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

[Martin G. Diehl]

Isabella di Giovanni wrote:
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> Ooops, I'm in trouble then. I've been in less than a year and I
> already have a Suburban with an 8 foot trailer to pull behind.
> What next? Maybe a U-haul moving van.
> Isabella
>  Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> I've noticed that the longer folks are in the SCA, the larger
> their vehicles tend to get.
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> THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net

Yes, it's true.  SCAdians have large vehicles.  IMO, it is not
because they like them, but because they like to bring their
... toys ... to events.  <g>

On my trip to the MetalSmiths Symposium (Northern NJ to Sutton, MA),
my Ford Explorer was not over full .. I could still see out of the
front window, the left side window, and enough of the right side
window to see the right hand mirror ... but that's all!

I had a tub of garb, an overnight bag of clothing suitable for the
Technology Theme Park, a sleeping bag, an air mattress, my feast
box, a box (batteries, the mattress pump, a CD player, speakers
-- after all, we might have danced after the feast!), a box of
cook books, ... as well as 2 coolers (each with meat and ice),
several tubs of food, 2 waste baskets w/ food in plastic bags,
stock pots (3 gal and 4 gal), a box with my food processor and
blades, a tub with a dutch oven, butane "hot plate", butane fuel
canisters, my cooking knives, and, most important, my new
Bron mandoline ( http://www.kitchenkapers.com/2470.html ).

Upon reflection, I can see that there were 1 or 2 things <g> that
I might have needed, but didn't use (some never even made it out
of the car!):

the non SCA clothing;

of the SCA garb tub, my idea of getting into something fancier for
the feast was just that, an idea (in fact, a silly idea!); some of
the SCA garb was brought as possible loaner garb for some newcomers;

The butane hot plate and the dutch oven were brought to add help
cook breakfast items, but weren't needed; OTOH, next year that
could add cooking capacity at the forge area.

the tent ... well, it was dark and raining when I arrived, so it
was a lot more convenient to just sleep in the hall the first night
-- right next to the kitchen ... somehow, I just didn't get around
to setting up the tent on Saturday either ...

For the future ...

I am resolved to create a kitchen box in addition to my feast box:
I won't have to raid my kitchen catch-all drawer, everything will
be premarked, and I won't have to take the time to pack it before
setting out to help in the kitchen.

I am,
Vincenzo Martin Mazza,
In Service to the Dream

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Martin G. Diehl