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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 […]
Adventure 02 – Lolo Trail, Idaho pt. 2 Read More »
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 priority change was to get more storage into the cabin
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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
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
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
Craftsman but not Techmen Read More »
On July 4 we hosted another Dutch Oven Gathering (DOG) at our house. It was a scorcher (97 degrees) but we did it anyway. The food, of course, was amazing and it was fun to have more people at this gathering than our first. In total, our group made 8 dishes. Dad made Enchiladas, Home-made
My high-school teaching life has been all consuming recently. After 7 years of teaching, I have come to expect that a teacher, in the month of May, will accomplish one task: work my tail off until my students graduate from high school. Consequently, progress on the jPod is merely a nice idea. The only actual
Recently, the weather has been so nice that I have focused on building rather than blogging. So I thought I’d pause to make an update on my progress with the jPod. First, I removed my cabinet on the inside & started over. I decided to make my electrical access box larger (possibly to accommodate a