Taking your hobbies on the road with you?

Then try building rockets.

When I was in Civil Air Patrol we built rockets and competed with other CAP's.
I'll never forget Eureka, CA.
It was very cold, so we had all the windows shut the night before the competition to finish up our rockets.
A dozon or so kids in a small room, doping (the paint) our rockets.
We all got pretty high.

 

I'm wanting to get a folding bicycle for my downtime that I can keep in the truck.

 

Just the acoustic for me it's easy to get out and store on the go

 

I'm a little surprised how many other drivers have guitars with them, too. I always keep an acoustic with me and when I was in a Volvo I had a guitar hanger bolted to the sleeper cabinet so it was up out of the way but still always within reach. (I never used the top bunk and always kept it stowed.) These days in the mini-sleeper International I just keep the guitar on the bunk. I also never travel without my skateboard, which I try to ride every chance I get. I started skating the same time I got my first guitar, at age twelve, and have been doing both ever since.

But to be honest, I have to admit I spend a great deal of time on my iphone, with which I shoot and edit lots of photos. I have too many ways to occupy my "free" time on the road...

 

I tried dragging my RC planes around once and got nothing but cr ap from locals. Not many flying fields that I could get my truck to and not many of them near truck stops. Seems many places do not like to see them flying toys in the air unless it is at an AMA field of some sort. Even my little park flyers brought on un needed attention.

 

I'm thinking keeping the ropes and gags tight on the lizards stored under the bunk will take up a lot of time.................

 

I've built 4-5 RC planes in the truck (Prior to the internet days), carried a few in the truck and have managed to squeeze some flying time in sometimes. (Big terminals, early AM in empty fields next to rural truck stops, etc) The smaller electric planes are somewhat quiet....and not as threatening as a nitro powered plane.
One time I was assembling an ARC plane in the truck, and took the landing gear out behind the cab to spray paint it black, while unloading. The driver unloading next to me recognized what I was painting, walked over and we talked RC for a while.

I did stumble across a couple of AMA affiliated club fields that were at least 'bobtail' friendly.
One i think is still there, near council bluffs, IA, just north of 80. Another was near Spanish Fork, UT, near the Kmart and US 6. Not sure it's still there?

I was mostly doing long trips, then, and it was nice to park at the end of the day, turn the TV on, drag the building board out, and glue some balsa for an hour or so a day.

I'd often buy a kit on the west coast, and have it 80% finished before I got home in a few weeks.
Now it's hard to even find kits, most of the planes are arfs or better.
The small Parkzone ultramicros are easy to carry in the truck, but you need dead calm conditions to fly most of them.

TV is not really a 'hobby'.

I carried a bike in the truck for years. Need to do that again, instead of sitting on my butt watching tv or using the laptop.