Friendly Neighbor

Camping is such a funny thing to do. You set a tent up sometimes 10 feet from a perfect stranger and trust that they will be a friendly neighbor…all the while sleeping in something almost as thin as paper.

We arrived at our campsite at dusk and set up the tent, sent out the update for the ride and climbed into our sleeping bags for a full night of sleep before the big day. However, friendly neighbor decided to fill our entire night with a very long, loud and upset phone call; yelling between friendly neighbor and his fiance (we found out during the phone call that friendly neighbor was camping with his fiance), opening and slamming the doors on their pickup probably 50 times (how many things can a person even put in their car to open and close the doors that much???), drunken arguments, friendly neighbor hitting his head and waking up the people in the camper, and someone pounding on the camper door.

Needless to say, it was not our favorite camping experience and may have even included a little peering out of the top of the tent opening, a plea for the police to be called and someone sneaking out to go to the bathroom so that the friendly neighbor wasn’t made more upset.  

We are at a beautiful, quiet campground in Cherokee, IA ready for an actual full night of rest.