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8CitizenSoundcheckThe ONLY guide of its kindfor the NB/SM Metroplex!

4Due Process

City loses in appeals court. Agai n.

7Photo Gallery Midway Madness!

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1st Word4-B's latest scam, CountyClerk's Office learns i t 'ssubject to Federal Law, and

HZ spins big to cover upCity Hall loss at Third Courtof Appeals. Plus other stuff.

6 On Occasion A Farberer Four th .

Last WordColby continues to vacation.

Continues to draw a paycheck by chronicling his travels.

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4-B Coffers OpenWide for RushEnterprisesThe 4-B Board is seekingCouncil approval of a plan

to give Rush Enterprises (2014

Revenues $4.7 Billion) nearly a

million bucks to stay here in town.

According to 4-B President Bob “Pennwise”

Grey, Rush (2014 Revenues $4.7 Billion) has

not threatened to leave. Rush (2014 Revenues

$4.7 Billion) has not asked for the money. 4-B

just wants to give Rush (2014 Revenues $4.7Billion) $800,000. In return, Rush (2014

Revenues $4.7 Billion) has to promise to stay

in town for the next ten years, and not cut its

workforce by more than 25 percent. WHAT

MANNER OF TOMFOOLERY IS THIS?

Why 4-B is trying to weaken Rush (2014

Revenues $4.7 Billion) with this massive

handout remains a mystery. Meanwhile, the

political party that most 4-B members belong

to continues to oppose food stamp programs

because they devitalize people.

“Welfare: Good for billion-dollar

businesses. Bad for poor people.”

For the record, we oppose all welfare,

so don’t go painting us with that Commie

brush again.

Comal County Clerk’s Office

Waits for Local OK to Complywith Federal Law While the Supreme Court ruled last Friday, June

26, that same-sex couples had a legal right to

marry, the County Clerk’s Office, out of an

abundance of caution, refused to issue special,

federally mandated gay marriage licenses until

America’s Hottest District Attorney™, Jennifer

Tharp, handed down her shocking ruling that

United States law applied not only to the UnitedStates, but to Comal County as well. Tharp’s

reckless action opens the door for other United

States laws to gain a foothold locally.

The so-called “Q Licenses” finally

became available to the Comal County gay

on Monday, June 29. In unrelated

news, a statue of a woman,

constructed entirely out of salt,

has been placed at the Seguin/New Braunfels city limits by the

local Taliban chapter.

Here’s Who Decidesif You Get a Property Tax

Discount - Bring them a Pieor SomethingLast week, we reported that certain

connected people had pretty sweet deals ontheir property taxes, while their neighbors

did not. Turns out, you have to request those

arrangements, and the neighbors didn’t do

that. We’re betting they ask next year. We’re

betting YOU ask next year. Just so you know,

the people that hold the keys to kingdom on

this one are not County Appraisal District

employees. The Appeals Board consists of:

Hal Herbelin

Cynthia S. Bennett

Ann Alston

Barry Power

Jim Binkley

Donna Schmidt

Joe Kuehler

Cynthia Griffin

Dick Lubel

We’ll have their property tax data, and

that of their neighbors, for you next week.

HZ Reports City Hall Loss in Appeals Cour t as a WinThis is great. The City asked the Third Court of

Appeals to toss the towing/violation of Open

Meetings Act case against it out lock, stock,

and barrel. Much to City Hall’s chagrin, the

court agreed to throw part of it out (the part

where the City appealed), denied the motionto dismiss, and sent the rest of the case back to

Dib Waldrip’s District courtroom. This is nothing

short of a smackdown from the Third COA.

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COA Sends City Back toDistrict Court The Third Court of Appeals refused the City

of New Braunfels’ request to dismiss a lawsuit

brought against it by three towing operators.

However, the court did dismiss the City’s

jurisdictional appeal, thus sending the case

back to the District Court.

While the case was still in pretrial motions,

the City had appealed, arguing on the grounds

that the District Court had no jurisdiction to hear

the case. New Braunfels’ argument was that

the City was immune to lawsuit on the matter

because the issue of towing contracts concernspublic safety issues. District Judge Dib Waldrip

disagreed, ruling that the court could hear the

suit, prompting the appeal.

