I had to disappoint Hubby and nix his idea of converting a school bus for my Vanlife idea. He wants to haul his car in the bus so he can enjoy it.
I *don’t* want something big and hard to maneuver. I told him that from the beginning. For him, bigger is always better. And I’m not a good tent camper – the bugs love me so any time I’m near the dirt I end up with legs looking like hamburger. The flying bugs, too. I’m a mosquito magnet. I need to be off the ground, especially when sleeping. As a friend of ours used to say, “My idea of roughing it is a black and white TV.” I don’t think I’d ever ditch a home in favor of living full time in my van, but I do like the idea of taking off for a few weeks at a time and explore the U.S.
The idea of having a second vehicle is something I’ve been pondering. One person mentioned to me that one issue with Vanlife is that you have to break camp if you want to run to the store for something. I’ve thought about getting a scooter – my hip/back problem means I can’t handle a motorcycle – but where to carry it? On a rack in the back? That kinda kills the “stealth camping” option. Then I saw these Glampervans.
With the Murphy bed option, I could stash the scooter inside; but I’d still have to take it outside at night, so it’s still a problem. I wonder if I can make a hammock fit around it at night? Hmmmm……….
It’s a good thing I’m not in a hurry. I can take my time to think it out.
the Pizza Guy/girl groper in better mental health says Dr Fleabag.
Right.
#195 – After several years of membership, I cancelled my Netflix. You ain’t missing nuttin on there except gays, blacks, and super women; all of which I can do without. Night all.
Those pizza boxes and Tedtam’s dirty socks over there are getting ripe.
Glad this thread is over tomorrow.
Hundred Ninety Nine bottles of beer on the wall.
Yo Sha-Na-Na………..you will likely see some PGR (Patriot Guard) activity in Bellville the afternoon of Wed 9/4
Obituary: Clarence W. Nolte, Sr. passed away Thursday, August 29, 2019
Obama said he was gonna get us rural folks high-speed innernet, so I’m waiting on that.
When questioned on the current ‘mental health’ of the well known ‘GROPER’ Joe Biden – Dr. Lee was quite NON committal other than to firmly comment that Joe Biden is in much better mental health than Trump!
SMH 🙂
rutro I just realized that Levin’s show tonight is a ‘best of’ pre-recording for this holiday.
Can’t do Netflix until I upgrade the internet connection speed.
Might never happen.
It’s free TV and watching the grass not grow for us.
Maybe pull out the old Operation game later.
Well our old conservative Bud Mark Levin had a lengthy discussion w Dr. Bandy Lee this evening.
Levin certainly took Dr. Lee to the proverbial ‘woodshed’ albeit quite politely.
I need to stop laughing so I can work on this yummy Freebirds burrito I just brought home………………
Drive 90, freeze a yankee!
179, they ought to be praying for global warming. The damn Yankees can freeze in the dark this go round. They cannot flow enough gas to force us to subsidize them this time.
This is your California…Friday, August 30th, 2019… “It is undisputed that defendant was holding the gun when it fired. But that fact alone does not establish he possessed the gun for more than a moment. To possess the gun, defendant had to know he was holding it,” the appellate court wrote. A state appeals court in California overturned the sole conviction of… Read more »
Shannon, Breaking Bad can still be found on Netflix.
#183 – now THAT is some FUNNY STUFF!
186
Never saw the show.
And couldn’t understand the bearded guy at the end.
Hers was a 64, best I recall.
#183 Say My Name
You can skip to the 1:10 mark if three min is too long.
#184 Shannon, nice, I really like the old hubcaps that match. I’m guessing a 65?
Super Dave
This photo was taken through my dirty windshield, so you can’t perceive the 100 coats of lacquer. This gem spends most days out in front of the Sealy Whataburger.
My Wife 2.0 drove the same truck when she was at UT in the mid-late ‘70s when we were dating. But hers was black, of course.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/xBF56oGcSnGuPqVY5AXFgg.MCxEkHYM8npXX-JbEZyq1k
What was your name again?
https://youtu.be/cliSRTIMvts
Well, of course… SANTA ANA, CA—When local man Ralph Dunkley found himself in the midst of a three-hour-long wait for a two-minute service at his local DMV office, he decided to redeem the time by pulling out his iPad and carefully pecking out a 5,000-word blog post arguing in favor of a government-run healthcare system in the U.S. “America is… Read more »
Caroline
The editorial board of the New York Post have been reading my regular comments here on energy supply for New York state. New York is running out of fuel and power — just as Cuomo planned Gov. Andrew Cuomo doubled down last week on his blame-the-messenger approach to New York’s growing shortage of natural-gas supplies by ordering the Department of Public… Read more »
Note to my #177
Seeing Ace call somebody else bombastic made me laugh out loud.
