May long is so close I can almost touch it. I think I might even have the trailer ready!
The camper and trailer are now permanently welded together. Well, permanent in as much as a grinder could cut thru the welds… but they are one right now. I’m trying to think of a name for it… Camprailer? Traimper? Mable? Delorise? dunno.
Anyhoo, neighbours are cool. Mine have been so much help. I really can’t believe I would ever be ready without them. Mind you, I really wouldn’t be going if it wasn’t for them so there you go 
Saturday I spent the first part of the day getting some of the plumbing ready, and attaching the tiedowns for the quads. I was planning on using the winches to hold the quads down in front, but now I’m not so sure… Almost lost one on the trip out yesterday…. winch let go, and only thing holding it on the trailer was it’s brakes (which I set at the last minute… Yikes! ) I will use ratchet straps from now on to hold down the front of the quads. Lesson learned.
Where was I… oh yes, working on the Camprailer… tiedowns… yeah, I now have tiedown rings on the deck to well tiedown to. I preped up the welding by scraping off paint from the trailer so the front bumper and outriggers have a clean place to be welded to.
In the afternoon, Moved the trailer over to Dan’s and started welding up the front bumper… Glen offered his welding services: He has a mig and it’s a much cleaner weld. But he was not around that day, and I’m, well, in a hurry. Dan and I got the verticals lined up and the big horizontal bar stick welded on. Nothing really to clamp to… so there was a bit of holding, tacking, hamering … but it ended up perfect!
Glen showed up and offered to finish er up with the mig. (I was persuaded to move the rig for the cleaner welds) So I drove it over to Glen’s and we started welding it up while Dan was on the deck drinking well earned rums in the sun.
Terry the plumber showed up and started working on the plumbing. I was having some issues rerunning the shower and grey water bypass. He made short work of it. I’m constantly amazed by how good professionals are. Not amazed that they are good, just how good. What takes me multiple measures and cuts and then it’s still not right… Terry looks, cuts and glues and it’s 100%. Awesome. But we’re short a few valves so hopefully it will get buttoned up mid week.
I got Glen to back the trailer out of his driveway (still a little backup shy) and then he offered to take it back to my pad, so I said sure…
Ever seen shows were people jump on moving cars, trains, trailers, etc ? Ya me too. As the trailer was going by, I just about killed myself trying to jump on it… Don’t try this at home. (I did make it on the second time though 
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After the work was done, the rums/beers were flowing… I was hoping to get a good night sleep as I was still a little sore from fridays binge drinking, and had a long day of work. We were planning a trip on sunday and I wanted to be in some kind of shape for it.
Now sunday moring I remember getting to bed at 3am the night before. Glen said we left at midnight… dunno what happend but I lost 3 hours in there some how… I did have a snak, and watch a bit of tv, then had a shower (hate waking up smelling like smoke) must have dozed off for a while at some point…
Regardless, I was hurting the next day when we woke up at 7:30 to get ready for a day trip. I can’t drink 2 days in a row anymore. I have to learn a bit of moderation… been getting too drunk too much lately… liver hurts.
Well, this is turning into another marathon post, so I’ll just wrap it up with quading was great: Muskeg, mud, and steep as hell hill at the end.
