For my first stop on this grand adventure, I drove about 2 hours north of Nashville to Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky. Although I started out on interstates in rush hour, it became a lovely green scenic drive as I neared the park. Unfortunately, even on a Wednesday morning, the parking lot was absolutely full, and I had to circle for a bit before finally getting lucky and finding a spot. Also unfortunately, all the cave tours were booked…
And here it is… (drumroll please?…) the final fit out of the FJ Cruiser, all packed and ready to go! I had one last job to do in putting my bed together, because I could only get a memory foam mattress in standard sizes, which made it perfect in width, but about 10 inches too long. So I opened the fabric cover, cut off the excess, and then stitched the cover back together. I used to do a lot of…
Very Simple Rating System + Yay! Worth seeing. o Meh. I didn’t hate it. – Ugh. Waste of time. Just a list of movies I’ve seen, which may or may not be of interest to anyone! 🙂 Date Movie Seen Overall Pros Cons 03-July-2016 The Free State of Jones Theater, Franklin, TN O Interesting story form the Civil War that I had never heard before, good acting. It seemed to go on forever and had so much detail that…
The last major component of the FJ Cruiser fit out was installing a dual battery system. I have some electronics on board in order to help me navigate, research places to go, and stay connected, and all of these need to be recharged. I can charge them while I drive, of course, but if I decide to stop somewhere for several days, I don’t want to have to make a choice between losing charge on my gear or jeopardizing my starting battery….
At 3am I had an epiphany. Waking suddenly from a restless sleep I realized that the distortion of the drawer frame caused by the wheel wells was only near the bottom, but if I mount the drawer runners as close as possible to the top of the frame, then there’s likely to be enough room for them there. And there was plenty of room for the drawers themselves in the frame, but the front drawer panels were cut larger and the…