On 8/21/2009 3:01 PM Robert Fisher wrote:

> After our trip to Mammoth, during which (on the way up at least) the Vanagon
> was packed to the rafters, we have decided to get a small trailer in which
> to store and haul our camping gear. The trailer will add roughly 200 pounds
> to the load, but I think the Ghost can handle that, and it will certainly be
> safer (and it will also free up some space in the shed).

I'll second that idea. I have this cool little trailer that I never used
with the van until last August when I loaded stuff into it for our move to
Bend. Picture at
http://socal2bend.blogspot.com/2008/08/landed-and-finally-online.html

Loaded, it was 500lbs. It towed like a little sweetheart. My plan is to
move the generic camping gear into it and just hook it up whenever we
decide to take a trip. Trip-specific stuff, like food or kayaks or bikes
get loaded as-needed, but I'll always know that the s'mores forks are packed.

> 20 years ago my idea of camping was that you walked in with what you could
> carry on your back and came out the same way. I guess 20 years, an
> undisclosed number of pounds, 3 kids and a wife changes things. : /

Yeah. What you said.

It is the slippery slope down to Class C RV then Class A motorhoming that
Mark in AK warns about which really worries me. The day someone finds me
firing up a gasoline generator to power my campsite is the day that I am
no longer the man I hoped I would stay.

--
Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
Bend, OR
KG6RCR

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