... and ya tell the kids nowadays that they've got it soft! Sheeeeeeeeeer looxurrry!
While it used commercial vehs, the journey of my carrier from Desdeash, Yukon Territories to Ottawa had a certain flair:
June 1983: found the carrier in the aforementioned Desdeash, it would only turn right so a left turn was 270 degrees right! Loaded into a dump truck going to Whitehorse, cross loaded to another dump truck going to Edmonton for warrantee servicing, dropped in a PMQ driveway at CFB Edmonton (a friend serving as an instructor at the Parachute Training Centre).
His neighbour is posted to Ottawa, so the carrier is loaded into the semi trailer as 'furniture' and delivered to Ottawa. Numpty (me!) rents a 3 tonner from a big yellow truck rental firm and we push the carrier in as now it won't start and head for Petawawa (I was in the Special Service Force at the time). No sooner do I get onto the 417 highway when the INSIDE left rear tyre blows!
Six hours later (it only took two hours to get from Petawawa to Ottawa) I arrive and the carrier is dumped beside my 1/2 track in the boat and camper trailer storage compound (with appropriate paperwork authorised by my CO).
On posting, a year later, I once again rent a three tonner from rentalex and haul the carrier back to Ottawa (by now I have some left turn ability and it runs, sort-of!) where I store it with family while I head off to the big sky country of Manitoba.
If we count the distance to and from Petwawa as a side bar, the beastie travelled 6153 km to get from the Yukon to the Swords and Ploughshares Museum.
Up hill, both ways!
Mike
