We have decided to travel to the Berkshires for the long holiday weekend. Jeanine has signed Nico and I up for an all day kayaking clinic on Sunday and this will be the maiden voyage for the newly completed kayak. I was planning to use the roof rack from my old Mercedes SUV believing it to be a universal design. When I realized it would not fit on Jeanine’s van I was faced with the option of delaying our trip for sevral hours while I located and purchased a set of bars. Instead, I spent about twenty minutes in the shop and fashioned a temporary solution out of wood which had us on the road pretty close to our planned departure time.