As the appeal lingered in the Court of

Appeals for more than a year, the City asked

Appeals to dismiss the case.

The towing operators, however, argued

that Appeals could not dismiss the case

because the City had filed an interlocutory

appeal on the jurisdictional issue, thus the

court could only rule on the matter before it.

The Third Court of Appeals concurred, thus

sending the case back down to the trial court.

Comal Towing, JJ Towing and Pro Care

Wrecker Service filed the suit in 2013 in

response to the City’s 2012 decision to change

the way it selected non-consent towing operators

within New Braunfels. Prior to that decision,

several towing companies shared those dutieson a rotating basis. The City decided to alter

that arrangement and award the contract to a

single company. In the eleventh hour, however,

City Council decided to award contracts to four

companies instead of just one.

The operators filed suit, arguing that

they did not apply for the single contract

because it would be too demanding to be

the only towing company responsible for all

non-consent tows. Were they told that theCity was going to award the contracts to

four companies instead of one, the operators

said, they would have submitted bids. The

crux of their argument is that Council violated

competitive bidding laws by not notifying

them that it had altered the system to allow

four companies, especially since some of the

companies did not meet the City’s minimum

criteria set down in its Request for Proposals.

As well, the companies argue that Councilviolated the Texas Open Meetings Act.

In its motion that Appeals dismiss

the lawsuit, the City argued that since the

previous towing contracts were no longer in

effect, and since the City decided on May 1

to return to a rotating schedule, the point of

suit is now moot and should be dismissed.

Since the three companies were not

asking for financial relief, but only that the City

void the offensive system and reissue bids, the

City said in its motion to Appeals that “the relief

sought is to prevent and control future action,

not for anything allegedly lost in the past. The

future action is now dictated by the ordinance

which moots their claims for allegedly not

following competitive bidding requirements.”

However, in their response, the operators

pointed out that the City did not actively end

the system that prompted the suit, but that thecontracts simply expired.

In a single paragraph judgment, the

Third Court of Appeals said that the City’s

motion should be “granted in part.”

“They agreed with the City in part,

meaning that they will send the case back

down,” said Dan McCarthy, lead attorney for

the towing operators. “But they didn’t have a

finding whether the City was correct in their

jurisdictional argument, as to why it should

go back down. They just said, ‘OK, you want

it to go back down, go back down.’

“In other words, it’s as if we never went

up to the Appeals Court at all,” he said.

McCarthy explained that the next step

will be for the Third Court of Appeals to send a

mandate to Waldrip. After the judge receives

the mandate, the case will then be reset.

The City can certainly argue for thedistrict court to dismiss the case, but there is

no guarantee that the court will do so.

New Braunfels City Attorney Val Acevedo

did not return attempts seeking comment.

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Continued from page 3.

Here’s how the Herald-Zeitung reported

that smack (emphasis ours):

“An appeals court on Wednesday

allowed the City of New Braunfels to drop

its appeal against three towing companies

who had won a legal ruling against the

municipality last year in a local court.”

Heheh. “Allowed”.In other HZ news: VICTORY FOR LOCAL

MOTORIST - Rather than dismissing speeding

ticket, municipal judge allows local man to

pay fine.

HZ Throws Local BusinessUnder Bus, then Parks BusOn June 24, the HZ reported on a new law

passed in response to a creepy act by a creepyguy at an “area lingerie store”. The words

“New Braunfels” are mentioned four times in

the piece. Since there’s only one lingerie shop

in town, and the creepy act didn’t happen at it,

personnel from (TX Citizen advertiser) The Perky

Peacock called the HZ to find out WTF they

were talking about. Turns out, the HZ’s crime

writer (who writes exclusively for New Braunfelsreaders) considers San Antonio, where the

creepy act took place, to be “the area”.

From now on, keep in mind that when

area restaurants and area law enforcement

and area high school football teams and

area men charged with human trafficking

are referenced in the HZ, they could be

anywhere from 30 to 65 miles away.

Apparently the HZ was so packed with

news over the next few days that it was

impossible for them to issue a clarification to

story, and since it would take FOREVER to

update the Internet version of the story, we’re

going to take care it for them. You know, as

an olive branch and whatnot:

NEWS- The creep that dressed up

as a woman and shot upskirt videos that

prompted a new improper photography law,

did it at La Cantera.Whoa. That was… taxing. Now I

understand why HZ staff didn’t do that

themselves. I need a nap.

