Our Excellent Adventures

Are we human or are we helpless

Keith — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:15:36 +0000

Apologies to The Killers for paraphrasing some of the lyrics of a great song. Ok, you are in a run-away Toyota. Do you shift into neutral – no, “I was afraid the car would flip.” Are you an idiot? Did you really apply the brakes with both feet at maximum pressure? Did you turn the engine [...]

Update from here

Keith — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:00:08 +0000

Having been slightly challenged for the last couple of weeks, things are coming together again. While washing the Sprinter, my cell fell into the bucket of water. Although I quickly rescued it, all it would do is flash on and off and make a high pitched noise not unlike an electronic scream – kinda like when [...]

Flashback to a 1973 5th Wheeler

Keith — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:29:02 +0000

This is totally cool! (Click the play button to view video. Firefox users please click here .)

Scheduled Camping

Keith — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:12:36 +0000

I wanted to put this out early so you could pencil them in and start planning. Northern California Sportsmobile Meet and Greet May 8 or 15* The Lost Coast (about 4.5 hours N. of SF) For us usually a 3 day event. Class 2. OurExcellentAdventures May 26-31 Grand Canyon North Rim* Class 2. Weekend Adventures for Weekend Warriors (SMB and Sprinter owners) June 12 and 13 Crandal Peak [...]

Time getting short for A’s vs Giants meet and greet

Keith — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:47:26 +0000

Well, beat the drum and hold the phone – the sun came out today! We’re born again, there’s new grass on the field. A-roundin’ third, and headed for home, it’s a brown-eyed handsome man; Anyone can understand the way I feel. Come on all! Where are you Bay Area Sprinter fanatics? And you can also come if you are [...]

The best camping is, most of the time, free!

Keith — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:16:14 +0000

The US Forest Service (FS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (and other state and local agencies) allow dispersed camping on most of their land – which is a lot! Dispersed camping means you can drive along a FS or BLM road and basically pull off, drive a few feet and set up camp. As long as the [...]

Today I pulled the heater

Keith — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:41:27 +0000

This afternoon I pulled the Suburban heater out of the Sprinter. It took a couple of hours with the only tool used being a screw driver. In its place, under the gaucho will be a storage cabinet big enough to at least hold a couple of pillows. They must be the hardest thing to store [...]

Give me a break

Keith — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:24:11 +0000

The International Olympic Committee will investigate the actions of Canadian women’s hockey players who celebrated their gold medal victory Thursday night by swigging beer and smoking cigars on the ice in Vancouver. Actually, I think there was also Champagne – which is probably ok with the IOC. The IOC is trying to build better support for [...]

Update: SMB/Sprinter Meet and Greet

Keith — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:32:19 +0000

The A’s won’t hold a block unless we have 25 people. So far we have 8. I am going to hold until March 10 and buy a block of tickets. Everyone can PayPal me or pay at the game. I want to get MVP seating which is $48 + $6.50 (convenience fee for buying over [...]

High Jacked

Keith — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:36:01 +0000

I decided to pain my brakes silver. I had painted the Eurovan’s red and that was easy so I thought that this would be easy also. Now I have one silver and one black with brake dust. When the sun shines again and after I get a better jack I’ll do the other one. I put [...]