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[1022]

Okay. /I was thinking about camping and [ different i-, + people's ideas ] about it. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

We've even seen people with these campers /{C and } they got the big old antennas up so they can watch their T V when they're going. /

[1071]

Right or # their # --

[1022]

# That's not, # -/

[1071]

-- satellite dish . /

[1022]

Yeah /. A satellite dish? /

[1071]

On top of the recreational vehicles. /

[1022]

{F Oh, } golly! . /

[1071]

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[1022]

That's not the kind we do. /Do you go camping? /

[1071]

Yeah. /We have a little bit /{C and } we've just gotten one of those little tents ,

[1022]

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[1071]

that we throw out on the ground /{C and } that's what we camp in. /{D So } we kind of rough it. /

[1022]

{D Well, } so do we. /In fact, when we first got married, we would try to take these trips to Minnesota to see his family -- /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

-- {C and } we didn't have a tent or any camping supplies /{C so } we'd sleep on those picnic tables at # roadside parks. # /

[1071]

# {F Oh } no. # /

[1022]

{E I mean, } I know it's dangerous, /I wouldn't do it now /{C but } we did . /

[1071]

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[1022]

{C And } one time we went to Yellowstone /{C and } we were doing the same thing. /We couldn't find a place to camp /{C and so } we were on top of a picnic table with [ our, + our ] sleeping bags I guess. /{C And } this ranger comes up with this light, shines it on us and said that we're just bear bait out there. {A We had our # food # --

[1071]

# Oh. # /

[1022]

-- {D you know. } }

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

and told us to get inside our car. /

[1071]

{F Gosh. } Bear bait . /

[1022]

Bear bait. /

[1071]

That would make me nervous . /

[1022]

Yeah. /

[1071]

Have you done any camping around here? /

[1022]

Yeah. /We've got some land at Holly Lake --

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

-- outside of Tyler. /{C And } we go up there fairly often . /Sometimes we get a lot of people together to do it. /

[1071]

Yeah. /That sounds fun. /

[1022]

{C And } we've done things {D like } [ when, + when ] it's kind of cold. /We take extension cords /{C and } we've all got heaters in our tents. /

[1071]

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[1022]

{C And } in the Summer (( )) . /Same thing, we get our extension cords running from all these tents /{C but } we've got the fans going. /

[1071]

Right . /

[1022]

{D So } we're not roughing it too much. /

[1071]

Yeah. /

[1022]

{C And } we have taken T V -s out there for the kids # . # /

[1071]

# Yeah. # /

[1022]

{C And } they've got their electrical hookups. /{D So } it's not so bad. /

[1071]

Yeah. /Do you go on long? - /{D Like } a week at a time or just weekends? /

[1022]

I think the longest we've stayed out there is like five days. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

{C And } [ they even, + they ] had a library at one time out there. /

[1071]

Oh. /

[1022]

{D So } that's really not roughing it so much # /{C but } # --

[1071]

# Yeah. # /

[1022]

-- we have gone on trips where we bathed in streams. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

That's kind of different. /

[1071]

Yeah /. I like the campgrounds that have a nice shower . /

[1022]

{C And } a pool to go to. /

[1071]

# Uh-huh. # /

[1022]

# That would be # nice. /

[1071]

Yeah. /[ We've, + {F uh, }

[1022]

<>.

[1071]

we ] camped at the DeGray State Park in Arkansas.

[1022]

Uh-huh. /

[1071]

In the Fall /{C and } there was nobody else,

[1022]

<>.

[1071]

hardly,

[1022]

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[1071]

around /{C and } it was just really nice, that time of year. /We had taken our electric,

[1022]

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[1071]

blanket too, just in case it was unbearable /{C but } we didn't need it <>. /# (( Yeah )) . # /

[1022]

# {D Well } my # husband has even camped at Lake Lavon --

[1071]

# {F Oh } really? # /

[1022]

-- # with one of his friends # /he just decided to take the kids out there. /

[1071]

Yeah. /

[1022]

{E I mean } it's not very many miles from our house at all. /

[1071]

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[1022]

{C But } they had the time of their lives, {D you know. } /

[1071]

{F Oh, } yeah /.

[1022]

Had the boat just pulled up right by the tents. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

It wasn't bad. /

[1071]

That sounds nice. /

[1022]

Yeah. /{C And } we've taken,

[1071]

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[1022]

our tents though, loaded them up in car carrier and decided we were going to tent most of the way. /{C And } it ended up, when it came time for us to pull in for the night, we'd take a vote. /{C And } most of the time we decided we wanted to stay in a hotel. /

[1071]

Yeah. /

[1022]

Instead of getting out all that stuff, {D you know. } /

[1071]

Yeah, /it's a lot of work to set up just for one night. /

[1022]

Yeah. /Then you have to get up the next day and move it on. /

[1071]

Right . /

[1022]

Huh-uh. /{C But } we're set now. /We've got cook stoves /{C and } we've got our bug light /{C and } everybody's got their sleeping bags, /we got air mattresses. /We decided that was easier than cots and more comfortable. /

[1071]

Yeah. /Those are nice, /we have one of those, # too. # /

[1022]

# Yeah. /# Those double ones? /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

Pretty good. /We're on our third one I think. /# Somehow, # -/

[1071]

# Yeah. /How # do you blow yours up? /

[1022]

We've got an electric pump that hooks into the cigarette lighter. /

[1071]

Oh. /[ W-, + we ] were looking at those in a magazine. /Last time we went, we took our vacuum cleaner with us . /

[1022]

I didn't know you could do that. /

[1071]

{C And, } yeah, you can, if you can reverse the,

[1022]

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[1071]

nozzle on your vacuum cleaner -- /

[1022]