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A Farberer FourthHistorically, our celebrations on the Fourth

of July are marked by comestibles and

combustibles. We will dig into severalpounds of meat, pie, beer and opium, all

while watching explosions.

The road to America’s independence was

a long and complicated one. Both the colonists

and Parliament had legitimate complaints

about one another: the colonists acted like

bitchy teenagers who hated everything while

English officials were snotty. On July 2, 1776,

the Second Continental Congress voted to

declare the colonies independent from Britain.Two days later, they approved the wording of

Thomas Jefferson’s famous document.

Now we spend part of this day making

stuff ‘splode.

I have often wondered why we use

fireworks to celebrate both the Fourth and the

new year. Certainly they are pretty to look

at and fun to play with, but why the use of

miniature yet-still-dangerous explosives?

Confusingly, there is evidently some typeof etiquette involved. I once asked my mother if

we could use fireworks for Christmas. She said

no, because it would be “tacky.” Ever since,

I have equated Christmas fireworks to hillbilly

behavior, launched to celebrate Jesus while

swiggin’ shine from a jug with the sister-wife.

Personally, I like to think we use fireworks

to frighten off evil spirits.

When I was younger, you could buy

fireworks practically anywhere: the grocerystore, five-and-dime, church bazaar or

pharmacy where you bought your over-the-

counter opium. I usually bought my fireworks

from the ice cream truck.

There were also few rules regarding

fireworks. At the time, you could light them

within the city limits before someone had a

moment of clarity and realized there seemed

to be a lot more fires on the Fourth of July.

You can’t really get bottle rocketsanymore, so some of you younger people

may not know what they are. A bottle rocket

was a firecracker glued to a stick. When lit,

the bottle rocket would launch upward and

then explode. They were a lot of fun, but their

trajectories were entirely unpredictable.

One Fourth, a few friends and I were

launching bottle rockets, but it was getting

late and we still had a couple of dozen of

things left. Now, it is important to understand

that there are fewer things in this world with

a lower intelligence than a group of male

teenagers. This is why we thought it would be

a good idea to tie all of the bottle rocket fuses

together and launch the whole lot at once.

Have you ever had one of those

moments where the split second after you do

something, you realize that you are an idiot?

The bottle rockets did not go up en masse,nor did they technically go up. Instead, they

went in all directions, all at face level. We were

hitting the ground to avoid getting hit. After all

the bottle rockets had finally blown up, we all

started laughing because that is what dumb

does after it does something dumb.

It was a beautiful moment of youthful

friends sharing a brilliant, unforgettable

evening while bathed in an orange glow.

Orange glow?The laughing died away as we turned,

afraid to see what was there: The inside of

my neighbor’s new car was on fire.

We rushed to the vehicle, tearing off our

shirts in a hopeless attempt to beat the fire

out. One of our group regained some of his

IQ and got the water hose. After we finally

doused the fire, we stood and gaped at the

smoldering interior of the car. Then, we did

what comes natural to any you man in such asituation: We ran away.

The adults took no time in figuring out

what happened and who did it because,

in our panic to get away, several of us left

behind the charred remains the shirts we

used to beat the fire out.

We were all forced by our parents to

take jobs for the entire summer, all of the

pay from which would go directly to paying

damages to the car.I learned two lessons from this. The first is

that although America is a country found on

the ideas of liberty, this liberty does not extend

to catching your neighbor’s car on fire. The

second lesson I learned is that fireworks suck.

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Riley’s TavernIsaac Jacob

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Concerts in the ParkTexanna

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Gruene HallCharlie Daniels

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Hippy GypsyThe Groovehounds

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On the RocksDoug Kent

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The Pour HausDillon Myers

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Adobe Verde Anthony Wright

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The Happy Cow

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Oma Gruene’s Secret GartenThe Mighty Orq

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Phoenix Saloon Junior Nash

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Texacali Resonators

9pm

Riley’s TavernBilly Dee

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Watering Hole SaloonCountry Crossroads

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On the RocksThe Sherpas

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The Pour HausScott Wiggins

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Phoenix SaloonThe Georges

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The Happy Cow T Bone & the Blue Tones

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Pepper’s Blues

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Phoenix SaloonGroove Hounds

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Spurs Will ExploitRare Opportunity As I sit in front of my keyboard and monitor,

it’s June 30, but by the time you actually read

this, the calendar will have turned to July.

