Have fun while I'm gone!

[Thomas]

Even with inflation, IK, I doubt tripling the dime would get you a pay phone these days--they are as rare as warm, dry days on a camping trip!

As for taking wine on the trip, hmmm. I would leave some in a cooler in the car. On my first night out, I'd fill up a Spanish wine sack, fling it over my shoulder and have half a sack that night--the other half the night following (whoever comes with me will have to do the same; I do not share wine on a camping trip). After two days, I'd make my way to the cooler in the car and fill up the sack again.

Or better yet, take two wine sacks with me and fill both to last four nights. Of course, the wine sacks have to be well broken in before the trip, and the wine has to be a quaffer.

Back in the old days, as I worked my way through education driving a NY City taxi, I always drove with a filled wine sack over my shoulder--and it was empty at the end of my shift. It wasn't too dangerous; I was young then...