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  • Walking: Mobile Therapy & A Fortune on Shoes
    #Walking | Misc

    Walking: Mobile Therapy & A Fortune on Shoes

    Byadmin June 7, 2024January 7, 2025

    For the last 4 years I have walked (obsessively) for mental and physical health. This week I crossed 4 years without missing a day and surpassed 9000 total kilometres. You may remember that we had a COVID pandemic. For us, in this part of the world, things really changed in March of 2020. It was…

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  • Heat Pumps:  Heating Cost Efficiency
    HVAC | Misc

    Heat Pumps: Heating Cost Efficiency

    Byadmin May 10, 2024January 7, 2025

    This post has nothing to do with #vanlife. TL;DR: You might not be saving money running your heat pump vs your Natural Gas furnace. You can calculate this, fairly easily. It would be nice if the Ecobee would allow you to set the crossover point based on the electricity TOU phase. Preamble The cost efficiency…

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  • Arizona 2024: Epilogue and Stats (with Update)
    #AZ2024 | #vanlife

    Arizona 2024: Epilogue and Stats (with Update)

    Byadmin April 29, 2024May 13, 2024

    Well hello there! It’s been 18 days since we arrived home and I have finally figured out all those those stats I wrote down incomprehensibly. Forget keeping track of the oral history, I can’t even make sense of the notes I took. Since arriving home we have enjoyed the almost daily sounds of progress. Bell…

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  • Arizona 2024: Day 39-40: Home:  De-winterizing
    #AZ2024 | #vanlife

    Arizona 2024: Day 39-40: Home: De-winterizing

    Byadmin April 11, 2024April 11, 2024

    Day 39 started with a nice walk to Canatara Park, in Sarnia. It’s a nice 5km round trip from Camp Mom. The weather was perfect and lake Huron was perfectly calm. Rest of the day was spent with family doing stuff. Did go to the “B” chip truck option with my sister and mother. I…

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  • Arizona 2024: Day 38: Sarnia, ON:  I declare!
    #AZ2024 | #vanlife

    Arizona 2024: Day 38: Sarnia, ON: I declare!

    Byadmin April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

    You know, Cracker Barrel can be OK. We continue to have pretty good luck. I failed to mention that Mrs Milddogs had purchased three Munch peanut bars for me when she picked up our obligatory Cracker Barrel order last night. I love peanut bars. Best of all were the ones we used to be able…

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  • Arizona 2024: Day 37: Fort Wayne, IN: Going Dark
    #AZ2024 | #vanlife

    Arizona 2024: Day 37: Fort Wayne, IN: Going Dark

    Byadmin April 8, 2024April 8, 2024

    Lovely night sleep which was a bit surprising after consuming 4 Bud Lights over 5 hours. Technically 3.5 because I spilled half of one in two incidents. The same type of incident, twice. Within a few minutes of each other. Question: Why do car campers have to open and close their car doors 319 times…

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  • Arizona 2024: Day 36: Grafton, IL: The one with the buffalo fish
    #AZ2024 | #vanlife

    Arizona 2024: Day 36: Grafton, IL: The one with the buffalo fish

    Byadmin April 7, 2024April 7, 2024

    OK, let’s relax. Tomorrow is eclipse day. Bonnie Tyler will break out in song, parts of the word will go dark for a few moments, animals will make nocturnal noises and we will all remain calm. Sure, we will bring down the cellular networks posting our insta and tweets* of us getting blinded by the…

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  • Arizona 2024: Day 35: Saint Genevieve, MO: 13 is ours
    #AZ2024 | #vanlife

    Arizona 2024: Day 35: Saint Genevieve, MO: 13 is ours

    Byadmin April 6, 2024April 6, 2024

    Must say, a pretty good night sleep at the side of the highway at our Harvest Host.  For the morning walk I headed up the hill a few hundred meters and then cut into a neighbourhood to get off the main drag.  The neighbourhood began with a slightly run down section to single wides and…

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  • Arizona 2024: Day 34: Cabot, AR: Poking along
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    Arizona 2024: Day 34: Cabot, AR: Poking along

    Byadmin April 5, 2024April 5, 2024

    It has been about 36 days since I last used my password for work. Yet, every time I boot up my Mac to construct these complex, insightful and intriguing blog posts, I instinctively want to type in my former work password, not the highly secure passphrase I have for my local account on my Mac….

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  • Arizona 2024: Day 33: Caddo Lake, TX: Ups and Downs
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    Arizona 2024: Day 33: Caddo Lake, TX: Ups and Downs

    Byadmin April 4, 2024April 4, 2024

    Quiet campground except for the metal bridge that is on the secondary highway about 1km from our campsite At night it sounds like a jet taking off as trucks (I assume) go across it. Odd that the sound travels so well through all of these trees. Morning walk was on most of the beautiful trails…

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