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Yes, but you'd need jeggings, the anti-mom jeans!

Very Nice. Thanks! I wouldn't expect that from you, all things considered. The truth of the matter is that I'm not a tall dude at 5'7" You labeled them Mom Jeans! Just using the vernacular! Those shorts are fashionably sheared sweatpants, embroidered with a USF Bulls logo. They are my favorite camping pants, and you'll see them in most of my TR's. What do you expect from a dude that wears a 29" length? But, they are comfortable, as I'm sure you're mom jeans are! http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/mom-jeans/229048/ Nice!

We've hit that snack bar often! Missed the museum, gotta go when it's just the wife and kids. Cool! Thanks. That's big company considering the TR's on the site. It was a lot funnier after it happened. You never really savor the moment whilst it occurs! Thanks! No, it's easy. You can book six months in advance online. We just get an extra month as a county resident. For instance, you can book up until June online. I can call or go in person and book July before it's available online, which would be next month. Thanks, next installment has some interesting pix.

That was weird. All the photos posted sideways. Hopefully you see them correct now!

Great. I gotta fix those photos!

Day Three: Music: Stones, all day Drink: Nothing, just some empty cans! Smell: Fresh sea air and old German Autos Whence upon a time when I was a wee MetalBrat, I camped at this very same campground. I was a young ‘en, and a guest at the tent of the Big Sister that is our guest on this very trip. Even then, our family’s greatest joy was to be parked in a circle around a fire. They sent me out to search for firewood. I came across a hunk of stump that I thought would burn marvelously. I tossed it on the fire and waited the flames to lick the big wood I tossed in. Smoke started to billow. The s

Thanks. I'm glad you've spent some time with us! Next update is now ready! Cool. we're gonna look into it! Hope some other fiends can join up. Technically it's still a fort, and we are fiends... 'Tis the season! We've experienced the convergance of a fall baseball season (son plays, I coach), two soccer seasons, shopping, and the slowing of the Florida flow courtesy of migratory fowl (i.e. snowbirds)!

Every time I see Lone-Star post, or now, seeing the cart, I hear Rick Moranis' voice as Dark Helmet in Spaceballs. "Loooone Star, I see your Schwartz is as big as mine." or my favorite... "So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb!"

I totally see nothing wrong with that outfit. I'm not a fan of the flip flops with socks look that's happening these days. Who would have thought that the trend would be plumber's crack saggy pants and "old ethnic grandfather gettin' the mail" chic footwear? What's next? Those sunglass goggles that go over your regular glasses?

I'm not sure what's in the bootleg Dr. Pepper, but I sure hope it has Riboflavin. Can't have enough Riboflavin. Or Partially Hydrogonated Glutenanny! I'm enjoying the BBS. Yes. Flintstones boxers. It says something like "Rocking your world caveman style". What's funnier is that when Ben and I stand next to each other, there's sort of this Fred and Barney visual. I noticed there is no Dr. Publix in the Diet variety, as there is also no Diet Pibb. There is Dr. Pepper Ten, where they added 10 calories and painted the can gun metal grey, and marketed to men. It's in the mix now! I hate those racc

Alright Stef, waiting for the photo! Might you folks be Forting over NYE? Sounds like it should be an interesting fiend roster. Pure chaos and hooliganery!

Day Two: Music: Greensky, k.d.lang, Boz Scaggs, BBS Drink: Nothing, just some empty cans! Smell: CB Hash, low tide and campfire Up at the crack. Dog’s gotta rock a feedbag and water the grass. We were facing west, so the sun rises behind us. We were so well shaded, it still looked a little like night in the site, but look at the trees across the water. A full-on beautiful day is heading our way! Recently , we started making a fire in the morning. It’s nice to sip coffee and start the day in the feeling of serenity that a good fire seems to create. Actually, I don’t drink coffee. Big Sister d

