The Atomic Prairie

One of the ‘features’ of modern civilization that presents itself here on the northern prairie is the presence of a…

Badlands Less Traveled

After a couple of nights in the southern unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park we drove the seventy-five miles up…

Our target for this trip was the North Dakota Badlands – I.E. Theodore Roosevelt National Park. After a couple days…

… colors. Westward we go, but this time we’re leaning a bit towards the north of west, rather than south…

No travel on this post. Just nerd stuff. 🙂 We’ve been mucking around with the refrigerator since the campervan was…

Sort of …. After leaving the Big Bog bombing range I headed up to the Canadian border. We can’t visit…

Update: I found out from a friend who lives nearby that the bog was also used as a bombing range…

A hundred-twenty years ago lumber was big in Minnesota. The forests in Michigan and Wisconsin were used up. Demand was…

What started out as a solar project ended up as a carpentry, upholstery and sewing project. Scope creep, for sure.…

A year ago I bought a couple of portable solar panels, thinking that they would be useful for charging the…