[Sca-cooks] Air Mattress (was Pennsic Pity Party)

[Martha Oser]

> Potrero this weekend has no nearby motels.  I am timorously facing my 
> first war in a long time with naught but a camping type air mattress for 
> a bed.    We will see how it goes.  The packing has been difficult... 
> even with one less person, I seem to want to bring about the same amount 
> of "stuff" for the encampment and all.  
> 
> If this does not work, I start pricing RV rentals.  Now that's a scary 
> notion. 
> 
> City Kid Selene

Is your air mattress one of the standard camping-style ones, about 6 or 8 
inches thick?  The kind you can roll out of and then get up from the ground? 
If so, look into the Coleman "double high" air mattresses.  They are a good 
18 inches thick and you can actually sit on the edge of them to put your 
socks on in the morning.  My lord and I actually used one of these as our 
bed for several months before we bought a mattress and box spring and it was 
MUCH nicer for camping at Pennsic last year than the usual low mattress. 

 -Helena