KOA and camping

As students, we were always looking for inexpensive places to stay when we travelled.
One of my first road trips was on a greyhound bus and I had planned to spend nights on the bus so it would work out cheaper AND I could go further and see more of the US that way.
If we rented a car, we would always look to drive out one night and drive thru the night - 4 or 5 drivers in 1 car and we took turns, to save on the 1 night of hotel spending.
We also discovered KOAs - Kampground Of America, a place where you can park you RV (recreational vehicle - big vehicle that has a kitchen/ restroom/ living room and bedroom), car and either stay in Kottages or tents.
We rented out tents and stayed at the KOA in SantaFe when we were students and loved it.
KOAs are a little distance from downtowns, so they are quiet. They are a little distance from highways as well, but have a lot of signboards that help in ensuring that you dont get lost.
The tent areas used to be around 15$ per night per tent and Kottages used to be 30 - 40$ in 1999-2000.
6 of us had travelled to SantaFe New Mexico and it cost us 30$ for two tents that we had pitched.
If we had stayed in a cheap motel, it would have cost us around 120$ for two rooms at the least.
On our first trip together, my wife and I stayed in a Kottage, again in SantaFe New Mexico and it had a bunk bed and a single bed as well and was very comfortable.
We also stayed at KOAs at Austin Texas, Branson MO and San Antonio.
A link to KOA is - http://koa.com/

Ultimate frisbee.

Ultimate frisbee - in short it's like an to man soccer with a frisbee.

I got introduced to it one Wednesday evening where people were practising and I went to watch. It looked like a lot of fun and I read about the rules online over the rest of the week and was all set on Saturday to play (or so i thought).

The hardest part is that when you are on offence and the frisbee drops and you suddenly become the defence and need to run back to cover your person to prevent them from scoring!

This happens a bunch and so you have to constantly be watching the frizbee, your man and the rest of your team.

Everyone is "ball handler", everyone has to have an element of defence and offence in their gamet to be good.

It's an amazing stamina building game. You end up running the length of a soccer field maybe once every 3 minutes. 

When they stopped for the first time o think we had played just 20-25 minutes and I was dead tired.

The had stopped for the halftime and continued for a second half. This was during a time I was playing some sport or the other daily and was in good physical condition!

Size of field - like soccer

Offence defence - like basketball

Scoring - like American football

Going with your heart out at the start means you can't sustain later, so it's better to pace yourself to be able to play and be competitive throughout the game.

Having or building the ability to throw well is key along with stamina. 

Other points:

Playing dehydrated is a killer.

Bananas after dehydration helps you some.

Throwing underarm and overhead is a super useful skill.

Faking short passes to break away for a long pass can be super thrilling.

Seeing the disc float towards as you are running towards the end zone is a Wonderful feeling. 

Seeing a hand come and knock the disc down right when you thought you had a touchdown is heart breaking.