errantember: (Little Cowboy Scott)
So when I decided to turn my 6' hexayurt into a 6' stretch, I didn't want to lose the convenience of having it transportable in only two pieces. As you can see here, upgrading the walls simply means adding two more 4'x4' panels to the existing 6 for the wall, and you're done. That part was easy.

It was the roof I was worried about. The existing 6-piece roof fanfolds neatly in exactly the same way the walls do, but how was I going to make the new roof, with it's lack of radial symmetry, do the same? All the scenarios I could think of in my mind involved at *least* three if not four pieces total, which would be *much* less convenient than only two. Not only that, but while the current roof, *un*like the walls, actually fits inside my Honda CR-V, I was really afraid that the upgraded version wouldn't. How could I keep it inside the vehicle?

Inspired by a showing of Oh Brother Where Art Thou, I found the answer:

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errantember: (Little Cowboy Scott)
My Freescale backback recently gave up the ghost due to its general shittyness and its brief but exciting career as an extra brake pad for my scooter when I wiped out on Lamar. I fixed one of the small holes in the outside, caused by the crash, only to discover a much bigger hole on the inside, caused by the shittyness. And since I'm not particularly interested in continuing to advertise for a company that laid me off after 9 years, I decided it was Time for a New Pack. I started prowling the local thrift stores, and I found a really nice Samsonite one. It had probably the most solid construction of any backpack I've owned, lots of the right kind of pockets, and was just the right size. There was only one problem.

The color.

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