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

The used to be a fav for filming movies.  Somewhere I have a list of them. 
The ex-m-i-l from h*ll rode right through the middle of one <g>

Now, I'd be happy to send you some of our jays.  Oh, and the looney 
woodpeckers that sound like the middle of a rain forest every night at 
twilight.  We also have a large surplus of chipmunks!  Just let me know 
where to ship them <g>

We had a bear experience when camping up there too.  The real scary one, 
however, was down in Yosemite.  We all slept right through it!  Next morning 
the peanut butter was gone and we had claw marks on the back of the tent!

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


> OMG - Tuolomne Meadows - a voice from my past! Until I was fifteen or so,
> our annual family camping trip took us to Lake Tenaya, up that horribly 
> scary,
> steep-cliffed mountain road that you had to back down if an oncoming 
> vehicle
> appeared. My mother and sister and I spent most of that uphill trip with 
> our
> hands over our eyes (peeping, of course), and thank God that it was in the
> days  before my dad started to drink. I wouldn't be here to tell the tale!
> Coming back down was not so bad, because - from the seat on the right-hand
> side of the old Plymouth I was next to the mountain - but going up...I was 
> on
> the outside, and you can't tell me there's a deeper canyon anywhere in the
> world! (Although I know there probably is).
> We camped in the same spot every year. Kept our perishables cold by
> anchoring them in the lake. Hung the rest of everything between the trees 
> so it
> wouldn't get gone in the middle of the night. I still have a vivid image 
> of my  dad
> in the middle of the night, stark-naked, brandishing nothing more than  a
> flashlight, chasing off a bear who had tried to come into the tent. I can 
> still
> smell that greasy, canvas tent, if I think about it, and I remember how
> terribly heavy it was. Somewhere in my bedroom closet, I still have the 
> little  old
> Coleman stove that we used. We spent our days hiking and reading.
> Yellowjackets in the bacon every morning. Who thinks of insects as being
> carnivorous...but I guess they are!
> Bluejays to die for. smart-alecks that they are. If anything would make me
> move to a higher elevation, it would be the promise of bluejays and 
> chipmunks,
> and the smell of pine needles and all different kinds of bark.
> Sandy
> Mid-Mojave
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 10/5/2008 2:05:03 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> lurine AT softcom.net writes:
>
> 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>
>
> > snip<
>
> > 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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