Well this happened along time ago but it is worth recanting. Went on a long week end bike tour with a friend of mine riding the wisconsin hills and decided to camp in a little city park and campground in Stockholm, Wisconsin. We left our bikes leaned up on a tree near our tent. Mine is small as am I and my friend is pretty tall so of course had a bigger bike. No one was camping except us. Well....about 1-2:00 am we are awakened with the sound of a bunch of teenage boys building a fire about 100 feet from our tent. They were making the usual conversation and drinking (we could hear bottles smashing)...well we were petrified. Then to make matters worse they walked by our tent (crunch crunch crunch) and started talking to "the people in there." May be we should just take your bikes..etc." We motioned to each other to say absolutely nothing so that they wouldn't necessary know there were two women in the tent. Then they went to their cars and drove around the tent somehow over and over again with their headlights flashing in to the tent. We didn't know if we were going to get run over or not. Now you might say...why not get out and challenge them. My instinct was to lay low and do nothing to rile them anymore than they already were. There were at least 4 and we were clearly outnumbered in the middle of the night and they still didn't know who was really in the tent. Finally they left after about 2 hours of this stuff. I felt so vulnerable and it taught me a good lesson about not camping where there are no other people. I was also furious that as a woman I no longer felt I could go bike touring without making sure that I was somehow protected (or with a man). Anyway, it happened along time ago but I'll never forget it.
Scared in Stockholm!!!