Recent content by Keeled Over

Toyota's for us - last 3 new cars. I think the RAV4 is about perfect. I have 3 things I would change, and 2 of them are due to my clydesdale status. It makes a lumpy bed but I can sleep at 6'2" in the back with a creative pillow placement. Plenty of power when loaded with canoe, gear and...

I always managed to get ashes in my cobbler while removing the cover. I don't know why, but I have had more then a few dozen Scouts complain about it.

Lifelong consumer of Hersey bars. Nobody but me eats peanut butter in our house so the entire Jif jar is mine. I bust up segments of Hersey's and throw them right in the jar. However, for trips I just bring one little Halloween sized bar for desert each nite. I only trip during shoulder...

Thank you for the great report. Your trip was very similar to one I had taken some years ago - same route, same time of year, same weather, but I stayed at #30. Only saw a kayak close to the lower dam and a quick wave to someone at a distance. It turned out to be one of my favorite ADK...

Depends - were there chaps and spurs involved?

For many years, regardless of being in a tent or under the cap of my truck, I would smoke the final cigarette of the day with the doors open. That always chased them out.

I have to go with statistic's on this one. I always taught my kids to "stop, look, think' and trained them that, statistically, you just have to be a little safer then the other people around you.

Wow - you are busier, in a good way, then the combined effort of everyone I know. Good for you!!

LOVE your choice of bikes - you have covered the motorcycle spectrum. I have 4 guitars upstairs, and I have never successfully completed a B Minor on any of them.

In addition to my responsibility of posting inane comments on public forums I also dig bicycles in a pretty big way. I currently own 4, and I ride throughout the year with bikes focused on specific tasks. Like the canoe quiver, we sometimes find that odd project that compels us to bring it...

Wabakimi was a fun study of paying attention to campsites. Sometimes flagged, often times not, you rounded up your Spidey senses and learned to look for anything that MIGHT be a campsite or it could be missed. Don't get me started their portages. However - Rocks. Big rocks. As...

Wow! That is freakin' cool. Congrats!!

"Even the open road—that last bastion of freedom—now demands a reservation. Gone are the days when you could set off on a whim." Love Kevin's stuff but will take a different path here. While researching the long trip a couple of years back my plan had been to drive up to Yellow Knife and then...

I used to do the pill box thing - pain in the arse. I started bringing 2 identical sets in just a screw top bottle but with an antidesicant (sp) in there. Works great - one in my dry box and one in my barrel. For the border I peel labels off my pills, slap them on a 8 x 11 and have one...

Black Fly's post above reminded me of something a urologist told me regarding getting checked. In short, lie. Yup - he said if you are concerned about it tell your Dr. your dad's brother had it and they will allow you to get checked. In my first round I was the youngest guy in the waiting...