Category: Travel
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Louisiana
We took the back roads through Southern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana. The really back roads. A hundred or two miles through the Ozarks and Ouachitas, up hills and down hollers. Twenty-five mile per hour curves for dozens of miles. We went from unnumbered paved roads, to unnumbered gravel roads, to unnumbered roads where the pavement…
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Missouri Nice
We often end up in State Parks when traveling and needing a place to stay for the night. I’d rather be a bit closer to nature and don’t mind supporting public parks by feeding them a few bucks. On this trip we’ve hit a state park in Missouri and a couple in Arkansas so far,…
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Managing Data While Traveling
We’re finally back on the road again, this time heading south to find something interesting in Louisiana or thereabouts. Part of our pre-trip activity is to set our devices up to minimize data usage. We’ve always had low limits on our cell phone data plans, so staying online without burning through our plan has been…
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Traveling Technology – Navigation and Mapping
No doubt that modern navigation technology – GPS & mapping apps – have made navigation much easier. Navigation apps however, still have a lots of opportunity for improvement. Here’s my rant take on the current state of smartphone navigation apps. A navigation application usable for long distance travel needs to have a features that are…
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Scratch One Turkey
… and one campervan windshield. The turkey came from the left ditch and flew across the road from left to right. I ducked, the bird did not. The strike was hard enough to break the windshield but not hard enough to put the turkey inside the van, so no free turkey dinner this Thanksgiving. It…
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Indiana Dunes, Truma E 81 H Error
Our camper came with a Truma Combi combination forced air furnace and hot water heater. It’s by far the best furnace and/or water with which I’m familiar. The Combi works off either propane, 120v electric, or both at once. The water heater can heat to two temperatures, warm and hot. Unlike the typical RV furnace,…
Michael Janke 