Ever sleep under the stars?
Feb 14th, 2007, 05:12 PM
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Of course...who hasn't?
Favorite memory as an adult:
My mother died during the same month that we had a sky full of shooting stars late at night, all night long. So, what did my darling husband do? He set up two lounges on an upstairs deck of our Pebble Beach house. He then placed "below zero" sleeping bags on the lounges. He woke me up and the two of us laid out under the shooting stars, thinking of mom and hearing the roar of the ocean. Now, that's a heavenly memory.
Favorite memory as an adult:
My mother died during the same month that we had a sky full of shooting stars late at night, all night long. So, what did my darling husband do? He set up two lounges on an upstairs deck of our Pebble Beach house. He then placed "below zero" sleeping bags on the lounges. He woke me up and the two of us laid out under the shooting stars, thinking of mom and hearing the roar of the ocean. Now, that's a heavenly memory.
Feb 14th, 2007, 05:41 PM
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Pick a campsite in Yellowstone's Lamar Valley. Watch the Big Dipper glide across the the night sky among the shooting stars. Most people live in and around towns and cities with light pollution. You will be surprised at the number of stars that are blocked from view by this.
Feb 14th, 2007, 05:55 PM
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Well the question of "who hasn't" is a lot of people, expecially those that live in cities and are not able to travel to areas where the stars are bright and beautiful.
Corshi, when we had our boat berthed in the California Delta one of the great joys was sleeping under the stars when the weather was pleasant. We would put our sleeping bags in the stern of the boat and we would see the most beautiful diamonds in the sky.
Corshi, when we had our boat berthed in the California Delta one of the great joys was sleeping under the stars when the weather was pleasant. We would put our sleeping bags in the stern of the boat and we would see the most beautiful diamonds in the sky.
Feb 14th, 2007, 06:50 PM
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I love to sleep out under the stars and try to do so whenever I'm somewhere really dark and far from city lights.
Some of the best were on a ferry in the mediterranean, in a field in NE British Columbia, on a car top inland of Big Sur, on a beach in Baja California, in a rowboat on a lake in southern oregon.
One of my favorites was near Sandy Beach on Oahu during a Pleades (sp?) shower. My girlfriend and I took six high school girls- my two daughters, a friend's daughter, two exchange students from Tokyo and one from New Delhi.
The local girls loved making wishes on the hundreds of shooting stars...The foreign girls were amazed to see stars at all....In cities like Tokyo and New Delhi, pollution and city lights completely wipe out the stars.
We sang silly camp songs in three languages (four if you count frere jacques)and fell asleep with our hands on the stars and the sound of waves in our ears.
Unless there are mosquitoes or wild animals, I love sleeping under the stars.
Some of the best were on a ferry in the mediterranean, in a field in NE British Columbia, on a car top inland of Big Sur, on a beach in Baja California, in a rowboat on a lake in southern oregon.
One of my favorites was near Sandy Beach on Oahu during a Pleades (sp?) shower. My girlfriend and I took six high school girls- my two daughters, a friend's daughter, two exchange students from Tokyo and one from New Delhi.
The local girls loved making wishes on the hundreds of shooting stars...The foreign girls were amazed to see stars at all....In cities like Tokyo and New Delhi, pollution and city lights completely wipe out the stars.
We sang silly camp songs in three languages (four if you count frere jacques)and fell asleep with our hands on the stars and the sound of waves in our ears.
Unless there are mosquitoes or wild animals, I love sleeping under the stars.
Feb 14th, 2007, 07:07 PM
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Yes and NO! Dew will rain on the parade. But maybe some like getting wet in bed. I had to once in Northern California. I might also add bugs and snakes to the equation. There are 3 spiders in N.A. that can kill you. There are reasons that mankind has invented igloos, teepees and condominiums.
Feb 14th, 2007, 07:08 PM
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Yes, and yes - emphatically, so long as you are not sleeping under the stars in Minnesota or Wisconsin during mosquito or black fly season and there are no bears poking around your camp site! As for being surprised by the number of stars blocked by light pollution - if you're an urbanite you'll be gob smacked at the spectacle. Until last summer in Yosemite it had been 20 years since I'd had a clear view of the night sky. I felt like I was looking a some sci-fi special effects extravaganza - the Milky Way streching across the sky was breath taking.
Feb 14th, 2007, 07:59 PM
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Several times as a kid growing up/camping in the PNW.
As an adult..best was the Carrbbean watching the Southern Cross make it's way across the horizen from the deck of a 52 foot chartered sailboat..falling asleep in my husbands arms with the gentle sway of the boat at anchor and the seabreze..
As an adult..best was the Carrbbean watching the Southern Cross make it's way across the horizen from the deck of a 52 foot chartered sailboat..falling asleep in my husbands arms with the gentle sway of the boat at anchor and the seabreze..
Feb 14th, 2007, 08:00 PM
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TTess..
Love your story and what a cool husband you have!
I adore sleeping under the stars and really the only time I get to do that is when my friend takes his big ol'boat to Catalina and even though I could have my own stateroom, I always opt for the hard top on the bridge where we jump off during the day and I have my comfy sleeping bag and with Avalon harbor lights and sounds, the water taxis and those gorgeous stars, it is magical!
Feb 14th, 2007, 08:12 PM
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Lordy, so many times and always ( as happy says)..Magical!
As a kid in NC, we slept on sleeping porches, camping down by my grandfathers lake..in Arizona camping out , got to see falling stars then..as an adult in NY and at the beach in Montauk.. nothing like a big bed out on the deck and some mosquito netting~
I hope we will get to sleep under the stars in Argentina next
As a kid in NC, we slept on sleeping porches, camping down by my grandfathers lake..in Arizona camping out , got to see falling stars then..as an adult in NY and at the beach in Montauk.. nothing like a big bed out on the deck and some mosquito netting~
I hope we will get to sleep under the stars in Argentina next
Feb 15th, 2007, 12:09 AM
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On the beach in Hatteras, NC; on the deck of a four-masted schooner in the Caribbean although what was goping on "under the stars" on the latter was even more interesting even if you couldn't quite see the "stars!"
Feb 15th, 2007, 12:39 AM
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Ecstatic!! Under the stars...a secluded cove in Treasure Cay, Bahamas. It was early March, last year. You lie flat on the sands, gzae at the stars!! Starstruck! but hey! the sound is mind-blowing.i can feel it entering from my right ear, then making circles in my brain and trapped there forever! I still remember the sound of the surf. I love these nights! if I'm not near the sea, I'm on the roof-top!
