I am interested in how you prevented freezing in 18 degrees.
The next two years until mid-terms can check the power in the House and Senate will see a lot of hard things no doubt. We have to keep living our lives and not be dragged under by the Red Tide.
Ha! We have tank heaters (like warming pads) and pipes are wrapped in heating tape… but at my folks place (an apartment building) we had no place to hook up to electric to keep them on! Normally if we are boondocking and living in the van in these conditions we run our gas sipping interior heater which helps manage the cold and we circulate our hot water from our shower tank which is super heated by our engine coolant lines through our plumbing. The difference was we were staying inside at my parents. Tom was a good egg and set an alarm to go down to the van every 6 hours to run the heater, kick the engine on and run the hot water through the plumbing. We even had to open the fridge when running the heat in order to keep food from freezing!
Very eloquently mapped, Amie, this strange place between wanting to support the Victims, (as the US population is almost, without exception, a victim of this), as they suffer, and yet stay in order to be a true citizen, offer hope, reality, comfort, resistance, and fleeing this horrid aggression on our fragilized democracy, not wanting to support it in any way.
It's wonderful that you're back on the road creating another travel adventure. Wishing you a great trip in spite of our current political disaster and existential crisis. It is a time of disgust and alarm, but somehow we have to wade through it and hope for better times with the midterm elections coming next year. Meanwhile, make the most of your time "on the road again."
Hi Kenny, thanks for reading- yes trying to remind ourselves that daily joy is important and a form of resistance. That said as we travel, particularly through large swaths of red country we are thankful we chose a particularly blue city in which to have our stationary home.
Great to see you guys out and about again!
I am interested in how you prevented freezing in 18 degrees.
The next two years until mid-terms can check the power in the House and Senate will see a lot of hard things no doubt. We have to keep living our lives and not be dragged under by the Red Tide.
Doomscrolling Out. Engagement In.
Ha! We have tank heaters (like warming pads) and pipes are wrapped in heating tape… but at my folks place (an apartment building) we had no place to hook up to electric to keep them on! Normally if we are boondocking and living in the van in these conditions we run our gas sipping interior heater which helps manage the cold and we circulate our hot water from our shower tank which is super heated by our engine coolant lines through our plumbing. The difference was we were staying inside at my parents. Tom was a good egg and set an alarm to go down to the van every 6 hours to run the heater, kick the engine on and run the hot water through the plumbing. We even had to open the fridge when running the heat in order to keep food from freezing!
Very eloquently mapped, Amie, this strange place between wanting to support the Victims, (as the US population is almost, without exception, a victim of this), as they suffer, and yet stay in order to be a true citizen, offer hope, reality, comfort, resistance, and fleeing this horrid aggression on our fragilized democracy, not wanting to support it in any way.
Amie and Tom,
It's wonderful that you're back on the road creating another travel adventure. Wishing you a great trip in spite of our current political disaster and existential crisis. It is a time of disgust and alarm, but somehow we have to wade through it and hope for better times with the midterm elections coming next year. Meanwhile, make the most of your time "on the road again."
Kenny
Hi Kenny, thanks for reading- yes trying to remind ourselves that daily joy is important and a form of resistance. That said as we travel, particularly through large swaths of red country we are thankful we chose a particularly blue city in which to have our stationary home.