Something Else to do While Camping

Also in that bag of tricks, from this post, would have been at least one of these. Most likely, several of them. These were my childhood, so were these, & these. Really any from the appropriately aged rack section. After I worked my way through these, I began plowing through these. For some reason I never even heard of these, & therefore never had the chance to long for them.

Reading & books were what my childhood was made of. We held paper & spines & (at least for me 😂) tried really hard not to crease anything & mess it up. I didn't like anything out of place. Though most of the library's books were hard back & already had their spines broken plenty. I was a slow reader & still am. Though a beauty of reading was, & still is, that each paragraph, each page, can be read as slowly, or as quickly, as the reader needs to for their own, personal comprehension.

I would kick back, often poised on my stomach, with my legs up in the air, entwined in one another. And I would just keep on turning the page. Page after page. And suddenly, I'd have finished reading another from my stack.

This one is one that I specifically remember reading while camping; I remember reading it while riding in the family minivan, our source of transportation while on the road with the camper, it having the hitch attached to it & all.

That summer the minivan was particularly struggling & we'd have to add coolant at certain intervals. A memory of mine, for some reason, ended up being of me reading this. I think it's because my eye sight took a turn in the school year following this summer break & I then tested in need of eyewear. I'd remembered my complications with focusing on the book's print while reading it, while riding in the minivan. I'm sure that it was all meant to be, although at first I often did "blame" my having read while the minivan was in motion as a direct relationship to my failed vision.

I continued reading plenty while on our family camping trips, although I stuck much more toward reading at the campsite or while waiting on the family to finish something; while we'd be in line somewhere (much as many people scroll through their smartphones today).

And though my reading seemed to directly impact my vision at the time, my vision became that of nearsightedness, & I began my prescription for seeing things far away, not for "readers".

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