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So I may have told some of you, since I moved to Alaska, that my indoor smoking options are severely limited here. Alaska recently passed a law banning smoking (and vaping) in all public indoor places, and businesses. This means you can not smoke in a tobacco shop. You can not smoke in a bar. You have to smoke them in your car. You CAN NOT SMOKE THEM, Sam I Am. 

There’s ONE private tobacco enthusiast club here in anchorage - ‘the cabinet society’. It’s a gussied up warehouse space that’s open 24 hours, and appointed as you would expect a cigar lounge to be. Water cooler, leather chairs, lighters and ashtrays, tv, wifi, etc. sounds great, right? ~$500 “initiation fee” plus $100 MINIMUM monthly “dues”. Ugh. Screw that. 

So what’s a chap to do? I can’t smoke in my house. My garage is cluttered with metric tons of my roommate’s stuff, isn’t warm, and is not exactly comfortable. I could smoke in my car, right? Not without paying quite a price. I drive uberlyft full time in this car. I don’t want to constantly be paying for my interior to be professionally detailed. Not worth it. 

Hey. I have a trailer. ? It’s 5’x8’, enclosed, no-frills. It carried all my stuff up here to Alaska. So here’s the big project for this winter. I’m gonna put in a small teardrop-trailer door (30”x42”), a fan-powered roof vent, wiring for power (read:space heater), and set up my sofabed in there. Talula the trailer is gettin an upgrade, boys. I’m finally gonna have an indoor, heated, comfortable space to smoke in winter time. Come spring, I’ll have a travel trailer. 

Wish me luck, kids. It’s gonna be work, but I think it’ll be worth it. I haven’t smoked a cigar in weeks. I wanna go back to smoking daily. 

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Ironically I live in Hawaii and am thinking of doing the same thing. 

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11 hours ago, cfc1016 said:

So I may have told some of you, since I moved to Alaska, that my indoor smoking options are severely limited here. Alaska recently passed a law banning smoking (and vaping) in all public indoor places, and businesses. This means you can not smoke in a tobacco shop. You can not smoke in a bar. You have to smoke them in your car. You CAN NOT SMOKE THEM, Sam I Am. 

There’s ONE private tobacco enthusiast club here in anchorage - ‘the cabinet society’. It’s a gussied up warehouse space that’s open 24 hours, and appointed as you would expect a cigar lounge to be. Water cooler, leather chairs, lighters and ashtrays, tv, wifi, etc. sounds great, right? ~$500 “initiation fee” plus $100 MINIMUM monthly “dues”. Ugh. Screw that. 

So what’s a chap to do? I can’t smoke in my house. My garage is cluttered with metric tons of my roommate’s stuff, isn’t warm, and is not exactly comfortable. I could smoke in my car, right? Not without paying quite a price. I drive uberlyft full time in this car. I don’t want to constantly be paying for my interior to be professionally detailed. Not worth it. 

Hey. I have a trailer. ? It’s 5’x8’, enclosed, no-frills. It carried all my stuff up here to Alaska. So here’s the big project for this winter. I’m gonna put in a small teardrop-trailer door (30”x42”), a fan-powered roof vent, wiring for power (read:space heater), and set up my sofabed in there. Talula the trailer is gettin an upgrade, boys. I’m finally gonna have an indoor, heated, comfortable space to smoke in winter time. Come spring, I’ll have a travel trailer. 

Wish me luck, kids. It’s gonna be work, but I think it’ll be worth it. I haven’t smoked a cigar in weeks. I wanna go back to smoking daily. 

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If I were you, I'd just suck it up and pay for the initiation fee and membership dues for the private club.  You're going a little far into the weeds crawling into that trailer to hot-box it up.  I'd wager you'd need to spend a pretty penny commensurate with the cost of membership to make the experience livable--you'd need to insulate it, heat it, and ventilate it.  Given that I've seen jail cells bigger than this trailer (which is not saying much), it probably won't be worth the headache.

