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Great idea. The splitter and the LRC makes sense.

We avoid the 1 pound tanks by using this attached to one of the two 10 lb propane tanks on the Hawk camper: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0023F9YTS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 The biggest downside is getting a little grease splatter on the side of the truck from cooking...

We will stick to the AGM batteries. Entering our 5th year with our Hawk, we have had no issues charging our two phones, two sets of ear buds and my wife's android tablet in addition to running interior led lights, a 130 liter two-way fridge, forced air furnace, water pump, CO detector and...

Very interesting. Many of the geological books and texts I have repeat the vexations over how thick sequences of dolomite could form. This is one of those elegant solutions that makes perfect sense in retrospect. Good science! Thanks for sharing.

We first visited Gold Butte last spring. Fell in love with it. Thanks for taking us back to the best of it!

Geology hint for part 2: You two were wandering around on the extreme western edge of the Colorado Plateau (think layer cake geology like in Grand Canyon) at or very near where the Basin and Range geologic province begins. Imagine the west end of the 3 day old lovely layer cake falling off the...

Tourists of diminished mental capacity.

Great report about a very fun exploration. Death Valley at this time of year is lovely and, as you found, quiet. I am a huge fan of Myron Cook geology videos. Easy to follow and very clear in a non-patronizing style. No fan of driving through Vegas, even just to get to the other side. A fun...

Sourdough cinnamon rolls! What an excellent start to the New Year! I am shuttling back and forth to the garden house roasting the first of four batches of Ethiopia Kayon Mountain Taaroo coffee while my lovely wife does yoga upstairs. So far, so good, 2024.

Excellent! Take a number!

I love good coffee nerds!

I am rendered nearly mute with grief, rage and disgust by these thoughtless stunts of jackassery. My only consolation is the earth will win in the end.

Beginning in the late 1980's I worked to reverse the damage done to nature by humans. Until retiring about 4 years ago I kept moving into positions with more influence and more $ to apply to the problems. It was never enough to do more than local improvements. Not nearly enough to reverse the...

Steve, It will be a major problem if/when the quaggas get established in the Columbia Basin.

They claim to have stopped this occurrence. Tested for veligers and did not find any. I think they also did some e-DNA sampling and did not find any trace of the mussels downstream. Good for them if they got it. The copper treatment was pre-approved years ago, despite toxicity to aquatic...

May the longer days bring you peace and may your loved ones be hale and hearty!

We came across a set of those in the dust this fall on the rim of Arch Canyon in southern Utah. Seemed like a good time to move in the opposite direction.

With a side order of genocide.

There ain't no easy answers or one tool that does it all, all the time. I have been working with geolocated data since the 1970's. In that time I have made many mistakes, poured lots of hours into dead-end organization efforts and software. I have developed an approach which is fairly simple...

I agree with all your observations. As a side note, we have never plugged into shore power in the almost 5 years we have had our FWC Hawk. So the notion of an AC is absurd for our purposes - though we do camp in hot deserts and such fairly often. If the Victron lithium would have been...

Same. And beer and wine too -- which are another form of grains and fruit.

Nice changes for those who want or need them. For us it fails on several points: we did not want a water heater, sure don't want air conditioning, don't need the roof lift assist (despite having fractured two vertebrae 2+ years ago.) I am glad we got our Tundra and Hawk before either went...

Likely the same internal function as this one we installed to replace the OEM thermostat. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002Z7EBCE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 It is an improvement, but it still cycles on and off with a plus or minus 5 or 10 degree swing. I expect this is...

$3.75/gal at Costco in Portland today, Frank.

Those are cool chairs Vic. If I did not have our posterior and back needs covered already, I would seriously look at them for our use. My wife would appreciate the meditation aspect, though it is probably too late for me.