Monday, November 23, 2009 - Ashland KY
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Overview of new workshop closed for travel, November 23, 2009
Let me introduce to you my new metalworking/leatherworking/maybe-even-woodworking (heaven forbid) foldaway travelling studio workshop and storeroom. This is an evolving project and this basic framework should give me some good bones to build on.
What do we see here?
We see a new tool chest in place of the old overcab mattress and fold-up cab access panel (the mattress got recycled into a simplified sofa bed in my study).
We see a solid wall panel separating my new studio from the dinette. In this wall is the old generator control panel and a new HPV-22B controller for my new solar battery charging system. Above those is a sliding access panel to leather storage behind. Not visible is a new 120 volt receptacle and 12 volt switched jacks in the forward end of the dinette overhead cabinet. You can see dangling a couple of 12 volt LED lights I'm experimenting with that plug into those switched jacks.
Tomorrow I'll reveal the magically transformative heart of this project.
Night camp
Wal-Mart Supercenter in Ashland KY
Wal-Mart Supercenter Store #2638, 12504 U.S. Route 60, Ashland, KY 41102 - (606) 929-9510
- This Walmart Supercenter is about a mile north of I-64 (exit 185) on KY 180.
- Good level parking
- Verizon cell phone service - very good signal
- Verizon EVDO service - very good signal
- Locate this Walmart on my Night Camps map
- Find other Wal-Marts in the area
- Check the weather here
Absolute Silence
I remembered hearing of a backcountry Park Service ranger who was cleaning up after dinner one evening when he heard a chilling scream. He ran out of his cabin in time to see a mountain lion standing with a dead deer next to her. The lion saw the ranger and bounded off. The ranger realized this might be a rare opportunity to closely observe a mountain lion, so he stationed himself a short distance away from the deer carcase. He sat in absolute silence, and listened closely as night deepened. After sitting in darkness for well over an hour, he gave up hope of the lion's returning and stood up. In the powerful beam of his flashlight, he could clearly see that the dead deer was no longer there. ...
Caught in Fading Light: Mountain Lions, Zen Masters, and Wild Nature by Gary Thorp