Monday, December 31, 2018

Brake Inn

Building on a digital thermostat mod I got two of four baseboard heaters installed before the holiday road trip. For now we still supplement these two 24" 400W cockpit units with a central space heater under the dinette table. But turning that down from HIGH to LOW is one step closer to making silent night a reality.

For the past five years on our watch this RV

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Point Bighorn

One of the best places to see bighorn sheep at Ash Meadows NWR is Point of Rocks. Among the amenities for day use visitors is a viewpoint at the far end of the boardwalk. With viewing scopes to help see things considerably further than the naked eye. Especially big game that's particularly shy of humans.

On a recent stroll I spotted

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Two's Company

Blacky the wonder Tundra celebrated an oddometerversary yesterday.

This is new territory for me. I've never had such a high mileage vehicle. I've tried to be good about care and feeding. Blacky's taken great care of me in return. Who knows - maybe we'll reach all threes after several more years together.

Saturday, October 20, 2018

Break Time

Loretta's motorhome was bought used. In 2013 it had only 51k miles on the clock. While in generally good condition overall, its full history (use, care, maintenance, etc) was unknown to us. At least for its last half decade on our watch we took good care of each other. But the last couple trips it started running hot. Last month, leaving our summer gig in WA it severely over heated and died in OR.

Thursday, September 27, 2018

Brite iDear?

Some time ago I found a nifty work light. It's LED and works on either AC or DC.

The only problem was the AC cord was permanently attached. The extra cord was always in the way when plugged into a vehicle. My solution was to replace the AC power cord with a removable cord and outlet harvested from an old computer.