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8CitizenSoundcheckThe ONLY guide of its kindfor the NB/SM Metroplex!
4Due Process
City loses in appeals court. Agai n.
7Photo Gallery Midway Madness!
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1st Word4-B's latest scam, CountyClerk's Office learns i t 'ssubject to Federal Law, and
HZ spins big to cover upCity Hall loss at Third Courtof Appeals. Plus other stuff.
6 On Occasion A Farberer Four th .
Last WordColby continues to vacation.
Continues to draw a paycheck by chronicling his travels.
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4-B Coffers OpenWide for RushEnterprisesThe 4-B Board is seekingCouncil approval of a plan
to give Rush Enterprises (2014
Revenues $4.7 Billion) nearly a
million bucks to stay here in town.
According to 4-B President Bob “Pennwise”
Grey, Rush (2014 Revenues $4.7 Billion) has
not threatened to leave. Rush (2014 Revenues
$4.7 Billion) has not asked for the money. 4-B
just wants to give Rush (2014 Revenues $4.7Billion) $800,000. In return, Rush (2014
Revenues $4.7 Billion) has to promise to stay
in town for the next ten years, and not cut its
workforce by more than 25 percent. WHAT
MANNER OF TOMFOOLERY IS THIS?
Why 4-B is trying to weaken Rush (2014
Revenues $4.7 Billion) with this massive
handout remains a mystery. Meanwhile, the
political party that most 4-B members belong
to continues to oppose food stamp programs
because they devitalize people.
“Welfare: Good for billion-dollar
businesses. Bad for poor people.”
For the record, we oppose all welfare,
so don’t go painting us with that Commie
brush again.
Comal County Clerk’s Office
Waits for Local OK to Complywith Federal Law While the Supreme Court ruled last Friday, June
26, that same-sex couples had a legal right to
marry, the County Clerk’s Office, out of an
abundance of caution, refused to issue special,
federally mandated gay marriage licenses until
America’s Hottest District Attorney™, Jennifer
Tharp, handed down her shocking ruling that
United States law applied not only to the UnitedStates, but to Comal County as well. Tharp’s
reckless action opens the door for other United
States laws to gain a foothold locally.
The so-called “Q Licenses” finally
became available to the Comal County gay
on Monday, June 29. In unrelated
news, a statue of a woman,
constructed entirely out of salt,
has been placed at the Seguin/New Braunfels city limits by the
local Taliban chapter.
Here’s Who Decidesif You Get a Property Tax
Discount - Bring them a Pieor SomethingLast week, we reported that certain
connected people had pretty sweet deals ontheir property taxes, while their neighbors
did not. Turns out, you have to request those
arrangements, and the neighbors didn’t do
that. We’re betting they ask next year. We’re
betting YOU ask next year. Just so you know,
the people that hold the keys to kingdom on
this one are not County Appraisal District
employees. The Appeals Board consists of:
Hal Herbelin
Cynthia S. Bennett
Ann Alston
Barry Power
Jim Binkley
Donna Schmidt
Joe Kuehler
Cynthia Griffin
Dick Lubel
We’ll have their property tax data, and
that of their neighbors, for you next week.
HZ Reports City Hall Loss in Appeals Cour t as a WinThis is great. The City asked the Third Court of
Appeals to toss the towing/violation of Open
Meetings Act case against it out lock, stock,
and barrel. Much to City Hall’s chagrin, the
court agreed to throw part of it out (the part
where the City appealed), denied the motionto dismiss, and sent the rest of the case back to
Dib Waldrip’s District courtroom. This is nothing
short of a smackdown from the Third COA.
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COA Sends City Back toDistrict Court The Third Court of Appeals refused the City
of New Braunfels’ request to dismiss a lawsuit
brought against it by three towing operators.
However, the court did dismiss the City’s
jurisdictional appeal, thus sending the case
back to the District Court.
While the case was still in pretrial motions,
the City had appealed, arguing on the grounds
that the District Court had no jurisdiction to hear
the case. New Braunfels’ argument was that
the City was immune to lawsuit on the matter
because the issue of towing contracts concernspublic safety issues. District Judge Dib Waldrip
disagreed, ruling that the court could hear the
suit, prompting the appeal.
