Happy Anniversary! On September 28th we celebrated our 25th Wedding Anniversary. Rather than traditional jewelry--of which I have enough to open my own store after two dozen previous anniversaries, not to mention birthdays, Christmas, and Mother's Day--Karl decided I needed an electric bicycle, so I can keep up with him on our battlefield rides (which sometimes become an actual… Continue reading E is for Electric Bicycle
Tunnels and Traffic and Bins, oh my! We were in no particular hurry to leave on Thursday, September 1st. Ryan's off-campus housing was being professionally cleaned, so he didn't want to start moving his stuff in until late in the afternoon. We took our time packing up Thursday morning, and were on the road at… Continue reading SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER
Updated 9/17/16 Other than a few local errands, our E-trek was parked for nearly the entire month of August; however, we did have a few issues to resolve with our unit before the end of August, since we were planning several trips for September, including driving to Boston on September 1st. We also hope to… Continue reading AUGUST ANGST
Navigation as featured in our post The Long Cold Winter Part II The first step was figuring out how to mount the iPad in our E-trek. There are endless DIY suggestions found on YouTube, but what worked best for us was the seat-bolt mount made by The Joy Factory. We also tried the MagConnect cup-holder… Continue reading Using an iPad for navigation and more…
Seems we can’t get enough of Boston, because two weeks after we had been there to celebrate Easter/my birthday, we were back on the road. However, this time we were on a mission to deliver Ryan his bicycle, which we were supposed to bring on Easter. However, with all of the RV maintenance (detailed in… Continue reading TRIP #3—BACK TO BOSTON
The next project was to improve the navigation situation. Recall from our trip to Boston that the factory-installed navigation system in the eTrek offered little help when we needed it most. Furthermore, we had always found the navigation in our Honda Ridgeline deficient (i.e., “make a u-turn if possible” was the only re-routing the system… Continue reading The Long, Cold Winter Part 2
