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Re: INSAYN's 2013 Summer road trip.
jefe 4x4 wrote: Craig, Good report and I'm glad you are still in the TC biz. We haven't heard much from you in a long time. Welcome back. You are one of the remaining characters on this forum and add a lot to the fun-factor for (I'll speak for myself) me. We have a few living legends left on here and it is very good to see your slant is still alive and kicking. How you stuff your family and pets in the box and are still on speaking terms is a mystery to me. regards, as always, jefe Yup, we still get along. Surprisingly, we had nothing outside of normal teenage bickering in the backseat on occasion. Quickly cured by me saying "I hear another word, and you both are rubbing my feet at the next stop, Oh, look a Rest Stop!" Seriously we get along great. Last week was a guys trip south to NorCal for a Kayak fishing tourney, where I caught a 6 foot octopus and spent 30 mins trying to get that sucker (pun intended) pulled off the bottom of my kayak. Stabbed at it prison style and bagged it! Heading out in a few hours with the wife, kids and dogs to camp up on the Columbia River. Plan to target Walleye from the kayak. :B241Views0likes0CommentsINSAYN's 2013 Summer road trip.
Hey buddies! Had a blast cruising the highways of America last summer with the family in tow. Two adults, two teens, 3 small dogs crammed into our crewcab for 7.5 weeks, covered 20 states and 7500+ miles. Thank GOD I installed the smaller Polar Cub AC unit in favor of the 13.5K Dometic that was up there. My lil Honda 2000 ran it like a champ! My parents followed us in their brand new Honda Pilot towing their Aliner popup trailer, of which I installed a portable upright AC unit from Homer Depot. The goals of the trip I set for me was to make it the entire trip: 1. No break downs. (Check, kind of) 2. Find something from the Civil War with my metal detector. (Check) 3. Catch a big fish in the Gulf of Mexico from my kayak. (Check) No break downs on my rig, just a bad wheel bearing on my parents trailer, which I fixed in a hot Georgia supermarket parking lot. Found a spent mini ball in the back woods behind a carpet manufacturing plant a few miles from a major Georgia battlefield. Caught a 43" / 36.5# Bull Redfish under the bridge going to Grand Isle Louisiana via kayak. HOLY******that was fun! The skinny on it, is that I ran out of bait (chunk mullet) to use on my big stick. Put that down and tossed my homemade lure tipped with what I had left of the mullet over, tied to my UglyStik Lite bait rod, running 10# mono. I was attempting to catch more bait. Second drop down, and the Bull hit like a freight train! Over the course of a half hour fight, it nearly spooled me 3 times and towed me in a huge circle around the bridge legs and out into the bay. Got it to the boat 3 times, and only the 3rd time it was finally tired enough to lip grip it, and bonk it. What a rush!!! Now, with that...I need your help guys! I posted a picture of my Bull Redfish on Paddling.net to try and win another kayak for my kiddo to use. If you will please click the link and hit the green "Like" it button. Try from home, and from your Smartphone using the cell not the WiFi. Check back daily and "Like" again! It goes till July 31st. http://www.paddling.net/fishing/photoDetails.html?pid=1132.2KViews0likes7CommentsRe: steens mt oregon
My son and I visited the Steens and camped at Fish Lake back in 2011. We had a blast catching a bunch of trout from our tandem kayak. Fish were fat and bellies full of insects. We trolled insect flies that resembled what we found in their bellies. The lake is small, but plenty big when you are paddling it. If you make it up there, be sure to try and get a spot down near the water on the west side of the lake. The road up is gravel washboard and will beat the hell out of a heavy truck. Be sure your camper is secure, and all your windows/hatches are shut tight if you go in the dry season. Skeeters were not to bad in late August when we went there. In fact I don't remember really seeing any. The thunder storms can be intense if you are not familiar with a desert thunder/lightning storms. They can rattle your teeth, but well worth it. The real beauty of the area is how far you are from any big town USA. Stars are awesome, weather is unique, fishing is great, views are spectacular, people you meet out that way are amazing. Just be prepared, have good tires, brakes, take plenty of fuel, water, food, clothes, most importantly....photo capacity.581Views0likes0CommentsRe: All I Am Getting for Christmas..............
