Camping

Camping is nonsensical. Why create civilization if the only point of it is to get away from it? Besides, civilization is good: it has electricity, computers, music, IM, email, soft beds, and toilets that don't stink and aren't in a building far away where you have to walk to get there, and when you pull up the lid on a toilet in civilization, you can't see this cess pool, sitting turgedly there, putrifying the place. Besides all these good resons not to go camping, all my friends, whether in Yemen or America, are all in some form of civilization. This ends my tirade on camping.

Despite all that though, there was one good thing about camping: we got to go jet skiing. Those things are fun! Dad got on, and took off for the far shore, going at about 4/5 throtle, turned around, and came back, same speed. He did get up to full throtle for a while, but he settled back down. I got on, and floored it, and went in circles, and figure eights, and every other kinky geometric shape I could think of. While I was using the monster given to me the way it was designed to be used, Dad fell off. I wasn't trying to or anything, but that doesn't stop me from feeling really good about it afterwards. I think I also terrified my mom, but I was going slow and wasn't being nuts, so that was kinda bad I think, but the rest of it was awesome. You would hit a wave, and have to eat it you were going so fast, spray shooting up in an arc from your sides...Awesome in every way.

One last thing. The Michigan dunes. They are tinny. If you have ever been there, immagine something about three times taller and twice as steep composed of perfectly dry, powdered sand, you have Socotra's dunes. The clossest thing to the dunes on Socotra was the glacer hill thingie, but even they fell short of Socotra's dunes, and these were half rock and on a rock, and thus were cheating, but then, you can't expect all of plannet earth to be as good as Socotra...