observations

well, day 1 went pretty well. I sit here in the pala­cial liv­ing room of my friends Joce­lyn and Steve, after a nice din­ner, steal­ing their inter-tubes.

two tech­ni­cal dif­fi­cul­ties reared their ugly head: the GPS antenna can­not live on top of the radar detec­tor: the radios inter­fere with each other. so, att the first stop, i moved the GPS antenna. prob­lem 1 solved.

sec­ond tech­ni­cal issue was that my fancy 12volt/120volt usb-charges-everything wid­get doesn’t. specif­i­cally, it won’t charge the cell phone. appar­ently, not enough cojones to charge this new-fangled moto cliq xt. for­tu­nately, i have awe­some friends, they took me to radio shack, and i now have a charger that works.

tomor­row, the ore­gon coast to see Michael and Judy, then shoot­ing for the oregon/california bor­der or there­abouts. let’s hope for good weather.

more later, folks

black­dog

The bear is on the road.

The Turbo Giraffe prepped and wait­ing in the sunshine.

sun­shine! a good omen for the first day out.

The man him­self, suit­ing up.

where’d that buckle go?

Every­thing is good to go.

all sys­tems go

And away he goes…

bye-bye