Tom Well, since things are slow around here… I’ll talk a bit about one of my ham radio projects. I built a balun last week… For those of you who are ham operators you know what a balun is… for those who are not: a balun is a device used to match a balanced antenna to … Read more
The pictures from our trip have been stuck on the laptop for a while. For some reason my large removable drive doesn’t connect properly to the laptop so I had to work hard to get the pictures into our archive and onto a machine we can use to create a DVD. I’m using hard drive … Read more
So… We made it home safely. Spent Friday night at Mom’s. Saturday’s drive home was pretty direct. It was only about 385 miles and weather was pretty good until we got close to the coast. Weather on the coast was pretty bad; there were 10 people struck by lightning on the beach. Ending stats for … Read more
Yesterday was a pretty short day, much like today will be. We left Omaha around 9:30 and it was an easy drive to St. Louis. Wasn’t really a lot of traffic but there were some lane closings here and there for construction. Today is the last official day of our vacation, we’ll arrive home tomorrow. … Read more
Yesterday was a busy day. Was the first of our changed plans. We were supposed to drive to Independence Missouri but decided to split the last three days of driving into four. We went to Wall Drug in Wall, SD yesterday and had Brunch there. We moseyed around the ‘store” for about an hour and … Read more