our pastimes: GLAMPING
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The Best Is Yet To Be
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field.
“Kathy, I’m lost,” I said, though I knew she was
sleeping.
“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.”
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike
They’ve all come to look for America.
— “America,” by Paul Simon
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he term “glamping” describes a fairly
new social trend that’s not only
sweeping the nation but taking over in
Parker County.
What does glamping mean? It’s
a form of camping in which partici-
pants enjoy physical comforts associ-
ated with more luxurious types of holi-
day. Word Origin? It’s a combination of
the words glamorous and camping.
Over the years as you get older, it
seems you develop other interests--or
a nice way of putting it is, you get a
hobby. Hobbies come in different variet-
ies: expensive, cheap, time-consuming,
easy, difficult.
My wife is very creative, so her
hobby has always been art of different
kinds. Mine has always been music,
playing in bands since I was a kid. My
hobby has been time-consuming. I’ve
always said music is a curse — you can’t
get it out of your system. No matter how
bad it is, you still want to play again. It’s
kind of like golf, only with music the
more you rehearse and play live, the
better you get. With golf, the more you
practice and play, the worse you get. In
golf you spend a Saturday consuming
about five hours, depending on how
busy it is, usually play badly and want
to drive your car into a bridge abutment
once you’re done.
BY MARK BROWN
PHOTOS BY DENISE BROWN