Maine is a beautiful state. My BiL is from there, and he and my sister lived there for about 8 (?) years. Both my nephew and niece were born there.
I’d love to go back some day.
I went to a sleep away camp for several weeks in the summer for, IIRC, one summer at one camp, then a gap, then a couple of summers at another camp. I don’t remember anything Gucci about it; I remember double-decker cots which we made up ourselves, eight or ten kids plus a couple of counselors to a cabin. There are a lot of variations, and some sleep-away camps are pretty bare bones (though we did have actual cabins, not just tents.)
– I just looked up the one whose name I remember. Apparently it was abandoned in 1995. From what I can tell of the pictures taken by somebody who toured it fifteen years later, portions of it may have been a bit ritzier than I remember; but I wouldn’t have been impressed at the time by how high the ceilings were in what to me was just a big wooden cafeteria room. I wouldn’t have thought of horses as ritzy, either, because I lived in farm country and a lot of people, including farmers with very little money, had horses. And my memory was apparently right that the cabins and bathrooms (bathrooms in a separate building some distance behind the cabins) had no electricity.
Until the last models- which kinda really werent saturns at all- they were great cars. I gave my SC2 to my wife, it is her back up car, and runs great.
When i was in scouts, we had summer camping trip, for like a short week. Tents with wood floors, cots, wood fired stoves, running water and porta potties. Kinda rustic.
In the automotive loyalty poll, a grand total of 6 (out of a total of 65) votes went to a U.S.-based manufacturer (and 5 of those 6 went to Ford).
mmm
My last two cars have been Nissans so I guess that counts as loyalty.
I’m actually a second generation overnight-camp go-er.
My step-mother had very fond memories of attending camp in Geneva Glen, Colorado. So my brother and I went for the years I was 11-12 (Knighthood I and II). For the summer I turned 13, I was prepping for my Bar Mitzvah and after that, I was mostly working on academic pre-prep for College and events.
Considering the Cost, it was quite a luxury to attend, especially considering the time it took to get too/from the Camp from our home in Southern NM, but it was a fun couple of weeks.
I have fond memories of the place, though with some of the Colorado Wildfires in the last couple of decades, I’d worry.
If only Peccavi had been on the list…
It’s possible that I think I know the origin of somebody’s name but I’m wrong.
I can remember the discussion of the origin of WOOKINPANUB’s name; previously I had thought it was some sort of dyslexic wookie in a pub.
I went to Boy Scout camp nearly every summer. After I was old enough to mow lawns, I would earn enough money to attend additional weeks as part of the Auxiliary Troop. At the age of sixteen, I was a CSD (Camp Staff Development). Seventeen and eighteen, I worked at camp.
I loved summer camp.
I have preferences among those spices for particular foods; but I like all of them in suitable contexts. Not sure whether I should vote “no preference” or not, and there isn’t any “other” option, so didn’t vote.
Which is one of the brands I would not buy.
I don’t get brand loyalty. Models come & go, or get redesigned into something different (usually upsized, upscaled, & up-priced) every couple of years. I want a new vehicle that meets my checklist of requirements. The last two cars I’ve owned aren’t even made anymore; they’ve discontinued those models so I can’t just go & buy the current version of the same thing again. If you have a vehicle that meets my requirements then I’ll look at it. If not, I won’t. Just because you made something I may have liked x years ago doesn’t mean your reputation hasn’t slipped or that your current lineup is what I’m looking for.
Case in point, hardly anyone makes a sedan anymore. If you last four cars were a sedan from ___; would you get a sedan from someone else (assuming that’s the style you want) or go back to your old stallwart but be forced into an SUV that you don’t really want.
I have purchased all kinds of different cars during my lifetime mostly based on availability and convenience.
I am planning on buying a Toyota Corolla as soon as my town is done tearing up the roads.
I do not want an SUV.
I want a sedan and they are one of the few that still manufacture them.
Seems to me that no preference fits. I like all of those spices but it depends on the dish. I voted no preference
I voted for one of them, but i agree that it depends on the dish.
I know little about my fellow posters. If you are a expert in XXX, I usually wouldnt remember it. QtM and Northern Piper are two exceptions,
Good, I’ve moved on from my prior career as a movie star. 
I don’t remember the background of most posters or the origin of their names (despite reading threads about it). Of the list given I knew 8 of the name origins. That’s a much higher batting average than I would have with posters as a whole.
I hate to be that guy BUT - the ‘pelican’ part of #1 Alligator Pelican is obviously not a pelican. It looks to me like a female mallard duck, although I see many fewer mallards than I do pelicans.
What frightens me?
The AI takeover of all things artistic and aesthetic.