06/30/11

As a side note, please remember that if you play in the rain by the ocean for a few hours and go back to your car to sleep, you’re clothes WILL still be wet in the morning.  Yep.  Soaked actually.  Oh, and you’re windows will be all steamed up…hopefully the other campers don’t notice since that would be a bit embarrassing!  It’s just me here!!  Nothing weird happened in ma’ car last night!  Promise!!!  AH!

1:20 pm:

Shilo Inn—Tillamook, Oregon.

Why am I here?  Well, I was going to stay at another State Park, but I wanted a cabin or yurt; unfortunately, those are all booked at least 9 months ahead of time.  I need a bed for at least a day.  Three nights in a row sleeping in my car is awesome, but I would like to just be able to sleep sleep without feeling all claustrophobic.  The guy at the registration booth tells me to head over to Tillamook which is only 12 miles from the park.  I of course asked him if I could bunk with whoever booked the yurts (no) or if he could change the name on one of them to mine (no).  Well, doesn’t evah hurt to ask, right?  He very much enjoyed it!  Unicorned!!

I check into the Shilo Inn and promptly fall into a deep sleep with ma’ boots on laying on the covers.  Whoop!  Yes.  Tired. 

Awake and groggy after a 2 hour nap, so I head to the indoor pool (!!!!), swim a bit to the weird looks from grandma swimming with her granddaughter…WHA??!  Then hang out in the Jacuzzi for a wee bit.  Back in the pool AGAIN then upstairs for some food!

I went out to have a cigarette…and was promptly scolded at by some crazy bird sitting on the roof of my car!  He just kept yellin’ at me and moving closer and closer to my face so I walked over across the parking lot to hang out there…and he proceeded to fly to the roof of the car next to me and begin yelling at me and moving closer and closer to my face!  What the hell, bird???!!  Ok!  Ok!  I’m going back in!  Sheesh!  And he follows me real low like as if he is going to kamikaze right into my brain!  And then I hear them…babies…in the tree right next to the hotel.  Ah!!!!  I see!  I ain’t gonna hurt your babies, dude.  Don’t worry!

This dance of Amber VS bird happened 3 times!  Me talking to the bird explaining that I wasn’t going to hurt its babies and him being all like, get away from my home you crazy person!!!!  Yea.  I was talking to a bird in the middle of a hotel parking lot while said bird gallantly tried to bombard me.  Stupid bird.  I don’t want to know what kind you are and what kind of stupid mystical connection you have with me.  Tsssssss!

And it’s Thursday tonight…which means my ladies are probably out socializing and dancing…without me.  (sigh)

Now sleep again.  I’m getting pretty good at this sleepin’ thang, huh?  Hopefully the bird won’t figure out how to get in the window and creep around me all night on it’s wee little feet………

06/29/11

UP! 

And this morning I am visited by a wee lil’ pig!  Or (ehem) what I thought was a pig by the sounds of it, but really it was just a hummingbird.  They totally sound like pigs when they flit aboot!  It was VERY interested in the fire pit and kept sticking it’s beak into the holes where all the ash was..why??!!  There was no fire (thank goodness!).

I have an amazing woman in my life that has an amazing husband and he has been sending me information on the birds of flight that I come across.  Here is what the hummingbird symbolizes:

“Hummingbirds: Tireless Joy and the Nectar of Life.  It has the ability to move its wings in a figure 8...infinity...links to past and future, cause and effect. Hummingbirds can’t exist without flowers and some flowers can’t exist without hummingbirds...extract your own nectar...use flowers for healing including scents, color and herbal qualities. Its swiftness reminds you to grab joy while you can. There are also connections to the faerie realm.
There is so much to talk about with the hummingbird....I will say that in the area you are now is a migration route from Alaska to Central America....some 2500 miles. The hummingbird is a symbol for accomplishing what seems impossible........so much more.”

So yea.  Hey there hummingbird! 

I need coffee.  Hot steamin’ coffee!  Safeway and Starbucks!  Nice!  And while I’m here I will get some groceries too!  Wheeeeeeee!!!  Then after that I will drink my coffee and eat my Joe’s O’s out of a coffee mug while sitting in my car.  Oh.  And if you eat cereal out of a mug you WILL see them fly all over the place because it’s not a bowl and they wanna escape onto the asphalt.  I don’t know why…they just do.

SEA LION CAVES!!!  I thought I missed it!  I didn’t!!!  Here they ARE!!  YAY!  And there are hundreds of them!!!  All hanging out on the rocks out front and then…you travel down 240’ into the bowels of the earth to see MORE of them loungin’ about in a cavern!  WOW! 

Driving.  And driving.  I need to do something.  Move.  So, Imma gonna hoop at this “Scenic View” parking area and I’m going to record it for all my lovies that may be missing me back home.  I’m in the grass, on a cliff, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  Perfect.

2:30 pm:

Another beach campsite!  YAY! 

This time I’m going to make a fire to keep warm and possibly cook some hot food on it…ahhhhhhh!  I got some firewood from the Camp Host guy.  Now THAT must be a sweet job, huh?  Just hanging out by the beach in your huge motorhome all summer selling wood to random strangers!  I would like that job.  Thank you.  He also gave me extra newspaper.  That was nice of him!

So here I am hanging out.  I just took a really long walk on the beach…I almost got lost…yes, tsssssss…you CAN get lost on a beach!  Come on now!  Pulling in to the campsite next to me is 2 SUVs and from said SUVs comes 10-12 girls in their early 20’s or so and wow, they are loud and giggly!  I walk over to the edge of my campsite and let them know that they are more than welcome to hang out over here since I have a corner site and it’s HUGE!  It’s like I have a backyard for my campsite!  I thought I was being nice…I’m pretty sure I didn’t look like a crazy person!  But what I got from them was blank stares and silence until one brave soul looked around at her friends, looked at me and said, “WOW!  Thanks!”…then everyone went back to setting up the tents.  Um…ok…I found out later on that they were super young and needed to talk about boys and boys, oh!  And boys and then the hilarious saying of “Oh snap” which they then proceeded to use with their next discussion of um…boys.  And they were loud!!  SUPER loud!  They kept me company though…I was eavesdropping, yea…of course!

And now it’s raining.  Pouring actually, and I’m bored.  I can’t leave the back of my car open anymore because the water is beginning to sneak into the back of the car and is trying desperately to get my pillow all wet.  So.  Cold, wet, bored=go hoop on the beach!  You can’t get any wetter and hoopin’ will warm you up!  YAY!  And it was awesome!!!!  Soaked right through!  Water streaming from my hair into my eyes. (heart)

And now?  Well now I need to go to sleep…on ma’ wet pillow, surrounded by my sopping wet clothes.  This calls for a bit of whiskey, ‘cause I don’t have a fire and I’m cold now.  Cuddlebug with two amazing bears (Boursin & Ted E.).  Sleep soundly.