Posted by john timpany on Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Just ordered the last piece of equipment I need for getting back on the road - well the first toe dip anyway.
I wonder where a Satnav comes in Mazlo's Hierachy of Needs?
I guess, it could come quite high in survival these days, but can I recharge it from a running stream or an open fire?
I think I have now run out of excuses which could keep me from getting my backside into gear, so I have to start planning the trip tomorrow.
When the rest of the stuff comes in (sleeping bag insert, yada yada {I think that's how the Americans put it}) I'll be off.
One day next month (September), I will wake up after my first night under canvass for 30 odd years, and forget about you lot entirely! Hahaha !
Well, actually I won't. I am thinking about writing another book, so I will have the time to make a start.
'There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.'
(Shakespeare, Caesar)
Humbled by this instrument Says:
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @4:22:21 PM
Where you going? What're you doing? I'm confused. And just who is this Ceasar Shakespeare fellow? Sounds like he can write some tunes!
BC Says:
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @4:38:45 PM
Sounds like quite an adventure! Good luck and have fun.
bj Says:
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @5:19:47 PM
Canvas? You are a bit out of date. These days it's ripstop nylon . . . ;-)
cheekee Says:
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @6:36:51 PM
i'm with bj. you need one more new piece of equipment...a new tent. as an anti-camper, i would also want to order a flush toilet. :)
john timpany Says:
Thursday, August 19, 2010 @4:17:54 AM
Hhahaha - yeah yeah I know - it is rip stop, but the mental picture looks better :)
He was a good poet Humbled.
I've been thinking along those lines Cheehee!
mudbug Says:
Thursday, August 19, 2010 @4:47:14 PM
Get a good white gas stove that simmers! It's amazing how the essential needs can be trimmed down to next to nothing when living life at a basic level. "A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou".
cheekee Says:
Thursday, August 19, 2010 @6:59:09 PM
i have a rip stop tent. then, at fiddle camp, (like an idiot) i walked into it with a paring knife. turns out it rips after all....
mudbug Says:
Friday, August 20, 2010 @2:23:21 AM
Yeah, Cheekee, it'll still rip, but those heavy, checkered cross threads stop it from being as bad as it COULD be. Kinda like purfling.
Humbled by this instrument Says:
Friday, August 20, 2010 @6:25:43 AM
I agree, Mudbug, yet somewhat tent-atively.
john timpany Says:
Friday, August 20, 2010 @1:37:00 PM
Agreed Mudbug.
The simpler, the easier it is for me to understand :)
cheekee Says:
Friday, August 20, 2010 @7:45:36 PM
very true. the rip is still small 3 years later. yippy!
john timpany Says:
Friday, August 20, 2010 @9:15:10 PM
hahahaha nice ckeekee
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