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

[Carol Eskesen Smith]

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Yes, Anne writes form the East (Whyte Whey in Ostgardr, to be specific) , where our winter events are indoors, and where it is possible to travel light.  The lady in question even travels light to camping events, but does have more than one basket in that case.
Regards,
Brekke
(Lions End, Ostgardr, East)

----- Original Message -----
From: Laura C. Minnick
Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 1:21 AM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: SCAdians vehicles WAS:Re: [Sca-cooks] Drakey's driving.

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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