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We’re finally winding down on the camping coverage. This post is a collection of odds and ends that were left over. Like this first one, for example — when I see something in nature that’s shaped like a heart, it’s pretty much a biological imperative that I take a photo of it. Maybe that’s just from the time the emo bit me, I don’t know.

You best believe we came prepared. On our last night, that big bottle on the bottom right somehow made its way into my stomach, and mostly before dinner. I figured, hey, packing up a camp site in complete disarray and carrying piles of shit back up to the car isn’t frustrating enough on its own, let’s add a debilitating hangover to the mix. So yeah, it was fun. Well, at least the 8,000 pounds of food I ate throughout the course of the day to nurse my ailment was.

I never would have called caterpillars fast-moving creatures before, but trying to take a decent picture of this dude was surprisingly difficult. I guess all those little feet actually do something! See, this is what camping is all about — getting lost in the merciless wild, and learning a few things from Mother Earth. Like which leaves you don’t wipe with.

On Friday, we conclude my camping saga with the extremely, uh, interesting (in the worst possible way) bus ride back. Get excited, folks — it was probably the strangest bus ride of my entire life, including the time in first grade when Sam Gage impulsively took a shit in the back of the school bus, using a Ninja Turtles action figure to cover his genitals. Oh, childhood.