Goin' Out To Cally – Part 25, Nightlife At The BC

Dreams are so weird. You’ll start off talking to a friend, the suddenly find yourself skydiving with Elmo, who then turns into your second grade teacher, which then turns into a rap video with a lot of excessive booty shaking and words ending in “fashizil.” You know what I’m talking about.

So, as the sound of Spanish foreign tongues reveling in song entered my road weary, unconscious brain, I knew I had to be dreaming. Odd, sure. Reality? Impossible.

The Spanish serenade overlapping with the driving beat of a rock band… again, odd, but that’s why they call it dreamland, right?

Then I thought “Is that German I’m hearing? Or Russian? Since I don’t know either language, I can’t tell, but it sounds… Germanic.”

It was finally the body resonating vibrations from numerous motorcycle exhaust pipes that finally lurched me back to the living, at which time I realized I wasn’t dreaming at all. I opened the tent and peered out to find that our campsite appeared to have been turned into the center stage for nightlife of suburban Bedrock City.

At Bone 18, a Latino family sat around their campfire, playing their guitars, singing an energetic song.

Across our tent at Bone 23 was the family of Germans or Russians toasting marshmallows over an opened fire while talking loudly over the Latino contingent.

And next to us, at Bones 20 through 22 was a Hell’s Angel-esque motorcycle gang, with dirty faces, long beards and braless, windblown women, all drinking and laughing.

There was something inherently humorous about seeing a bunch of scary looking bikers camping in front of big, cartoon style bone at a Flintstones inspired campground. It’s just one of those things you wouldn’t think you’d ever see in your life. And it’s one of those moments that cement in me my belief that God has a wonderfully unique and slightly off-centered sense of humor.

Tim and Beth looked up, sleep in their eyes.

“What’s going on?” he asked.

Unable to formulate the Bedrock City nightlife into words, I turned to them. “You have to see it to believe it,” I replied.

Tim and Beth crawled over and peered out. They scanned the sights and upon seeing our cycle-camping brethren amongst us, they turned back and smiled in disbelief.

“Told ya,” I said.

I wasn’t exactly comfortable going outside now that the neighborhood watch was a gang of semi-drunken thugs wearing identical leather jackets… I guess our non-American campers were braver than I.

We laid back down, but we all found it difficult, however, to get back to sleep. After all, when you don’t understand the language, heated conversations sound like noise. Conversations and singing in two different languages is bothersome. Add to that the loud laughing of drunken bikers and the occasional rumbling of a revving motorcycle… well, it was downright annoying.

I may not be a genius, but I was smart enough to keep from poking my head out of my tent and telling them all to shut the hell up, no matter how much I wanted to get back to sleep.

And so ended our fourth day on our trip to Cally.

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Goin' Out To Cally - Part 25, (Text, Audio) Nightlife At The BC
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 24, (Text, Audio) Bedless In Bedrock
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 23, (Text, Audio) Desert Rain
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 22, (Text, Audio) Bedrock City
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 21, (Text, Audio) The Outhouse
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 20, (Text, Audio) Riding The Hump
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 19, (Text, Audio) Bob Hope, Lil’ Debbie And Restless Gods
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 18, (Text, Audio) Unlevel Headed
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 17, (Text, Audio) Starry Night, Confusing Night
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 16, (Text, Audio) Three Beds + Four People = Oh Crap
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 15, (Text, Audio) Masculinity At Stake
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 14, (Text, Audio) Texas: Latin For Shoot Me Now
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 13, (Text, Audio) Cars, Crossroads and Cosmic Convergence
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 12, (Text, Audio) Tumbleweed Dreams
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 11, (Text, Audio) Wet, Rinse, Repeat
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 10, (Text, Audio) Divine Misdirection
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 09, (Text, Audio) Getting Nowhere Fast
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 08, (Text, Audio) The Cock Crows Nine
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 07, (Text, Audio) Is Jackass A Sign?
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 06, (Text, Audio) Leftovers
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 05, (Text, Audio) The Kiss Of Friendship
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 04, (Text, Audio) Scholastic Intimacy
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 03, (Text, Audio) Space Invaders
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 02, (Text, Audio) The Fourth Wheel
Goin' Out To Cally - Part 01, (Text, Audio) The Seed Planted