Bedknobs and Canoe sticks

There are few non-commercial pick-up trucks available that are larger than our Dodge Ram Megacab, but even so there's only so much you can fit in a standard short bed, even less so if that bed has a cap on it as ours does, and the king bed we were taking to Arkansas proved too much (bulk) to fit in the back of our truck. Situations like this are why we have a flatbed trailer (ok, the trailer is mainly to tow our Jeeps, but it certainly comes in handy other times as well).

Ironically, our truck is also both too big (roof is too long with the bed cap) and too small (bed is too short) to haul my dad's old canoe, a red Old Town Discovery 16.9, but because we had the trailer this trip, it was the perfect time to snag the canoe! And snag it we did! Finally, after 15 years of hiding in storage under my parents' house, the old canoe once again saw the light of day!



Since we didn't need the cargo capacity of our truck, and since both Jennifer and Jonathan had been feeling a bit under the weather lately, we borrowed Grammy Voth's new Chevy Tahoe to capitalize on its heated front seats and rear DVD entertainment system for the long drive to Arkansas and back. And so, with Cars playing in the backseat and the seat-heaters going up front (on the passenger side anyway), we went to Arkansas carrying a bed, and came home with a canoe.