The sun came out today which was nice. My job was to check the van’s engine fluids and pack the van with the stuff I think I’ll need in Oregon.
I did that most of the day. I also had to put my boat on the top of the van and pack all the gear that goes with that which I did.
I’ve almost got the food I want in there, but not quite, some goes tomorrow for the refrigerated stuff.
Decided to do some painting
Once the sun was up enough to warm it up a bit, I got the primer paint out and painted all my motorcycle carrier parts. In order for the parts to be warm enough, I warmed them up in the house and took one piece at a time outside to paint.
It’s not really warm enough outside to dry the paint well, so I hung all the pieces from a beam in my house.
I’m almost packed, just some food and check the air pressure in the tires.
Almost forgot the poke poles
I just remembered I need to go out and cut two long bamboo poles for poke poling. So I went out and got two long ones cut and trimmed and on the top of the van tied down. Maybe we can get some ocean fishing in. I’m not planning to buy a fishing license but the other guys have them.
I just barely got that done as it was getting dark.
I have the rest of the evening to think about this and hopefully get everything I need in there.
Traveling North
Tomorrows a travel day so I might not get another post together until the next day when I should have internet in Port Orford, Oregon.
safe travels, Bob. Glad you got your motorcyle carrier done. Anxious to see the set up on your van.
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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.
safe travels, Bob. Glad you got your motorcyle carrier done. Anxious to see the set up on your van.