Not me. I preferred those because there were other kids around and things to do. Many of them even had video arcades.
I had heavy exposure and easy access to every outdoorsy thing you could think of. Hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, tent and trailer camping, skiing, biking, cross country travel in a conversion van hitting up all the national parks, summer camp, Scouting, woods and fields right in my backyard. None of it ever took and I am infinitely happier just walking down the streets of some grim rust belt city.
Also the blurry line between restaurants and bars. Unless theyāre somehow filtering out places that sell food where people tend to mingle, drink and stay for more than an hour. Plenty of bars by me are technically restaurants, or restaurants in the day and bars come happy hour into the night.
Joe Rogan has a photo of Dan Crenshaw with him backstage at a comedy show in Texas. According to the comments Crenshaw is a gun grabber and the recent COVID outbreaks were fueled by? You will never guess.
I know in CA, at least, in order to reopen, bars had to have actual food service as well. So places like the dive bar in my town couldnāt open because they donāt even have a kitchen.
At this point Iām basically as useful as a coal miner in Kentucky and need someone to teach me how to code. Not sure how I can go back to my job of asking people what they want to eat and drink any time soon. My restaurant opened back up with a skeleton crew and didnāt hire me back, and my roommate who was hired back is working 50 hour weeks and walking 10 miles a day and is miserable. My Trumper buddy who runs his families restaurant business was actually nice enough to offer me a job working a weekend brunch shift until the end of summer and I had to turn him down. Too many ways it could go wrong and blow up in my face with not enough benefit so I guess Iāll be staying home on unemployment for the long haul.
Iāll be camping with my 11 year old this summer, looking forward to it. @microbet let me know if you know the good spots, Iām pretty new to this and am only really looking at developed campsites on recreation.gov.
If you plan on tent camping, there is a nice campground just outside Idyllwild in Mt Jacinto State Park. Tahqitz and Suicide Rocks are nearby.
Also J Tree has great tent camping, but you need to wait until September/October. (At least as someone from NH I canāt tolerate mid-summer in J Tree.)
Covid is currently bar and restaurant hopping like itās on a bachelor party where I live in MB . They are killing it money wise until they are out of work unpaid for 2-3 weeks.
Maybe Iāll start a thread when I get back. I have a friend who lives in Monrovia who has camped a lot in local spots and he gave me some recommendations. Weāre doing one of those. He also belongs to an outdoorsey socialisty organization that has a cabin in Idyllwild as well as a neat place right at the mountain edge of Sierra Madre that you and your may be interested in when itās ok to mix with others.
Backpacking is so much better than car camping. As a kid I loved the arcades and shit but nature and no one around is the best. Iām trying to get a kayak and get into camping on kayak/canoe trips but they are sold out and not in stock because of COVID shipping issues from China, etc.
Iām definitely trying to enjoy life as much as possible right now even though I have no money and my life is ruined. Not having to go to work every day and be pissed off constantly has made me really happy. My friends with real adult jobs, wives, and kids have nothing to do now so we get to go surfing together all the time.
Maybe Iāll start a thread when I get back. I have a friend who lives in Monrovia who has camped a lot in local spots and he gave me some recommendations. Weāre doing one of those. He also belongs to an outdoorsey socialisty organization that has a cabin in Idyllwild as well as a neat place right at the mountain edge of Sierra Madre that you and your may be interested in when itās ok to mix with others.