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Land Grab Weekend
Aug. 2nd, 2010 12:13 pmWe took off around 8am Saturday and took the 15N > 340 > 70W > 68W > 79N route to avoid the traffic slow-down before Breezewood and the reported delays on the PA Turnpike. Got to Cooper's Lake at 1:30 and sat on the Battlefield for a while. Saw lots of Atlantian stickers on cars and VA and MD license plates, but recognized only ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tashadandelion who is neither Atlantian nor VAian/MDer.
( Waiting on the battlefield. )
We trolled in around a quarter of 3 and found Ravenstreet in E05. Everyone else had set up their tents (they all drove up Friday) and were puttering about camp. Hubbyfink and I set to putting our pavilion up. For some reason, we were both pretty brain fried and the set-up took way longer than it should have. But we were in good spirits and continued our promise of being sweet to each other during set-up. (Packing the truck on Friday was not quite so sweet.)
After a couple of hours, everything was out of the truck and in the pavilion. We were ready to visit a few other camps. We grabbed Sian for the joyride and, after dropping Wulfwyn's parcel at Royal, headed over to N31 so Hubbyfink could visit withpaleobob while Sian and I checked in on Ponte Alto. We assisted azpapillion, weebaby, and Brigid with setting up Plastic Fantastic and learned many interesting uses for ball snuggers. We then took a leisurely drive around the lake, accidentally going the wrong way on one-way streets, and wound back up in camp.
Hubbyfink and I then wandered up towards the food court for dinner. En route, we found the Revival Clothing team in need of assistance with setting up their pavilion and helped out for a bit. While dining, we visited withmake_your_move and her campmates. We wandered off and crossed paths with nq3x and rh_intern and learned the tale of woe which was their day of travel. Oof. We continued down Battle Road looking for pinkleader, but alas her camp was empty. The kitchen garden looked pretty spiff, though. We continued on to Stierbach and visited with His Excellency, Ignacio, and Blitha until dark. We headed home and stopped to say hi to thatpotteryguy, smiep, and jljonsn. Our last local encounter was herveus who was in very good spirits and who talked about very good spirits. :) We got back home to Ravenstreet and stayed up visiting with our campmates. I eventually got chilled and decided to head towards bed. But I noticed our back-door neighbor was home and said hi to stitchwhich. We wound up staying up even later chatting and laughing with her.
I have a hard time sleeping the first night at Pennsic despite how physically and mentally exhausted I am. I thought ahead this time and brought along Tylenol PM to knock myself out. It eventually worked and I got a full night's sleep. Something else that helped was the chilly temperature which kept the crunchy beetles away. We had no bugs in bed with us all night. Yay!
Sunday dawned just as beautifully as Saturday had set. The humidity was fairly high, but the temps were low and the breeze was steady. Loading the camp's storage unit into the rental truck and unloading the gear into camp went VERY quickly. Setting up the dining tent also went fairly quickly. We started slowing down with the kitchen tent and dining fly as the humidity crept even higher, though. But we eventually had enough of the camp infrastructure in place that Hubbyfink and I were able to leave guilt-free at 2:30. ( I snapped a photo of our pavilion just before we left. )
We took the 79S > 76E > 70E > 340 > 15S route back home and hit the Amaranth delay where we sat for about 45 minutes. But we still managed to get home around 7:30. We were both clean and shiny and relaxed before "True Blood" aired.
tashadandelion who is neither Atlantian nor VAian/MDer.( Waiting on the battlefield. )
We trolled in around a quarter of 3 and found Ravenstreet in E05. Everyone else had set up their tents (they all drove up Friday) and were puttering about camp. Hubbyfink and I set to putting our pavilion up. For some reason, we were both pretty brain fried and the set-up took way longer than it should have. But we were in good spirits and continued our promise of being sweet to each other during set-up. (Packing the truck on Friday was not quite so sweet.)
After a couple of hours, everything was out of the truck and in the pavilion. We were ready to visit a few other camps. We grabbed Sian for the joyride and, after dropping Wulfwyn's parcel at Royal, headed over to N31 so Hubbyfink could visit with
paleobob while Sian and I checked in on Ponte Alto. We assisted azpapillion, weebaby, and Brigid with setting up Plastic Fantastic and learned many interesting uses for ball snuggers. We then took a leisurely drive around the lake, accidentally going the wrong way on one-way streets, and wound back up in camp.Hubbyfink and I then wandered up towards the food court for dinner. En route, we found the Revival Clothing team in need of assistance with setting up their pavilion and helped out for a bit. While dining, we visited with
make_your_move and her campmates. We wandered off and crossed paths with nq3x and rh_intern and learned the tale of woe which was their day of travel. Oof. We continued down Battle Road looking for pinkleader, but alas her camp was empty. The kitchen garden looked pretty spiff, though. We continued on to Stierbach and visited with His Excellency, Ignacio, and Blitha until dark. We headed home and stopped to say hi to thatpotteryguy, smiep, and jljonsn. Our last local encounter was herveus who was in very good spirits and who talked about very good spirits. :) We got back home to Ravenstreet and stayed up visiting with our campmates. I eventually got chilled and decided to head towards bed. But I noticed our back-door neighbor was home and said hi to stitchwhich. We wound up staying up even later chatting and laughing with her.I have a hard time sleeping the first night at Pennsic despite how physically and mentally exhausted I am. I thought ahead this time and brought along Tylenol PM to knock myself out. It eventually worked and I got a full night's sleep. Something else that helped was the chilly temperature which kept the crunchy beetles away. We had no bugs in bed with us all night. Yay!
Sunday dawned just as beautifully as Saturday had set. The humidity was fairly high, but the temps were low and the breeze was steady. Loading the camp's storage unit into the rental truck and unloading the gear into camp went VERY quickly. Setting up the dining tent also went fairly quickly. We started slowing down with the kitchen tent and dining fly as the humidity crept even higher, though. But we eventually had enough of the camp infrastructure in place that Hubbyfink and I were able to leave guilt-free at 2:30. ( I snapped a photo of our pavilion just before we left. )
We took the 79S > 76E > 70E > 340 > 15S route back home and hit the Amaranth delay where we sat for about 45 minutes. But we still managed to get home around 7:30. We were both clean and shiny and relaxed before "True Blood" aired.
