go camping alone

i think one of the reason i wanted to do this was to prove to myself that i could do it.
to prove that i can do things independantly.

hermits have no peer pressure.
but im starting to think that i may have been pressured to do this by a few peo-ple..

at the same time it still almost something i want to do.

even though tcamping with friends is alot more fun [/ safer]

want to, but is it safe for a woman alone?

who doesnt?

If you asked me at 2am last night, I would tell you this was in no way worth it. I hiked myself an hour up into Bastrop State Park and spent the night there. As soon as night and some crashing around in the woods came, I started with my night long miniature panic attack where I realized that I was 100% trapped til morning. It was the best morning ever when the sun finally came up. Now, of course, I think it was worth it, but maybe other people as wussy as me should start by car camping alone.

I remember a hike my Dad and I made 15 or 20 years ago. Halfway along the route we stopped lakeside for lunch.

I looked out from the rocks over the lake, the mountains and forest. I figured it was one of the most beautiful things I’d ever seen. I didn’t want to move on. I wanted to stay a while. I promised myself that one day, when I was a man, I’d come back to camp at that spot, alone.

I went last back last week. It was just like I remembered. I found the place and pitched my tent.

The perfect place to do thing #5, Finish Reading Thoreau’s “Walden”.

Really alone. Stay away for about 5 days.

Autumn would be nice. National park – a days hike from the carpark.

Can’t be National Park – would need to catch my dinner and an open fire to cook it.