#1118 Home Sweet Home

Hehe, agree its the Americana hype left from the era of Rte66. Its on the way to that big bike party too. Which is iconic in its way too.

 

Ah yes, the memories come flooding back. The big old Ted Williams Approved cabin tent. The canvas tent bag itself must have weighed about 80lbs, then there was the separate large bag of heavy duty aluminum poles that probably weighed another 40lbs, that had to be assembled, once you figured out which piece goes with another. However it did sleep a family of 6, with the boys in the left side room and the girls on the right, with a table in the center room with a Coleman lantern hissing above it with the brightness of about a 200 watt bulb, and even more heat. The nice thing about the Coleman was that who ever got the job turning it off for the night had the benefit of it's slow burn down as a night lite as they headed back to their sleeping bag, but also that final acrid smell of the final fumes coming off the mantel. But it was what planted the camping bug in our minds, that all the kids(now all retired) still continue to enjoy. Thank you CI, and thank you Clam & Gazelle! You made it so much easier and fun!!

 

Hate to say it, but the folks your dad lent the tent to probably did you a favor! A good excuse to get something more user friendly
Gitche Gumee can serve up some real bone chilling winds no matter what time of year it is. A CI would have been a real vaca saver at that point.

 

We took a photo of each and every 'wall drug' sign on 90 as we crossed South Dakota and Minnesota. I can't tell you how many of the photos we took on that trip of other things -- but it was not a crazy amount. We have 900+ photos in that album...

It seems like every mile or two there was a "Free ice water" sign or some other such sign. It makes me wonder....who maintains those? Its obviously key to their marketing...crazy fun. I really want to get back up in that neck of the woods. I've been there on motorcycle in 1999 or 2000, then again in 2014. Its time to go back.

It was amazing to me to see the damage done by the beetles in the black hills. Sickening in fact.


View attachment upload_2024-5-9_12-4-7.png

 

Like the old Burma Shave signs...