As the appeal lingered in the Court of
Appeals for more than a year, the City asked
Appeals to dismiss the case.
The towing operators, however, argued
that Appeals could not dismiss the case
because the City had filed an interlocutory
appeal on the jurisdictional issue, thus the
court could only rule on the matter before it.
The Third Court of Appeals concurred, thus
sending the case back down to the trial court.
Comal Towing, JJ Towing and Pro Care
Wrecker Service filed the suit in 2013 in
response to the City’s 2012 decision to change
the way it selected non-consent towing operators
within New Braunfels. Prior to that decision,
several towing companies shared those dutieson a rotating basis. The City decided to alter
that arrangement and award the contract to a
single company. In the eleventh hour, however,
City Council decided to award contracts to four
companies instead of just one.
The operators filed suit, arguing that
they did not apply for the single contract
because it would be too demanding to be
the only towing company responsible for all
non-consent tows. Were they told that theCity was going to award the contracts to
four companies instead of one, the operators
said, they would have submitted bids. The
crux of their argument is that Council violated
competitive bidding laws by not notifying
them that it had altered the system to allow
four companies, especially since some of the
companies did not meet the City’s minimum
criteria set down in its Request for Proposals.
As well, the companies argue that Councilviolated the Texas Open Meetings Act.
In its motion that Appeals dismiss
the lawsuit, the City argued that since the
previous towing contracts were no longer in
effect, and since the City decided on May 1
to return to a rotating schedule, the point of
suit is now moot and should be dismissed.
Since the three companies were not
asking for financial relief, but only that the City
void the offensive system and reissue bids, the
City said in its motion to Appeals that “the relief
sought is to prevent and control future action,
not for anything allegedly lost in the past. The
future action is now dictated by the ordinance
which moots their claims for allegedly not
following competitive bidding requirements.”
However, in their response, the operators
pointed out that the City did not actively end
the system that prompted the suit, but that thecontracts simply expired.
In a single paragraph judgment, the
Third Court of Appeals said that the City’s
motion should be “granted in part.”
“They agreed with the City in part,
meaning that they will send the case back
down,” said Dan McCarthy, lead attorney for
the towing operators. “But they didn’t have a
finding whether the City was correct in their
jurisdictional argument, as to why it should
go back down. They just said, ‘OK, you want
it to go back down, go back down.’
“In other words, it’s as if we never went
up to the Appeals Court at all,” he said.
McCarthy explained that the next step
will be for the Third Court of Appeals to send a
mandate to Waldrip. After the judge receives
the mandate, the case will then be reset.
The City can certainly argue for thedistrict court to dismiss the case, but there is
no guarantee that the court will do so.
New Braunfels City Attorney Val Acevedo
did not return attempts seeking comment.
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Continued from page 3.
Here’s how the Herald-Zeitung reported
that smack (emphasis ours):
“An appeals court on Wednesday
allowed the City of New Braunfels to drop
its appeal against three towing companies
who had won a legal ruling against the
municipality last year in a local court.”
Heheh. “Allowed”.In other HZ news: VICTORY FOR LOCAL
MOTORIST - Rather than dismissing speeding
ticket, municipal judge allows local man to
pay fine.
HZ Throws Local BusinessUnder Bus, then Parks BusOn June 24, the HZ reported on a new law
passed in response to a creepy act by a creepyguy at an “area lingerie store”. The words
“New Braunfels” are mentioned four times in
the piece. Since there’s only one lingerie shop
in town, and the creepy act didn’t happen at it,
personnel from (TX Citizen advertiser) The Perky
Peacock called the HZ to find out WTF they
were talking about. Turns out, the HZ’s crime
writer (who writes exclusively for New Braunfelsreaders) considers San Antonio, where the
creepy act took place, to be “the area”.
From now on, keep in mind that when
area restaurants and area law enforcement
and area high school football teams and
area men charged with human trafficking
are referenced in the HZ, they could be
anywhere from 30 to 65 miles away.
Apparently the HZ was so packed with
news over the next few days that it was
impossible for them to issue a clarification to
story, and since it would take FOREVER to
update the Internet version of the story, we’re
going to take care it for them. You know, as
an olive branch and whatnot:
NEWS- The creep that dressed up
as a woman and shot upskirt videos that
prompted a new improper photography law,
did it at La Cantera.Whoa. That was… taxing. Now I
understand why HZ staff didn’t do that
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A Farberer FourthHistorically, our celebrations on the Fourth
of July are marked by comestibles and
combustibles. We will dig into severalpounds of meat, pie, beer and opium, all
while watching explosions.
