Straws and camels' backs, indeed. August is not the month when the migrational sap runs in my blood, but when I learned that my boom-da-boom-thud-boom neighbor might renew for another month, the decision became easy. I leave on 18 August. There's nothing wrong with how people live here, if that's what they like. But I have nothing in common with them. Any unpleasantness is my own fault for being in a place I shouldn't be.
My 1995 Ford cargo van is all cleaned and waxed up -- beautiful. After three years of weathering in the New Mexican sun, the paint had turned dull and chalky, leaving the water bucket looking like a pail of milk.
These cargo vans work so well as towing and storage machines that I wonder why more people don't use them: there are four bicycles and a BOB trailer in there -- and how could a human being live on less?! It has also swallowed up 33 gallons of water, a generator, a wall of supplies in shelves, and it's half empty! Granted, most bourgeois wives wouldn't be caught dead in one.
My 1995 Ford cargo van is all cleaned and waxed up -- beautiful. After three years of weathering in the New Mexican sun, the paint had turned dull and chalky, leaving the water bucket looking like a pail of milk.
These cargo vans work so well as towing and storage machines that I wonder why more people don't use them: there are four bicycles and a BOB trailer in there -- and how could a human being live on less?! It has also swallowed up 33 gallons of water, a generator, a wall of supplies in shelves, and it's half empty! Granted, most bourgeois wives wouldn't be caught dead in one.
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To a lesser degree, so do you, since one way to look at your Chinook is to see it as a high trim level Ford Econoline van. The only difference is that my cargo van has refused to sell out to the female Establishment; it has held true to its principles and maintained a certain manly integrity. (grin)
My design approach for Wandrin Wagon was "four for cocktails, two for dinner, sleeps one." Works great. However, I may have given up on "manly integrity" with those plastic flowers on the table.
Kelly.... ( the hobos from Canada )