Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 12:34:08 -0700
Reply-To: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Friday: Learn From My Lessons
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Ron Tipton <uther@dragonhome.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
Keeping organized is difficult. I find it amazing how I can lose something
IN my van. I mean the whole vehicle only has about 60sq ft of floor
space. Takes me a couple of days to re-adapt out on the road. I am always
going..."Now where is my________? I just had it in my hands"
It takes me about a week of camping before I can remember, too, that I'm
quite able to adapt to most circumstances I'll encounter, regardless of
whether I have the exact right thing I need..or not. You can never
anticipate every possible situation and bring along just the right thing for
it. After about a week on the road, I regain my sense of adventure and
remember that part of the fun of traveling and camping is figuring out how
to "Make-do" with whatever comes to hand. When I get bored and I can't find
a book I haven't read in the van..I do something else. If my batteries go
dead, I just turn in at dark and bump start the van to get home again..or
something else..whatever ...It's better than being all pissed-off about "not
having what you need"..
Watching some of the RVers down in our winter area spend all day every
day messing with their "stuff"...You'd think they would be better off
staying home and messing with all that stuff there.
Whatever your needs, you won't ever get it all just right..I go kinda
simple..Not saying that is the only way to be happy, but it works for me.
Don Hanson
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