Category: Vanlife
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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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Pop-Rivets and HDPE
The Coachmen Crossfit/Beyond comes from the factory with about a foot of empty space behind the drivers seat. On our first trip, we simply piled random stuff in that space. That didn’t work too well, so I built a small cabinet with flip-down panels that I hoped would make that space more usable. The cabinet…
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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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Home…
After a fast blast across the plains, we’re back home in Minnesota. Sights & Scenery All of the places we visited on this trip were new to us: The San Rafael Swell, Colorado National Monument and the Unaweep Tabeguache Scenic Byway were the highlights of the trip. We’ll go back for those someday. The Salt…
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Colorado National Monument
“I came here last year and found these canyons, and they feel like the heart of the world to me. I’m going to stay and build trails and promote this place, because it should be a national park.” John Otto, 1907 A hundred-odd years ago, some guy named John Otto thought this place was special…
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Fall Colors, Hanging Flumes, Highway 141
We spent the night at Ridgeway State Park with the intent of driving Colorado highway 141 (the Unaweep-Tabeguache Scenic Byway) up to the Colorado National Monument near Grand Junction. I’d heard that highway was a worthwhile scenic drive and wanted to check it out. Worth it. From the campground near Ridgeway we crossed over on…
Michael Janke 