Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:06:40 -0400
Reply-To: Ron Tipton <uther@DRAGONHOME.ORG>
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From: Ron Tipton <uther@DRAGONHOME.ORG>
Subject: Re: Friday: Learn From My Lessons
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i'm having a problem getting my 50" plasma tv, seven channel surround
system, satellite
receiver and tivo packed neatly in my syncro... and they don't seem to
work very well on
on my group 41 house battery. opps, wrong thread!
on a serious note: i too am very OCD about my camping supplies - i've
even built a small
storage building to keep everything together. and i still find myself
missing things. this
spring i took a camping trip from here (knoxville, tn) to meat cove
and managed to leave
my fireplace grill at home. it's on my check list but somehow i
missed it. cooking over an
open fire with no grill is sorta hard.
i think these things are related to the one-missing-sock-in-the-dryer
phenomenon. and
i have moved too many times and ALWAYS loose things. they can pry
this house out of
my cold dead hands,
r
On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:43 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
> I, too, am a believer in having separate copies of everything that
> goes
> into the Westy yet might otherwise be needed on a picnic or in the
> house.
> Wick lanterns in case of power failure? Get extras for the house, DO
> NOT
> remove the camping ones from the Westy.
>
> But I had to break that rule when I move up here last August. That
> was a
> sufficiently different kind of Vanagon use that the campin' gear got
> left
> behind for moving van transport, while the Vanagon got loaded with
> stuff
> I'd need here for move in.
>
> As we see, this led to EXACTLY the problem I normally manage to avoid
> through my OCD approach to gear storage.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> On 8/21/2009 10:54 AM neil N wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Rocket J
>> Squirrel<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Anyone see the cables I use to connect the solar panels to the
>>> van? How
>>> could I lose track of those?
>>>
>>> I've even looked in the sock drawer.
>>
>>
>> Did you look in your dryer? ;)
>>
>> Yah I hate moving stuff back and forth between my Westy and abode. I
>> can "lose" things in a heartbeat it seems. I leave most of my
>> wrenching tools inside my Westy.
>>
>> As much as I hate the idea of having 2 of all things Westy, I am
>> close
>> to that point.
>>
>> Moving? I hate that more! :)
>>
>> Neil.
>>
I remain, as always
YrLyl&ObdntSrvnt,
r
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