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Along the way December, 26,

Hanging out with Alex at gymnastics practice.

https://youtu.be/ko0lpP65_ms

Hanging out with Arie at swim lessons.  The video is on Judy’s Facebook page.  I couldn’t figure out how to get it over to YouTube.

https://www.facebook.com/judytaylor60/videos/10210538125248813/?t=0

No fear.  She doesn’t have to swim on top of the water at all.  Arms and legs everywhere.

Hanging out with Ayla; just hanging out.

https://youtu.be/dlmYgrfehhM

Met up with Jim and Elle one more time for lunch.

(Judy was otherwise occupied.)

We talked about their boat trip (Nordic Tug) up the coast from Florida, into the Great Lakes, farther north to Canada, through the river and lock system to the Mississippi, back down to the Gulf, and completing the loop back to Florida.  Amazing.  Elle shared her sketch book.

She recorded impressions all along the way.  What a cool souvenir of their trip.

And motorcycles.

Matt’s Harley.

And Eli’s Indian.

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Three things I love

  Eating children and not using commas.   I didn’t write that.  I read it and repeated it here.  That’s what came to mind though when I read this description of desert tarantulas.   “Brown and hairy with 8 eyes, 8 legs and fangs.”   “…8 legs and fangs”.  OMG, this thing has 8 fangs!  
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Electrons

  Boondocking.  Battery management.   We’ve got a meter on the dash that tells us what voltage is being supplied by shore power and how many amps we’re using.  But that should be amps at 120 volts.  What when we’re not plugged in?  The amps are then 12 volt amps?  AC amps.  DC amps.  Is an amp an amp regardless?   As I recall, volts x amps = wattage.  If we’re running a 1,200 watt appliance off shore power, that’s 120 volts x 10 amps = 1,200 watts.  If we use the inverter and draw from the 12 volt batteries are we then 12 volts x 100 amps = 1,200 watts?  That’s a lot of amps!