What I'd Do With An Old Mail Truck

"Justin Hughes" (justinhughes54)
02/17/2015 at 23:05 • Filed to: mail truck

For me, the answer is a no brainer: Pennsic War Wagon.

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I've been there twice. The first time, we crammed !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! full of everything we possibly could, and sent the tent down with friends in a trailer ahead of us, since it wouldn't fit. Last year, ElanaA and I packed her Jeep Liberty to the roof, barely fitting everything inside, and strapped the large wooden poles for our canvas wall tent to the roof. Now that the Liberty is gone and she has a Focus, and I have an even less practical BRZ, we're trying to figure out how to make it work for this year.

A Grumman LLV would be perfect. It's compact, yet spacious, certainly large enough for our tent, bedding, medieval garb for two weeks (plus extra thanks to the inevitable Pennsic mud), drums, food, drinks (particularly of the "potent" variety - last year I brought a strong homebrew mead to share), archery equipment... It's no speed demon, but you can't go very fast on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! across Pennsylvania anyway. As shown above, I'd decorate it with my personal coat of arms, as well as the Blue Tyger, the populace badge of the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that I call home. This would be sure to attract the attention of any SCAdians who might pass me along the way. I certainly wouldn't be passing very many people in this truck.

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Once on site, the virtues that make the LLV a great mail truck would also help it get around Cooper's Lake Campground, where Pennsic takes place. Rather than scaring the peasants out of the road with a huge truck and trailer, the LLV could maneuver around the lords and ladies with ease. After unloading our cargo at camp, it would be easy to park, since it's small and doesn't need much of a parking space. No need to wait hours and hours at the end of Pennsic for our trailer to get delivered from some far off parking lot - just go fetch the War Wagon and load it up.

So what do I do with it the 50 weeks of the year that aren't Pennsic? There are many other SCA events closer to home that I can go to with it. I could also help transport equipment to events held in my local group (the !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! ). And if the weather was terrible and my tent failed, I could always throw an air mattress in the back of the truck and sleep there.

DISCUSSION (3)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Justin Hughes
02/18/2015 at 01:25

again , free candy anyone?

Transit > Justin Hughes
02/18/2015 at 14:29

Cynnabar!

Justin Hughes > Transit
02/18/2015 at 14:59

I understand the East and the Mid will be allies rather than enemies this year!