Quote Originally Posted by mattexian
I previously refrained from commenting about this, because I still have slightly bitter memories of when the Rainbow Family visited SE Texas several years ago. (It's at least 15 years since they "visited.") IIRC they camped in the Angelina NF north of where I live, and made the place unuseable (and unwelcome) to anyone else while they were there, and left a helovalotta garbage strewn about when they left. Stoned and drunk seemed to be the order of the day and they didn't make any friends while they were here. I was in Boy Scouts back then, loved camping and backpacking and love East Texas and these folks looked to be USING the woods as somewhere to get wasted and calling it "communing with Nature, man."

You're definitely better off spending the weekend anywhere away from them.

Matt in Tx
There's already trouble brewing up there between the locals and the ...oops, I almost said the "H" word that I was warned about near the beginning of this thread but methinks that if we bring up reason and truth they may moderate the entire thread.

I heard on the news this morning that the usual problems were starting and of course there will be the usual 'communing with nature' which means the tons of trash just left where it falls. It's been the same over the last 40 years or so.

Spending the weekend somewhere else is not only good advice but good for the locals who have to clean the mess up afterwards.

Chris.