I thoroughly enjoy your regular series on camping and campers. When I was just a kid not even yet in my teens my mom would stuff my brother and me into an old station wagon, load up a box with food, and head out for a few nights camping near the Columbia River. We slept in the wagon.
Nowadays I sleep in a tent either pulled from a backpack or from bicycle panniers. I sleep far better this way than I do in my own bed.
Mike put a link to your blog in here. People that man has lived a fascinating life.
And the idgits think the mini house is something new.
I am heading back to the rain forests of Central America in a few weeks. It annoys me to no end that there are as yet Mayan ruins I have not seen and jungles I have not yet explored.
Been to Chichinyza but that’s it. Cruise excursion bus tour.
That second to last pic looks like a spot a few miles from my place.
That isn’t a Chinook. Chinooks have twin rotors. That is a Datsun pickup with a dual axle and a pop-up camper kludged onto it.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Leigh, that is a Toyota kludged with that pup tent contraption.
Most of this week’s looks like a tribute to 60’s hippies.
There sure a hippyness look to all of them… I noticed too. But I liked the look and utility to them.
When I was in High School, back in the mid-’70s, there was a Guy in Town near the School who had an old (’50s) GMC Motor Coach, forget the Model but they called it a “Shark Fin” because of the Radiator Air Scoop on the back of the Roof. Stainless-Steel Body, big V-8 Detroit 2-Stroke Diesel, Allison 5-Speed Auto. It showed up in his Yard when I was a Freshman, and in the 4 Years that the School Bus rolled by it, he methodically Rebuilt it- Engine-Out and Body-off-the-Frame Rebuild. Did a complete RV Interior Conversion, and the Summer when he started Polishing the Exterior, I and another Motorhead Friend finally went over to look at it. He was really Thorough in the Work- Everything looked like New. He took it on some Shakedown Trips, and in November, the For Sale sign went up on the House, and He and the Wife and Dog “Hit the Road”, never to be seen again.
I thoroughly enjoy your regular series on camping and campers. When I was just a kid not even yet in my teens my mom would stuff my brother and me into an old station wagon, load up a box with food, and head out for a few nights camping near the Columbia River. We slept in the wagon.
Nowadays I sleep in a tent either pulled from a backpack or from bicycle panniers. I sleep far better this way than I do in my own bed.
Mike put a link to your blog in here. People that man has lived a fascinating life.
And the idgits think the mini house is something new.
Here it is:
https://mikeaustin.org/
I am heading back to the rain forests of Central America in a few weeks. It annoys me to no end that there are as yet Mayan ruins I have not seen and jungles I have not yet explored.
Been to Chichinyza but that’s it. Cruise excursion bus tour.
That second to last pic looks like a spot a few miles from my place.
That isn’t a Chinook. Chinooks have twin rotors. That is a Datsun pickup with a dual axle and a pop-up camper kludged onto it.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Leigh, that is a Toyota kludged with that pup tent contraption.
Most of this week’s looks like a tribute to 60’s hippies.
There sure a hippyness look to all of them… I noticed too. But I liked the look and utility to them.
When I was in High School, back in the mid-’70s, there was a Guy in Town near the School who had an old (’50s) GMC Motor Coach, forget the Model but they called it a “Shark Fin” because of the Radiator Air Scoop on the back of the Roof. Stainless-Steel Body, big V-8 Detroit 2-Stroke Diesel, Allison 5-Speed Auto. It showed up in his Yard when I was a Freshman, and in the 4 Years that the School Bus rolled by it, he methodically Rebuilt it- Engine-Out and Body-off-the-Frame Rebuild. Did a complete RV Interior Conversion, and the Summer when he started Polishing the Exterior, I and another Motorhead Friend finally went over to look at it. He was really Thorough in the Work- Everything looked like New. He took it on some Shakedown Trips, and in November, the For Sale sign went up on the House, and He and the Wife and Dog “Hit the Road”, never to be seen again.