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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

We used to go up outside Toulomme, past the Meadows, several times each 
summer to a restaurant that served authentic Basque food.  The cook was a 
guy who spent each winter with his sheep and came down in late spring to 
cook.

There was also another one up on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe!  Again, only 
seasonal.

Absolutely to die for food!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Bunjov AT aol.com>

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> In our midnight raids, we fell in with some Basque sheepherders, and -
> although there was an insurmountable language barrier - we were in awe of 
> their
> 'rigs' - and the food!
> Thank you for all the information -
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
>
>
> In a message dated 10/5/2008 4:48:45 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> don.bowen AT earthlink.net writes:
>
> The idea  of a truck based camper comes from the earliest days of  the
> automobile.  Several people built various homes on the backs of  early 
> cars
> and trucks from the Ford Model TT to a large FWD.  By the  thirties there
> were several factories producing campers from the simplest  to very fancy
> rigs.  The well known Airstream started with a design in  the very early
> thirties.
>
> Magazines like Popular Mechanics  published many articles on building your
> own travel trailer or  Teardrop.  Most were light for use behind the autos 
> of
> the day and  used materials and methods suitable for the home shops of the
> time with few  power tools.  The eventual owner of Airstream, Walley Bayum
> published  at least one how to article on building a travel trailer.
>
> By the  fifties with the power of the automobile increasing and the 
> leveling
> of the  American incomes many families could afford to purchase 
> Recreational
> Vehicles and take weekend and two week vacations.
>
> I  live in a travel trailer, currently parked in the beautiful Missouri
> Ozarks  on Genes Heartwood Homestead.  This afternoon I leave to go visit 
> my
> son in North Carolina for a month.  Then in November me and my RV  will be
> back here for a brief visit then on to Southern  California.
>
> > I have gone to the trouble now of finding out whether  or not a draft 
> > horse
> > could pull a small RV - sans engine, in these  days of looking forward to
> > no oil - and I am told that yes, it could  be done.
>
> Long before the automobile we had all sorts of horse drawn  living
> arrangements.  Medieval paintings show wagons fitted out as  quarters for
> tournaments.  By the late 1700s the huge incomes from  colonies allowed
> England to start on a massive road improvement giving rise  to the Gypsy
> Ledger Wagons and fancy Vardos.  These were very heavy  and were used to 
> how
> off the owner's best team of horse.
>
> In this  country the vast western distances gave rise to the Sheep Camp. 
> The
> Sheep Camp was often little more that an old farm wagon fitted with a 
> canvas
> top, a bed, and a stove.  They were usually very light to be  pulled by a
> single horse.  By the fifties most had disappeared and the  Basque
> Sheepherders moved into pickup campers.  The Mojave Desert used  to be 
> home
> to many flocks of sheep tended by Basque  Sheepherders.
>
> The huge western grain fields gave rise to the cook  shack.  A simple 
> wagon
> fitted with a cook stove, water barrel, pots  and pans, dishes, etc.  The
> sides flopped down for serving tables and  to allow air flow.  The cook 
> shack
> traveled with the harvest  crews.  My wife's grandmother was a cook on a
> Washington Palouse  Country harvest crew.
>
> > Am I crazy?
>
> No.
>
> I would  suggest you not use an automobile based camper as they are heavy.
> Build  something like a Sheep Camp or a Teardrop Trailer.  I have a  whole
> file of plans from the thirties to fifties on building camping  trailers 
> and
> pickup mounted campers.
>
> Don Bowen   KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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