{"id":163,"date":"2012-12-17T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T17:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=163"},"modified":"2013-01-03T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T04:59:28","slug":"163","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=163","title":{"rendered":"What to do with your used camping equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got rid of my camp stove from the 70s. At the time, it was THE camp stove — the lightest and most compact one available. A Svea, made in Sweden.<\/p>\n

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This is an example of something you can\u2019t just toss into the Goodwill bin. Most people wouldn\u2019t know how to use it. Plus I\u2019d be afraid that someone would blow themselves up in the attempt — or at least burn all their hair off. Darn thing was tricky to use. Self-immolation waiting to happen.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a place here in Portland called Next Adventure<\/a>, where they sell new and used camping equipment.<\/p>\n

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The guy in the basement where they buy the used stuff was entranced with it. He knew his camping equipment history, knew the stove and how to work it. In fact he was so excited about it that I started having second thoughts about parting with it. I wavered. But then I got ahold of myself. Wasn\u2019t this what I wanted? To find someone who\u2019d love it?<\/p>\n

This is my whole problem with letting go of anything — I have to find a loving home for it first. And now I have. So shut up, Kate<\/em>, I told myself sternly. Don\u2019t you dare go back home with that thing!<\/em><\/p>\n

And I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

He said, Well we don\u2019t actually buy this type of thing for resale but we have a sort of little museum we\u2019d like to display it in.<\/p>\n

So there you go …. a part of my life has been deemed worthy of a museum. I got $35 store credit for my two stoves — that and another one I had — a weird, more contemporary type which someone had given me but that I\u2019d never used.<\/p>\n

No regrets. Yes, there was that moment of intense nostalgia, but I was over it by the time I got home. That was then, this is now; and now<\/em>, I am not about to load up a bike with 800 pounds of extra-light camping gear and go for a ride. If I go for a bike ride that long, someone will be meeting me at a hotel with my luggage and a hot meal. Hooray for western civilization!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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