Pre-Kamparoovian
Era
My first camping started
with my parents who camped and fished on weekendsall summer long
in Oregon, when I was 6 years old until the Second World War started.
We moved to Portland where my dad worked in the war industry.
I don't have any photos of those early camping trips but I started
camping again in the Boy Scouts and by age 15, I had completed
the camping merit badge.
These were
only a few of the requirements. Others included building a fire
by friction and constructing a two-person raft from natural materials
to carry scouts and their camping gear. Cooking meals on the camping
trips was also a requirement.
From 1962-1964
Norm, Shirley, Mike and Kristin spent a lot of time (16 out of
24 months) under canvas, or thatched roofs in Kenya, Uganda and
Tanzania. Some of the locations and accomodations are illustrated
below.
A 5-ton Bedford
truck was converted to a mobile lab for research and housed the
lab equipment but we and the crew lived in tents. This location
was in Northern Kenya near Baragoi.
Sleeping accomodations
along the Galana River next to Tsavo National Park, Kenya. The
kids always slept in insect and snake-proof tents. In this camp
Shirley killed a cobra that wandered into camp.
A quick hunting
camp in the Mara, Kenya
The dining
and work tent in the Semliki Valley, Uganda.
Shower---Semliki
style
Kriss and Mike
playing with an elephant skull in Queen Elizabeth National Park,
Uganda.
Back to North
America
Elk-hunting
camp in N.E. Oregon Nov. 1980
Same camp.
Gulkana River,
Alaska, 1992
Another choice
site on the Gulkana River. Site location was determined by the
distance to research sites of an eagle project.
Camping in
Mexico
Going "Spartan"
on Cedros Island in Mexico, 1983
Christmas 1973
at Cabo Pulmo, Baja Sur, Mexico
For a brief
period we had an Alaskan Camper. Loved it but 10 miles / gallon
with the truck had to go. Sonora, Mexico, 1985
Arizona and
other locations.
Kaibab National
Forest, AZ 1992
White Mts.
AZ
White Mts. AZ, 1997
Western AZ
research project entailed one or two-night stands every two weeks
for 6 years. Many times we just camped under open skies. 1980
Shade is often
all we seek when camping in AZ, like at San Carlos Lake. 1990
Santa Rita
foothills 1991 Cattle resented our choice of camp site.
At Chaco Canyon
in 2000. Note in the back ground the more sophisticated 1500 year
old dwellings under the cliff overhang.
In August 2003,Shirley
and Norm revisited a campsite where Norm started camping when
he was 6 years old and where his dad's ashes were scattered about
40 years ago.
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