This blog entry documents the third day of our Lolo Trail trip & the jPod’s first off-road adventure with Nathan & Erin, Carl, and our family. If you haven’t read about the trail & our first two days on it, visit: Part 1 and Part 2 Day 3 Day three started with a great breakfast. […]
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This blog entry documents the second day of our Lolo Trail trip & the jPod’s first off-road adventure with Nathan & Erin, Carl, and our family. If you haven’t read about the trail & the day one report, visit it here: Part 1 Day 2 The morning of day two was a bit cooler than
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Life as a teacher is spooling up rapidly. In the last few days before going back to work, Nathan & I planned an impromptu trip to the Nez Perce National Forest to drive the historic Lolo Motorway. Nathan had done quite a bit of research on the trip before we ever decided to go. I
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Since the first trip to the panhandle of Idaho, I have done more work on the jPod. There were a few things I wanted to work out after using it. It is interesting how using the jPod automatically rearranges my priorities for this build. One of the priority changes was to get some more storage
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Summary of Adventure 01: At last, the jPod has made its first excursion as a vehicle for camping (North Idaho – as readers decided by the poll on this website). In an earlier post, I stated that I wanted to have the jPod weather tight by July 24. This deadline was set so that Senior
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In an earlier post, I stated my goal of getting the entire jPod weather tight before July 24 (Our first excursion in the jPod was this past weekend. You can read my report on our first trip here). Thus, I have worked night and day (quite literally) to achieve this goal. The good news…I made
It looks like a little silly story about my free sander has made it big (record number of hits in a day). This is sort of ironic since my website is not about sanders but my trailer build but I’m happy for the attention just the same. My blog “Craftsman but not Techmen” was picked
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The last 10% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes 90% of the time. This sentence has been repeating itself in my mind for hours during the past few
One of the main purposes for the jPod trailer is to get into nature. Since Senior Management & I have this as our goal, gardening seems a natural step. We decided to put in a garden this year. We’ll store the food for use while camping in the jPod & throughout the winter. Since we
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This past week I have been doing a lot of sanding on the jPod in preparation for painting it. In the middle of my mind numbing “sand-fest”, my random orbital sander suddenly developed a problem. I would turn it on and it spun & looked great. However, the moment I applied the sander to the
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