Oshkosh camping list? (Planning for next year)

Margy Natalie wrote:

We gave up "real cooking" a while back.

It's a bit of a thread diversion, but I wanted to comment on the lack of cooking in the North 40 this year.
We arrived on Sunday, set up camp, and then hiked over to PicNSave and filled our backpacks with
groceries and ate very well the rest of the week. The surprise was we hardly saw anyone else cooking in
our area. Did everyone walk across to Hardee's every night? Eat $4 hot dogs in the airshow? We ate
well, and not all that difficult. We used a 2 burner Coleman propane stove. Did we violate some rule we
were unaware of?

Mike

Mike Adams wrote:
Margy Natalie wrote:

We gave up "real cooking" a while back.

It's a bit of a thread diversion, but I wanted to comment on the lack of cooking in the North 40 this year.

It's a bigger hike from the vintage aircraft area. We cooked the
first few years but in actuality between eating lunch out on the show
(or having volunteer mystery meat sandwiches) and for dinner we either
go off-site with friends or avail ourselves to some of the coop food
opportunities that our volunteer crowd does (one night someone makes
chili, one night spagetti, one night brats, one night sent out for
chicken, the volunteer pizza party is one night, etc...

Peter R. wrote:
RST Engineering wrote:


If a person drinks a liter of city water a day, at the end of a year they
have processed almost a kilogram of E. coli ("poop") through their system.

snip

Tap water for coffee brewing? Never!

Especially not Oshkosh field water. It's AWFUL! Back in the day when
we cooked a lot I would freeze gallon jugs of filtered water to use in
the cooler and drain off them as they melted. That worked quite well.
Now we just bring a few gallons of bottled water.

Margy

We gave up "real cooking" a while back.

It's a bit of a thread diversion, but I wanted to comment on the lack of
cooking in the North 40 this year.
We arrived on Sunday, set up camp, and then hiked over to PicNSave and filled
our backpacks with
groceries and ate very well the rest of the week. The surprise was we hardly
saw anyone else cooking in
our area. Did everyone walk across to Hardee's every night? Eat $4 hot dogs
in the airshow? We ate
well, and not all that difficult. We used a 2 burner Coleman propane stove.
Did we violate some rule we
were unaware of?

What row were you parked in?

"RST Engineering" wrote in message
...
If a person drinks a liter of city water a day, at the end of a year they
have processed almost a kilogram of E. coli ("poop") through their system.

On the other hand, a person that drinks a liter of beer or wine, because
of the filtering and fermenting process, receives almost zero E. coli.

Do I need to belabor the point? {;-)


Jim


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.

The logic being the small amount we get in drinking water acts as a vaccine
and our systems build up immunity to it. With more and more people drinking
bottled water that immunity never develops and then the dose that wouldn't
have made us sick before puts us in the hospital.

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.

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
The implication of the camel on the front of the Perl book is, I think, quite
clear: Perl programmers permanently have the hump and are predisposed towards
spitting. -- Jonathan Page

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?

--
Peter

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.

I'm surprised that I would have to say this, but we've consumed the
water at OSH for 24 years without any trouble at all.

This year, for the first time, we used bottled water to brew coffee &
tea -- but that was only because someone donated a CASE of bottled
water to our campsite at some point during the week. This was a case
of convenience (hey, it was there), not taste, as the water at OSH is
really quite excellent -- as long as you avoid the water fountains in
the South 40, which use water apparently from iron-laden wells. The
water fountains at the showers in the North 40 are (I believe) city
water, and quite good.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

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