The road to America’s independence was
a long and complicated one. Both the colonists
and Parliament had legitimate complaints
about one another: the colonists acted like
bitchy teenagers who hated everything while
English officials were snotty. On July 2, 1776,
the Second Continental Congress voted to
declare the colonies independent from Britain.Two days later, they approved the wording of
Thomas Jefferson’s famous document.
Now we spend part of this day making
stuff ‘splode.
I have often wondered why we use
fireworks to celebrate both the Fourth and the
new year. Certainly they are pretty to look
at and fun to play with, but why the use of
miniature yet-still-dangerous explosives?
Confusingly, there is evidently some typeof etiquette involved. I once asked my mother if
we could use fireworks for Christmas. She said
no, because it would be “tacky.” Ever since,
I have equated Christmas fireworks to hillbilly
behavior, launched to celebrate Jesus while
swiggin’ shine from a jug with the sister-wife.
Personally, I like to think we use fireworks
to frighten off evil spirits.
When I was younger, you could buy
fireworks practically anywhere: the grocerystore, five-and-dime, church bazaar or
pharmacy where you bought your over-the-
counter opium. I usually bought my fireworks
from the ice cream truck.
There were also few rules regarding
fireworks. At the time, you could light them
within the city limits before someone had a
moment of clarity and realized there seemed
to be a lot more fires on the Fourth of July.
You can’t really get bottle rocketsanymore, so some of you younger people
may not know what they are. A bottle rocket
was a firecracker glued to a stick. When lit,
the bottle rocket would launch upward and
then explode. They were a lot of fun, but their
trajectories were entirely unpredictable.
One Fourth, a few friends and I were
launching bottle rockets, but it was getting
late and we still had a couple of dozen of
things left. Now, it is important to understand
that there are fewer things in this world with
a lower intelligence than a group of male
teenagers. This is why we thought it would be
a good idea to tie all of the bottle rocket fuses
together and launch the whole lot at once.
Have you ever had one of those
moments where the split second after you do
something, you realize that you are an idiot?
The bottle rockets did not go up en masse,nor did they technically go up. Instead, they
went in all directions, all at face level. We were
hitting the ground to avoid getting hit. After all
the bottle rockets had finally blown up, we all
started laughing because that is what dumb
does after it does something dumb.
It was a beautiful moment of youthful
friends sharing a brilliant, unforgettable
evening while bathed in an orange glow.
Orange glow?The laughing died away as we turned,
afraid to see what was there: The inside of
my neighbor’s new car was on fire.
We rushed to the vehicle, tearing off our
shirts in a hopeless attempt to beat the fire
out. One of our group regained some of his
IQ and got the water hose. After we finally
doused the fire, we stood and gaped at the
smoldering interior of the car. Then, we did
what comes natural to any you man in such asituation: We ran away.
The adults took no time in figuring out
what happened and who did it because,
in our panic to get away, several of us left
behind the charred remains the shirts we
used to beat the fire out.
We were all forced by our parents to
take jobs for the entire summer, all of the
pay from which would go directly to paying
damages to the car.I learned two lessons from this. The first is
that although America is a country found on
the ideas of liberty, this liberty does not extend
to catching your neighbor’s car on fire. The
second lesson I learned is that fireworks suck.
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Riley’s TavernIsaac Jacob
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Concerts in the ParkTexanna
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Gruene HallCharlie Daniels
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Hippy GypsyThe Groovehounds
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On the RocksDoug Kent
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The Pour HausDillon Myers
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The Happy Cow
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Oma Gruene’s Secret GartenThe Mighty Orq
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Phoenix Saloon Junior Nash
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Texacali Resonators
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Riley’s TavernBilly Dee
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Watering Hole SaloonCountry Crossroads
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Alpine Haus RestaurantOff the Grid Polka Band
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The Pour HausScott Wiggins
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Spurs Will ExploitRare Opportunity As I sit in front of my keyboard and monitor,
it’s June 30, but by the time you actually read
this, the calendar will have turned to July.
