SCAdians vehicles WAS:Re: [Sca-cooks] Drakey's driving.

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:34 AM 10/13/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, there is a subset of us here who do travel light... Living in
>apartments and traveling on the subway will make you do that! I know a
>woman who usually has everything she needs for an event in a large
>basket. I'm not that good yet, but I'm trying to learn...  It does limit
>what we can do, though. Doesn't eliminate anything - I know fighters who
>carry their gear on the subways - but then they're not going to carry a
>lot of other stuff to events!

This is in the East? See, West and An Tir are heavy camping-event Kingdoms.
Unlike some folks who only camp at Pennsic, nearly everything from April to
October is outdoors somewhere in the boonies. And more- Summits Spring
Coronet is in March, West has March 'Drown', and there's a little event in
the Shire of Southmarch called 'Frostbite', usually the first weekend of
November, outdoors, in the mountains...

I can see taking only one basket to an indoor event, at least if I've
travelled in garb (my stuff isn't great for driving in so I usually don't).
But outdoors? Nah. Driving four hours for a weekend event is pretty
standard- I used to do it every other weekend (I was a lot younger then!).
Day-tripping isn't reasonable. And I hate camping- if I am going to camp,
I'm going to do it right, with teh pavilion, kitchen, chairs, rugs, my bed
and the posters and curtains, and a tall Gascon to keep me warm at night...
(if I can pry him away fromt eh civil service, that is ;-)

But I have learned a few things over teh years. For one thing, I am not
responsible for everyone else. Folks used to come to me because they knew I
always had X or Y. Ribbon? Sure- eight colors. Hair goop? Regular or
extra-stiff? Contact lens solution? Soft lenses, right? One day the Head
Lady-in-Waiting for the Royals came running up in a panic- they'd forgotten
the glue for sticking seals onto scrolls, and it was 15 minutes to court-
help! Yes, I had a bottle of rubber cement... I used to bring all of my
recorders and music. I used to bring all of my calligraphy stuff. And I was
merchanting, so there was all that stuff, plus me and three kids...

Of course that was when I had a van. Now I'm driving a Volvo wagon, and
thinking I might have to get a small trailer to be able to take anything
with me. But first, a job so I can afford to go to weekend events again...

*sigh*

'Lainie :-)
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