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Pastimes : Happy Camping! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (586)	8/16/2017 6:19:48 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 593

Been there, got that (now well used) Federal/National Parks lifetime seniors pass 11 years ago. Also have a FL State Park pass. Still valid but needs renewal this fall. Both passes admit everyone in the car. Retired Military ID gets us into many other military, Fed and state facilities including camp grounds, px, etc.. Also have NC hunting and fishing licenses. They send out free annual info on fishing and hunting laws and changes, and free admittance to classes and seminars, etc.. Years ago, while camped for a few winter months on the Key West military campground, my wife and another military camper gal wrote a schedule on Freebies in the lower Florida Keys. Everything from art festivals to concerts to daily/weekly Happy Hours serving free food, to how to get a legal locals' ID and pass. Once done, the gals updated it occasionally, and handed it out to incoming campers till we left. My favorite was Boston Billy's on Duval St. He served free beer and Hors d'0uvres to military and locals for an hour or 2 on Wednesday. He would not serve you freebies (ever again) unless you tipped the waitress or bartender each time they served you.. uw

To: Neeka who wrote (586)	8/26/2017 12:32:50 PM
From: dylan murphy	Respond to of 593

Hey Neeka, thanks for the repost. When I began looking for a place to put this info, this thread had the best fit but only had 16 bookmarks. I assumed many here would already know about it and wanted to reach more. Most Subjects that had a lot more People Marks would have been too far OT to post this. The one I picked had 130 and was still OT. Sometimes Ron says if you post the same post on different threads it could be called spam and deleted. I think some leeway would have been given here, but who knows? This story gives some updates and it looks like 250,000 have applied for the pass this year compared to 33,000 last year. My sister and her family picked up one at the Carl Sandburg Home in North Carolina. I have one friend that won't be 62 till December and wanted the pass because they charge $2 every time he puts his boat in the water at a US Army Corps of Engineers site. It would be worth it to him at $10 a pass, but maybe not at $80. I just missed being old enough to get it too. I still tell everyone around me about it. Happy Camping.