If you're not into hearing me complain, by all means SCROLL elsewhere. But I have to unleash this fury somewhere, or I'm gonna wind up shoving old ladies into the road.

It's RARE that I am angry. VERY few friends have seen me mad. But right now I'm downright FURIOUS. I was SUPPOSED to go into the woods to enjoy a peaceful weekend, away from people. What I wound up with was bullshit and an even deeper loathing for humanity.

Here are the reasons you should avoid Pacebend Park at all costs:

1) FILTHY. There is trash everywhere. Lake is full of beer cans and other gross things.
2) Broken glass everywhere. Especially along the hiking trails.
3) Giant holes in the charcoal pits.
4) Absolute incompetence on behalf of the Travis County parks system. When I called to make a campsite reservation, they told me I had to PHYSICALLY go downtown to their office and pay them. I did that. NOT ONCE did they happen to mention that TENT camping did not require a reservation. So, I paid them $10, apparently for an RV site which they did NOT tell me that's what I was paying for. THEN, I got to Pacebend, and they charged me ANOTHER $20. $30 to set up a tent?? BULLSHIT! When I got all my paperwork together, and took a look at everything I realized what had gone horribly wrong, so I went back up to the office to complain. They told me to go back to the Travis County office tomorrow. WTF. How about you just give me the $15 you owe me, BITCH.
5) Assholes having an incredibly loud conversation until 3 AM.
6) Another asshole across the river had their radio on to volume 11 from 4-6:30 AM.
7) The lady at the front booth absolutely FAILED to give me a map! Tyler and I got really lost on the hiking trail, and I seriously thought he was going to collapse and die, and I would have to haul my poor old dog's body out of the woods. We walked for 1.5 hours until we found a road, and I didn't even know if we were still on the property or not. Eventually we found our camp site, and only because I knew to head in the direction of the setting sun.
8) NO ONE told me Travis County had a burn ban! Not a PEEP when I made reservations. What's the point of camping without a fire?!
9) Drunk morons on their boats on the lake singing at the top of their lungs to horrible country music.

The next time Enchanted Rock is booked up, I am not going to settle for some other camp ground. For the amount of time and money that was wasted, I could have just driven the 3 hours out to the Y.O. Ranch, where it would have been dead silent, and I could have done whatever the hell I wanted. I should have just stayed home and gone camping in Hyrule instead. BOOOOOO.