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August 1 2005
So, ok, I finally went camping, out there in the boonies, in the middle of nowhere, and camped at the site.
So this is how my trip went:
UNREAL! O.k. we arrived at the pull-off right before dawn. I found an easier way to get to the mannor, staight down a trail. It was me ,a buddy , and of all people, my dad.
We were all carrying something, I had a lantern, Buddy had the tent and a chainsaw, dad had two chairs. Anyway, Dad was following me on down the trail, but for some reason there is like branches and branches of trails, that all look alike really.
Anyways, eventually the trail I was on faded to straight woods, and disappeared all together. I'm really feeling smart with me and my dad lost off the trail. Long story short, it was finally starting to get day, and when we could see the woods a little better we found the place.
First things first, we made a fire. Buddy used the saw and cut some of the vines and trees away from the gazeebo, from inside the house, here and there.
I picked up some of the garbage I was disgusted seeing laying around everywhere. Come on people, don't litter. The place is slowly getting torn apart, by people knocking bricks off the remaining walls,and people tearing piece by piece, hoping to discover something. Let it be, it's bad luck to take anything from them woods, much les the manor. I noticed that the place is almost hidden, unless you are standing close-by. Ivy covers the manor, gazeebo,well houses,and the surrounding trees. It's more visible in the winter time. It's like the woods are trying to hide the remains, it all blends together now.
I had a flash light checking out the well/out house, and discovered spiders that made my skin crawl. I never once went inside either of the brick well houses. They are infested.
Later on my dad left to go pick up a friend of ours. They came back about dark .... yeah. They stayed for 2 hours or more, and then said they had to head out of the woods. So I gave them a flashlight, and even asked my dad if he needed me to walk them up the trail, because ut was dark, and might take the wrong one. He said he done had been lost out here once, and had seen the trail in daylight, they'd find it. So, I believed them.
Well, about 40 minutes later, I thought I was tripping or something, I thought someone called my name, but very faintly, from afar.
I asked Buddy, if he heard that,and he shook his head yeah. So we listened, and sure enough, they was hollering for us.
I asked where in the world was he yelling from, so I followed Buddy. Eventually, we found them. Dad had pulled a muscle in his leg. And now we were all lost. So buddy found the fire at the site, and re-traced the trail, then pulled a truck into the woods as far as possible,and my dad was struggling to the truck. Then we about got stuck and couldn't hardly turn back up the hill. About three hours went by from the time they got lost, and the time we got out of the woods.
So later on I was sitting outside the tent, looking directly above me, was a tree with ivey leading almost to the top. The tree was leaning, warped over. But I was thinking, I sure hope a spider doesn't drop down on me. As soon as I droped my head, looking away, I felt something hit my hair, so I swiped it off, and looked on the tent, and sure enough, an eight legged-mutated corpsewood spider was looking back at me.
So I went inside the tent,and zipped it up, and actually fell asleep. Come morning, I was hungry, ready for breakfast, ready to leave. So we was gonna go get some breakfast, and come back and pack up. We went up the trail,got in the car, turned the ignition, and no turn, no sound, no lights. Dead battery.
I was figuring from the get-go before starting this trip, something to happen. I don't suppose I'd have it any other way, it's the place, it's luck. I was still not 100 % ready to accept the fact of being broke-down, in a place I really didn't want to breakdown at. I thought I took two steps ahead,and brought a cell phone. So we went to call a friend, and the battery in the phone was dead as well...
Now I accepted the fact real quick, and didn't much like it at all. I told Buddy I didn't have no problem walking up out of the woods,road and all. So, we did. We walked all the way from the site, off the dirt road, onto mountain view, then halls valley, to our friends.
That was my camping trip out there, I knew it was a bad idea from the get-go.
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