This Is Drivel

Category: travel

  • progress 4/19/23

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    The improvements I’m making to The Camping Thing are starting to look like real usable working stuff, as opposed to looking like lumber. Read.

  • never the twain

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    While on a road trip last week we stopped in Kansas City and this statue was just a block from our hotel. I would have kicked myself for the rest of my life if I hadn’t taken this photo. Read.

  • boxing

    The Camping Thing will eventually be a cluster of five boxes with hinged lids and a flat bridge piece that will double as a table, but right now it’s just one box and I’m still trying to figure out how to fit it into the back of the van. It’s forty-eight inches wide, as wide… Read.

  • fridged

    We had some good weather today, so I spent some time outside trying to get The Camping Thing ready for the season. “Do you know how long you were out there?” My Darling B asked me, after I finally came in later in the afternoon. “Long enough for me to finish the last 15% of… Read.

  • The Camping Thing: The Rebirth

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    The Camping Thing needs a complete do-over. Time to get started on that. Read.

  • bass beat

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    Ah, the sweet peace and restful quiet of staying in a B&B … NEXT TO THE DANCE CLUB WITH A FIFTY MEGATON STEREO SYSTEM Read.

  • home again

    Home again, home again. Left Dayton yesterday morning at 9:00 am (eastern time) and got back to our little red house at about 5:30 pm (central time). Hit a minor hitch when I missed a turn and had to drive through Gary, Indiana, but it didn’t set us back much and we didn’t miss any… Read.

  • little boxes

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    I have spent another weekend cutting up lumber to make what I hope will be improvements to the camping thing. I’m still blinking sawdust out of my eyes this Monday morning. When I built the first iteration of the camping thing, I was inspired by a design I saw in a video on YouTube. I… Read.

  • A Weekend at North Trout Lake, Sep 30 – Oct 2

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    I spent the weekend at the state park campground on North Trout Lake and it was glorious! Last time I was here it was, ah, not so glorious. It started raining shortly after I arrived, kept raining all night and all the next morning. It was still raining when I packed up and left. But… Read.

  • Big Bay State Park, Sep 9 – 12

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    I took vacation on Friday, Sep 9, and Monday, Sep 12, so I could make a long weekend out of a visit to Big Bay State Park on Madeline Island, one of the Apostle Islands I’d been rained out of about half of all the camping trips I planned this summer and it looked at… Read.

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