The Sounds of the Night

We camped last evening at the Mallard Duck Campground in a (tongue in cheek) suburb of Lexington VA.  It was a challenge to find but when we did it passed our (tongue in cheek) tough standards.  Things were fine until bedtime.  My first problem was that I went to bed before I was really tired.

Then there were the noises –

-dog across the road barking literally all night

-sound of beanbags hitting the corn hole platforms

-music being played on the other side of the campground

-music being played on our side of the campground

-traffic on the road close to the tent

-community of old men, which I thought was kind of cute at first, getting progressively louder and crazy

-trains passing by, at least 4 that while laying on our air mattresses you could feel the ground vibrate

-another dog howling in the distance

-lightning and thunder on the other side of the mountain which made for a hasty trip to the bathroom before it started raining, which it never did

-snoring coming from my tent mate telling me he was sleeping through all of this

-a bird thinking 4:30 was a good time to welcome the morning

The only sound I missed was the Sound of Silence……