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

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Thu May 25 11:12:19 PDT 2006


Martha Oser wrote:
>> 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.....  
>> 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 
>   
Woo!  If I had seen one of those, I would have bought it.  No such thing 
at the army surplus nor Big Five sporting goods stores.  Maybe I should 
do a fly-by of REI, a better sporting goods store, before heading 
Calafia-ward?

Selene



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