Adventioneering

Better late than never? A few snapshots from Victoria’s drive with Andy and Lux from SEA to BOS in the TJ.

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I wrote Mountain Hardwear and asked whether their sleeping bags were rated for subjective comfort or survival and suggested my winter-weather use at 53 degrees north.
Anyone who’s slept in Marmot bags will probably agree they tend to run pretty cold, and since we need to pick up some bags for James Bay, this is top [...]

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With our December trip to James Bay, I’ve been looking into the various fluids and greases in the Jeep to figure out what will make the cold (possibly into the -30s) and what won’t. This raises some questions, like, when does ATF fluid freeze?
0W40 Oil: ~ -35C
Mobil 1 Synthetic Grease (front-end, steering): Operating temperature [...]

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[ October 11, 2008; ]

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I owned Remington for about 33,710 miles. Total cost of ownership, including vehicle purchase price, maintenance, repairs, upgrades, but not fuel or insurance, was $11,001. I subtracted what I recovered (the sale value), so the actual cost was higher.
Total cost of repairs and maintenance only was $3,913.46, or about $0.116 cents per mile. This doesn’t [...]

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I arrived back in Lansing three days early, just in time to provide housing for friends driving cross country. I’ve learned this before, but I learned once again that eleven solitary days on a bicycle can quickly start to feel like eleven years in purgatory. In the space of those eleven years the biggest struggle [...]

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… but our domain adventioneering.com is! And I can’t figure out how to get it back, so in the meantime while I have my own adventure with the domain registrar’s technical support division, here it is at adv.a6v.org as a temporary measure. No matter how things change, I guess they stay the same.
We no longer [...]

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