Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2009 No Comments »
The hitch is installed. It was a pretty straightfoward installation but it was tight, I had to use a floor jack to get it on. The issue was the tabs were just slightly too tight against the frame rails. The wiring was a snap, 2 minutes to install. We’re looking at trying to hit these [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 31st, 2009 No Comments »
The peak to peak gondola is open at Whistler in advanced of the Winter 2010 games. I would like to ride this at least once.
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 29th, 2009 No Comments »
When we lived in SEA and moved off to BOS I reminisced about the things I took for granted and never did while I lived in SEA. Now that I am leaving the east coast I can easily think of the hundreds of things I didn’t do while I lived here either. I figured I’d [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 27th, 2009 No Comments »
The hitch & trailer wiring shipped today, so that means we’re in good shape to make the 9/5 departure. Changed the oil on the TJ today and had a look around at everything underneath. The front pinion seal isn’t weeping at all, which means it’s either out of oil or it fixed itself, I’ll have [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Everything we own needs to fit in this roughtly 5x8x5.25 space. It’s challenging but a good excuse to get rid of all that crap we never use anyways. Of all my moves, I think so far this one is the least-stressful, especially packing wise. We did a good job shedding stuff coming out here and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009 1 Comment »
It is raining today in Waltham, an odd, heavy rain. It’s the weird stormy rain that you get in Seattle, actually, where half the sky is blue but it’s pouring anyways. Hopefully we can bring it back because I heard this rumor it has been unusually dry in the PNW this year. Today we got [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 20th, 2009 No Comments »
The furniture is starting to disappear into other people’s hands, although not as quickly as we’d like. It’s not surprising to me that the stuff that sold the quickest (immediately) and still held some value were tools and tool-related things, the air compressor and my tool chest. I maintain that tools always hold value, and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2009 No Comments »
I don’t think I got around to mentioning it, but of course the synthetic line I had ordered did show up, and of course, I did install it. I haven’t gotten to use it yet but so far I am really happy with the thimble design instead of the hook. It seems to provide a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 14th, 2009 No Comments »
What is it, 22 days until departure? Each time we move, we seem to take less stuff. Once you figure out how worthless stuff really is, the cost of moving it easily begins to outweigh its actual value. It’s no joke, stuff owns you. Get rid of it. When we moved from MCI to SEA [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 13th, 2009 No Comments »
We will be departing BOS for SEA overland on 9/5. Looking forward to being back in the 425, particularly before the brutal and soul-diminishing New England winter sets in. Fate permitting we hope to make the trip in 3 days, which would be a record for me. Sadly – SADLY – this has screwed up [...]