The NBA free agency negotiations officially
open at the stroke of midnight (on the east
coast) tonight, and with it, perhaps one of the
biggest turns of the page for the San Antonio
Spurs, a team rarely in position to make a
move on luring a big name free agent, which
finally finds themselves in the sweepstakes for
one of this summer’s biggest names.
Why haven’t the Spurs been majorplayers for, well, major players in free agency
in years past? They’re in title contention nearly
every year, have had one of the best players
of his generation to offer as a teammate
(Tim Duncan), boast one of the most highly
regarded coaches in pro sports history, have
a dedicated fan base and are the model of
success in the NBA. What gives?
For starters, they’ve had a lot of moneytied to their franchise players for the last 10+
years (Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony
Parker). With so much money dedicated to
their core, the Spurs haven’t had a lot of
money to spend on marquee free agents.
Instead, they’ve had to spend their (available)
money wisely, similar to the way most of us
do with a household budget. Just like we have
to account for large expenses (mortgage, car,
insurance, candy), we also have to accountfor other necessities such as electricity,
groceries, gas, etc. In the NBA, mortgage
and car translates to your star players, and
necessities = role players. Because the Spurs
have had a nice house, car and insurance
plan (work with me, here) for so long, they’ve
only had so much left in their budget, namely
not enough to attract max-caliber free agents.
The other part of the equation is thatthose star players have to want to come to San
Antonio. While playing with Duncan and for
Gregg Popovich seems like reason enough,
there are several factors free agents take
into consideration outside of basketball itself.
“Where can I make the most money?” “Do I
want to live there nine months out of the year?”
“What’s the night club scene like there?”
Despite some of those questions it simply
comes down to money and timing: Have the
Spurs had money available when a cornerstone
free agent was available? The answer is “not
really”. But the timing is finally right and the
money is finally there to make a run at a highly-
touted free agent, namely LaMarcus Aldridge, a
nine-year NBA vet and former Texas Longhorn
who has established himself as one of the best
pure-scoring big men in a league lacking them.
The (possibly soon-to-be) ex-Portland Trailblazerhas reportedly put the Spurs at the top of his list
of suitors, the first time in over a decade that San
Antonio has become a target destination for one
of the summer’s most sought-after players.
Would you believe that the last time
a player of Aldridge’s caliber flirted with
the Spurs was Jason Kidd in 2003? Kidd
ultimately decided to stay in New Jersey, and
San Antonio’s consolation prize that summer
was Rasho Nesterovic, who signed a six-year,
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largest contract a free agent has signed to leave
their team and play with the Spurs over the last
12 years (the last eight off-seasons combined,
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The Spurs’ success despite not nabbing
a prized free agent speaks to how well the
core (Duncan, Parker, Ginobili) has been ableto hold up, the mid-season homers hit by R.C.
Buford (Boris Diaw, Patty Mills, and Danny
Green) and the team’s ability to both draft and
develop (players such as George Hill, Kawhi
Leonard, Tiago Splitter, and Cory Joseph).
That formula might change this summer
should the Spurs sign Aldridge, and that’s ok.
There’s more than one way to pound a rock.
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Dear Mexican: I read your columnof a couple of years ago about Chicanosloving the Aztecs, and it had me bothcracking up and intellectually fortified
with your ideas. Te last portion of
the column you added: “But, hey: If you want to change your name fromJosé González to NezahualcoyotlMoctezuma and go to sweat lodges on
weekends even though you’re lighter-skinned than a Southern belle, be myguest! I’m sure your ancestors whofought the Aztecs — both indigenousand Hispanic — would’ve approved!”
I really would like to know youropinion about Chican@s appropriatingindigenous names (well for me, it’sappropriating). I don’t know, everytime I go to Facebook and see my friendschange their name to something in theNahuatl language, I cringe. Maybe it’smy own internal struggle, seeing theseChican@s freely change their names.But to me, I see changing your name asa very insignificant. I mean, que ganascon cambiando tu nombre, if you don’t
know the language? Or if you do, youprobably know some phrases.
