Local Flavor: Bingo Brook Camping, More Crazy Days

Oh, man. I hate to sound like a broken record, but the last two days were intense and very long, but fulfilling. I'm still digging-out from them so please don't be offended if you've been playing catch-up with me.

On the weekend the kids and Bonnie and I camped overnight at Bingo Brook and we got to swim in "Grendel's Mom's Pool" -- a beautiful little, deep pool just downstream from the camp sites that most folks seem to overlook because it's cold as a well-digger's...

Up Bingo way the forest is full of moss and stones and it feels like you're sucked into prehistory. It's lovely.

I'd thought to bring a copy of Tehanu from the Earthsea books with me as I knew it had a girl-dragon and witches and wildness in it and could persuade the kids to listen to it (they don't like stories about boys unless they're brought into them sideways) and so in the stopping-hours we paged through that aloud. Now we're reading the first book of Earthsea (about a boy) and I'm extremely pleased that they're the ones asking for it. This series was one of my favorites when I was a kid. Le Guin was quite the writer and I share her love of sailing, though I'm badly rusted as far as that goes.