Rent the truck with a trailer hitch on it, take your sleeping bag along
and sleep in the back. *Plenty of room, and you sleep nearer the glider..

Seems like a good plan to me!

Larry

Hmmm, @~1000mi (estimated trip distance, Seattle to Bishop...) just
the milage fee alone adds $1000-$1500, regardless of where you sleep
(not to mention U-haul's/etc typically get 10mpg...).

Personally, I'm a tried and true rubbertramp/gliderbum and almost
always sleep in my vehicle while traveling/soaring, regardless of
season/location. I'm just way too cheap to cough up that kind of loot
with nothing to show (one way milage fees OR motels!). If there's no
one to drive it down I would go the Steve Leonard route and buy a
local beater long before handing ANY of the box truck companies that
kind of cash to haul something a Honda Accord could tug... (I tug with
a Chevy Astro FWIW. It's somewhat economical ~ 20mpg on tow and with
all the back seats out it's quite roomy for me and the dog... ;-)

-Paul