The NBA free agency negotiations officially

open at the stroke of midnight (on the east

coast) tonight, and with it, perhaps one of the

biggest turns of the page for the San Antonio

Spurs, a team rarely in position to make a

move on luring a big name free agent, which

finally finds themselves in the sweepstakes for

one of this summer’s biggest names.

Why haven’t the Spurs been majorplayers for, well, major players in free agency

in years past? They’re in title contention nearly

every year, have had one of the best players

of his generation to offer as a teammate

(Tim Duncan), boast one of the most highly

regarded coaches in pro sports history, have

a dedicated fan base and are the model of

success in the NBA. What gives?

For starters, they’ve had a lot of moneytied to their franchise players for the last 10+

years (Duncan, Manu Ginobili and Tony

Parker). With so much money dedicated to

their core, the Spurs haven’t had a lot of

money to spend on marquee free agents.

Instead, they’ve had to spend their (available)

money wisely, similar to the way most of us

do with a household budget. Just like we have

to account for large expenses (mortgage, car,

insurance, candy), we also have to accountfor other necessities such as electricity,

groceries, gas, etc. In the NBA, mortgage

and car translates to your star players, and

necessities = role players. Because the Spurs

have had a nice house, car and insurance

plan (work with me, here) for so long, they’ve

only had so much left in their budget, namely

not enough to attract max-caliber free agents.

The other part of the equation is thatthose star players have to want to come to San

Antonio. While playing with Duncan and for

Gregg Popovich seems like reason enough,

there are several factors free agents take

into consideration outside of basketball itself.

“Where can I make the most money?” “Do I

want to live there nine months out of the year?”

“What’s the night club scene like there?”

Despite some of those questions it simply

comes down to money and timing: Have the

Spurs had money available when a cornerstone

free agent was available? The answer is “not

really”. But the timing is finally right and the

money is finally there to make a run at a highly-

touted free agent, namely LaMarcus Aldridge, a

nine-year NBA vet and former Texas Longhorn

who has established himself as one of the best

pure-scoring big men in a league lacking them.

The (possibly soon-to-be) ex-Portland Trailblazerhas reportedly put the Spurs at the top of his list

of suitors, the first time in over a decade that San

Antonio has become a target destination for one

of the summer’s most sought-after players.

Would you believe that the last time

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the Spurs was Jason Kidd in 2003? Kidd

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12 years (the last eight off-seasons combined,

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The Spurs’ success despite not nabbing

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core (Duncan, Parker, Ginobili) has been ableto hold up, the mid-season homers hit by R.C.

Buford (Boris Diaw, Patty Mills, and Danny

Green) and the team’s ability to both draft and

develop (players such as George Hill, Kawhi

Leonard, Tiago Splitter, and Cory Joseph).

That formula might change this summer

should the Spurs sign Aldridge, and that’s ok.

There’s more than one way to pound a rock.

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Dear Mexican: I read your columnof a couple of years ago about Chicanosloving the Aztecs, and it had me bothcracking up and intellectually fortified

with your ideas. Te last portion of

the column you added: “But, hey: If you want to change your name fromJosé González to NezahualcoyotlMoctezuma and go to sweat lodges on

weekends even though you’re lighter-skinned than a Southern belle, be myguest! I’m sure your ancestors whofought the Aztecs — both indigenousand Hispanic — would’ve approved!”

I really would like to know youropinion about Chican@s appropriatingindigenous names (well for me, it’sappropriating). I don’t know, everytime I go to Facebook and see my friendschange their name to something in theNahuatl language, I cringe. Maybe it’smy own internal struggle, seeing theseChican@s freely change their names.But to me, I see changing your name asa very insignificant. I mean, que ganascon cambiando tu nombre, if you don’t

know the language? Or if you do, youprobably know some phrases.