I don’t, because to me, yo soyindígena—and I mean by immediatebloodline. I know Zapoteco and I speakit with my family. Pero, you don’t seeme or my family changing their namesor whatnot. In fact, nosotros nosguardamos nuestra cultura; we don’tparade it to the world. I don’t know:maybe it’s bad to get frustrated by thesepeople changing their names. What are
your thoughts?ehuana Chingona
Dear Badass Tehuana: Big correctionto your boast about zapotecos not showingoff their culture: from Día de los Muertos to your Guelaguetza (for gabas: It’s basicallya Mexican country fair meets Eurovision),and your spectacular cuisine, Oaxacans
are among Mexico’s proudest ambassadorsof their native cultura, and aren’t afraid toshow it off—and that’s okay. Similarly, it’sfine for Chicanos to change their names fromthe Hispanic nombres given to them at birthto Nahuatl ones if it makes them feel more
in touch with their roots. Everyone has adifferent path to coming to terms with theirMexican identity, and they’re all okay.
The problem I have is with people whothen start ridiculing others who don’t adoptAztec dancing and calendars as vendidosand Tío Tacos; these indigenazis, of course,
make their insults in English and use theInternet (created by gabachos) to boast thatthey’re more Aztec than Quetzalcoatl himself.Que se vayan a la chingada.
Dear Mexican: I’m a Canadian woman who has been travelling toMexico (Guanajuato y Oaxaca, the cuteplaces) lately. I travel alone and wantto understand the “social” rules a littlebetter. I was told by an expat Americanliving in Mexico that Mexican menthink all American women are sluts.(I assume that generalization extendsto canadienses.)
His theory is that Mexicans seetelevision shows like Sex and the Cityand think it’s reality. I’m acutely awareof this when interacting with Mexicanmen, and as a result am somewhatguarded, which I really don’t want
to be. I’d like to be able to meetMexican men on the same terms asCanadians—sure there’s a possibilityof a little steam, but maybe we’re justplaticando, amigo-like. What are
your thoughts? Do mexicanos think we’re all sluts? If so, why? Do Mexican women/girls save sex for marriage?Does this mean I can never have casualsex with a Mexican man again, for fearof perpetuating a stereotype?
Una Canadiense Confusa
Dear Confused Canadian Woman:Noticias flash—Mexican men think ALLwomen are sluts. It’s the Madonna-whorecomplex, comprende? That said, don’t letpendejo heretonormative norms get in theway of you enjoying chorizo—modern-dayMexican women don’t, so why should you?
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Trippin’ with Colby:The Road to OhioLeaving New York was as happy an
experience as I had assumed it would be.Steve, my step-father, drove with admirable
calm through Buffalo and the tip of
Pennsylvania, and we escaped into Ohio. The
decision had been made some miles back to
stick to interstate highways. Driving a 25 ft.
trailer is harrowing enough without adding
winding roads and cramped lanes to the mix.
There’s a bit less to see out the windows this
way, but it’s easier on the nerves.
Ohio is the first point on this trip where
the scenery has changed significantly. The
landscape is substantially more flat, and
the woods look different. Darker? Streams
often wind lazily through the wooded areas
I see. This makes sense for the terrain, but
it’s wildly different than the area of New
England I hail from, where water rushes
everywhere it seems. Slow spots are
generally the result of dams, and it’s rare tosee water taking its time getting anywhere
that doesn’t have ready boat access.
Traveling through Ohio’s cities also
provides a change of scenery. Most of what
I’ve seen so far has been rural communities,
either farming based or communities that
are close to raw materials in one way or
another. Such towns are generally laid out
in a way that radiates from the commercialproperty that is available. A small Main
Street holds whatever businesses there are,
if there are any, and homes are along the
road on either side of this area. Parcels of
land and the homes themselves are likely
to get larger the further you get away
from this main hub. There is usually some
stylistic theme to the architecture in these
towns, in most cases because many of the
homes were built around the same time.
Aside from that, Buffalo and Niagara Falls
are pretty typical cities, broken into chunks
of zoning. There are areas where the lines
meet and one use changes to another,
but even these areas are often marked by
some transition not immediately obvious:
a cemetery or park, railroad tracks, or a
bridge. Residential areas may have similar
architectural styles, but the city itself is a
mishmash having evolved as much as
having been built. Ohio is entirely different.
