On Friday, I flew back to Fairbanks from Utqiaġvik arriving early afternoon. I had been asked to run sound for a memorial service and after the service, they asked people to write notes on balloons and release them outside. It turned out to be a beautiful evening.
I spent some time working on the trailer partly to get it ready for winter. I changed the anode rod in the water heater (see my earlier post) and installed some insect screens on the water heater and furnace vents. I still need to install some screen in the refrigerator vents.
Then flipped the water heater bypass valve and drained the water lines using the hot and cold water low point drains. There was a large water filter housing installed with no filter. I removed it and will be redoing the plumbing to bypass it. When I picked up the trailer, the water filter housing and the water heater had a lot of RV antifreeze in them and it took a long time to get the smell out of the system. In fact, when I drained the pipes on Saturday, there was still a lingering smell of RV antifreeze.
The above picture was taken from the area next to the building where my office is. I stopped by in the middle of the day. One of the reasons was to pick up a USB-C hub that I had ordered for my Macbook Pro. If you pay attention to the whining on the Internet, you may have heard the complaints about this laptop only having USB-C ports and to use anything else, you need "dongles". This Kickstarter device pretty much resolves that with HDMI, SD slot, micro SD slot and two USB3 ports I'm in pretty good shape. The only dongle I need is USB to Ethernet. Pretty cool gadget. It would have been nice to have during the trip.
The transmission parts should be at Mickey's shop sometime this week. So maybe there will be a trip to Delta soon.
Re the Alaska Range mountains in the second pic...any way to get nearer to them by motorized vehicle? Didn't think to ask when I was there...
ReplyDeleteThere are some ATV trails in from the west but most people get into the Tanana Flats via airplane in the summer or snow machine in the winter. Around the center of the picture are the mountains near Delta. And the main problem is getting across the river. I hear that the army built a bridge as they have a large training area but it’s closed to the public.
DeleteOh no, you already used the W-Word.
ReplyDeleteThe gadget is pretty cool indeed. And there will be another trip coming...
Winter, there I used it again, is inevitable. Especially if you live in Alaska. So far, I like the convenience of the USB-C hub. And I think it looks decent when on the MacBook Pro. The color is a pretty good match.
DeleteHard to think of winter already. We are so looking forward to some rain though, funny to say that after the 50 inches we received last winter. Damn climate change.
ReplyDeleteToday, it feels even more like winter. When I was getting ready to haul the RV to the shop, it was pretty chilly.
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