I don’t, because to me, yo soyindígena—and I mean by immediatebloodline. I know Zapoteco and I speakit with my family. Pero, you don’t seeme or my family changing their namesor whatnot. In fact, nosotros nosguardamos nuestra cultura; we don’tparade it to the world. I don’t know:maybe it’s bad to get frustrated by thesepeople changing their names. What are

your thoughts?ehuana Chingona

Dear Badass Tehuana: Big correctionto your boast about zapotecos not showingoff their culture: from Día de los Muertos to your Guelaguetza (for gabas: It’s basicallya Mexican country fair meets Eurovision),and your spectacular cuisine, Oaxacans

are among Mexico’s proudest ambassadorsof their native cultura, and aren’t afraid toshow it off—and that’s okay. Similarly, it’sfine for Chicanos to change their names fromthe Hispanic nombres given to them at birthto Nahuatl ones if it makes them feel more

in touch with their roots. Everyone has adifferent path to coming to terms with theirMexican identity, and they’re all okay.

The problem I have is with people whothen start ridiculing others who don’t adoptAztec dancing and calendars as vendidosand Tío Tacos; these indigenazis, of course,

make their insults in English and use theInternet (created by gabachos) to boast thatthey’re more Aztec than Quetzalcoatl himself.Que se vayan a la chingada.

Dear Mexican: I’m a Canadian woman who has been travelling toMexico (Guanajuato y Oaxaca, the cuteplaces) lately. I travel alone and wantto understand the “social” rules a littlebetter. I was told by an expat Americanliving in Mexico that Mexican menthink all American women are sluts.(I assume that generalization extendsto canadienses.)

His theory is that Mexicans seetelevision shows like Sex and the Cityand think it’s reality. I’m acutely awareof this when interacting with Mexicanmen, and as a result am somewhatguarded, which I really don’t want

to be. I’d like to be able to meetMexican men on the same terms asCanadians—sure there’s a possibilityof a little steam, but maybe we’re justplaticando, amigo-like. What are

your thoughts? Do mexicanos think we’re all sluts? If so, why? Do Mexican women/girls save sex for marriage?Does this mean I can never have casualsex with a Mexican man again, for fearof perpetuating a stereotype?

Una Canadiense Confusa

Dear Confused Canadian Woman:Noticias flash—Mexican men think ALLwomen are sluts. It’s the Madonna-whorecomplex, comprende? That said, don’t letpendejo heretonormative norms get in theway of you enjoying chorizo—modern-dayMexican women don’t, so why should you?

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Trippin’ with Colby:The Road to OhioLeaving New York was as happy an

experience as I had assumed it would be.Steve, my step-father, drove with admirable

calm through Buffalo and the tip of

Pennsylvania, and we escaped into Ohio. The

decision had been made some miles back to

stick to interstate highways. Driving a 25 ft.

trailer is harrowing enough without adding

winding roads and cramped lanes to the mix.

There’s a bit less to see out the windows this

way, but it’s easier on the nerves.

Ohio is the first point on this trip where

the scenery has changed significantly. The

landscape is substantially more flat, and

the woods look different. Darker? Streams

often wind lazily through the wooded areas

I see. This makes sense for the terrain, but

it’s wildly different than the area of New

England I hail from, where water rushes

everywhere it seems. Slow spots are

generally the result of dams, and it’s rare tosee water taking its time getting anywhere

that doesn’t have ready boat access.

Traveling through Ohio’s cities also

provides a change of scenery. Most of what

I’ve seen so far has been rural communities,

either farming based or communities that

are close to raw materials in one way or

another. Such towns are generally laid out

in a way that radiates from the commercialproperty that is available. A small Main

Street holds whatever businesses there are,

if there are any, and homes are along the

road on either side of this area. Parcels of

land and the homes themselves are likely

to get larger the further you get away

from this main hub. There is usually some

stylistic theme to the architecture in these

towns, in most cases because many of the

homes were built around the same time.

Aside from that, Buffalo and Niagara Falls

are pretty typical cities, broken into chunks

of zoning. There are areas where the lines

meet and one use changes to another,

but even these areas are often marked by

some transition not immediately obvious:

a cemetery or park, railroad tracks, or a

bridge. Residential areas may have similar

architectural styles, but the city itself is a

mishmash having evolved as much as

having been built. Ohio is entirely different.