I took great care to make sure my recyclables were in a sound proof box, and made sure they were aluminum, as to not bother the rangers with the clinking sound sometimes made by empty glass bottles. There's a photo kicking around somewhere from the CG of a squirrel upside down emptying the last remnants from a can. Pretty funny. Doesn't seem to stop anyone here either. It does force discretion, and easily eliminates jerks! We did NYE a few years ago on a twofer, went a few days to Tropical Palms, went home to do laundry, and continued back to FDP for a few days. It's really a great park, c

Here's a photo of Bear Rock. It's the rock all the way to the right. It looks exactly like a bear. Especially after you've been drinking: That explains the Black Bear problem. It was probably night time, someone was hooched up, and was mauled by Bear Rock. May have even been me. It was probably Dave though.

Yes, it's an EP called Ahoy! It's pretty cool! Yes CG is dry, it's a county park. The NYE trip will be great, looks like there'll be a bunch'o'fiends there. We try to get there 2-3 times a year. We love it, although the ground is tough on a patio mat. We have 2 brooms in the camper because of the sandy/natural coquina sites.

Strap in. Here we go again with another MD camping adventure. Another fire-soaked campout chock-full of food, family, and absurdity. You in? Day One: Music: Badfinger & new Punch Brothers EP. Drink: Gatorade and Water! Smell: Canvas and Subway There’s nothing quite like autumn camping in Florida. It’s the time of year when we pull out our one pair of jeans, and that long sleeve t-shirt that makes it out a half dozen days a year, and the hooded sweatshirt seems to travel in the same circles as those jeans. We try to get a few trips in over the summer, but once we hit this season, we try t

But honestly, if you're gonna have a pilgrim hat, what better kind to have? (says METAL dad...)

In regards to the truck being back there, it's probably not the case here, but some people use this spot to load and unload carts into the pickup bed. There's a drop off between the dirt road and the canal. They park the truck at the bottom of the drop so that the ramp for the cart isn't so steep. I've seen it like 3 times and thought it was clever, plus the off-piste vehicle appeals to my rebel nature. Not that I'd ever have a vehicle out of bounds!!!

Heck yeah! Pg 4 baby! Nice to see shots of you guys at the site. Awesome that the Nativity is back, kinda hard to have Christmas without it! Have you fired up your seasonal disc yet? We played it friday by the fire!

This is awesome! Would love some more info on the place! The Rays gear looks so foreign in the snow! It'd be weird taking a roady and not pulling the popup. But, I'm willing to learn!

That's funny. I have been playing Be Our Guest at the beginning of the meal at most gigs I play for well over a decade, actually since about '95. I always thought it was funny that the lyrics said "try the grey stuff, it's delicious!". Now I know...there's Grey Stuff!

It said 9998 when I clicked and there was someone else in, I was either 9999 or 10k! Nice shootin' Tex!

One of the inherent problems of having humans in character costumes, is that they all are relatively the same size. I know there's not much way around it. It's kind of comical seeing Piglet and Pooh the same size. I love the detail of Christopher's uneven socks.

You gave up free tix for USF/UConn for this? What, are you new? And a parking pass??? You missed a chance to eat a Subway Cold Cut Combo on the tailgate of my truck for this? They serve Kronenborg...I'm OK with that. They're theming, it's not like they're tossing out Bud Light for the sake of selling beer. BTW, USF won, the Subway was great, and my son hit a woman with a football during tailgate catch. She deserved it, she was sitting within 100 feet of an 8yo!

I knew it was trouble when the tequila bottle was plastic, the brand name was Tortilla, and they said they lost it in their old camper several years ago, but found it when they went to sell it. I'm a dumbass. Thanks. I wear them on the 4 cold days we have each year. This is still the only place where you use your camper's heat and AC on the same day. We're heading to Ft. DeSoto Park for 4 days of camping with our group from church. Yes, I'm the MetalDad, and yes, I do go to church, but we're on the other side of the CG from the other 39 families, they're scared of me. Something about the devi