I spent the day loading up all the final stuff in the van and doing some chair hopping around the yard with the chickens.
I think I have everything, except for the few things I still need to use tonight.
I’ll be joining Marty, as I go by his area on the way. We’ll be leaving in the late morning and will be heading towards Downieville, CA. We have a camp spot a little before we get to that little town near Bullard’s Bar Reservoir.
I’ll post blogs when I get cell service, but some of the places we go have very limited cell service. We’ll be away, exploring for about three weeks. We’ll be in Northern California, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada on this trip. We’ll be going to places we have already been and a few new places too.
I rode on up to where the park guys were working in the park as I wanted to chat with one of the guys.
A turn out and parking area on the narrow park road that they are working on.
They are also restoring this area where there used to be a road through that spot.
The guy I was looking for was off today, but I did find another guy eating lunch in his track that I chatted with and will come back tomorrow to chat with the other guy.
Electric tester repair
One of my test leads on my tester broke off and I lost it somewhere, so I needed to put something on the lead to replace it. I chose a clip for it. I soldered on the clip and put some shrink tubing on it to make it stronger.
Now I can use the tester again.
Epoxy repair
One of the wooden doors on this compartment in my van had cracked which needed repaired.
I got out the epoxy and mixed some up to repair the crack.
I used tape to hold things together and straight, while the epoxy dried.
The blue tape is only temporary, but I like the looks of it.
Trailer boards
My trailer boards could use a coat or two or three of oil, but first I have to clean out the stuff that fell from the big redwood tree where I keep it. I sweep it out and put a coat of oil on it to dry.
Trip prepping
I worked some more getting the stuff I’ll need in the van for the trip. I think I’m getting close to getting it all loaded up.
Spring crossing
I asked one of the neighbors to fix this ditch and clean out this culvert where a spring crosses the road here. He said he fixed it and I should check it out to see if he did ok on the job. He opened it up pretty good with his little backhoe.
He made this new drainage ditch for it that should work pretty good.
Solar panels
In the evening after the sun went down and the panels had cooled down, I got some soap and water to clean these solar panels off a bit as they were pretty dirty and I wanted them clean for the trip I’m going on soon.
There are over a hundred pictures that are served up randomly every time you visit or change pages. They are of earlier pictures of interest and also some just to remind me of things.
A Sony AX33 4K, a video camera that takes stills too. What am I doing with that? I take pictures from my Kayak a lot. I found I was missing interesting shots, because my pic was being processed in my camera, before it would let me take another pic. Since I like to take what I call action stills, I bought this camera to take videos, that I could make stills out of, but, as a bonus, this camera also came with buttons to just take stills and that's what I mostly do, unless something is real interesting or too far away for my still zooms. My digilat zoom setting for video goes to two hundred x, and sometimes I need that, but usually, I only use the 10x lens zoom. Because this camera is HD and 4K, the quality has to be real good and it has a lot of stabilizers on it which really helps out a lot for taking pics on the water.
The other thing it has that is a must is a view finder and I had to buy Sony's top of the line cam to get it. This is a must for taking pics on the water, as you must hold the camera as still as posible and putting that eye piece to the eye forms a tripod with your arms that helps a lot. The eye piece is also a must as it works way better than a LED screen to see what you are taking a picture of in the daylight as the LED screens wash out easily in sunlight.
I also have another video camera, a Canon VIXIA G30. I use them both to mostly take stills. The Sony takes higher resolution stills than the G30. That was a bit of a disappointment as I bought the G30 to replace an older camera I dunked in the river, but then had to buy the Sony to get higher still picture resolution that the G30 was lacking.
