Well she tried anyway... At some point in the night the dragon decided she wanted more adventure and started rolling slowly down the hill in Dan's neighborhood - creeping quietly into a curb across the street fouling her plans...
We were rudely awakened by a knock on the door at 8:30AM - by a cop none the less. He must have thought we were drunk and parked it awkwardly on the curb and street. The dragon does what the dragon wants and nothing more... I learned that while they were at Crater lake the dragon refused to continue on - the accelerator pedal as useless as a parachute in a submarine. She continued her stubborn ways until they climbed under and rubbed her belly; using a shoelace to fuse the two ends of the accelerator cable that had snapped until a more permanent repair could be made...
A quick pack and we were off - headed for the Redwoods of Northern California! We made our way to Crescent City and scored parking at an overlook of the beach, ocean, and city lights to the north. A brisk starry skied stroll on the beach and we could see a fire in the distance so we meandered over. We found Brandon and his friend Patrick tending the fire, but they saw Justin's headlamp as we approached and mistook us for Cops and threw their pipe 30 ft and it hit a rock and broke... We offered beer for their misfortune and we exchanged stories for a while. It was a picture perfect beach fire - and we had enough driftwood near us to last a year...
We grabbed all the essentials; guitar, sleeping gear, tarp, etc and celebrated our good fortune. Sam announced that there would be a zero percent chance of rain but the pacific would undoubtedly prove otherwise... I soon found myself on the open end of a tarp taco - and this proved I could sleep with a death grip on the tarp listening to the raindrops beat against it, in a comfortable sleeping bag on the loose sand underneath me and drifted away in a peaceful sleep warmed by the fire battling nobly against the insistent rain...
The tarp taco actually worked well - only the exposed edges were a bit wet. The rain continued and the next day was spend indoors at a starbucks taking safe harbor from an all day down pour. We bunkered down for the night at an overlook just down the road from where we slept on the beach. The rain gave us an excuse to bust out our tarps and sleep in the hammocks. As it was our first time setting up the tarps - and doing so in the rain it took longer than we thought but it didn't come out half bad.
Rain or shine we were going to see the Redwoods the following day...
I love your guy's tarp taco! Awesome set up!
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