Caravans and Camping (731 hits)
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Submitted by RoadSong (View user info) at 2009-05-12 02:59:43 EDT
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Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2010-02-04 19:37:05 EST (#)
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Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-05-12 05:14:50 PDT (#)
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You should research "The Goat Man" In fact, just copy/paste that quoted title into Google and let er rip.
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I did, thanks for the heads up. The poor guy ends up half killed in SoCal seeking out his fantasy lady love. The photos I found of him with those damn goats hitched to that rolling pile of ghetto.....heh
Damn. Who was his lady love? Some actress...
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2009-05-15 21:30:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-05-13 19:57:35 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2009-05-12 13:08:21 PDT (#)
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I once was a traveling gypsy for 2 months. Trust me, you'll need babywipes. You'll realize I'm a genius when the time comes.
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I have been RoadTripping back and forth across the States for years pulling a horsetrailer and camping along the way. Yes you ARE a babywipe genius!
I buy them by the case.
heh
Submitted by YourNameHere (user info) at 2009-05-13 17:43:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-05-12 17:58:09 EDT (#)
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Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2009-05-12 01:23:07 PDT (#)
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Those horses are huge.
Once when I lived in the prettiest village in England ever a loner guy gypsy camped on some common land near the damn. He had a beautifully painted wagon and everything inside was so homely copper kettles and woven rugs and crochet blankets. He was cooking stewed rabbit in a little stove outside sitting on a wooded milking stool. He sold beautiful hand painted jewellery boxes, his work was exquiste. I bought three. He had a goat tethered with was most unfriendly. He made us tea in tin enameled mugs and told us stories of his journeys. His horse was enoromous as big as an elephant. I told him I had been growing herbs in my parents garden and offered to bring him some and he said he'd trade them for a painting of roses. The next morning I wandered down to find he had been moved on by the local council depite having every right in the world to be their. Later that night a group of teenages where sat their drinking and littering and makng noise. The council did not move them on. I envied his life. It was simple and pure.
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Concerning the size of the equines that I refer to in my post. These are ponies. Picture large Shetland ponies...{that is why they are being trained as a team of four to pull the wagon}.
Downsizing the size of the animals has made this dream one that is possible for me to attain.
Ponies are much easier for me to handle and I am less prone to being seriously injured by them as if they were huge.I have been stamped flat, face bashed, head crashed, foot broke, shoulder and collar bone thrown,tractioned and body casted by virtue of being born a horse clan woman.
Big horses can hurt you just by stepping on you by accident, not counting when they are pissed and try to kick your ass.
These ponies are different because of their lack of size, I can more easily convince them that I am the leader of their herd.
They may outweigh me by a few hundred pounds, but we see eye to eye.{I am smallish myself}
I gave up my large horses and carefully selected the pony herd that I have at this time.
Horses have been a part of my family for generations, but I travel a lot and it is not always an easy thing to find suitable pasture for your animals. I decided to sell my big horses. After I sold all the big horses, I would look out in the field and my heart would feel empty.
It was then that I recalled my mother. She left me a lot of ponies when she passed away.....
She had given up her big horses and had a herd of ponies. She said they were a lot of fun and not as dangerous as big horses can sometimes be.
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Thank you for sharing "the prettiest village in England" with me. The word pictures that you paint were vivid as I read your words. The comment you left here is a story in itself. I wish I could hear the stories the man told you...
Do you still have any of the boxes you got from him?
Have you written a story about this traveling man?
Submitted by SullyThePirate (user info) at 2009-05-12 16:08:21 EDT (#)
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I once was a traveling gypsy for 2 months. Trust me, you'll need babywipes. You'll realize I'm a genius when the time comes.
Submitted by Chroniclysm (user info) at 2009-05-12 16:06:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SgtHartman (user info) at 2009-05-12 15:21:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2009-05-12 13:56:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-05-12 11:45:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:11:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:09:28 EDT (#)
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lol wtf
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2009-05-12 14:26:24 EDT (#)
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i wouldn't mind being a gypsy.
Submitted by no1hasdis (user info) at 2009-05-12 13:56:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-05-12 11:45:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:11:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:09:28 EDT (#)
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lol wtf
Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2009-05-12 11:45:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:11:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:09:28 EDT (#)
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lol wtf
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-05-12 11:16:22 EDT (#)
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Nope, email was wrong, check your mail at yahoo.
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-05-12 11:13:02 EDT (#)
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Nice post. Wasn't your email flying_squirel<at>gmail.com?
I think i know where it went wrong with the animated part of your gif.
:-)
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-05-12 10:11:13 EDT (#)
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sounds fun.
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-05-12 08:14:50 EDT (#)
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You should research "The Goat Man" In fact, just copy/paste that quoted title into Google and let er rip.
Submitted by BranDo (user info) at 2009-05-12 05:05:51 EDT (#)
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Your posts smell after Leonard Cohen!!
That is a very nice smell.
I'll be playing at some parties over the next weeks and been looking at Cohen material and this post got Lover, Lover, Lover stuck in my head.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2009-05-12 04:23:07 EDT (#)
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Those horses are huge.
Once when I lived in the prettiest village in England ever a loner guy gypsy camped on some common land near the damn. He had a beautifully painted wagon and everything inside was so homely copper kettles and woven rugs and crochet blankets. He was cooking stewed rabbit in a little stove outside sitting on a wooded milking stool. He sold beautiful hand painted jewellery boxes, his work was exquiste. I bought three. He had a goat tethered with was most unfriendly. He made us tea in tin enameled mugs and told us stories of his journeys. His horse was enoromous as big as an elephant. I told him I had been growing herbs in my parents garden and offered to bring him some and he said he'd trade them for a painting of roses. The next morning I wandered down to find he had been moved on by the local council depite having every right in the world to be their. Later that night a group of teenages where sat their drinking and littering and makng noise. The council did not move them on. I envied his life. It was simple and pure.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2009-05-12 04:02:26 EDT (#)
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how do you make spelling corrections look so bad when you are typing? they arent even corrections, are they?
Super stuff.
Submitted by RoadSong (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:55:22 EDT (#)
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These images were all gifs when I saved them and now they are here on this post all still and lifeless. The lil rabbits in the first image should be dancing and the campfire blazing ...and the streams in the other images should be flowing and where are the twinkling stars in the sky?
hm
Drat.
I NEED MY GIFS!
eh
Maybe get the kinks worked out yet.
Submitted by mystiamoon (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:11:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:09:28 EDT (#)
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lol wtf
Submitted by DonovanMD (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:09:28 EDT (#)
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lol wtf
Submitted by TuTs (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:08:46 EDT (#)
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I once got bit by my Aunties pony, her horses were all lovely. This pony though was an evil little nasty creature, I suppose it is a bit like short man syndrome in humans.
I'm sure your ponies are lovely though.
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2009-05-12 03:04:58 EDT (#)
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Uh....... will your ponies be ok out in the Mojave Desert??