The first little hitch…
A one night stopover at the Mill Creek Casino in Coos Bay, OR got a little complicated in the morning when I went out to hitch the truck back up. Truck no startitis, and in the pouring rain. Slow turning…
The FAR north in California.
Officially the farthest north I've ever been in California. Many, many times I've been to Sacramento or San Francisco and various parts of the bay area and I've been to Oregon, Idaho and Washington, (and lived in the later two)…
More notes from the first weeks
Still a newbie but the following observations seem relevant. An astonishingly high number of people are just TERRIBLE at merging into oncoming freeway/highway traffic. This is far more noticeable when my vehicle is bigger and heavier and it's a much…
Notes from the first few weeks…
There's gonna be a learning curve for a while... We're headed up California the long way and the plan is to do it in three hops to keep the drive times down a bit. The first hop in Santa Barbara…
Finally…
Last load lifted, dollied and dispersed, house empty, Beast locked and loaded, last remnants and MUCH more trash than I anticipated waiting for the junk pickup, 40+ years of individual and joint possessions condensed to fill nearly every inch of…