Departure time

FRIDAY

This morning's breakfast was sausage & gravy over hash brown/fried/previously boiled potatoes, watermelon, and whatever else was leftover. As the dew dried off people started packing up their tents and gear. We had to say good-bye to new friends as they headed off, either for drives home or to be driven to the airport for a flight home. I tried to keep it together and not get choked up as, one after another, people hugged me and said good bye. Finally, late in the morning we packed up our own tent and made our circle of good-bye's to those remaining. Pointing the car down the dirt road leading from the ranch, Dirt Time 2010 ws officially over for us.

Man, I can't wait until next year's Dirt Time! Thanks, everyone!

Now some last minute humor (outtakes?):

Steven and four others start a fire with a modified bow-drill method. (Like the lightbulb joke...how many guys does it take to start a fire...? lol)

This is "Robin's Nest"! Robin is a totally cool young man from California who joined all of us at Dirt Time. We need more young people like him. John McCann and a motley crew of others built this debris hut, and Robin moved into it!

Brian parked in a no-parking zone and they had to tow his van... (Seriously, that was some killer mud!)

Those are shoes/slippers/boots; whatever you call them!!!

The only electrical outlets were in the bathrooms of an old mobile home on the ranch property. There's my computer plugged in to charge.