Ohio’s cities seem to have been created

as an accumulation of small towns. In

many places you can see that an individual

neighborhood has a small number of

businesses surrounded by housing. These

various neighborhoods seem to butt up

against one another to create a much largermass. Even stranger, much of the architecture

is not just similar, but exactly the same. I’ve

seen this before in various company towns

(the towns themselves created to provide

workers with necessities while they worked

for some specific factory or industry), but it’s

odd to see it on exhibit through large sections

of Cleveland and Sandusky. It’s like the entire

city gave up its individuality, and someone setup Monopoly style houses and hotels all over

a city-sized game board. Where the cities

have grown and typical zoning has been

applied, it’s like the hand of God has wiped

large sections of this game board clean to be

replaced by modern shopping malls. Much

of this is evident from elevated roadways that

look down on the city as you go by.

Even in these conditions human naturehas a way of peeking through. People don’t

want to be just like everyone else. They want

to express their individuality. How does one

do this in an industrial town where architecture

all looks like it was designed for a movie set of

Dickens’s Hard Times? With color, of course.

Every once in a while, peeking through

the drab browns and grays, you’ll see an

explosion of pink or vibrant yellow. You look

down and see that all the houses look exactly

the same, but someone has decide to paint

theirs fire-engine red as a form of protest

evidencing the human spirit. The effect is

stunning and a little heartening too.

It’s rare for me to say nice things about

government, but I should point out that I have

stayed at two state parks now and both have

been quite good.

We made our next stop in Maumeee Bay

State Park in Oregon, Ohio. Coming in, the

rain and wind were horrendous, but now it

had stopped.

As we began to wind our way down

the state highway to the park, we saw

the damage from the rain. Leaves and

small branches littered the ground, but

the most extreme factor was the flooding.

The land here (right next to Lake Erie

outside of Sandusky) was so flat that

there was literally nowhere for the water

to go. Small ponds were being created

on lawns, and where there might be a

farmer’s field, a lake was more likely.

Couple this with the fact that much of the

area was being preserved by the Parks

Department as marshland, and you had a

giant soggy nightmare.

The state park itself was another story.

Maumee Bay State Park is quite large. It has

accommodations not just for trailers, but for

people to stay in small cottages as well. The

park even has a lodge that sits on the beach

and is open to conferences and larger get-

togethers as a substitute for a hotel.

In the area set aside for tents, trailers,

and motor-homes, the pads were level

and paved with asphalt. There was no

water or sewer at the site, but there was

a local area to get water and there were

nearby restrooms that were clean and

had hot showers, at least occasionally.

Furthermore, each site was the size of

a small yard and was separated by

intentionally placed trees and shrubbery

to offer privacy.The wildlife was surprising plentiful

for such a well maintained area, we saw

a mother deer with her fawn (we were

later told ten days old) on the way in, and

Canadian Geese and their goslings were

everywhere, crossing the road in slow,

single file manner like a group of elementary

schoolers going to the park. The privacy

barriers made the perfect habitat for other

nesting birds, and the cotton woods were

in bloom providing enough bedding for all

the hatchlings to come.

Now, I’m not talking about “glamping”

here. “Glamping” is a derisive term used

by campers that combines the word glamor

and camping. Image the type of camping

Paris Hilton might do and you’ll get the

idea. Personally, I would like a bit more

“glamping” in my camping; there doesn’t

need to be room service at 3am, but is

it too much trouble to ask for a cabana

boy that comes by and takes drink orders

every few hours? Strangely, there is no

clear derogatory term for the opposite of

“glamping,” which is generally called “dry-

camping” I would call it “cramping” as a

way of insinuating the discomfort of having

to deal with digging your own pit toilets and

picking ticks off one another before bed like

a pack of baboons.

The park was by no means

extravagant, but what was available was

almost perfectly maintained, and basics can

actually be very important. For example,

it’s possible to deal with an uneven dirt

site, but a paved one that is level requires

almost no work, and that’s nice at the end

of a hard day. It’s also nice to be able to

get to the bathrooms within a reasonable

time and find them clean.

Our next leg will take us to Wisconsin,

but I plan to relax here for a while. I haven’t

broken out the blender for margaritas yet; it

looks like it’s time. Then I can sip my drink,

listen to the birds chirping and dream ofglamping with Paris Hilton.

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