When I wrote this cartoon, I didn’t think that anyone manufactured an actual ferret tent. One quick trip to Youtube.com lets me know that 1) Somewhere, every product that CAN exist DOES exist, and 2) Everything in the world is now on Youtube.com.
I’m due for a new tent. My old Kelty domolite is old enough to receive social security and is falling apart worse than my knees. My new tent, only a few years old, is a Coleman- the sort of thing you get when it’s going to be filled with cub scouts for a few years. It’s held up beautifully- including a trip to Yellowstone and Moab, but those poor bungie rods are showing their age early. I’m looking at this one and thinking it’s awful pretty. If you want to shop tents your ownself, click on it.
Like a lot of cities you hear about, mine has bought up a whole bunch of ex-train land and turned it into a nice greenway. I’ve ridden bicycles on it and longboards on it. It’s nice. It’s not as long as Boston’s, which my wife and I got to ride around on a few weeks ago, but it’s cool! Here’s an illustration I did for The Memphis Flyer for a related article. I thought I was cramming different users in the image to make the point of what the line was good for. Turns out it really is crowded on nice days.