Fun5acres,

You are totally correct about the "gas markup" on gear travelling the way I did. But what choice do I have? If our local shops don't have it.....which I eluded to earlier that they often don't, then I've got to travel.

I appreciate your offer to buy and mail for me but my trips there wouldn't be but once or twice a year and with the volumne of crap I'd be buying (some of it large in size) I'm guessing postage would come very close to or more than my gas money (about $25). At that rate, I might as well do it myself and get the fun of overspending. :p