Many people have probably watched videos of the tsunami that hit Japan a half dozen years ago. Some people describe the shoreline pulling out to sea just before the tsunami hits. Sometimes they talk about an eerie silence. I guess that is easy to explain: as the shoreline pulls away from you, the usual sound of waves on the shore is further away from you.
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Today I was trying not to surrender to Fear and Dread about the upcoming holiday since there should be one more day of normalcy, it seemed.
It was late morning and yet the wind was not howling. The morning outflow of campers was already over. The campground had an eerie silence to it. I turned the engine off so I could just soak it in. It was a precious moment and deserved to be honored.
Then suddenly, without any warning, cars started driving into the campground. Their driving wasn't blatantly aggressive, but somehow it seemed menacing. Oh no, here it comes! I thought it would hold off until tomorrow. That perfect moment of peace was over. The horror of a holiday in Coloraduh had begun.
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The two campgrounds I host go reservation-only on Friday, for the first time, so there’s a lot of nervousness about how it will go. Before then I just have to make sure the first-come campers don’t pay past tonight. They won’t get refunds. There are signs but you know how people don’t read them.
Would that kind of camper also plan out the next month for the times they are going to make love to their wife?
There are merits to both sides of the camping reservations debate. But it’s the new normal in many overcrowded campgrounds and I don’t expect it to revert to the way it was.