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Day three was a good one…

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

I logged a little over 700 miles and along the way stopped in to see an old friend in Memphis. We hadn’t seen each other in 32 years! He’s a high school friend and it was good to visit.

The day went well without any mishaps. The trailer is performing quite well. It tracks straight and true and handles the bumpy parts of I-40 well enough. Some sections of it in Oklahoma and Arkansas are pretty rough! It’s old cement and it’s falling apart. Think of how many trillions of wheels have passed over it! They’re rebuilding quite a bit of it in those states.

Today I plan on reaching my destination of Angier North Carolina. I have about 9 – 10 hours of driving ahead so I best get on the road.

A few pics from this morning and yesterday.

Cooking this mornings breakfast

Sophie takes a break

Fritz samples the air with his nose

Sophie and Seamus dreaming of cookies

Oklahoma City

Welcome to Arky Sauce!

The mighty Mississippi as it passes through Memphis

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What a difference a day makes… and some good sleep.

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

I got a good nights rest last night. Figaro cat woke me up several times though with his pleas to go outside to pee. I’d wake up, put him in his litter box and then he’d do his thing. He can be very persistent!

I took apart my Canon digital camera last evening, well, as best I could while working on a picnic table around twilight. Damn those things are tricky to take apart! Anyway, I couldn’t get in deep enough to find the problem. It’s like the whole lens assembly is out of sync and it’s jamming the drive motors up, then it goes into “lens error” mode. When this happens, the camera wants to shut down. So if I try to download the pics I took yesterday, it wants to park the lens at neutral but it can’t so it shuts down and I can’t download!! Frustrating! Makes me miss a straight up point and shoot camera. BUT, I do still have my Blackberry and the camera it has on board. Not the highest resolution but a camera to record events none the less.

Here’s a few Blackberry pics from yesterday for you to gawk at. Time for me to pack up now and get on with day three!