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Re: Camping with your plane
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 3:15 am
by blueldr
Anyone flying to Oshkosh to camp during the show that is not over gross weight either forgot some essential equipment, the beer, or they're a wimp. I do hope you guys that are planning to camp there realize that the place is run by what is apparently a bunch of teetotalers. It's a long way to town to find even the mildest of adult beverages.
Re: Camping with your plane
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 11:36 am
by GAHorn
blueldr wrote:Anyone flying to Oshkosh to camp during the show that is not over gross weight either forgot some essential equipment, the beer, or they're a wimp. I do hope you guys that are planning to camp there realize that the place is run by what is apparently a bunch of teetotalers. It's a long way to town to find even the mildest of adult beverages.
OOOOOOOOhhhh! bluElder! Good TIP! (Thanks!)
Re: Camping with your plane
Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2010 1:39 pm
by SteveF
Additions to my list:
Really need a tent that you can stand up in. No fun trying to get dressed in a three foot high tent.
A folding table is definitely nice to have.
A whisk broom is handy.
A tarp for over the wing and another to put under the tent. It does rain like h*#& at Oshkosh.
Hard stuff is tough to find, sources of wine are limited, but beer is all over the place. There is an expensive beer tent, the gas station by the Hilton hotel has cases and six packs, and the super market has beer and wine. No one carries St. Polly Girl so if you are a connoisseur then you have to bring it yourself.
Paper towels are a must.
Small propane stove. Pots and pans, utensils, can opener, coffee pot.
Small battery fan.
Plenty of tent stakes and tent ropes as it gets really windy. You haven’t lived until it gets black as sin and the tornado sirens start to wail. No place to go and the possibility of lots of metal flying through the air. This is when you break out the hard stuff and watch all the expensive military stuff take off and leave the area.
A couple of gallon jugs to carry water from the water buffalo when you can find it and when it is not empty. I love the people standing by it brushing their teeth. No class at all.
Re: Camping with your plane
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 2:42 am
by jrenwick
In the years when I was taking my family to Oshkosh, I would fill a couple of 1-gallon milk jugs with water and put them in the freezer a couple of days ahead of time. That made ice for the cooler, and once at Oshkosh I would put one of the jugs in my backpack at the beginning of the day. The ice in it would melt at about the same rate that we all needed drinks, so each jug gave us a day's worth of ice water while we hiked around the exhibits.