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Date:         Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:47:18 -0400
Reply-To:     ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET>
Subject:      Can you get Matilda into your living room?
Comments: To: bueses <bueses@EARTHLINK.NET>
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Just like the Tv show route 66 I think it was they drove into the house Kookie or something he had a 58 2 seater tbird

Bob

----- Original Message ----- From: "bueses" <bueses@EARTHLINK.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Life not in a van (was RE: Parking Matilda) - NVC

> on 9/11/06 5:33 AM, Joy Hecht at jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU wrote: > >> Someone else suggested it going camping for the weekend as a way to >> adjust. >> But for me that seems _really_ hard! >> >> Since I've been full-timing, all of my stuff has been in the van. Part >> of >> the transition to a house is moving things back into the house. The >> first >> to go was the cooler and all the food in the fridge. Then the >> silverware. >> I have some additional silverware somewhere in storage (in my basement) >> but >> I have no idea where. Then other kitchen stuff and all my clothes and >> everyday toiletries. (The stored toiletries - new bottle of shampoo, >> stuff >> that would be in your medicine cabinet - are still in the van.) Just >> this >> morning I lugged in the narrow plastic four-drawer dresser that has >> served >> as a "console" and coffee-cup holder between the front seats and also >> where >> I've stored office stuff, some tools, and various other things. >> >> The delight of living in the van - one of them - is that I always had my >> house and my stuff with me. No need to think about what to take with me. >> If I own it, it's there. But now that I'm moving back into the house, >> the >> van is no longer convenient to travel in, because I'd have to think about >> what to take with me, and move it all back out again. I never had to >> worry >> about leaving something behind when I was on the road, but now I would. >> >> On the other hand, the van is still my bedroom, since I don't have a bed >> or >> a couch in my house. > > Can you get Matilda into your living room? > > Grin, > > Tom B. > > > >> Which does help with the adjustment in some ways! And >> fortunately, as it turns out, my neighbors built a high fence between >> their >> yard and my driveway, which isn't elegant, but does afford me a lot of >> privacy. >


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