Last night, in about an hour, we built shelves into one half of our closet. An HOUR! Crazy. Here's what we did: we measured all the things we could measure inside the closet, and then we went to Home Depot and did some in-store planning and spec'd out what we…
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Lots of people have questions about our on-the-road internet setup. Here's the current state of affairs. (Warning – this gets a little technical and messy. I'm an electronic engineer, so I like that stuff.) There are some tips at the end for simplifying the setup to be easier to use…
4 CommentsThanks to Tiffani, we now are in the club of people who can see inside this dark cupboard. I bought two of these a while back but only just installed this one yesterday. It's the Dioder LED battery-operated lamp from Ikea ($14.99). It's got a sensor, and when you open the…
1 CommentWe're at Armitage County Park in Eugene for the night. We picked up our Airstream from George Sutton this afternoon and figured we'd stay down here to check out the new things we had added and tweaked. You can see in the photo above that it's absolutely gorgeous here. We've…
8 CommentsIf you guys don't know Wand'rly Magazine, you should. Their current issue is about Airstreams, and the feature article "Living in an Airstream" features us and several of our friends: Tiffani & Deke (Weaselmouth), Kyle Bolstad (Where Is Kyle Now?), Leigh & Brian (Aluminarium) (as well as a link to…
3 CommentsI forgot to upload these yesterday…just some experiments with my new Fuji x100s. Geeking out on macro and the different film settings: And here's where we stayed last night at Armitage Park in Coburg just outside of Eugene: We really wanted to stay at Richardson Park over at the Fern Ridge Reservoir…
1 CommentNine people, four dogs, four Airstreams, and many, many torched Peeps. Well the weekend is officially over and we'll be leaving Ike Kinswa State Park pretty soon here and heading down to George Sutton RV in Eugene to drop of our Airstream for some tweaks and improvements. We had such…
3 CommentsWe successfully converted the fishing pole racks in the back of our truck into racks that will now hold our solar tiki torches. As it should be. This conversion consisted of swapping the front and back ceiling-mounted holders so the pole end could slide in and the lamp end could…
Comments closedTomorrow we're heading to Ike Kinswa State Park to meet some friends for the weekend. Apparently it's only an hour and half from Portland (in Washington state), but I'd never even heard of it until we made this reservation. From the CampsitePhotos.com website, this is what our spot looks like: Not too shabby,…
Comments closedVinge is a table lamp with a movable wing that encourages interaction. The function of dimming the light is moved to the wing – which can be rotated 180° around its own axis – making the sweeping experience of increasing or decreasing brightness highly tactile. The Vinge table lamps were shown at Note…
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