Greater camping through socialism...

We, as a group, have demonstrated a great wealth of generosity for our fellow campers throughout our decade of camping excellence. We have steadily grown the camping trip in duration, style, and luxury; we have managed to bring new activities to the fold with the passing of each year. We are, if nothing else, evidence of our generation's meteoric rise from dirt-poor dorm kids to struggling 30-somethings. We have spent the last half of the first third of our lives at a near constant party, forcing our conscienes under the water in the vain attempt to keep alive desperate dreams of stardom, wealth and a plethera and variety of young and willing sexual partners to rival the brain-washed sex-slaves of the Pharaoh. We have spent the last years pounding our minds with enough booze and pharmaceuticals to convince us that it is only a matter of time before George Lucas reaches down with his mighty hand to scoop us up out of our vapid lives and to place us on the pedistals we so richly deserve!

No more! Peering past round the corner of idyllic young-adulthood into a crushingly empty vacuum of our unfulfilled middle-ages, bereft of social acclaim and the looming, ever looming realization that all things must die, we have seen the face of god.

And it is nothing more than a souvenir from Planet Hollywood.

...eh, I think I got off message. What was I talking about?

Oh, yeah. I was thinking it might be easier for everyone if we started a savings account to fund the camping trip. Here's the idea: We open a joint bank account, the kind that has a very small minimum and produces almost no interest. We name Tommy the executer. Everybody cuts a check, at their own convenience, for a previously agreed to amount (I suggest $150 or more), and mails it to Tommy before next June. We use that $1200 or whatever to fund next years' trip. Whatever's left over stays in the account, and we do the same next year. A few years down the road, when we've saved up a chunk, we can use it to make the camping trip a really special event, maybe rent a boat or drive to Montana or whatever.

Ideas? Feedback?