- Congratulations Jeff it's always nice when you can sleep in a nice soft bed instead of on the hard ground. You going to be camping in it at the fall picnic? Tim -----Original Message----- From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff the Blue Bead Man Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 12:55 AM To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [GeoStL] ...also announcing my new "addition" - Here it is...this one is for Bernie, but everyone is invited to read along... While driving to Texas, I got to check out the Aliner camping trailers at a RV place in Springfield, MO. Quite interesting, but the dealer was not quite willing to work with me. So I moved on. Got to Texas and to a little town just north of Austin called Pflugerville. Within Pflugerville is a little truck camper dealer called "Princess Craft." They carry the Aliner camping trailers plus a bunch of truck campers. I stopped by to check out a special ALiner model called the Alite 4000. My 4 cylinder Ranger could EASILY pull that thing. Well, one thing led to another. The Alite 4000 was WAY too small. The mid size model called a Sportliner appeared about right, but the salesperson talked me into hitching up the largest of the Aliner models: the LXE. I thought my truck would die, or at least struggle with the weight of it, but I agreed to a test drive with it. My truck didn't break a sweat...I got it up to 60+ MPH WITH THE "MAX A/C" ON before the Ranger gave any sign of a struggle. Wow! Ok, what type of deal could I make? Well, not MUCH of one, but enough, and I have now towed that Aliner LXE model from Pflugerville to San Antonio, back passed Pflugerville again and all the way to St. Louis. I camped a couple nights along the way. It has A/C, a microwave, refrigerator with freezer, a tiolet and a shower, a furnace, and several other things (gas detectors, etc) with plenty of room for one person--possibly a couple others. Now, just one question remains: Who wants to go camping this weekend??? Or any other time in the near future? Let me know and we'll see what we can set up! I'm SO excited! -Jeff, the Blue Bead Man **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field **************************************** Our WebPage! Http://WWW.GeoStL.com Mail List Info. //www.freelists.org/list/geocaching Mail List FAQ's: //www.freelists.org/help/questions.html **************************************** To unsubscribe from this list: send an email to geocaching-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field