That was a moderately adventurous weekend, as my weekends go.\u00a0 I took a few days off work and headed down to Bodega Bay on Thursday morning for my second crabbing expedition.\u00a0 It’s a pretty cool deal.\u00a0 Apparently this bunch of guys have gotten together every year over the last few decades to go on this trip.\u00a0 Same guys, same weekend, same campground.\u00a0 This might sound like a somewhat familiar scene to some of you.\u00a0 I kind of butted in on their trip two years ago and had a great time, so I decided to butt in again this year.\u00a0 In Float-Trip terms, that would earn me the maligned label of “interloper.”\u00a0 Hey, what are ya gonna do, I need entertained.<\/p>\n
Anyway, interloper or not, I enjoyed my weekend.\u00a0 I made a few key upgrades from the last time I went.\u00a0 First, I slept in my car.\u00a0 Last time I was in my tent, and I was freezing cold, uncomfortable, and all my stuff was a wet, sandy mess.\u00a0 This time I was just uncomfortable, so that’s a pretty vast improvement.\u00a0 I also made it a point to get some prescription sea-sickness meds.\u00a0 They make these little patches that go behind your ear, and the results didn’t lie:\u00a0 People wearing them didn’t get sick, people without them got sick.\u00a0 To a man.\u00a0 I was told to get them last time, but nobody mentioned that they were prescription, so I showed up at CVS the night before the trip and was out of luck.\u00a0 And, yes, was firmly in the “got sick” category.\u00a0 Other than those two key upgrades, it was essentially a repeat of the last trip.\u00a0 Catch crab, clean crab, cook crab, eat crab.\u00a0 And, repeat.\u00a0 Good times.<\/p>\n\n\t\t