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e-Bike Range Anxiety
Today was a full day with new experiences and lessons learned. After breakfast, Tom, Dave, and Scott left for a bike ride. Dave proposed a 28 mile round trip, which at least Scott thought would never happen – one of the most ambitious rides for our Chinese folding ebikes – two Lectrics, and one VeeGo.…
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Bikes and Boats
Today was fun all around. After breakfast with the Phillips, Tom and Scott left for a bike ride along the shorefront in Duluth. The inline-skating and roller-skiing marathon was going on in downtown Duluth, with many roads closed for the world’s largest in-line skating marathon. Our bike path paralleled much of the race, so we…
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William A Irvin
The day started out well – particularly for Scott who got to enjoy the Phillips’ excellent hot tub. After breakfast of eggs and hash browns cooked by Dave (with store-bought eggs rather than those from the Phillips’ chickens,) Dave, Tom, and Scott headed in Khan and Polo for our appointment with the RV service guy.…
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Limping Along
We awoke to beautiful weather in County Line campground, where Tom was able to capture a great picture of the sunrise. While our destination was Duluth, Minnesota, Tom has been in all 50 states, except North Dakota. Being so close we decided to clip the Southeast corner on our way to Duluth, qualifying him for…
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Can it Get any Worse
The day started out well, but went downhill rapidly after lunch. We departed Moon Lake fairly early for another drive on dirt roads until we hit the paved two-lanes. Tom says it felt like we crossed half of Nebraska on dirt roads (in reality it was about 40 miles out of 200 North to South). …
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Just Like We Left Them
After breakfast and an interesting Uber rider with the former managing editor of the Denver Post in his Tesla Model Y, we arrived at Mountain View RV storage. We remembered our gate code, and our Uber driver drove us right up to Khan. No apparent problems – a few tumbleweeds lodged under Khan and Polo,…
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Free Inflight Wi-Fi!
We started this leg of our OWGRV trip by flying from the Philadelphia Airport to Denver. The plan was to stay overnight in the Brighton Hampton Inn near the Mountain View RV and Boat storage lot where Khan had hopefully been waiting for almost 3 months. The only excitement on this leg of the trip…
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Comedy of Errors
Sunday was a travel day – we planned to drop Khan and Polo at an RV storage site where we had made a reservation weeks ago – 25 minutes from the Denver airport and a half hour or so drive from our Longmont AirBnB. What could go wrong? We left the AirBnB on schedule around…
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Rocky Mountain High
Most of the judging activities were over except for 3 more hours of pool competition on Saturday morning – the “collaborative” bonus round for all teams. Another three hours in the pool for Scott. However, since the teams were working together somewhat rather than working on complicated scoring missions against the clock, this was a…
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Made it to MATE
Thursday and Friday were consumed by Judging responsibilities – no traveling or sightseeing, but interesting enough to chronical in our blog. Anthony had by far the easiest judging responsibilities. He only had work to do Friday morning, with a briefing then judging posters that each team had to produce about their project of building an…
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Long Dusty Road
Today was a travel day to our next stop – an AirBnB with three bedrooms, two baths, full kitchen, laundry facilities, and a hot tub! The night before Anthony and Tom had carefully washed both Khan and Polo, but it rained and the driveway and dirt road out of our guest house oasis left both…
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“For the blog”
Today’s blog includes contributions from our featured guest editor, Deborah (or just Deb, if you’re into the whole brevity thing) Also, today’s cover photo is of Edward Thome sporting his new authentic western apparel cowboy hat. Ed is the Executive Director of the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation, and has been with us visiting with the…