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Solo Favorites: Solitary Camping on the Cheap in State Parks While my sons were at summer camp, and my wife was busy at work, I took a 5-day solo tenting trip to Lake Huron, first in Michigan (Port Crescent), then in Ontario (Pinery Provincial).  For me, it was no hardship being alone: solitude is an dear friend of mine. :-) Here are my favorites from the trip: * Sunrise - watching the sun rise, all the colors, the sky lightening, then the amazing colors on everything for that "magic hour" afterward * Beach walking - walking on the beach for miles, and finding the various flotsam from civilization, in most cases, just trash, but on Thursday morning, over twenty sunglasses and swimming goggles * Trail riding - not much available at my Michigan camp, but Ontario camp made up for it in spades, including a super secret mountain bike trail hidden away from the anyone who wasn't looking.  I took like three or four or five trail rides per day, some over an hour each.

I'm thinking about having a party for those people, near and far, but especially those near, who have an honest desire to save the world.  Not just an honest desire, but they're either figuring out how to do it, or doing something to save some part of it, or even are full-on full-time volunteer activists, who're doing what they can. A party, a weekend party, maybe three nights even, with dancing and music and games and food; lots of chatting and socializing, and networking, and sharing stories of successes and failures, and dreams and desires, and plans, and challenges, and roadblocks and needs. Inviting people who earnestly feel that saving the world is a cause they can get behind.  Saving the world from the ills of civilization: deforestation, habitat loss, ocean acidification, industrial agriculture and factory farming, land fragmentation, greenhouse gas emissions, pollution of any kind, and etc., etc., etc.  People who are, or have, or would like to do something tha