Update: It wasn’t Ace who posted the piece.
Ace of Spades on Friday: Daniel Horowitz is often a bit bombastic, and he is in rare form here. But I can’t argue with his intensity, because America is rushing into some monumentally dumb changes in the way we manage the doctor-patient relationship. And by that I mean we are destroying physicians’ autonomy with respect to prescribing medication. But that… Read more »
I went out to Kroger on a national holiday, with a full parking lot, in searing heat, and I survived! For the Luau, my potluck take-alongs are: a large cherry pie for adults, and a container of brownies for smurfs.
170 SD
Wildwood is where the convergence/divergence of I-75 and Florida’s Turnpike is located. From there you can rapidly get down the east or west coast.
Hairycanes reconstructed using Paleotemoestological research indicate there was a hairycane in 1550 that sunk a Spanish ship full of treasure near the Florida Keys.
Al ‘lockbox’ Gore challenged the research during one of his Climate puts more Change in my Pocket seminars by stating the year 1550 never existed.
Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport, Bahamas under 5+ feet of water.
VIDEO HERE.
Weight lifting sooooeeeecide?
Dang, I almost forgot the Lady in Red. 1953 GMC 150 Series 3/4 ton Pickup Bill Burch’s ’53 was parked here until the cows came home. I shot this image in St. Helena CA at the Moniz family vineyard in 2005. It was the perfect setting and perfect truck to look like it could have easily been taken 50 years… Read more »
Somewhere, I saw a bunch of Power Line trucks, staged in Florida, ready for the storm. They said they were in Wildwood Florida and I wasn’t sure where that might be, but it is just up the road from Hamous’ old stomping grounds, NW of Orlando. It seems the logical spot, in the Florida, so they can go any whichways.
#167 😀
Quick Drive-By; This dropped into the mail box; The Texas Legislature Passed Ten Bills Protecting Your Second Amendment Rights During the 2019 Session. These Measures All Take Effect on September 1. The sad part of this is that every one of the laws are there to protect average gun owners from breaking the law, breaking laws that should HAVE NEVER… Read more »
Frankie MacDonald reports on Dorian. If Frankie says it, you can take it to the bank. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKPm1QjWsqM
Weather.com has an ambiguous forecast for today in my zip code. Today on the 5-day or 10-day forecast says 30% chance of precip: TODAY SEP 2 Isolated Thunderstorms 98°77° 30% However, looked at on the hourly display, to see WHEN that isolated thunderstorm might occur, we see 0% for every hour of the day. I’ll hope for the best for… Read more »
161 Hamous Those slow moving hurricanes and tropical storms are the ones that worry me most. Allison 18 years ago is the one that sticks most in my mind. A moderately powerful, slow moving storm that stops over the coast because it doesn’t have the force to drive inland can be the worst. This Dorian is the worst kind of… Read more »
Note to self – don’t stop at the Whataburger in Bastrop.
154 Hamous I’ve seen it too many times in my life. A community withers away or times change and generations move away as happened in old black neighborhoods after desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s. Out in the country in Texas, on private lands, it’s not that unusual to find old family cemeteries abandoned years ago after folks moved away… Read more »
Don’t feel bad. Derpy Uncle Joe Biden stayed up all night wondering where the sun went. Then it dawned on him…
The eye of Dorian has spent the last 18 hours crawling right across the length (about 100 miles) of Grand Bahama at category 5. There’s not gonna be much left on that island.
Morning gang. Have a great holiday. And since winter is just around the corner, go ahead and wrap your pipes – you never know, that sneaky harricane may just shot up any minute.
As noted by Glenn Reynolds, on this day 160 years ago, people around the world were both confused and horrified by… One eyewitness account from a woman on Sullivan’s Island in South Carolina ran in the Charleston Mercury: “The eastern sky appeared of a blood red color. It seemed brightest exactly in the east, as though the full moon, or… Read more »
Been waiting for a Monday thread and it dawned on me that this is a holiday and maybe we have a three day weekender?
Anyway; Mornin’ Gang
Maybe they’ll find it when they attempt to build a school on top of it in the future like FBISD.
In the eye of Dorian
Good night, all, but especially our veterans.
153 Texpat Where I grew up, there was an old black church back in the woods behind our property. When I was in junior high they built a new church a couple miles diwn the road and sold the old one. There’s also a small cemetery with graves going back to the mid 1800s. Last time I walked back there,… Read more »