Yeah. /

[1071]

-- {C and } it blows air out instead of sucking it in /{C and } you can fill them up that way /{C but } something that's smaller would be a lot more convenient. /

[1022]

No joke . /

[1071]

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[1022]

I hope you didn't have a big vacuum cleaner. /

[1071]

No. /Uh-huh. /[ We have a, +

[1022]

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[1071]

[ S-, + my husband ] and I, we have a ] pickup truck /{C so } there's plenty of room to hold things. /

[1022]

Yeah. /{D Now } we've used a hair dryer before. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

{C But } I put it on hot and also melted it. /

[1071]

{F Oh } no . /

[1022]

I found that you don't do that. /

[1071]

Yeah. /

[1022]

I didn't realize it would melt so easily. /

[1071]

Oh. /

[1022]

I don't know. /

[1071]

[ We take, + we take ] our dog camping. /She likes to go out and stay in the woods. /

[1022]

Yeah. /

[1071]

[ She sleeps, + she sleeps ] in the tent with us. /

[1022]

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[1071]

It's fun <>. /

[1022]

I don't like it when there's mosquitos so bad. /

[1071]

{F Oh, } me either. /

[1022]

{C And then } one night we were camping /{C and } it came, just a torrential downpour. /We had the steaks on the grill. /These people were with us. /{C And } [ it, + (( )) , {E I mean } everything ] was sopping wet inside the tent. /It was just that # bad, {D you know } . # /

[1071]

# {F Oh } no. # /

[1022]

{C And } we decided we'd just go across the road to the office and see if we could rent anything. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

{D So } I got a condo with a jacuzzi /{C and } it was wonderful. /

[1071]

{F Oh } boy . /

[1022]

Yeah. /

[1071]

That was lucky. /

[1022]

Yeah, /it was. /

[1071]

We've been lucky. /We've never really been rained on the few times we've gone. /

[1022]

It's horrible. /

[1071]

{F Oh } I bet it, - /[ when we were younger, + when I was a kid, ] we camped in Virginia /{C and } we had one of those little pop up tents, which is really nice because it kind of gets you off the ground. /{C But } it seemed like it rained every weekend for about [ a y-, + the year ] we were really into camping. /

[1022]

You mean that you put on a truck or what? /

[1071]

No. /It's a little trailer you pull behind your car /{C and, } {F uh, }

[1022]

{F Oh } yeah, /# yeah. # /

[1071]

# {D you # know, } [ you, + ] the lid pops off, /

[1022]

<>.

[1071]

the little tent comes up the top -- /

[1022]

Uh-huh. /

[1071]

-- {C and } it had two double beds in it. /

[1022]

<> How many weeks have you been doing these calls? /

[1071]

{F Oh, } since the beginning. /I guess it's been two or three weeks. /

[1022]

I think this must be into my third week too. /{D So } do you work for T I? /

[1071]

{F Uh, } {D well, } I work as a temporary in the Speech Lab. /

[1022]

In a Speech Lab? /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /Where they're doing this program. The Voice Recognition Program. /

[1022]

{C And } what exactly are they going to do? /

[1071]

{F Oh, } they turn them over to somebody /{C and } [ they're going to, + I guess they're going to ] try to teach computers how to recognize voices and search for specific words and stuff. /

[1022]

{D So } any voice, no matter what the <> speech pattern or the # dialect # --

[1071]

# Right. # /

[1022]

-- or anything. /

[1071]

Yeah. /

[1022]

{F Um. } I wonder if these are going to be speaking <>. The computers, /

[1071]

I don't know. /I type up the tapes of what people talked about. /

[1022]

{F Oh, } that's kind of neat. /

[1071]

Yeah, /it's sort of interesting. /

[1022]

Do you put all the uh-huhs in here on everything, too. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /Everything like that. /All the little stutters and everything. /

[1022]

What do you write for stutter? /That, {F uh, } -/

[1071]

{D Like } if they say I, I, we just type it in like that. /

[1022]

Uh-huh. /

[1071]

{D Well, } I guess that's it for camping, {F uh } . /

[1022]

I guess so unless you want to talk about stakes. /

[1071]

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[1022]

What size stakes to put in ./

[1071]

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[1022]

You need metal instead of plastic. /

[1071]

Yeah. /

[1022]

{C And } you make sure that you keep up with them for the next time. /

[1071]

Yeah. /

[1022]

We got one of those kind that have got the, - /oh what is it? /They're plastic /{C and } they've got the elastic on the inside of the poles /{C and } you just put them together. /

[1071]

{F Oh, } uh-huh. /# That's what we have, too. # /

[1022]

# {C And } it's a dome tent. # /

[1071]

Yeah, /that's what ours is. /

[1022]

That's good isn't it . /

[1071]

Yeah, /yeah, /they pop up pretty fast. /

[1022]

Yeah. /

[1071]

Have you ever camped on sand? /

[1022]

{F Um, } no. /

[1071]

That can be a mess. /We camped at the beach one time /{C and } that was sort of miserable. /You just couldn-, - /everywhere you went there was sand. /You couldn't, - /even when you're eating, - /[ it, + it ] was in your bed . /

[1022]

I've done it in a shelter. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

(( It was )) in Padre Island and # in a # --

[1071]

# Oh. # /

[1022]

-- truck off Corpus, [ not, +

[1071]

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[1022]

but not ] in a tent. /

[1071]

Uh-huh. /

[1022]

{F Oh } {D well, } that's about all (( )) . /

[1071]

Okay. /

[1022]

(( Okay )) . /

[1071]

{D Well, } it's good talking to you. /

[1022]

Uh-huh. /

[1071]

# Bye. # /