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Well, I've been and come back - two and a half hours each way, and I carried the beastie assembled, upright, but unextended. No dramas.
I haven't got a light shroud for it yet, but I'd like one. Not so much to block out light (in a dark sky location that's not really an issue, and in the city I'm looking mainly at the moon and planets), but more as insurance against dropping things like eyepieces onto the primary mirror.
I had a great time away - first time in a dark sky location - and although my ability to use the instrument is as yet rudimentary, with the help of some astro apps on my phone I was able to find several Messier objects.
The dew was a killer though; by 2.30am it was getting very wet; and when we put the scopes away at about 3am they were running with condensation. (Also the combination of many hours of peering through an eyepiece plus many glasses of whisky had me being tired by then!)
I'm looking forward to more such nights, and getting more experience at finding my way about the sky. (We would have liked to find Uranus: it was in view, but in a sparse area of the sky, and hard to pinpoint relevant to known objects.)
cheers, folks!
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