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Thread #62194   Message #1004736
Posted By: GUEST,Claymore
19-Aug-03 - 12:32 PM
Thread Name: 2003 FSGW Getaway - Travelers Needs
Subject: RE: 2003 FSGW Getaway - Travelers Needs
Let me add one comment about the heat. Several people brought space heaters last year and were very disappointed, since the heat rose up into the rafters and never stayed long enough to get anyone very warm. I brought a double size electric blanket and was toasty warm the whole time. I just threw it over my sleeping bag, and since I did not have a partner, I also added my Martin in a spare bed next to mine, plus the clothes I was going to wear the next day, and my bath towel. It was perfect.

Remember that the first showers in the morning are a tad brisk, and you can laugh yourself into a coma listening to bodies splat into the plastic walls of the shower stalls, as the first needle of cold water hits them.

Also bring some ear plugs as several folks snore like a diesel in a granny gear on a dirt slope.

And you can have a religious experience hearing the women making first contact with the cold toilet seats in the morning. (Its OK ladies; at my age, I do my most fervent praying on the john too.)