Good Morning! 68F @ 9:00AM. Sunny. High near 90F. Winds S at 5 to 10 mph.
Beautiful sunrise, Eric. Thanks for sharing.
You must have missed the grand unveiling, Drew. No name to the color, though one component is called Stratos Blue. The narrow rib part way down the van will be an orange color, and both have pearl in them. Probably as far from a factory VW color as you can get, but then this is Kalifornia!
Good luck with the fish fry and tractor spindle, Don!
What's the name of the closest fire to you, Hawkeye? I ask because even here in Northern California the air is smokey and the closest fire is a long way off. The weather people say it's the Cedar fire in Kern County that's causing most of the smoke in our area. But in days past it's been both the Soberanes and Clayton fires that have been the worst.
Hopefully the van'll be on the road by this fall, Kyle, and I'm toying with the idea of a maiden voyage down to New Mexico and as far east as El Paso to look for southwestern themed upholstery/drapery fabric, and furniture for the living room. I've found a few shops in those areas on line, but that's not the kind of thing I'm comfortable buying site unseen. And October in the southwest is has some pretty nice weather as well.
Sounds like your splitter is gettin' pretty close to runnin', RS. With fall approaching and all that wood piling up, timing couldn't be better, eh?
Took a day off from working on the van yesterday (gasp!) and put up the new weather station. Had to call Davis to figure out how to swap over the Weatherlink computer cable; the end inside the old console used a black plastic plug and my old eyes just couldn't see it. It's now up and running, though I need to upgrade the pole it's mounted on to something stiffer. Looks like a trip to the junk yard is in my near future.:thumbsup:
This year is BMW's 100th anniversary of something or another, so they've been celebrating down at the Laguna Seca Raceway outside of Monterey this week. One of the big BMW motorcycle clubs is having its national rally at the track this coming weekend, so I'm heading down Wednesday to help setup our smaller club's Aircentral tent. That'll give me a few days to ride the coast road, eat some great seafood, and kick tires with a bunch of other old farts.
The old GS hadn't been run since I got back from Utah a month or so ago, and it's the one that got covered with paint dust, so I spent most of the afternoon washing it and treating the paint and plastic with Wipe New. Did a pretty nice job in sprucing up the old girl; it'll be interesting to see how long it lasts. Also found that the battery was dead, no surprise since it dates from 2010 and I hadn't been keeping it on a float charger. So I swapped it out with the battery from the winter bike, then put that one on the charger even though it was still strong enough to start the GS to it warm enough to boil all the water off.
So today it's back to van work; the filler tube for the fuel tank needs a coating on the inside to neutralize the rust that had built up there, and the area behind the grill needs a coat of black semigloss paint. And while I've got that in the gun I'll shoot the dash and a few other parts as well. Once that's done it'll be time to gather maps and pack, as I want to get a very early start tomorrow morning.
