Do Not Gather Firewood

In 2017, we camped in Garner State Park with some friends and took a brief hike the next day.

You’re not permitted to use local “found” firewood, so one of the people with us brought a truck bed full of huge branches we spent a long time chopping into firewood on which to cook a very nice pot of camp chili.

Food you work for is supposed to taste better, but I mostly remember the work and the time, not so much the food. Even as I type I wonder if maybe the food was fajitas… 🏕️

A sparse tree with twisted branches on a hillside overlooking grasslands under a blue sky.
Jerry Towler @jatowler