Ohio’s cities seem to have been created
as an accumulation of small towns. In
many places you can see that an individual
neighborhood has a small number of
businesses surrounded by housing. These
various neighborhoods seem to butt up
against one another to create a much largermass. Even stranger, much of the architecture
is not just similar, but exactly the same. I’ve
seen this before in various company towns
(the towns themselves created to provide
workers with necessities while they worked
for some specific factory or industry), but it’s
odd to see it on exhibit through large sections
of Cleveland and Sandusky. It’s like the entire
city gave up its individuality, and someone setup Monopoly style houses and hotels all over
a city-sized game board. Where the cities
have grown and typical zoning has been
applied, it’s like the hand of God has wiped
large sections of this game board clean to be
replaced by modern shopping malls. Much
of this is evident from elevated roadways that
look down on the city as you go by.
Even in these conditions human naturehas a way of peeking through. People don’t
want to be just like everyone else. They want
to express their individuality. How does one
do this in an industrial town where architecture
all looks like it was designed for a movie set of
Dickens’s Hard Times? With color, of course.
Every once in a while, peeking through
the drab browns and grays, you’ll see an
explosion of pink or vibrant yellow. You look
down and see that all the houses look exactly
the same, but someone has decide to paint
theirs fire-engine red as a form of protest
evidencing the human spirit. The effect is
stunning and a little heartening too.
It’s rare for me to say nice things about
government, but I should point out that I have
stayed at two state parks now and both have
been quite good.
We made our next stop in Maumeee Bay
State Park in Oregon, Ohio. Coming in, the
rain and wind were horrendous, but now it
had stopped.
As we began to wind our way down
the state highway to the park, we saw
the damage from the rain. Leaves and
small branches littered the ground, but
the most extreme factor was the flooding.
The land here (right next to Lake Erie
outside of Sandusky) was so flat that
there was literally nowhere for the water
to go. Small ponds were being created
on lawns, and where there might be a
farmer’s field, a lake was more likely.
Couple this with the fact that much of the
area was being preserved by the Parks
Department as marshland, and you had a
giant soggy nightmare.
The state park itself was another story.
Maumee Bay State Park is quite large. It has
accommodations not just for trailers, but for
people to stay in small cottages as well. The
park even has a lodge that sits on the beach
and is open to conferences and larger get-
togethers as a substitute for a hotel.
In the area set aside for tents, trailers,
and motor-homes, the pads were level
and paved with asphalt. There was no
water or sewer at the site, but there was
a local area to get water and there were
nearby restrooms that were clean and
had hot showers, at least occasionally.
Furthermore, each site was the size of
a small yard and was separated by
intentionally placed trees and shrubbery
to offer privacy.The wildlife was surprising plentiful
for such a well maintained area, we saw
a mother deer with her fawn (we were
later told ten days old) on the way in, and
Canadian Geese and their goslings were
everywhere, crossing the road in slow,
single file manner like a group of elementary
schoolers going to the park. The privacy
barriers made the perfect habitat for other
nesting birds, and the cotton woods were
in bloom providing enough bedding for all
the hatchlings to come.
Now, I’m not talking about “glamping”
here. “Glamping” is a derisive term used
by campers that combines the word glamor
and camping. Image the type of camping
Paris Hilton might do and you’ll get the
idea. Personally, I would like a bit more
“glamping” in my camping; there doesn’t
need to be room service at 3am, but is
it too much trouble to ask for a cabana
boy that comes by and takes drink orders
every few hours? Strangely, there is no
clear derogatory term for the opposite of
“glamping,” which is generally called “dry-
camping” I would call it “cramping” as a
way of insinuating the discomfort of having
to deal with digging your own pit toilets and
picking ticks off one another before bed like
a pack of baboons.
The park was by no means
extravagant, but what was available was
almost perfectly maintained, and basics can
actually be very important. For example,
it’s possible to deal with an uneven dirt
site, but a paved one that is level requires
almost no work, and that’s nice at the end
of a hard day. It’s also nice to be able to
get to the bathrooms within a reasonable
time and find them clean.
Our next leg will take us to Wisconsin,
but I plan to relax here for a while. I haven’t
broken out the blender for margaritas yet; it
looks like it’s time. Then I can sip my drink,
listen to the birds chirping and dream ofglamping with Paris Hilton.
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