>>2176315Alright, I'll be honest.
My first time I was really /out/ it was a bit freaky with the storm, I definitely felt fear.
I had ridden all day and was soaked through. It was extremely humid so I was wet from both outside and inside.
I set up camp on a service road off the highway, (unknowingly beside a creek) the mosquitoes were very bad. Even as it started to cool off in the evening it was still extremely humid and nothing was dry.
Still drizzling I set up my tent and tucked my bike into the bush. It was also mayfly season so there were constantly mayflies covering my tent and dying minutes later, leaving their green poop everywhere too, all over my tent.
Stormed and rained all night into the morning, but I was so tired from the day even the thunder couldn't keep me awake.
I guess the fear wasn't really from the storm, but from feeling a bit hopeless.
I didn't have a phone with a SIM card so I couldn't call anyone and I didn't have a house to retreat back to. Knowing I had no place to go back, and would have to do what I did that day again, and again over (was moving across the country) Made me feel a bit ill.
I'm sure if it were my 2nd or 3rd outing I would have been fine, but I wasn't used to being /out/ like that, with nothing but a tent and wet sleeping bag.
I also set up the tent a bit wrong. I put the cross pole under the two other poles instead of over, this caused water to sit on top of the tent.
I genuinely thought I was going to get pneumonia with how humid and cold it was and wet it was.
I was starting to see flashing lights (hallucinations) before I fell asleep
The morning was awful, Had some pieces of beef jerky, loaded up the bike, dropped it in the mud the storm had created, left soaked, cold, covered in mud.
If I have one recommendation it's to bring towels and have some kind of bag to keep stuff dry.
The next place I was able to stop before nightfall was much better.
Dry, right across from lake Superior, and peaceful.