Sleepy, funny you mention that your wife loves to open well wrapped gifts. My dad is a present opener as well. Really doesn't matter what is in the package, so long has he as things to open. So, we double and even triple wrap all of his gifts. Wrap it once in the package it came in, then drop that in a bigger box and wrap that box up nice and pretty. Then if we have a bigger box, we will wrap it again. He loves it! We did this with a pair of Crocs where we wrapped left shoe separate from the right shoe and in progressively bigger boxes. In the end, both packages were completely different in size and paper color. Kept him busy for a bit to say the least.318Views0likes0CommentsRe: A very nice write-up on Bob Meher of SnowRiver Campers...RIP
btggraphix wrote: Insayn - I remember you and I sitting outside Bob and Heather's camper trying to not make too much noise after everyone else had called it a night....we finally called it a night at about 2AM or something. Good times. Exactly! Thanks for the ride back to my camper, BTW. Earlier that evening we were all sitting at the picnic table drinking the different beer that various folks would bring over (by the box) about every half hour. Every time Bob grab a new bottle, cracked open and set it down, I would grab it and take chug and thank him. Then tell him he looked thirsty and should get himself a beer. :B532Views0likes0CommentsRe: A very nice write-up on Bob Meher of SnowRiver Campers...RIP
Don't know how I missed this post, or that he had died. :( Bob is definitely on my list of most influential people I have ever met. That little dude had a knack for detail, and some serious wood working skills. I told my family (wife and kids) this morning, and I could tell in their facial expressions, and voice that he meant something to them as well. We had the opportunity spend time camping in Bob and Heather's back yard on two different occasions. Bob took to my son Tanner like a grandpa, and my son had a blast fishing with him and roasting hot dogs for lunch up at Chute Lake. Bob would also sneak my wife and I into the PDX RV shows each year through a back door, and slap a Snowriver hat on me and a vest on her to look "Official". Then whisked us off to the snack bar to buy us both a "Bud". We had fun camping with him again out in Nebraska during the first Truck Camper show. Stayed up late drinking beer with Bob, and all the other camper CEO's and truck camper friends was a great experience. Bob, you will be missed by myself and my family. Hopefully GOD will make you CEO of Cloudriver Campers up there, and let you get some heavenly innovations going on their RV's up there. :W Back when I had hair and it was still brown. Bob pulling the screws out of the ladder he was standing on. Roughly 5-8 potential custmers standing behind Bob as he explained how he glued the ladder on, and even without screws it would hold his weight.530Views0likes0CommentsRe: Who travels with furnace on? (Truck campers)
We travel with the fridge on in the summer, off in the winter. We travel with the heater off in the summer, on in the winter. We travel with the water heater off year round. Don't need it till we stop. We turn off the fridge, or heater prior to going into the fuel station, and turn it back on just down the road from the fuel station.288Views0likes0CommentsRe: Thanksgiving in your truck camper ...anyone ?
This year was our 5th year taking the TC to the beach for Turkey day. My parents follow us over and we have Thanksgiving either in their trailer, or like this year out on the picnic table. We hit up a campground that has an indoor pool/spa for us to play and relax in, and if the weather isn't completely crappy, we spend time walking the dogs on the beach. This year was great! We had full on turkey dinner with all the fixings out on the picnic table with roughly 60 degree clear sunny weather to enjoy it. We will probably continue to do so as long as we can. :C322Views0likes0CommentsRe: What do you consider the most valuable upgrade in your TC?
The cot/bunk I designed, built and have kept the kiddo's happily separated a bed time for several years. Daughter is now 16 and son is 12, and survived our 7500 mile, 20 state adventure this summer with ease. The entire addition added only 14 lbs to the camper, and comes down quickly and stores completely out of sight when the dinette is setup. Even at only 14 lbs, it will safely support my 215 lbs with ease.450Views0likes0Comments
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