This always aggravates me! The park system really needs a way to remind people to cancel and/or charge for no-shows.

This is why I do a lot of my camping by scooping up cancellations later in the year, although that requires more regular checking to see if sites have opened up.

The amount of people who want to go camping has risen a LOT over the past decade but available campsites have risen not at all. It's a real bummer, especially if you can only camp on weekends.

I'm not even sure what the actionable complaint here is

Definitely rent a car.

Or like someone else suggested, get one of your friends to pick you up. Are they from somewhere else? I feel like no one who lives here would suggest any other course of action.

Fun fact! Displays from individuals or community groups used to be allowed inside the Capitol via a simple permitting process. However, in the early-mud 2000s a bit of a winter holiday display war began inside the building, with multiple groups requesting permits for different holiday displays and people complaining. At that point they decided that it was too much and now displays can only done on the grounds, which is why these are on the lawn.

I get a kick out of the entire thing.

Is the other end of the spectrum of transactional sex married women, or is there another word for that?

Frankly, in that time period it seems like it was transactional sex all the way up the ladder, although the folks at the top dressed it up with legalities.

The only thing I've found particularly noteworthy in the few books of her's I've read is how frequently she creates tension and/or moves a plot forward via missed calls.