Hitek Homeless July 23rd, 2008
The Truck:
2001 Ford F-350 Lariat
- Dual rear wheels
- Crew cab
- 4×4
- 7.3L Diesel (International)
- Timbrens
- Front and rear cargo haulers
The Camper:
2008 Arctic Fox 1140
- Wet bath
- Couch seating
- Full-wall cabover wardrobe
- 9k BTU Air conditioner
- No oven or microwave (more storage!)
- Thermal pane windows
The Bikes:
- Trek RST 3700
- Roketa MC-17-50T (Sicily)
The Internet:
Sprint EVDO service (for now you greedy bastards!)
- Novatel U727 EVDO card
- Cradlepoint CT350 Wifi router
- Dual-band Omni-directional external antenna
- 3 Watt Bi-Directional Dual-Band EVDO amplifier
The Network:
- Fujitsu Lifebook 1510
- Dell Vostro 1500
- ReadyNAS 600 (700GB RAID5)
- 2 Cowon A2’s for random movie/music access
The Blog:
- Wordpress
- Gallery2 image gallery
- WAY too many plugins
- Feeds by Feedburner
- Hosting by HostGator
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johnny June 13th, 2008
As we’ve mentioned, we spent the last week in a beautiful campsite in the middle of nowhere. The only downfall to this Utopian site was the complete and utter lack of cell coverage in the area.
After working over a decade in the industry, we’re officially internet junkies. We use it for everything: Researching campsites, routes, fuel stops and sightseeing trips. Entertainment, banking, paying bills, investments. And today’s favorite topic: the life and times of the garden variety yellow jacket.
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johnny April 26th, 2008
Ok, so it’s fun to make your own booze and all, but Jenn’s parents are reading, so let’s change the subject for a day or two.
Today, in the midst of working on a half dozen things and finishing none of them, I managed to temporarily frag our Cradlepoint (the EVDO/wifi access point). Now, there was nothing wrong with the device that clearing my browser cache wouldn’t fix, but it took a call to tech support to have the obvious pointed out to me. Cradlepoint has an excellent support team by the way.
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johnny October 16th, 2007
It took a couple of months, but Jenn finally found a truck she was happy with. It’s in good mechanical shape with low mileage (for a diesel), but the paint job may have to grow on you. She drove down to south Florida to pick it up a day before we left town for a week and a half.
Here’s a grainy shot of Jenn’s new truck. She had to drive mine down south to pick it up, so you can see it tossing my old pickup around like a rag doll.
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johnny July 27th, 2007
Well, it’s almost the weekend again and we finally have what I think is a pretty good shopping plan worked out. We keep records of everything we’ve looked at or considered looking at. At the rate the good RV’s are getting snapped up, we figure we have to hit the new listings ASAP. We can quickly cull through anything that we’ve already deemed unsuitable and will probably assume anything that was already listed in a previous week is also unsuitable.
We’ve done a bit of this earlier in the week; a handful of publications have already come out for the weekend. We compared everything that was roughly the size/price we wanted with the ones we looked at last weekend and only had 1 unit to look at. It appeared to be in very good condition, but had recently developed a leak and was holding a gallon or two of water in the cab over.
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