Answer:
I found four things: bag, water, light, and tent. This would
probably qualify as a correct answer, but I can't shake the feeling that a
whole lot more words lurk in this paragraph. Send me an email if you
find any more.
As we sat reviewing the events of the last three days, we realized how
lucky we were to be alive. Our family of four had planned a long
trek from California to the Guaraba glaciers via the Sonora
desert. As our one-engine plane flew at erratic lazy
speed over the Mexican desert we thought everything was going to be
wonderful. We were delighted to land safely and go to
sleep. We woke up in the middle of the night when a gushing torrent
came down the arroyo. We scrambled out, intent on
salvaging all we could. But our gear was out of sight. Our
plane disappeared in a sea of mud. I called for help. Soon a
rickety truck driven by the "policia turista" came to pick us
up. The next day we were back home.
By the way, a computerized search revealed the following words buried
in the paragraph. Would you take a wok, perhaps? Let me
know if you think any more of these are items you would take to
camp: ac, ad, aging, al, alive, all, along, am, amble, ambled, an, and, ands, app, appear, appeared, are, arroyo, as, at, ate, back, bag, be, bled, but, by, ca, cal, call, called, cam, came, can, co, could, cram, day, days,
de, deli, delight, delighted, desert, dg, din, disappear, disappeared, do,
dove, down, drive, driven, ear, eared, em, en, engine, eof, ere, err, erratic, esc, et, eve, even, event, events, ever, every, everything, ewe, ewer, ex, family, fl, flew, fm, for, four, from, ft, gal, gall, gear, gin, glacier, glaciers, go, going, got, guar, gush, gushing, ha, had, he, hear, help, helps, hem, hen, hi, ho, home, how, howl, hr, ht, id, if, in, intent, is, iv,
la, lacier, land, lands, lane, last, lazy, led, lee, light, lighted, live, long, luck, lucky, me, met, mid, middle, mil, mud, nag, nee, next, nigh, night, no, nor, nth, of, off, oft, ok, on, one, op, or, ought, our, out, over, overt, owe, owes, owl, own, pea, pear, pee, peed, pi, pick, pin, pint, plan, plane, planed, planned, pt, ram, ramble, rambled, rat, re, real, realize, realized, red, reed, rent, ret, rev, review, reviewing, rickety, rive, safe, safely, salvaging, sap, sat,
scram, scramble, scrambled, se, sea, shin, sigh, sight, sleep, so, soft, son,
soon, sour, speed, sup, td, ten, tent, terra, the, thee, them, theme, then, thin, thing, thou, though, thought, three,
tic, tin, tint, to, ton, tons, top, topic, torrent, tot, tour, trek, truck, ugh, up, urge, us, vent, vents, very, vi, via, vie, view, viewing,
was, water, we, were, wet, when, win, wing, wok, woke, won, wonder, wonderful, yow, zed.
