Have fun while I'm gone!

[NorCalGirl]

Funny thing - just got off the phone with a great friend of mine who lives in Atlanta who began telling me almost this exact same story! I think you guys were on the same trail on the same days - and both got equally soaked! Anyhow - he is now recovering at home as well and said the weather there today is perfect :-)

[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...

[Innkeeper]

Hate to have to explain things, but when my copy of Complete Walker was published you could make a payphone call with a dime. You had to have a dime to get ahold of an operator, and cell phones had not been invented. Cheech!!

[winoweenie]

I GOT IT IK....These young whipper-snippers take ebberthin' so literally! WW [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/biggrin.gif[/img]

[Thomas]

Sheesh, I got it too; I was playing with the joke...too subtle for a bunch of old guys I guess...

[JagFarlane]

LoL well hell I remember when a quarter bought ya a pay call...and I was just in Newark...and had one that was gonna run me $1.40 for a local call! yeesh! oh well and yes I know bout the AT that runs through here... [img]http://www.wines.com/ubb2/smile.gif[/img] camped along it once...caught three nice trout [all released], camped out in da rain and had a hell of a good time.

[wondersofwine]

My sister and brother-in-law are hiking in Idaha currently (after attending a wedding in Montana). They're out of cell-phone reach, so I don't know how it's going. Sis has also done RAGBRAI several times (Des Moines REGISTER [something--American?] Great Bike Ride Across Iowa. On RAGBRAI she usually boards with families in the towns they pass through rather than camping out, although both options exist. The townspeople sell fried chicken, corn-on-the-cob, pie, etc. to riders coming through their towns.

[dananne]

Back in my younger days, I was into competitive cycling. I did the Iowa ride, and it was a blast. Used it for "training" before a race in So. Ill. -- big mistake. I was exhausted afterwards, but I had a great time doing it. I raced for about 2 years.

Hope they have a great time on the hike, and a safe one!