaking happy all the damn time.” I’m a little cynical and all I wanted was some families to argue just a little. All I got was a constant asking of what my zodiac sign was and if my camp had extra beer. Coming from Rolla, these were both weird questions. A place where more than half of campus could give less than half a thought about the zodiac and asking others for alcohol is out of the question for the most part. It didn’t help much that I had gotten super into watching a Charles Manson centered TV show less than three days before hand. Advice: The Grateful Dead is more of a lifestyle than a concert. If you don’t know what you are getting yourself into you most likely will not enjoy.

In all it was a decent weekend. Will I go camping again… It truly depends. I’ve been told that August and September are better months of the year to adventure out with camping. I know it was not actual camping and there were bathrooms with running water but I think that’s about all I can handle for the time being. Conclusion: I currently hate camping.

However, I do greatly appreciate my bed and warm food now. I would never plan a trip on my own. I’m not completely against going again but not in the foreseeable future. I think I will stick to my sloth status of being for a while.

In the future I hope to take on riding a bicycle… I guess we shall see how that one goes for the future. Wish me luck on my endeavors.