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| Camp in a California wilderness
Camp in a California wilderness "It was like lying in a great solemn cathedral, far vaster and more beautiful than any built by the Fragrance Potpourri hand of man," wrote Teddy Roosevelt,变压器, of camping in Yosemite Park.At about 4 am, after hours of being unable to sleep; of shivering in the cold mountain air – despite going to bed fully dressed and with a wool hat pulled down over my ears – and trying to silence my crying kids who kept waking up and whimpering in the chill; of futilely attempting to find a position on the air mattress that didn't send my lower back into spasms; of listening to sounds that might or might not have been a bear sniffing around outside our tent, I finally couldn't stand it any more. I simply had to pee. Gritting my teeth, I turned on a flashlight, put on my shoes, unzipped the Fragrance Potpourri door of my tent, stumbled out into the night, and made a dash for the pit-toilet at the edge of the camp site.There was no bear. But there were an impossibly large number of stars twinkling above. I peed, ran back to my tent, and half-slept till dawn. Hours later, as the sun crept up over the edge of the awesome Lassen peak – the jagged relic of a powerful volcanic explosion that strewed boulders over hundreds of square miles – in the Fragrance Potpourri remote northeast of California, I pulled my sleeping bag over my head and whined exhaustedly that "everything has gone wrong."Like so many other grouchy early morning, pre-coffee utterances I make, this one was ludicrously off-key. Things weren't wrong; they were right. Topics related articles： When Love Beckons You Camp in a California wilderness The fawn who misses the class |
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