Living: And Now, the Ultimate Arvee

A fishing expedition to an unnamed lake, miles from the nearest road, in dubious weather. It sounded unsafe, if not foolhardy. But then, reports Senior Writer Michael Demarest:

We were very compleat anglers. We were compleat with a $300,000, 46-ft. Heli-Home, which consists in effect of an S-58 Sikorsky helicopter mated to a Winnebago motor home. The ultimate in Arvees (recreational vehicles), it is a cross between a magic carpet and a pasha's pad.

That bass-filled lake, separated by marshy, stream-laced, uninhabited and largely trackless terrain from Sanford, Fla., could not be reached by...

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