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Re: Your weirdest/creepiest experience while touring
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Quote from: zenwhipper on January 31, 2012, 12:18:14 PM
So when you're on Cache Creek Road from Nespelem, WA to hiway 21 in central Washington keep your eyes peeled for local yocals
for sure. Which sux - since this is one of the most awesome roads in the state.
I used to ride through there quite a bit and never ran into any trouble. Guess you just happened upon a "special case"
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Sort of creepy to me. I was on a short trip on the bike. I was wandering roads in North Alabama and North Mississippi. When I decided I was not going to try to finish the ride home to Nashville that evening I started looking for a campground. A quick gas stop and the purchase of few bottles of water for drinking and making morning coffee produced a normal sounding suggestion from the clerk for a small family owned campground a few miles up the road.
I pulled up and found everything looked fairly nice. It was a clean and well maintained area and there were a fair number of campers set up in two small clusters. I would guess there were probably 20 to 25 people there between the dozen or so campers. I met the polite but quiet campground employee who took my money and said to camp at any of the spots that had a grass tent pad. I found one just three or four spots from the restroom in one direction and three or four spots from the nearest occupied spot. I set up the tent as it began to get dark and made a quick meal out of a sandwich, apple, and a couple cookies. All through this I had maybe 4 or 5 people walk by and say "hello" or "nice night isn't it?" as they wandered to or from the rest room. I went on to bed and the other campers all seemed to follow not long after as they all were fairly quiet.
I am not a sound sleeper for the most part and I just can not sleep in when I am in a campground. I am normally up at the first sound of someone making the walk to the restroom or starting the stove for morning coffee. This morning I woke fairly early, it was 6:30am or so, and began to sort out breakfast until I realized I was completely alone. Not a single camper or RV was left. It was completely silent and there seemed to be no trace what-so-ever of the nearly two dozen people that had been there just hours before. I did not hear a single motor start, not a single hitch being hooked up to a truck, and not a single table folded up to be put back into storage. They all had appeared to be friendly or know each other the night before but the thought that every single one of them had packed up in silence and left without a trace just before sun rise was a bit odd.
When I packed up and began to head out I was curious so I stopped by the campground office on the way out only to find it completely empty as well. Not a light on and not a soul to be found. I went on down the road and later in hindsight realized I had not seen another human being until I was a good 30 or 40 miles down the road and this was on a Sunday morning when I would expect to see "Good Southern Christians" on their way to their Sunday Morning Meeting.
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Re: Your weirdest/creepiest experience while touring
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Quote from: Jason F. on February 01, 2012, 12:53:59 PM
Sort of creepy to me. I was on a short trip on the bike. I was wandering roads in North Alabama and North Mississippi. When I decided I was not going to try to finish the ride home to Nashville that evening I started looking for a campground. A quick gas stop and the purchase of few bottles of water for drinking and making morning coffee produced a normal sounding suggestion from the clerk for a small family owned campground a few miles up the road.
I pulled up and found everything looked fairly nice. It was a clean and well maintained area and there were a fair number of campers set up in two small clusters. I would guess there were probably 20 to 25 people there between the dozen or so campers. I met the polite but quiet campground employee who took my money and said to camp at any of the spots that had a grass tent pad. I found one just three or four spots from the restroom in one direction and three or four spots from the nearest occupied spot. I set up the tent as it began to get dark and made a quick meal out of a sandwich, apple, and a couple cookies. All through this I had maybe 4 or 5 people walk by and say "hello" or "nice night isn't it?" as they wandered to or from the rest room. I went on to bed and the other campers all seemed to follow not long after as they all were fairly quiet.
I am not a sound sleeper for the most part and I just can not sleep in when I am in a campground. I am normally up at the first sound of someone making the walk to the restroom or starting the stove for morning coffee. This morning I woke fairly early, it was 6:30am or so, and began to sort out breakfast until I realized I was completely alone. Not a single camper or RV was left. It was completely silent and there seemed to be no trace what-so-ever of the nearly two dozen people that had been there just hours before. I did not hear a single motor start, not a single hitch being hooked up to a truck, and not a single table folded up to be put back into storage. They all had appeared to be friendly or know each other the night before but the thought that every single one of them had packed up in silence and left without a trace just before sun rise was a bit odd.
When I packed up and began to head out I was curious so I stopped by the campground office on the way out only to find it completely empty as well. Not a light on and not a soul to be found. I went on down the road and later in hindsight realized I had not seen another human being until I was a good 30 or 40 miles down the road and this was on a Sunday morning when I would expect to see "Good Southern Christians" on their way to their Sunday Morning Meeting.
Are you sure that was water that you bought at the gas station?
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I was riding in NorCal from Fort Bragg to Wilits. I arrived in Wilits and stopped at a stoplight. I look over at the sidewalk and there are identical twins who look like uncle jesse from the dukes of hazzard. They were dancing in unison, back and forth on the sidewalk, and holding signs that said ”impeach Bush.”
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Re: Your weirdest/creepiest experience while touring
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Quote from: axelwik on February 01, 2012, 12:57:56 PM
Are you sure that was water that you bought at the gas station?
HA!! +1000!
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