Virtual Rally

[Michicampers]

I say we book the S.S.Badger for a chartered cruise across the Pacific - there is plenty of room for all of our vehicles and PUs, plus we could have one huge party on the way there! Only problem is getting it from Lake Michigan to the Pacific Ocean. Guess we'll just have to dredge some rivers. We'll need a cruise director, too...who should we nominate?

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Tim5055 will have to be the cruisemaster since we will need his help if there is a breakdown.  Anyway, he will be able to pull up his fixit webpages for all of us.  Now this popup parade is breaking camping and heading on down the road.  All the smilies have been removed from our faces and the cornmeal and stuff has been cleaned.  The chili vat is empty after that big sloshing episode with the accidental lawn mower blade propeller being activated.  The hog is still waiting inside the popup, so at our next stop the chili vat will come in handy.  We need more people to radio in and tell us where to meet or join virtual rally.  We are now almost all the way into FL.  But wait, I think I smell something. Yes, it's the great smell of cream cheese chicken and it's almost lunch time.  So off to sltrawick's for some lunch and along the way the tires on the popup began to get nearly worn out.  We stopped and found a bargain in used tires but when we they were being put on, it seems there was a bad rim that had to be replaced and there was not another one to be found anywhere, so we had to improvise a bit by using.......

[tlhdoc]

...Boy Scout ingenuity.  It seems the scouts are trying to be helpful to make up for the problems they caused. They got to work and whittled a new wheel out of a log.  With the log wheel with a rubber tire on it the group headed out and into Florida.  Soon after crossing into Florida I smelled a smoker or was it 5 or 6 smokers being used.  With the pig in the back and everyone starting to get hungry we tracked the smokers down.  Wow were we surprised to find Mowalker and her DH firing up their smokers for our pig.  Well we circled the PUs around the smokers and ...

[Tim5055]

..... darn'd if we didn't start to get some of that Florida liquid sunshine.  Funny thing is that it was raining on the eastern half of the group, but not raining on the wesstern half :confused:

I took that as a sign to go west....

So I've booked the  S.S.Badger for the group.

Now all we need to do is get to the port of Long Beach.

Any of you NCCNEPHCOFFers want to lead the way?

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After another dinner of Cream Cheese Chicken, it was decided that we would head a little further to the west and then back up across Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio and into Michigan before the snow begins.  The boy scouts have gather up enough firewood in case of another cold snap and loaded as much into the horse trailer as they can.  The popup is still hooked behind the horse trailer.  As we head a little further west and north, we can then sweep across the entire country on the way to our cruise.  One thing about it, they are going to have to make room on the cruise ship for all the popups.  About this time we were joined by......

[wiininkwe]

We're gonna have to hurry, the snow is already starting in the U.P., and they are calling for it in the L.P. in a few days.   If everyone gets busy and cuts up some pink insulation board to fit into the ends of their bunks, it'll help us keep warm.  If you're coming to our place for the deer hunt, I'll make sure the fire is going and the cowboy coffee pot is always full.   We'll get the buck pole up and ready, and when we get the first deer we'll have the traditional heart and liver breakfast for everyone (who wants it, that is).   I'll have the potty teepee set up close to camp for those who can't make it all the way to the outhouse in the middle of the night.    But we'll just set the boy scouts camp out by the out house so we don't have to worry about them.
T

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Heading back up through Georgia, we put in a camp at NightOwl's place up in the Mountains and boy did it ever get cold.  Luckily I had a whole load of Mr. Buddy heaters which I had stored in the empty chili vat, enough for everyone to heat their popup.  Only thing is that I was running low on those little 1# bottles when someone said to just hook up to the 20# while not cooking on the stove.  So that is what everyone did and it was warm as toast in every popup that had joined us.  After a big meal of  beans, cornbread,  and milk everyone settled down for the night.  It was one of those black nights....overcast with plenty of clouds.  All was very quiet until there was a sudden sound right out the popup camp where everyone was camped in a circle kind of like during the old horse and buggy days.......

[tlhdoc]

... everyone came spilling out of their PUs to see what was making all the noise. No one could believe what they were seeing.  It was ...

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It was Topcat and he had arrived after all the food had been eaten.   He was looking into the empty chili vat and the only thing he found was a bunch of empty Mr. Buddy heater boxes.   Then, everyone started looking around and found a small piece of leftover cornbread and some milk.  The boyscouts found a bag of fritos and topcat seemed so hungry that he ate it all in one gulp!  Finally, someone said that we would have to go to the nearby store to restock supplies, so someone took their Igloo Ultra Cold and their Coleman super stainless steel type model cooler for Bacon, eggs, ham, sausage, flour, eggs and milk for the big breakfast we would fix the next morning.  With that all finished, we settled back into our bunks for the night and.....(isn't it about time for the PUT folks to join us and deliver the goodies they promised???   Looks like the trip is taking us too far to west of Virginia, anyway.)

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About this time, NightOwl has some very good ideas on the direction that this virtual campout is going to take as we make our way across the country.  After the big breakfast we are heading for......

[wiininkwe]

:confused: [/color][/size][/font]Well, c'mon, let us know where we're going.   I have laundry in the washer and dryer and have to be back when it stops so that I can put in the next load.   If we don't get started I'll never make it back!!   Unless.... could we hook the lawn mower blades back up and create a washer tub out of the chili vat?    Then when it's washed, I can just have the boy scouts hang off the back of the PU and each one can hold an item of laundry in the air and it can be dry :S  in no time.   As long as no one lets Topcat drive, he loves splashing thru puddles, and getting every thing all muddy.
T

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If we can tow at 70mph and just have all the clothes on a string behind the popup, then the clothes should be dry by the time we get to the next stop.  I am still waiting for NightOwl to tell us where we will be going next......

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bumpity, bumpity, bump........   (apologies to Steve for stealing his jargon.)

[birol]

bumpity, bumpity, bump........   (apologies to Steve for stealing his jargon.)

Buuummmmmmpppppppppppppp ...