Oh, the journey we have been on and unfortunately it has not involved travel. On June 3, I (Wendy) took a 5 foot fall and broke my shoulder (broke the ball off) and had a compression wrist fracture in four places. Yep, not a good day. The short version covers 5 months — 4 surgeries (2 on each) and overall 4 months of physical therapy mostly 5 days a week and a...
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We are taking Bear on a trip mostly On Grid to test his systems and for us to learn this rig better before we go Off Grid. Nightly stops will still include plenty of truck stops. Speaking of truck stops, we ended up paying for a ‘slot’ for the first time ever. We were after dark getting to a TA truck stop and there were no slots … so we quickly dialed the 800...
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Repairs ~~~ Just part of the Journey! So….In continuing to check out all of parts of the rig, it was time for the winches. Uh, that did not go as planned, but what has so far. We hooked up the handheld winch controller and turned on the hydraulic switch in the cab of the truck. Let me back up here a moment, there is a HUGE container through which hydraulic fluid...
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We had an interesting past Saturday. When checking on the roof for some technology updates that needed to be done, we realized the coolant bottle for the generator was cracked with a large hole in it. Where to begin on the repair we ask ourselves? A few emails to our dear German friends with UNICAT (who by the way are awesome) and a couple phone calls yielded the...
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Oh my goodness, we are so sorry that we have not posted in 2 months. As you know, “LIFE itself” can sometimes get in the way. We are by no means able to just pick up and leave everything behind…. we wish we could but that is not our reality. To followup our last post, Bear was at the dealership getting repairs from November 28th to December 19th. We will detail...
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Welcome to Blog Post #1 for OnAndOffGrid — part of me says “Wow” this is really happening after years of planning and wishing and designing in my head. I am so excited. Over the past few weeks since we have gotten home, many people who ‘follow’ our trips have ask “Where and when are you going somewhere?”. The answer is probably after the beginning of the new...
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