Re: [Paddlewise] Hennessy Hammock: Functional Equivalents?

From: Pete Cresswell <">
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:21:14 -0400
RE/
>... and everyone sleeps in hammocks.  When you travel to
>visit someone or go to the interior, you take your hammock
>with you....

> In the 1970's I spent 8 months traveling down
>the Brazilian coast ... sleeping in my hammock every night
>... sometimes on the veranda of some fisherman's house ...
>sometimes tied up between two coconut trees.

I find that encouraging.    My motive is to develop some sort of sleeping
device/system that I can adapt to and take with me.

Right now, if I go on the road (thankfully rare....) or vacation (unfortunately
rare...), or to my daughter's place at the shore the first few days are lost -
I'm just sort of stumbling around in that daze that someone who needs 8 hours of
sleep  gets into after only getting 2 hours.   Succeeding days are better, but I
still need about 10 hours in the rack to get 7 hours sleep....

I think I'll try the Voyageur tall person's hammock first - just because
somebody intentionally designed it for tall people...

If it doesn't work out, you may find me begging for something from Brazil.

Thanks Donald and thanks Ralph!
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Pete Cresswell

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