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07-27-2009, 08:00 PM | #1 | |||
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As some of you know, in a life previous to MS, I was a whitewater guide for 25 years. I traveled all over the country working, lived outside for 8 months out of the year, in tents and out of the back of my trusty Ford pickup. As I aged, and when MS reared it's ugly huge head, I got slower and more into the "seeking comfort" style of camping.
I look back now at what I used to do when I camped, and how I do it now, and I ask myself where the wet sleeping bag and the leaky tent and the dried food went! I used to fit it all in one pack! I have what's shown below now along with a folding table, an inverter and a 100 ft. extension cord to blow up that bed. I have a cooler that turns on a light when you open it that holds food for 5 days virtually frozen, I use bedsheets and blankets, I literally have a portable home. We have a tiny digital TV that runs on batteries or plug in, and a stereo with CD player that also runs on battery and plug in. Is this truly camping?
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I know the sound the river makes, by dawn, by night, by day. But can it stay me through tomorrows that find me far away? . I have this mental picture in my mind of you all, shaking bones and bells and charms, muttering prayers and voodoo curses, dancing around in a circle of salt, with leetle glasses and tiny bottles of cheer in the middle...myyyyyy friends! diagnosed 09/03/2004 scheduled to start Tysabri 03/05 Tysabri withdrawn from market 02/28/05 Copaxone 05/05-12/06 Tysabri returned to market 06/05/06 Found a new neuro 04/07 Tysabri 05/25/07-present Medical Marijuana legally 12/03/09 . Negative for JC virus antibodies! . I'm doing alright and making good grades, The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades! . |
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07-27-2009, 08:04 PM | #2 | |||
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P.S.: I fit all this and more in the mouse car too!
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I know the sound the river makes, by dawn, by night, by day. But can it stay me through tomorrows that find me far away? . I have this mental picture in my mind of you all, shaking bones and bells and charms, muttering prayers and voodoo curses, dancing around in a circle of salt, with leetle glasses and tiny bottles of cheer in the middle...myyyyyy friends! diagnosed 09/03/2004 scheduled to start Tysabri 03/05 Tysabri withdrawn from market 02/28/05 Copaxone 05/05-12/06 Tysabri returned to market 06/05/06 Found a new neuro 04/07 Tysabri 05/25/07-present Medical Marijuana legally 12/03/09 . Negative for JC virus antibodies! . I'm doing alright and making good grades, The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades! . |
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07-27-2009, 08:15 PM | #3 | |||
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07-27-2009, 08:56 PM | #4 | |||
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LMAO! You camp better than I live! LOL! So, where ya' headed????
I hear you on the gear-to-go issue, my fleet of wheels and assists takes up nearly all the cargo area of my little SUV. I was just at MC tonight and helped a couple pick out a tent, I think it just never leaves our blood. I miss it so much!
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07-27-2009, 10:09 PM | #5 | |||
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Wowee RW! If you had AC I could even camp in that! Maybe.
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07-27-2009, 10:25 PM | #6 | |||
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I say...whatever still lets us get out there!
That dang auto salesman thought I was weird cause the cargo I was carrying was me sleeping!
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07-27-2009, 10:27 PM | #7 | |||
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Wise Elder
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RW, they call that luxuriously roughing it. LOL I'd go with you in a heart beat with all that good stuff.
RVing is how we have been going for the past few years. |
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07-28-2009, 04:28 PM | #8 | |||
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Yep! It sounds like camping to me, RW
I don't think I could even survive with tent camping anymore. I like taking my home with me...and I do. We have a 30 ft 5th wheel All the comforts of home...stereo, TV...well sort of - it's analog , a bathroom so I can even have my morning shower, microwave, stove, oven, 2 rocking chairs, a couch, a table and a stationary bed. Yeah, that's roughin' it in my book
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