In December of 2025 I took a road trip in the van to see Mom and Sue in Suncity West, before driving up to Sonoma to hang with my cousin Eric, Race with my close enough engineering team, and sail with George, before the final push home with Mike Huck as a travel buddy.
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A three-day push north from Eric and Maggies: rainy highways, then blue-sky Oregon coast, a final night in Seaside, and home to Catherine. Van cleaned and ready. Includes trip stats: miles, mpg, best/worst tanks, fuel total.
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It's sure easy to tell when I am meeting up with friends on the road, the daily trip reports go cold. :). This week has been all about getting down to the race track for Close Enough Engineering's last race of the year. Tuesday night was packing
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This past week has been a wonderful week of driving down to Suncity West to see Mom! I started out last Saturday on a drive down to see my mom. It's been a wonderful drive so far with no inclement weather at all, no problems with the Van
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It sure was nice to wake up to temperatures that were above freezing Friday morning 😄. The morning started with me heading out on the 13 mile loop trail, Now I was traveling alone, without recovery gear, so I had to keep in mind that every situation I got myself into
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It was another COLD night last night, so cold, as a matter of fact, that even though I had the heater running full blast all evening, when I crawled into bed, the Memory foam mattress was as hard as a rock! This morning it was 10 degrees f outside, and
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The Heater in the van earned it's keep last night, that is for SURE! it was 18 degrees when I got up this morning. I tried to go for a short hike, but decided to save my outdoor time for somewhere a bit more interesting. On top of
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Morning in Water Canyon Today was a good day. I woke up before the sun after pulling into camp and going straight to bed last night. With coffee in hand, I started working on my travel-log blog entry and the Relive video I’ve been creating for each day. Connectivity
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Well, I had a long day yesterday, and by the time I got to my campsite here in the Water Canyon BLM land, it was almost 9 pm, and I was beat. Yesterday I woke up in Crane Springs and was in the hot spring by 6:40, soaking there
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I spent last night in my buddy Dan's driveway - he and his family weren't there, but it was nice to have access to the facilities in the morning. Got up around 4:30, and hit the road just after 5 am, heading towards Burns, Oregon,
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Safely made it to West Linn, where Tedrow lives. I was hoping to be able to hang out with him and his family tonight, but the kids want to extend their time with their friends out of town, and who can blame them! The trip down was uneventful - Not
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Mom has a fountain that Catherine and are going to move to our house, so since I had to be in Sonoma for a car race on Dec 13th, it seemed like a good excuse to go on a road trip after Thanksgiving. In planning this route, I decided to