You mean they know? The good new is I enjoyed as much of this as I needed. I’m a happy fossil.
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Glamour shot of my Tiderace in front of work. I was there for a few minutes to drop off some new plants for my office fishtank. I normally walk to work so my car is there far more often on the weekends than during the week. This was after a fun paddle at Emerson Point Preserve.
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So somehow you arranged to have your workplace match your car. Amazing!
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Oohs and Aws from SC!
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Rival: Have fun at camp! I couldn’t make it this year and am sorry I will be missing the event and a number of folks I have not seen in a while, especially Mike Bielski, my harpooning guru.
But I am registered for DelMarVa camp in October – closer drive for me (from Pittsburgh) and I can stay in my truck camper while there since we can drive onto the site.
Anyway, my “glamping” tent’s waterproofing finally gave up the ghost at Michigan TLC last year, leaking like a colander that last night we had the heavy rain – not salvageable since all the fly coating and seam seals peeled off like sunburn. Not like it owed me anything since I bought it (REI 4-man Hobitat) used for $100 and it had served me very well on many trips for 14 years. Since I’m not wild about the cabins at Camp Lookout (flashbacks to dreary childhood summers at Girl Scout camp), I don’t know if I’ll be back again unless I replace the tent.
But I hope you all have great weather for it this year and I will be wistfully missing the beach bonfires and conviviality.
Enjoy Delmarva. A bit far for me. I’m wearing out on long drives. Today will be my fifth three hour drive in a week.
Understand about cabins. My social skills aren’t up to that I suspect
My need to make long drives is why I bought the camper. I’ve always been a “road warrior”, accustomed to all day solo drives since most family and friends live 6 to 12 hours distant, and most of my career in construction management I had remote assignments. But at my age those long days at the wheel are becoming too much drudgery and it takes me a day or two to recover in the aftermath. Traveling with my own self-contained hotel room, I just pull into the RV designated parking areas at the interstate rest stops whenever I need a break, use the john, shower if I need it, stretch out and nap or even sleep overnight and start up refreshed.
I had a truly lousy experience at Michigan QTC with the tent – besides the calamitous leakage, it was way too far from the outhouses and since I had pulled a muscle in my back the day before I drove up, ferrying all my loads of paddling and camping gear from the tent site to the dock was a really painful ordeal). Since then, I have considered whether, if I attend again, it would be feasible to paddle myself back and forth across the pond daily to crash in the camper in the parking lot.
If you ever think you might want to go to Delmarva TC (which was absolutely delightful last year – you could hardly design a more ideal location and facility for such an event – they are as deluxe as Camp Lookout is primitive) I’m guessing from your location, and my own frequent drives between, that you are around 6 hours from Pittsburgh. You’d be welcome to drive this far, leave your vehicle here (I have a huge driveway) and drive with me to Delaware (6.5 hours). I have a nice guest room and I can fit several sea kayaks inside the camper. Always glad to have company on trips – I don’t mind long driving if I have somebody to talk to. And I do hope to stay hale enough to make Delmarva at least a few more times before I am too decrepit.
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Well, I was an even-more-mere E-6 when moving back from Okinawa! 
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I fully understand the issues of dealing with the bathrooms from Tent village at Training Camp. Rain this year was Thursday morning although a stray shower got my DLSR case damp enough that the camera decided to take a nap until last night. Otherwise, sun & wind. The surfing contigent had a fine time Saturday afternoon (at least no known damage and all kayaks and humans returned 
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Thanks for the offer of transportation to Delmarva. If I decide to go in the next year or so I’ll check in with you.
Wagons ho! Something new in the photo and it’s not the qajaq.
Peace J
p.s. to hot to paddle … would need an IV .
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Here’s my Stealth Surf Ski on the roof of my old car.
I’ve since changed my car and ski!
Check out my downwind paddling app .
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Nice car, but couldn’t you find a skin on frame auto? That would be a splendid photo.
That reminded me of this, which I haven’t thought of in a while…
BMW’s GINA concept car features a flexible skin instead of solid body panels (newatlas.com)
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wow. ^^^ !
But I don’t want to get hit going 140 on the autobahn.
Some guy passed me yesterday going so fast I almost got sucked into him and my ears popped.
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I’m jealous of neither the boat nor the car but I would love to stay in that spot for awhile.
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400 dollar ticket from Atlanta right into Munich then drive an hour and a half. Last year I had a twenty year old car and twenty year old kayak…just as great
My husband finds these spots on Google Earth and we go. The Marine Corps is not just a job, it’s an adventure 
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thank him for his service.
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