Conquests of Tankbird

“Excuse me…”

“Yes?”

“Well, I couldn’t help but notice, but isn’t that…”

“Yes, yes it is. A tent. In my living room.”

“Ah. I see.”

“Anything else I can do for you?”

“Um, no. No, that’ll be all.”

The mailman came today and delivered my tent from Moontrail. It’s a Sierra Designs Reverse Combi 2-person tent. It fits all in this little bag, to start.

When I lay it out on the floor of the living room, it looks like this.

Note: it’s at this point where I first said, “You know, this is shaping up to be a really bad idea.” It’s a pretty small living room. It turns out that it’s about the size of the tent. And look at all the stuff piled around. And it was, of course, 9:00 at night when I started this project, and the Sox were up 4-3 against the Yankees.

Then I stood it up. I was worried about putting a tent pole through the TV or the glass doors, but luckily, no incidents. This is also the point where Chris said, “Ah. The baseball game seems to have been replaced by your ass. And… a tent.”

I put the rainfly on it next, but didn’t snap all the little corner buckles. That’s way too much work. Here are two shots from different angles, in case blue domes are exciting to you or something.

Notice how in the picture right below, the little black webbing bits and the white triangular window make a cool smiley face.  Happy tent!

At this point, I pulled the rainfly off. How is it that the fly weighs more than the tent? It definitely does. And it doesn’t fold up as neatly. I hate when the tent doesn’t fold up exactly right. But why quibble? This is a sweet-ass tent. It has two doors!

This zoomed-out shot is merely to show you what a disaster the living room turned into.

And here is me, sitting in the tent! This is the first picture of me in this blog. Very exciting. I of course had Chris come sit in the tent with me, but he wasn’t as excited for some reason. Something about it being, you know, in the living room.

So I took it all down and stuck it back in its bag. Then I cleaned up the living room.