Island Park Car Camping

Car camping is awesome if you plan it just right. Basically that includes these things:

1. Don't plan anything.
2. When you pack everything, throw it randomly and unevenly in the truck. 
3. Forget your sleeping bags, because hey, whats the extra two hours of driving in the middle of the night to retrieve them?
4. Bring all the food. All. The. Food.
5. Bring all the toys. All. The. Toys...bikes, pit bike, hatchet, chainsaw...
6. Have late night campfire talks.
7. Sleep in two hours later than everyone, and most importantly:
8. Do it after a backpacking trip. You'll have the need for serious and challenging adventure behind you for the moment, and you'll be ready to just relax with an ice cold capri sun that you just grabbed out of a humongous cooler of beverages. Oh yeah-
9. BEVERAGES.


I'd have to say that the bike ride was the best part. Full of beautiful snowy topped (Sawtell) mountains that met the spring green trees and that perfect feeling of solitude you get when you're with just a couple of close great people (the husband and brother-in-law). We biked up hill for around forty minutes at an easy incline. My only regret is that we didn't go a little bit further, where we think the top might have been after looking at where we went from a distance. Lack of water the whole way will turn you back though, and that was where we were at that point in the trail. Chuck would probably say the best part was the private fishing spot we found, where he caught the largest trout in his life. I guess another good part would be the girls. Girls! I always enjoy it when I'm not the only one. It's even more enjoyable when one of the two other girls there lived in the South, including Florida. Let's just say it had been a long long time since I was able to hold a conversation about how great muggy hot air is and how big and terrorizing the ants are there.