Memorial Day Show in Boulder Cr. in the Santa Cruz Mountains

The show itself was a little slow, I came in about $350.00 under my average and with the gas being so much more I spent about a hundred each way for gas. Because of that I wont be making a trip up there untill Aug. for the Cabrillo Music, Art, and Wine show and then camp the week with my Grandkids during the week. On the way home I will be in the Cambria show I hope, because it's the only good one for me. So I drove up to Big Basin on friday night and even though the rangers said the campgroud was full, Sam the ranger I know did a count and found several sites open and I got one in Semperverns camp ground, site 188. Since my van was full I needed to set up my tent to be able to sleep. Sat there were no sites at all, so I drove to just outside the park and pulled to the back of a big turnaround. I waited untill it got dark to put up my curtains and was getting ready to crawl into my sleeping bag when a fairly large animal jumped up onto my hood and then onto my roof. It walked the full length of the roof then turned around and sort of pranced back, down onto my hood and was gone in a flash. I nevere saw it but in the morning there were some pretty large foot prints on my hood and roof. Because of my connections with cats it was a blessing from the big kitty. I think it was a bobcat or small mountain lion since both are found in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Sunday night I got a space in Blooms Cr. site 136 where Jesse and I camped with my grandkids a few years ago. I just slept in my van since it was already set up for it and I still had to worn one more day. Jesse didn't come to help me tear down and it took me untill after nine to get it all done. I had to go into Jonnies to get wood and kindling milk and a few other things for my camping trip. I didn't want to go into town for anything, oh yea and ice since by now the cold packs were not co9old anymore. So I got up to the ranger station late and my name was the only one on the board and they gave mne the camp site I had asaked for in Sempeerverns, 185. This site was the most premo site I've ever had, with a circle of Old Growth Redwoods around the site. I took many pictures and if I could download them onto my computere I woulod but they are not digital so I don't think I can. So on tuesday I got some neighbors across from me, the girld name in Jesse and her frient was Jim. We went on a long hike on thursday even though Jim and I have the same disabilities. We did ok on the hike up but on the hike back we were so slow and we were loosing light so it was kind of scarry, but we made it. It was a ten mile hike round trip. The nbext day I was only going to hike from the camp ground to Semperevern falls and back but once I got that far I wanted to go on and take the Redwood trail because it had been several years since I had done that. I rested a bit and hiked back to camp, took a long shower washed my hair and got ready to go Saturday. I had lots of trouble with the racoons this trip. One time they got inbto the top of my little cooler when I left it out all night. They took out my new box of chocolate and opened and ate all but three of the squares. The next night I was over at my neighbors camp and they opened the bottom of the cooler and ate all of one avacado and left most of the second, they left the onion and the potato alone. Oh yea they unzipped both the top and the bottom of the cooler without ripping it at all. So the next night, during the night they unzipped my tent and came into rummage through the food bags I had in there with me. They spilled my cereal, almonda abd crackers, oh yea and took one vitamine packet and ripped it open and ate the herb foti caps. Then if that wasn't enough they pulled the other plastic bag to the opening of the tent and went outside. The silly racoon was feeling around for the bag when he toughed my toe inside the sleepingbag, which was just enough to wake me and he wan off. I turned on my camp light and cleaned up the mess and threw out all the spilled food. secured the rest and went out to pee and back to sleep. All in all it was a super good trip and the Redwoods especially the Ood Growth Redwoods being my favorite trees in all the world were super wonderful to look up on every morning and night.