Oshkosh camping list? (Planning for next year)

You are correct but I saw a study somewhere that basically said this was a
good thing and the current use of bottled water is leading to more severe
cases of E. coli poisoning.

I've heard the same...the other issue I have with bottled water is that
a great deal of it isn't fluoridated.

I have a niece who is about 10 years old and just discovered that her
teeth of a nightmare of small cavities. I put allot of blame on the
fact that her parents are obsessive about not drinking tapwater, but
strictly the reverse osmosis "pure" water from their cooler. They even
send it with her bottled to school.

Anyhow, rather OT..but I'll agree that the tapwater at Osh is indeed
rather crappy...but I drank it all week and had no ill effects, so other
then taste it was apparently safe.

In a previous article, Mark Morissette said:
Anyhow, rather OT..but I'll agree that the tapwater at Osh is indeed
rather crappy...but I drank it all week and had no ill effects, so other
then taste it was apparently safe.

There seemed to be two distinctive water tastes, one much more chemically
than the other. I never did get a good idea of which ones tasted good,
but I think the one down near the vintage camp ground was one of them.
The water at the shower station near the camp store in Camp Scholler was
one of the bad ones.

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Paul Tomblin wrote:

The water at the shower station near the camp store in Camp Scholler was
one of the bad ones.

In discussing the showers at OSH, what are those accommodations like for
the campers? What are the busy times and what would a typical wait for a
shower be?

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Peter

Peter R. wrote:
Paul Tomblin wrote:


The water at the shower station near the camp store in Camp Scholler was
one of the bad ones.


In discussing the showers at OSH, what are those accommodations like for
the campers? What are the busy times and what would a typical wait for a
shower be?

The "Old" or "permanant" showers are block buildings with kitchen
sprayers. I find them a bit lacking. The portable showers (trailers)
have larger sprayers and I like them much more. The women's showers
rarely have a line :-). The airshow is a good time to shower. about 10
am seems to be a good time also.

Margy

Margy Natalie wrote in
m:

Peter R. wrote:
Paul Tomblin wrote:


The water at the shower station near the camp store in Camp Scholler
was one of the bad ones.


In discussing the showers at OSH, what are those accommodations like
for the campers? What are the busy times and what would a typical
wait for a shower be?

The "Old" or "permanant" showers are block buildings with kitchen
sprayers. I find them a bit lacking. The portable showers (trailers)
have larger sprayers and I like them much more. The women's showers
rarely have a line :-). The airshow is a good time to shower. about
10 am seems to be a good time also.

Margy


The trailer shower in the far end of the north 40 (next to the Hilton)
was flooded with over an inch of water. Not sure if it was the shower
doors leaking or a real live water leak, but that was no fun sloshing
through the "lake". I doubt that particular trailer will last to next
year...

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completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

ET wrote:
Margy Natalie wrote in
m:


Peter R. wrote:

Paul Tomblin wrote:



The water at the shower station near the camp store in Camp Scholler
was one of the bad ones.


In discussing the showers at OSH, what are those accommodations like
for the campers? What are the busy times and what would a typical
wait for a shower be?


The "Old" or "permanant" showers are block buildings with kitchen
sprayers. I find them a bit lacking. The portable showers (trailers)
have larger sprayers and I like them much more. The women's showers
rarely have a line :-). The airshow is a good time to shower. about
10 am seems to be a good time also.

Margy



The trailer shower in the far end of the north 40 (next to the Hilton)
was flooded with over an inch of water. Not sure if it was the shower
doors leaking or a real live water leak, but that was no fun sloshing
through the "lake". I doubt that particular trailer will last to next
year...

The ones in Vintage have full time attendents with buckets and wet-vacs.
The doors leak and they are used constantly for hours on end. The
person cleaning the women's shower this year was particularly good at
keeping it fairly dry.

Margy

("Margy Natalie" wrote)
The ones in Vintage have full time attendents with buckets and wet-vacs.
The doors leak and they are used constantly for hours on end. The person
cleaning the women's shower this year was particularly good at keeping it
fairly dry.


The one south of the ultralights, where the seaplane bus picks you up, was
nice. I checked it out on day.

The design was odd though.

Two doors were on either end of the trailer, along one wall. Connecting the
doors was a large hallway that ran the length of the trailer, along the
outside wall. In the middle of the space (facing the other outside wall)
were the showers - maybe four stalls on each side of a center entrance, off
the hallway. The other long wall of the trailer had benches to dry off and
get dressed.

Here's my thought: Why not showers on the two "outside" walls? The wide
empty hallway running the length of the trailer, on one outside wall, was
much wasted space, IMHO.

Anyway, that was my first impression of the shower trailer. Clean, and
puzzling. g


Montblack

In a previous article, "Peter R." said:
Paul Tomblin wrote:
The water at the shower station near the camp store in Camp Scholler was
one of the bad ones.

In discussing the showers at OSH, what are those accommodations like for
the campers? What are the busy times and what would a typical wait for a
shower be?

I usually showered sometime between 8 and 10am, and while they were
crowded I never had to wait for a shower stall. As already stated, the
showers consist of one of those kitchen sink sprayers in a square of
shower curtain. It's not luxurious, but it gets the job done. The water
was always adequately hot (which is good because there is no temperature
control).


--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
You can drag any rat out of the sewer and teach it to get some work done in
Perl, but you cannot teach it serious programming.
-- Erik Naggum

Paul Tomblin wrote:

As already stated, the
showers consist of one of those kitchen sink sprayers in a square of
shower curtain. It's not luxurious, but it gets the job done. The water
was always adequately hot (which is good because there is no temperature
control).

Thanks, Paul and Margy.

--
Peter

("Peter R." wrote)
In discussing the showers at OSH, what are those accommodations like for
the campers? What are the busy times and what would a typical wait for a
shower be?


I showered at night 10pm. No lines, no fuss.

Sweat, sunscreen, sweat, bug juice (not a problem the past few years),
sweat, and more sunscreen. Helps me sleep at night without all that grime
covering me. Also, it sometimes cools you down a notch showering at night.

In the AM, I my brush teeth, put on clean clothes, my Tilly hat, and head
out for another day of sweat and sunscreen.


Montblack