Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:47:18 -0400
Reply-To: ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET>
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From: ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Can you get Matilda into your living room?
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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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