Random Thoughts Thread

[smokymountainrain]

The sugar daddy excuse.

lol. that is hilarious.

[BigFatMeanie]

lol. that is hilarious.

I liked how she said she wasn't available on the 4th of July.

[Northwestcoug]

Anyone have any experience with teardrop campers? We saw a compact one at a sportsman’s show in the winter, and now we’re renting one this weekend. The main appeal to us is the compact design and clever engineering. It’s a queen size bed inside, and the ‘kitchen’ opens up at the end. Small fridge/freezer runs on lithium battery, and a solar panel on top helps with the charge. 2 burner stove and heater run on propane. We stayed pretty warm last night. It was kind of awesome.

The novelty of it of course comes with a price: a tricked out one costs as much as a nice larger camping trailer. Which we don’t have the space for anyways, but it seems a little ridiculous to pay that price and not be able to stand up inside.

anyhoo, Mrs. NWC is already seeing lots more camping in her future if she stays warm. We’re already checking out the Bean ones in Utah when we go pick up our daughter.

Here’s the ones we’re looking at:

https://beantrailer.com/

https://www.teardropsnw.com/build-trailer

[Bo Diddley]

Anyone have any experience with teardrop campers? We saw a compact one at a sportsman’s show in the winter, and now we’re renting one this weekend. The main appeal to us is the compact design and clever engineering. It’s a queen size bed inside, and the ‘kitchen’ opens up at the end. Small fridge/freezer runs on lithium battery, and a solar panel on top helps with the charge. 2 burner stove and heater run on propane. We stayed pretty warm last night. It was kind of awesome.

The novelty of it of course comes with a price: a tricked out one costs as much as a nice larger camping trailer. Which we don’t have the space for anyways, but it seems a little ridiculous to pay that price and not be able to stand up inside.

anyhoo, Mrs. NWC is already seeing lots more camping in her future if she stays warm. We’re already checking out the Bean ones in Utah when we go pick up our daughter.

Here’s the ones we’re looking at:

https://beantrailer.com/

https://www.teardropsnw.com/build-trailer

That looks kind of like the one our next door neighbors have. They seem to be happy with it and haul it behind their Outback.

I think if I got one, I'd want something a little bigger for comfort. Maybe as small as a 21'. It would have to be an ultra-light to haul behind our Pilot. I'm not buying a truck.

[Northwestcoug]

That looks kind of like the one our next door neighbors have. They seem to be happy with it and haul it behind their Outback.

I think if I got one, I'd want something a little bigger for comfort. Maybe as small as a 21'. It would have to be an ultra-light to haul behind our Pilot. I'm not buying a truck.

Yeah a 21’ would be nice but it isn’t gonna fly. We’re already nervous backing this thing up.

day 2 is in the books. The battery keeps a decent charge. Looks like with normal use it decreases about 15% a day.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Those look fun.

[Lost Student]

Yeah a 21’ would be nice but it isn’t gonna fly. We’re already nervous backing this thing up.

day 2 is in the books. The battery keeps a decent charge. Looks like with normal use it decreases about 15% a day.

Short trailers are harder to back up than long ones.

[Northwestcoug]

Funny you should say that. Outside of pulling a uhaul trailer, we have little experience with one. Right after we pulled out of the teardrop office, Mrs. NWC went to a parking lot to practice backing up. It didn’t go well. We were getting nervous driving into the camp site. We had the place mostly to ourselves, yet still couldn’t back it in straight. We gave up, unhooked it, and just pushed it in place. It’s pretty light (~2000 lbs), and it has a swiveling wheel at the front which makes it really easy to steer.

if we end up getting one, our initial thoughts of backing it up our inclined driveway and putting it into the garage may die quickly.

[Bo Diddley]

Funny you should say that. Outside of pulling a uhaul trailer, we have little experience with one. Right after we pulled out of the teardrop office, Mrs. NWC went to a parking lot to practice backing up. It didn’t go well. We were getting nervous driving into the camp site. We had the place mostly to ourselves, yet still couldn’t back it in straight. We gave up, unhooked it, and just pushed it in place. It’s pretty light (~2000 lbs), and it has a swiveling wheel at the front which makes it really easy to steer.

if we end up getting one, our initial thoughts of backing it up our inclined driveway and putting it into the garage may die quickly.

It just takes practice. Turning radius and wheel distance from the hitch all play into it. The hardest thing I ever had to back was a little water trailer behing a long cab forward army truck.

[Copelius]

It just takes practice. Turning radius and wheel distance from the hitch all play into it. The hardest thing I ever had to back was a little water trailer behing a long cab forward army truck.

Agree. I have a harder time with my van and tent trailer than I did with the 5000 gallon tanker hooked up to a 5 ton tractor when I was in the reserves.

[Bo Diddley]

Agree. I have a harder time with my van and tent trailer than I did with the 5000 gallon tanker hooked up to a 5 ton tractor when I was in the reserves.

Yeah, those tractor trailer combos might be the easiest.

[Moliere]

Local school bond elections bring out the crazy in people. The neighborhood Facebook group and Nextdoor app are on fire.

Im for the new bonds, but I have to say that after reading everyone’s takes on why they won’t vote for the bonds, I’m less confident in the public school systems ability to teach people basic math and logic skills.

[Non Sequitur]

An interesting column from George F. Will about amending the Constitution to bar Senators from the Presidency:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...-constitution/

Banning senators from the presidency would increase the probability of having senators who are interested in being senators, and would increase the probability of avoiding: Presidents who have never run anything larger than a Senate office. Who have confused striking poses — in the Capitol, on Twitter — with governing.

...Although Josh Hawley, Missouri’s freshman Republican, might not be worse than all the other 327, he exemplifies the worst about would-be presidents incubated in the Senate. Arriving there in January 2019, he hit the ground running — away from the Senate. Twenty-four months later, he was the principal catalyst of the attempted nullification of the presidential election preceding the one that he hopes will elevate him. Nimbly clambering aboard every passing bandwagon that can carry him to the Fox News greenroom, he treats the Senate as a mere steppingstone for his ascent to an office commensurate with his estimate of his talents.

...One of today’s exemplary senators, Mitt Romney, surely is such partly because, his presidential ambitions retired, he nevertheless wants to be a senator. Were all persons with presidential ambitions deterred from becoming senators, this probably would improve the caliber of senators, and of presidents, and the equilibrium between the political branches.

[Northwestcoug]

OK Utahns I give up. I don't understand the Ken Garff 'We'd Still Hear You' billboard ads.

[Bo Diddley]

OK Utahns I give up. I don't understand the Ken Garff 'We'd Still Hear You' billboard ads.

I don't get it either.