when time first began
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Topic: when time first began
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Subject: when time first began
Date Posted: 03 Feb 2018 at 10:50pm
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There was a time when our universe was a black void in space long before the r-pod and predating Trailer Life (July, 1941); for most this represents a time line when trailering life began. Preceding that there was a place where time and and space morphed and grew into Comets and Fire Balls. These remnants represent ancient light from stars long since past, eclipsed by mammoth spiral galaxies spinning in an ever expanding universe of luxury motor coaches, behemoth fifth wheels with fireplaces, center kitchen islands, washer/dryers and in-place theater systems. Then there are the cavernous toyhaulers carrying legions of adult toys for the weekend warriors with front end accommodations to keep body and soul living in the lap of luxury, wanting for not. The trailer-universe has changed. But deep in a long forgotten corner of the universe is a globular cluster of ancient stars bound together by their gravitational tides with each pulling on the other holding each other to its respective orbit. They appear now and then in all their glory and splendor that was. It is in this forgotten corner of the universe (this time in Lake Havasu City, Arizona) that the vintage trailer show and camp out was held. The r pod is the bridge that eclipses the opposite ends of the universe. http://methus.smugmug.com/Vintage-Trailers - http://methus.smugmug.com/Vintage-Trailers Bert ------------- Old and in the way so now it's time to play |
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Posted By: henryv
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2018 at 6:12am
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Over 80 years and man hasn't learned a thing. Still the same ole teardrop style! ------------- |
Posted By: ron_whitt
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2018 at 8:52am
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Upon first sentence or so, I thought I was going to see a Star Wars movie... Our first experience with a tt (rpod)8yr ago, was a 3.5 hr drive to Golden Lake campground. Was a much better camp outing than in a tent.... Our 2012 177 did/has preformed great ever since then. ------------- Ron & Shirley 2020 Tacoma 2012 177 rpod |
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2018 at 9:43am
No "Star Wars" at the vintage trailer show. However, if you're in this neighborhood I can take you to a place very similar to the desert outpost bar in Star Wars. This place, Nellie E's Saloon, is about 5 miles East of nowhere at the base of Buckskin Mountain. The road is very primitive, there's no phone, no cell service in places, barren desert land and hard rock canyons. It's open Oct - Apr. on weekends only from 12PM to 6PM or when they decide to close. Its inhabitants look like extras from the Star Wars movies and they drive/ride in on their machines that look like they came from a Mad Max movie...."check in your razors and all your guns". The place has limited water, no air conditioning and runs off solar. By two on any given Saturday or Sunday the place is packed with two legged creatures and there's a country band playing southern rock, blues and traditional country. It's a real hoot to come and see the desert animals at play. Bert ------------- Old and in the way so now it's time to play |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2018 at 2:44pm
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Hmmmmm have to check in your guns? all of them? ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: mcarter
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2018 at 3:11pm
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I lived in Yuma for a few years, was a Certified Desert Rat, some of those desert bars were out of the old west. No one checked all their guns. There was some real characters. ------------- Mike Carter 2015 178 " I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability." |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2018 at 3:25pm
 sounds like that could be a good time ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Date Posted: 04 Feb 2018 at 4:10pm
This place isn’t out of the “old west”, it doesn” know the West is “old”. One quarter of the inhabitants don’t know the Civil War is over, that prohibition has ended, that we landed on the Moon or that Bob Wills is dead. As for, “check in your razors and all your guns” many don’t shave as there’s precious little water. All fain ignorance and illiteracy to sidestep the issue even the Diamond Jim’s with the law degrees and a license to practice law. Such are the foibles of Arizona’s Parker Strip and the Buckskins...”Swing low sweet chariot, com’n for to carry me home” from the insanity of the “post, post, industrial revolution”. WHERE’s the RUM MATE?
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Posted By: DavMar
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2018 at 1:44pm
Dang sounds like a real nice "family" place. If I ever get out that way count me in especially if they have PBR on tap!  ------------- Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the wonder dog. 2017 Rpod 180 2016 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 Lexington, NC |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 07 Feb 2018 at 2:37pm
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PBR on tap!!!! Remember those days............kind of ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Date Posted: 08 Feb 2018 at 11:10pm
Don’t know about the pbr but Mark Twain’s law of liquid consumption applies, “whiskey ‘s for drinking and waters for fight’n over”. Bert ------------- Old and in the way so now it's time to play |
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Date Posted: 09 Feb 2018 at 8:53pm
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For those curious as to Nellie E's, no it's not a figment, or a fragment, or a hallucination of the morning after the night before. See for yourselves. http://methus.smugmug.com/Nellie-Es-Saloon/ - http://methus.smugmug.com/Nellie-Es-Saloon/ ------------- Old and in the way so now it's time to play |
Posted By: DavMar
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2018 at 10:50am
Dang! This place is looking better and better to me ..... even has a church I can pray to God in why I drank so much? Perfect!  Thanks for sharing the photos! ------------- Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the wonder dog. 2017 Rpod 180 2016 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 Lexington, NC |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2018 at 1:21pm
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Same here!! ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2018 at 3:51pm
Gentleman, gentlemen you missed the point of the church edifice. To put it in context please listen to Jerry Lee’s song, “the girls all get prettier at closing time”. But seriously, as I understand it they have had some weddings there, shotgun or otherwise...don’t know why that would be 
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Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2018 at 4:56pm
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This might lead to a road trip!! ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: GlueGuy
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2018 at 7:05pm
 ------------- bp 2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Date Posted: 10 Feb 2018 at 8:09pm
SO LEO...you trip down the road, I-40 or I-10, towards the “left coast” stopping short of California and we can hold an r-pod soirée at River Island, visit Nellie E’s and the Pirates Den. Then trip on down to Quartzite and visit the crazies (there’s a Snowbird paster from Washington state that winters there and has a really good BBQ, best tritip this side of Santa Maria, CA) then our band of happy pods can go to Lake Alamo for Thanksgiving. Here’s a photo gallery of River Island and the buxom Jolly Roger babes of the Pirates Den. http://methus.smugmug.com/River-Island-Gallery/ - http://methus.smugmug.com/River-Island-Gallery/ ------------- Old and in the way so now it's time to play |
Posted By: Leo B
Date Posted: 11 Feb 2018 at 7:39pm
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Talking to the Mrs , planning a trip west spring of 2019 ------------- Leo & Melissa Bachand 2017 Ford F150 2021 Vista Cruiser 19 csk Previously owned 2015 Rpod 179 2010 Rpod 171 |
Posted By: Old & out-to-play
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 9:05am
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That could work, keep us posted. ------------- Old and in the way so now it's time to play |
Posted By: DavMar
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 11:21am
What its that water that makes PBR so good! Kind of like here on the right coast with Yuengling which is only brewed with the finest of PA coal filtered slag water!  ------------- Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the wonder dog. 2017 Rpod 180 2016 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 Lexington, NC |
Posted By: DavMar
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 11:23am
Pirates in Arizona! Well shiver my timbers!  ------------- Dave & Marlene J with Zoey the wonder dog. 2017 Rpod 180 2016 Toyota Tacoma SR5 4x4 Lexington, NC |
Posted By: Live2Camp
Date Posted: 12 Feb 2018 at 11:45am
Yes, please keep us posted! Also a bunch of us can offer more ideas and suggestions about "the west" in general. Also, love Arizona and we are planning to spend more time exploring there. ------------- 2017 R-Pod 179 HRE (the green one) His:Ford F150 double cab 4WD; Hers/mine:Tacoma V6 double cab 4WD Still love rugged, diggin' comfy too |