Bill Thompson

Yeah, so the rendezvous, we did those from— How long do they last?

They vary from a week and then some go up to three weeks.

And what do you do for food while you're out there?

So inside of your lodge, so there's two types of rendezvous.

At most rendezvous inside of your lodge, you can have a cooler as long as it doesn't leave the lodge.

So I have like a 20 foot teepee that I take to these things.

And inside of my teepee, you can have a cooler and some modern appurtenances.

Did they have any kind of coolers in the 1800s?

I mean, they had ice boxes and like steel ice boxes and that type of thing, but nothing like we have today.

You know, stuff was getting dug out, buried in the ground or put into the ground, like cool areas of the ground or digouts.

And they dried everything.

So pemmican would have been the, you know, everyday thing to eat.

That's just dried.

So did you bring your own food or did you have to hunt for food?

So you bring your own food, but there are other rendezvous that are kind of invite only.

And I don't even think a lot of people who do rendezvous knew about these.

But there's ones that I think they're called.

I think I might be speaking out of school.

Somebody might send me an email after this, but I'm going to talk about it anyway because I never got read the right act.

They're called juried.