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After enjoying more than 30+ murder mysteries from the "golden age" (1920-1960) of detective fiction, "How the Mountains Grew, A New Geologic History" by John Dvorak caught my interest. "How..." is very readable with good continuity across the eons and connects geology and biology in a very...

An update on the Bengal: Our Bengal is coming up on 4 years, almost 60,000 miles, over 500 camping nights and doing well. The 2019 Ford F-350 regular cab 4x4 6.2 gasoline is doing well. The OEM starter battery only lasted two years but was replaced prior to any failure. The OEM AT tires...

We have a 2013 Ford F-150 HD regular cab (5.0 V-8) with the payload package and over 115,000 miles (on both the camper and the truck) and it works very well, very nimble. We have friends with an extended cab long bed F-150 HD with the payload package who are also very happy and over 100,000...

I purchased a Lokithor JA302 battery jumper and air compressor after reading this thread, thank you everyone. I started out looking at the pure battery jumper models and discovered the Lokithor combination. Finding air on the road at 30 deg F after leaving home at 80 deg F has proven to be a...

We have two very different campers (Granby, Bengal) with different vent brands/dimensions... and lifting of the front vent occurs on both. Opening and closing "polishes" the moving parts and so the friction "grip" eventually becomes too weak to hold the vent closed against the "air plane wing"...

We deleted the front over-the-cab windows to avoid bug splatter and we are happy with this choice. We got the side over-the-cab windows and regret the choice. The side window blinds are 1 1/2" thick and so intrude on/reduce the sleeping space. Also, the aluminum frames create condensation...

The bed and head room: The over-the-cab head room is ok but... the mattress and froli combined are too tall. The froli does not make sense to me since the mattress is an all-in-one box spring and mattress. So why the froli? Better head room over-the-cab would be to combine froli with only a...

"The Complete Ambler" by William Donald Needham, my favorite natural history book (by several miles). Needham's book features select natural history topics which mostly apply East of the Mississippi. Each topic was chosen to be interesting and discussed at length. The modest amount of...

Yes you can get melanoma genetically, our son also had it on the bottom of his foot at birth. First thing I noticed at birth, what the h*** is that? Eventually it was cut off when he was older. Sunburn destroys vitamin D created by sunlight and damages skin cells. NEVER get sunburn!!!! I...

Whole Grain Rye Bread: Mix the following dry ingredients in a large bowl: 1/2 cup white bread flour 3 tsp gluten powder (optional) 1 tsp salt (2 if you are not trying to be low salt) 1 cup organic dark rye flour, Bob's Red Mill is our brand 1 or 2 packages of yeast (depends on how active your...

Fall 2019 trip west. Harris Beach SP on the southern Oregon coast. Evening walk view.

Fall 2019 trip west. Harris Beach SP on the southern Oregon coast. Black Oystercatcher in the evening.

Fall 2019 trip west. Harris Beach SP on the southern Oregon coast.

Fall 2019 trip west. View from Harris Beach SP during an evening walk on the southern Oregon coast.

Fall 2019 trip west. Oregon Caves NM cave tour.

Fall 2019 trip west. Oregon Caves NM cave tour.

Fall 2019 trip west. Oregon Caves NM cave tour.

Fall 2019 trip west. Oregon Caves NM cave tour

Fall 2019 trip west. Mt Rainier from the Paradise trail system.

Fall 2019 trip west. Mt Rainier from the Sunrise trail system.

Fall 2019 trip west. Mt Rainier from the Sunrise trail system.

Fall 2019 trip west. Mt Rainier from the Sunrise trail system.

Fall 2019 fall trip. Mt Rainier from the Sunrise area trails.

Fall 2019 trip west. Trails above Paradise, Mt Rainier NP.

Fall 2019 trip west. View of Mount Rainier from the trails above Paradise.