I needed to get some stuff for the upcoming trip so I headed to the shopping areas and to Costco. I purchased a couple bulk bags of meat that I’ll cut up and put in freezer bags at home.
And I bought a bunch of bacon. I fry a bunch of it up and use it for snacks.
And I bought a big bag of chocolate chips, also for snacking, which I really shouldn’t be doing, but what the hay, one has to live a little.
Of course, one had to buy something else when you walk by the display and what caught my eye was feather down pillows. I thought it might be a good time to replace my real old pillow so I threw the bag into my cart. When I got home, I found two pillows in there which was good because now I have one for the van too.
I paid and got the heck out of the shopping area and headed for home, making one more stop on the way.
Diesel for Skiddy
They sell red diesel at a station in one of the small towns I go through on the way home so I stopped and filled up my containers, about 25 gallons. Red diesel is for off road type stuff and isn’t taxed as bad a regular diesel. It’s illegal to use in cars and trucks that go on highways.
Once home I unloaded stuff and then it was nap time.
Trip prepping
I needed to make sure I got stuff in the van I needed for the trip. I took inventory and slowly added stuff to the van I needed. I also did some reorganizing of stuff to try and fit more stuff in there. I also removed some stuff I have never used and don’t have a need for.
I worked on food and cooking stuff mostly and I’ll be adding more stuff in the next few days.
Gassing up
I also drove the old van down to Guerneville to fill it up so it will be ready to go.
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.
