Lyme
AZ
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As a camp host, I had a trashy looking woman come to the host site and ask me if anyone had turned in a set of car keys. When I asked her where she thought she may have lost them, she unabashedly answered, "I don't know. I was so drunk last night I don't remember anything." Must have been some party!
Mrs Mik. Now that you know what a thwart is, you may want to know that novice canoeists often think they are supposed to position themselves at the stern thwart, the one closest to one end of the canoe, even when paddling alone. Doing so causes the bow to lift way of of the water and, in a high wind, the wind catches it and makes the canoe hard to control. Experienced canoeists know it is best to face "backwards" from the bow thwart, which is positioned further back from its end of the canoe. This places the solo paddler's weight more centered between the two ends of the canoe so the canoe doesn't have one end sticking high out of the water.
TMI? You can PM me if you want to know about the gunwales (pronounced "gunnels"), ribs, tumblehome, freeboard, rocker, etc.etc. 
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PotKorn
St. Louis, MO
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If you get next to one of those strange campers, you just might want to give him a very stern thwart! 
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strollin
San Martin, CA
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Mountain Jack wrote:Bruce, i'm just curious. Were you by chance camping at Coyote or Yuvas Meadows or Anderson??????..............many lustrum ago i camped & fished in your area.
Coyote Lake. It's about 1 mile due east of my house as the crow flies but 10 miles by road to get there!
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LHOTH
Houston
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We met a couple when we were camping in DC. They were from Germany. They had bought their RV *in Germany* and had it shipped here to Baltimore Harbor and were expecting to go from DC to California to Alaska and then south to Mexico and then back to Baltimore - all in 6 months.
Their electrical hookups were different. Their grey water hookups were different. I speak fairly fluent German and my husband is pretty technically savvy and a former electrician, so we were able to help them out A LOT.
I can only imagine how much it cost them to ship that RV over here. It seems to me that they would have saved money by buying something here and then selling it when they left and take that money home to buy an RV to use in Europe.
They were an interesting couple and I enjoyed talking to them.
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anthop
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In the corps of engineering camp grounds in kansas it cost $18 for electric/water $16 for electric only and 8 for dry
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JohnR
Olney Illinois 62450
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It is one of the cross members in the canoe that keep it's shape, and serve as a seat. Some canoes have wider seats for the front and back thwarts.
Many people just kneel on the bottom.
A canoe is a wonderful water craft for thoe that take the time to learn their use.
Most are light enough to carry by one person, are quiet, and if used sensibly, are very safe, adn can go where regular boats can't.
I wish I still had mine! I still have the military paddle I got at a surplus store, painted a flat grey, that I scraped down and refinished. I believe it is what the "Frogmen" of the Navy used with their rafts. Best paddle I ever used!
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Good luck, think ahead, plan for any emergencies that might pop up, drive safe and travel happy!
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MP soldier
Center Moriches, Long Island, NY
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I thought a stern thwart was what you got from sitting on dirty toilet seats?
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RV's are like boats, buy your 2nd one 1st!
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randrx2
Newport News, VA
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People always say that there is at least one strange character at every campground. We never meet them. Although everyone else there seems to! I guess it makes it us!
The other couples at the campground got a kick out of my wife washing the entire RV (39' MH) one day while I was golfing.
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Let's rethink this whole "I hope I die before I get old" thing.
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Cup fan
Lebanon, Missouri
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Several years back, we stopped at a roadside motel/campground in northern Arizona on Route 66. There was an older gentleman living in a small TT who came over and struck up a conversation with us and seemed to be very nice. The next morning, while we were fixing breakfast he came back over and again struck up a conversation. This time he began bashing the government and talking about the militia, and getting his guns and going to Idaho and joining. To make a long story short, his last name was Nichols, and it was either his son or his nephew (can't remember which), that was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing! When he went back to his trailer for another cup of coffee, we got the heck out of there as fast as we could!
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mr. ed
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I've met some interesting ones in local California campgrounds (specifically Caspers Wilderness Park outside of San Juan Capistano). There was this one fella camping there often in his Mercedes. I'd see him in the morning using a side view mirror in order to shave. Then there ws Dr. John, and older fella I chatted with as he sat on the tailgate of his station wagon (in which he was living) while sipping tea. His sad story was that he got his medical doctorship too late in life and was having trouble finding employment (he was in his 70's).
And finally, there's Jim and Nancy, a vagabond couple whom I've known for years who live in a very tiny truck-mounted camper and hang out in various parks and campgrounds in the area. They earn a meager living washing windows for folks in town. They often have a companion, Bruce, who lives in the bed of his pickup truck (with just a camper shell for cover). He shares the space rent with Jim & Nancy in order to keep costs down. They've been operating this way for many years and seem happy with their lot in life.
These folks, though "odd" by many peoples' standards are really nice people who have just chosen a different, alternative lifestyle and are happy in not following what is considered the norm.
Mr. Ed (fulltiming since 1987)
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