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Gene · 12-11-2010, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Dave Park

1. What is your favorite "feature" at an RV camp?

2. Least favorite "feature" at an RV camp?

3. Any happenings at an RV camp that made you stay longer or leave sooner? Funny stories?

Dave,

1. The best ones have great views of nature.

2. Sewer hookups are are higher than the outlet on the trailer or so far away I have to baby the stuff along the hose.

3. I don't recall anything that made us change our plans. There are places we would never go back to though. Not much in funny stories.

Gene

Gene · 12-11-2010, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Janet

1. Are there other forums you like?

2. If money, time and know how were no worry, what would your ideal trailer be?

Janet,

1. No.

2. It would be bigger inside than outside. There are some difficulties with that desire, so I would like it to be an Airstream with far better quality control, partitions not made of fiberboard and Formica, a full size king bed turned back to front, no pano windows in the bedroom, more space in the shower, decent shower head, automatic levelers, better deep cycle batteries, leakless, better quality frame, TV in the bedroom, factory installed satellite TV and radio system, comfortable bed, provisions for internet (wifi booster system) and printer, more space around toilet, LED lighting, self cleaning floor, comfortable seat cushions with better quality fabric. I'm sure I could think of more. Some things we have solved and some may be impossible.

Gene

**Janet H** · 12-11-2010, 07:16 PM

1. I just saw the Charlie Brown Christmas Special - again. Which character do you most closely associate with? Why?

2. Do you have any interest in full-timing in your Airstream?

3. What is the strangest thing that ever happened to you?

slowmover · 12-12-2010, 09:53 AM

Well done, and dovetails with the travelogues nicely.

(Might have a look at Yellow Dirt: An American Story of a Poisoned Land and a People Betrayed, by Judy Pasternak, 2010. Fits all the careers -- and present & contemplated homes -- extraordinarily well. Issue familiarity not to the point).

Weaving & caning, hmmm . . . are they past-participatory or future-anticipatory. As I read the above I couldn't tell which direction timelessness was meant to take, initially, but weaving shows up as an outdoor, shaded activity (greasewood tree). Or, watching ones sheep from the daylong shade under a horse belly.

So, in your minds eye, once parked, is it an assembling or a dis-assembling . . . ?

(Best)

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Gene · 12-12-2010, 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Janet

1. I just saw the Charlie Brown Christmas Special - again. Which character do you most closely associate with? Why?

2. Do you have any interest in full-timing in your Airstream?

3. What is the strangest thing that ever happened to you?

Janet,

1. I've never seen it and avoid all Christmas specials. I rarely watch broadcast network TV. I have read the comic strip on occasion, but have a hard time remembering which character is which.

2. We talked about fulltiming, but after 8 weeks on the road, realized eventually we would feel cramped. When may spend a number of months in the trailer when we look for another house after we sell the one we're in.

3. Some cannot be repeated in a family forum and happened in the '70's and may have involved women. When practicing law I have heard many very strange stories which made me feel normal.

Rednax, I would like to learn how to weave Navajo style rugs, but my back prevents such activity. I could easily make the frame to do it, but lack greasewood. Caning a chair also hurts, but I hate paying someone to do something I can. Certainly there's an element of timelessness and re-sembling in reconstruction. Just about every Navajo we've met is friendly, funny and smart, but you have to talk to them for a while before they feel they can let their guard down. Their most universal sound bite is "walk in beauty". It is said their legislature is run badly, but it compares to Congress.

Gene

Dave Park · 12-12-2010, 12:46 PM

1. What is the strangest repeatable thing that has happened to you?

2. Your back limits a lot of what you can do. Is it a chronic condition, or something you can work to improve?

3. Best Christmas present ever?

Gene · 12-12-2010, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Park

1. What is the strangest repeatable thing that has happened to you?

2. Your back limits a lot of what you can do. Is it a chronic condition, or something you can work to improve?

3. Best Christmas present ever?

Dave,

1. That would imply I don't learn from my mistakes.

2. My back injury limits some of what I can do. I blew out two discs in 1984. Exercise has helped a lot to allow me to have an active life, but cross country skiing has risks of falling and re-injuring it (I know from experience). I think it is common that standing in one place is painful, but walking and sitting are ok. Bending is bad, but sometimes necessary. Carrying weight is not good, but sometimes necessary. I always push it and sometimes I pay the price. Chronic pain varies quite a bit from time to time and person to person. I have had to learn how to deal with it and not take a lot of painkillers. Exercise is good for everyone and the positive part of my injury was that I became stronger and more flexible than ever, so my overall health may actually be better for the experience.

3. Electric trains—Lionel 0 gauge, the standard in the late '40's. I think my father wanted them more than I did though.

Gene

Dave Park · 12-12-2010, 02:02 PM

Rephrase of 1. above:

1. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you, that you can repeat on Airforums?

Now, no more weaseling out of an answer! :P

Gene · 12-12-2010, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Dave Park

Rephrase of 1. above:

1. What is the strangest thing that has happened to you, that you can repeat on Airforums?

Now, no more weaseling out of an answer! :P

Dave, I don't know and never think much about it. I saw something at night that looked like a UFO above me as I drove through northern Ohio about 35 years ago. I was driving past a government compound of some sort that looked sort of military. Maybe it was a helicopter, but it would have been very high up. When we traveled the Extraterrestrial Highway in Nevada we didn't see any UFO's. That's as good as I can do.

Gene

Lily&Me · 12-12-2010, 05:44 PM

What's on your bucket list, Gene?

Maggie

Gene · 12-12-2010, 07:14 PM

No formal bucket list, so I'll have to make one up. The order doesn't mean anything.

1. Stay alive
2. See China and Tibet.
3. Go back to Newfoundland.
4. Move to Santa Fe.
5. My wife wants to go to Hawaii. I'd better do that and then we'll have been in 50 states.
6. Labrador.
7. See Cuba.
8. Tour Mexico when it's safe.
9. See Brasil and the rest of S. and C. America.
10. Learn to play the guitar and become a rock star.
11. Learn to play hockey and become a star.
12. Win the Nobel Peace Prize so I get the money that goes with it so I can afford to do the stuff above.
13. Write a really good novel.
14. Get a letter published in the New York Times and be asked to be a columnist.
15. Have the president call me for advice from time to time.
16. Drive to Nunavut (they have to build a road there first; then we'll have been in all Canadian provinces and territories).

Some of this may not be possible.

Gene

Lily&Me · 12-12-2010, 07:58 PM

Maggie

HiHoAgRV · 12-12-2010, 08:10 PM

Out of all of your travels in the 'Stream...
Is it possible for you to pick out 1 that stands out as a great day?

Gene · 12-12-2010, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by HiHoAgRV

Out of all of your travels in the 'Stream...
Is it possible for you to pick out 1 that stands out as a great day?

I always have a hard time selecting the "best" or "worst" because there are plenty of each. Having a wheel bearing fry on in northern Minnesota was a really bad day, but the people at the campground were very nice and helpful, so it turned out to be a good day.

But I digress—a succession of great days on our trip to Alaska last summer; going to Florida and seeing my cousin Wally was a great day; meeting Forum members on the road are great days; going to Gualala, Cal., and eating the best pizza in the west at Upper Crust pizza; driving the Pacific coast; camping with friends in Lake City (which turned bad when one friend was injured on her bike); having Thanksgiving in our trailer in Arizona when we first owned it. I could go on, but dinner is ready. Traveling together is very important to us and we are happiest when we can see new or old places—a great day always has Barb in it.

Gene