[Rockhounds] Accommodations (Was: Vehicles)

[Margaret Malm]

The Aussies do have some very ingenious car tents. I have friends who have a
"rig" that, when traveling, is just a small trailer, about 6 ft x 6 (or
maybe 8) feet x about a foot or so deep. Trails very nicely. Stop and the
top folds back and down making a sort of vestibule that extends the
sleeping/living area, a top goes up over all of it and another one also
extends out to the side as a fly. A table pulls out from the trailer, also,
under the fly. All goes up /down in just a few minutes.

Margaret

Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Accommodations (Was: Vehicles)

Pete,

If you search for Australian car tents you'll eventually find your way to 
very ingeneous rooftop tents.

John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Pmodreski at aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] Accommodations (Was: Vehicles)


>
> I can't resist responding to this line of thought...
>
> In a message dated 11/27/2007 12:47:31 PM Mountain Standard Time,
> ajs at frii.com writes:
>
>>  ...weirdest, most primitive (or high-end), most dangerous or coolest
>>  place that members have camped, boarded or otherwise racked out during
>>  a rockhound trip.
>
>
>
> About three years ago, heading home after the Tucson Show, I left Tucson
> after dark Sunday evening and planned to camp out in the desert; I knew of

> a
> good place to get off I-10 onto some dirt roads near the AZ-NM border 
> (Steins
> Pass), where I'd stopped on my way out and gone for a little hike--found 
> some
> neat volcanic rocks there, though no minerals of note.  So I pulled  off; 
> since
> I knew where I wanted to go it was easy even in the dark; and parked 
> about a
> mile from the interstate.  Well, because it was (a) pitch dark, (b) 
> ground
> all rocks & cactus, and (c) it had been a rainy last few days so all  was 
> quite
> damp, and as I've mentioned there isn't quite room enough to sleep in  the
> back of my Cherokee especially when it's packed full of stuff, I just 
> tossed  my
> air matress & sleeping bag up on the roof, carefully climbed up there (so 
> as
> not to dent the sheet metal with a knee or a foot), and slept very
> comfortably on the roof--first time, then or since, that I've ever done 
> that.  My Jeep
> has a little roof rack, so the railing provided reasonable  assurance that

> I
> wouldn't roll off.  In the morning I was treated to about  the most 
> magnicent
> sunrise I'd ever seen; clouds and colors kept changing as the  sun moved 
> up
> toward the various hanging clouds and fog banks down low in the  valleys 
> to the
> south, and I took "gazilions" of pictures with my digital  camera.
>
> Pete Modreski, Denver CO
>
>
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