And... I may be a wage slave on Monday, but I am a free man on Sunday!
And... I may be a wage slave on Monday, but I am a free man on Sunday!
Tao begets one. One begets two. Two begets all things.
Errr... except today cause I've got a shed load of test papers to mark.
Tao begets one. One begets two. Two begets all things.
Still. Mustn't grumble.
Tao begets one. One begets two. Two begets all things.
Too right......'too old to loose the weight you used to need to throw around,'
Ok, tenuos link to fell running, but its in there somewhere.
Take time to listen to the music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
Last edited by Rainbow; 24-05-2010 at 10:19 PM.
I'm 60 this year and the SO is 62. We've done 15 consecutive nights sleeping in the van ( island hopping the full length of the Outer Hebrides & visiting the highest point of every accessible island ) and Daz h will tell you that it's not a fancy, umpteen thousand pound, professionally converted van - just a set of luggage crates with inflatable mattresses over them and a hinge-down stove on the back door. Only two of those 15 nights were on official campsites! Had a similar 9 day trip to the Orkneys plus a full tour of the Brittany coastline!
I think ZHR's post above fully outlines the basic weakness - too many people are 'comfort driven'.
Boil up a kettle of water on the stove and use it to take the chill of a builder's bucket half full of cold water?? Wonderfully versatile piece of kit is a builder's bucket!!
One very successful lady fell runner lived in her VW campervan for 3 months, in a layby just outside of Kendal, when her first marriage broke down - read "Feet in the Clouds".
Last edited by wheezing donkey; 25-05-2010 at 01:28 PM.
I was talking about weeks and months at a time - living in the thing, not just a couple of weeks here and there.
Do you want to live on a mattress and some pallets for a year WD? Come back and tell us about it afterwards.
Now having a tent in the back of a van to camp with qualifies as some sort of namby-pamby comfort-driven lifestyle ... perhaps I'll just find myself a cave, eh?