Descriptive Essay : Camping Gone Wrong

After we got checked into the hotel we went to get supper from the lobby. It was a little after 11 before we had supper. Then we went to our room to get our things ready for the next day. Me,my mom, and sister got ready to go to bed but my dad and brother had to go because my brother was doing a softball camp and was not staying at the same hotel. Then me, my mom, and sister went to bed.

“Wait for me,”I said dashing towards my best friend, Megan and her mom, crunching all the leaves beneath my feet and trying to catch my breath.I will admit that Halloween is phenomenal but do you know what the best part is? Trick-or-treating.Ever since I came to know about Trick-or-Treating, I want to do it since it is my first time.Not only do I like Trick-or-treating because you get to have a lot of candy but also because it is a reunion of my friends and me, the cold weather gives me chills, and I get to see a lot of scary and beautifully decorated houses even some with fake graves.

Camping has a ton of great health benefits you will be able to reap. It isn't only something kids and teenagers would have fun doing, but adults as well. You'll find tons of jolly adults taking a break from their whole hell week of work to experience nature and peace. It's one of the reasons why traveling has become very popular nowadays! But camping isn't all about simply looking around the view and enjoying the s'mores, but it's also about having fun with your loved ones as well. May you be camping with your family or friends, you'll want to make sure that it's filled with fun and camping games for adults! But what are cool camping games for adults you can play while outdoors? Instead of the usual card games and spooky stories, we give you our top ten best camping games for adults to try out with your family and friends!

When I was taking a photo of the purple sky and two stretching lakes across the Bonney Pass in the Teton Mountains; I knew this place that I loved had transformed me into a better person and a more confident woman.

I put on a pair of jeans and walk downstairs into the dining room, there was a plate with frijoles, chorizo and tortillas waiting for me. My grandmother brings me my favorite drink, homemade chocolate milk. I sit down and across from me is my cousin Lesly. She was bored, she always was.

After a long drive we finally got to our shady camping spot. Before we did anything fun, my mom made us put our huge tent and then put away a ton of groceries right after we had been already waiting two hours.

The article “Camping for Their Lives” is written by Scott Bransford. The main idea that he was trying to get across to his audience was that when people cannot make ends meet, one might end up in an undesirable living situation such as tent cities as referred to in the story. In the beginning of the story, a couple from California named Marie and Francisco were introduced. Unable to afford a mortgage or lease, they took upon themselves and found a piece of land located in downtown Fresno. They gathered materials and made a home to the best of their abilities. Marie acknowledged that the way they lived was unorthodox but she did not complain. She made it clear that she wanted an actual home with appliances but she was grateful for what she had. People are blaming the

The growing homeless problem in the United States provides a problematic issue to resolve. In the article Camping for Their Lives by Scott Bransford, he explains to us what it’s like to be living in a tent city. The author discusses the circumstances of the makeshift homes that have increased in regularity on the Western Coast. He also relays the constant fear of government officials and lawlessness that comes along with living in these tent cities. The author’s thesis is that housing is no longer affordable in the United States. The homeless situation is a severe problem; however the author manipulates examples to portray a dire and unsolvable situation.

With a title such like “Camping for Their Lives”, one might think that the article will discuss people living completely on their own in nature, like a “Survivor” or a “Man vs. Wild”, but this title could be misleading. The article speaks about poor communities such as Hoovervilles, and how many people are scavenging and living in and out of tents just to survive. Camping for their Lives by Scott Bransford addresses a critical issue that in today’s world, and provides an emotional impact to those living in these communities, as well as statistics and expert opinions about these areas.

I was brought up in a broken family where education was not a priority. I was shipped around from relative to relative and eventually I ended up in being place a couple of group homes. I was what some might call a problem child. I once went to a wilderness camp, there I learned a lot about surviving of the land and team work. This started my love affair with the great outdoors. I am grateful for the lessons that were taught to me. I learned to hunt, fish, and live off of the land. There are all things that I continue to love in my life now.

Upon reading the title to the reading “Camping for Their Lives” by Scott Bransford, A lot of images come to mind as they do for many people. Whether it be family outings, military experience or just plain adventure. Scott Bransford takes a good long look at camping in a different way. The author’s topic is about tent cities and their homeless populations. He argues the struggles that they have with little or no help from the government and highlights a location in Central Valley California. The author structures the article well starting off with an example of a married couple that does not have enough money to sign a lease or take out a mortgage. He then goes into the day to day life and difficulties that are accustomed with living as a homeless person. He mentions statistics and the government’s temporary remedies to deal with the homeless population and the complications when imposing restrictions. The author goes into depth about the lack of jobs within the areas but does not go deep into the addictions, the crime networks that operate out of the areas nor the filth associated with enabling these tent cities to pop up.

The next morning, we went on the third floor to get my brother in law, sister, dad, younger brother, and John. On the way there, we started to get hungry so we stopped and ate at Steak and Shake. Eventually, we finally made it to the cabin and we all picked our rooms and relaxed for a little while. That night, my sister, mom, little brother, and I all went downstairs to the basement on the deck and got into the hot tub while the guys were playing pool.

It was in the late November and I was heading over to my friends house around 6 PM to go to a sleepover at my best friend Anthony's house. My dad said “don't sneak out tonight or anything like that.” So I nodded my head yes because he was my dad. When I got out my other friends Drew, Griffin, Bryan all said hi to me than we continued to go into the house to play some video games and we always have call of duty tournaments to see who is the best one. Than I won the call of duty tournament than we went to the movies around 7 than I remember it was a cheesy scary movie that wasn't that good but we messed around in it like ignorant the ignorant kids we were. So we got home around 9. Than we just played a couple of games of hide and seek in the pitch black house and all scared each other so bad. At one point in the game my friend griffin jumped out of the closest with a clown mask and i just about had a heart attack.

because of the love of a baby. Tommy Luck was known as "The Luck of

I walked into the small, cramped, shed-like room which had all the costumes, and choose a red and brown flannel with a small-brimmed brown hat to wear. It was so cold that day that I had also worn gloves, earmuffs under my hat and a plain black sweatshirt under my costume. I went out and set up my station by going into a small brown shed and grabbing a couple of big boxes filled with the type of candy I was assigned to give out that day, which was