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9 hours ago, dominattorney said:

If I were you, I'd just suck it up and pay for the initiation fee and membership dues for the private club.  You're going a little far into the weeds crawling into that trailer to hot-box it up.  I'd wager you'd need to spend a pretty penny commensurate with the cost of membership to make the experience livable--you'd need to insulate it, heat it, and ventilate it.  Given that I've seen jail cells bigger than this trailer (which is not saying much), it probably won't be worth the headache.

Nope. Ask @awkwardPause , @Wertman , or @jerrybrowne how deep I go when i do research; cost/benefit analysis, and efficiency optimization. They will tell you to trust that I’ve accounted for all extraneous variables, recalculated, and stress-tested any plan i come up with, atleast thrice over, before implementation, lol. I’m frikkin OCD, dude. 

Door: $380 shipped. Fan-powered roof vent: $45-$100 shipped. Wiring: ~$75. Deep cell battery (solenoid cut-off wired to car battery for safe recharging) for backup lighting power: ~$200. ~$700-$750 total in parts and hardware. 

After all is said and done, not only do I have a space to smoke my cigars in comfort, but I don’t have to drive the 10 miles (one way trip to the private club) to use it - it’s in my driveway. Add to that, I have a sleepable travel camper for the ~20,000 mile/34 US states/3 Canadian provinces roadtrip I’m planning for spring. 

The real life benefits of this solution FAR outweigh, and under-cost those of joining a ~$1,500/year private club. 

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Lighter note: I moved Talula into the driveway tonight. I’ve been using her as storage for all the junk I don’t have space inside for, since i got here. 

Taking the night off work tonight. Gonna clean up my disaster area of a bedroom, stage the stored stuff from the trailer, reassemble the sofabed inside the trailer, run power for a space heater and a lamp, crack the cargo door, heat up 200 cu ft, and reward myself with my first cigar in WEEKS. No pessimism can hold me back. I am a man on a mission. 

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I admire your spunk. You couldn’t pay me enough to live there... it sounds and looks miserable.

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44 minutes ago, Derboesekoenig said:

Very cool creation--love it. I'd love to roadtrip from east coast to west coast, up to Alaska, just don't think I could ever live there. I enjoy warm weather too much.

Come visit. We can share a cigar in the shack! ?

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Nice job! The dog looks less then impressed in the last pic ? Being from Canada, I'm used to not being able to smoke anywhere, so the old garage it is for the winter. I had read the dope trade was getting bad up there, didn't think it was that bad though....sad

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On 11/28/2018 at 11:19 PM, cfc1016 said:

I will definitely have ventilation! And no barbecue ?

I actually don't like this show,  but this episode is genius!  I laughed just looking at the still frame

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1 minute ago, joshhooper7 said:

I've decided that this is what I'm going to do full time when I retire 16 years from now. Maybe make some money off of it, but more so just park it in my driveway and enjoy it 7 days a week.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mobile-Cigar-Lounge-/291654847102

That's pretty cool, but it looks like someone went over budget, couldn't make money from it, and now needs to drop it on someone else. I'd give 20k for it though. 60 is too rich for my blood, for what it is.

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1 minute ago, Derboesekoenig said:

That's pretty cool, but it looks like someone went over budget, couldn't make money from it, and now needs to drop it on someone else. I'd give 20k for it though. 60 is too rich for my blood, for what it is.

I agree its over priced. For a business I think the builder got in too deep.

However, from a recreation standpoint I think it's excellent. Travel around the continental US and it can comfortably sleep my wife and I, as well as providing us a cigar friendly lounge and place to drink at night! Who said a bottle of wine and a cigar or two in a Walmart parking lot is a bad idea?!

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7 hours ago, joshhooper7 said:

I agree its over priced. For a business I think the builder got in too deep.

However, from a recreation standpoint I think it's excellent. Travel around the continental US and it can comfortably sleep my wife and I, as well as providing us a cigar friendly lounge and place to drink at night! Who said a bottle of wine and a cigar or two in a Walmart parking lot is a bad idea?!

Will your wife allow you to keep the two hotties who come with it, though???

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