Trail mix...check! Sleeping bags...check!

Hey, Matt and I are leaving tomorrow morning for our annual Labor Day camping trip to Hillside Campground in northern Pennsylvania (30 miles south of Binghampton, NY).

This will be our seventh or eighth trip(?) It takes five hours driving to get there. Car food and bottled water and anticipation.

This is a gay men's campground and the setting is literally a wooded hillside of about 150 acres, gravel switchbacks cut into it; a stream and waterfall and bridge down below.

There are numerous "permanent" campers who have camping trailers, decks, patios, fireplaces, bars, big screen TV's and all manner of other comforts.

There are also other sites where guys pitch tents, cook on Coleman stoves and eat at picnic tables.

We stay on Site 60 - a group site of 20 or so tents and usually a smattering of guys we've met over the years.

There is an outdoor kitchen where Matt prepares Food Network-quality meals (this weekend's menu includes Grilled Flank Steak Pinwheels, Asian Halibut and Brown Rice Packets and Roasted Corn Quesadillas).

At night there is a disco dance and bonfire at the Rec Hall.

Cocktails have been consumed at brunch (cooked on the propane grill or stove), and naps have been taken in the afternoon.

Sunday is the USO Party with free keg beer and drag show. This is a theme party and military attire is most appropriate especially the "look" prevalent during WWII.

The nudists don't wear anything. (It's fun hanging out with them -so to speak - at the bonfire.)

So tonight's task is to move everything from inside our house into the back of my truck. We need the backseat, too (it's a 4 door Tacoma).

I better get busy.

I'll blog to you next week. Have a great Labor Day break!

DG
CO