by Allan | Oct 1, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
I’m goin’ to the first-ever Solar Pioneers Party in Redway, California. Redway is in the giant redwoods, in the heart of the Emerald Triangle. The Emerald Triangle is Humboldt, Mendocino and del Norte counties, the three most northwest counties in rural...
by Allan | Sep 28, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
This is to be the closing blog post of the “2015 Mountaintop Adventure” (a rather pretentious title, I’m afraid) thread. After this it’ll be something more akin to “Allan’s personal life and its complications and joys…”....
by Allan | Sep 21, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
I stopped, and camped one night, at Hovenweep National Monument, on the southern Utah/Colorado state border. Established in 1923, this is the only monument in the Four Corners ares that hasn’t been excavated as an archaeological site; a concession to the tribes...
by Allan | Sep 20, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
Whoops! I’ve been back in Lamy, NM for nearly a week, so I must get the rest of this great road trip logged here before I lose track of it. So this is actually written on Sunday, September 27th. After Cedar Breaks NM, I continued east. Red Canyon is on the way...
by Allan | Sep 17, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
The next morning I packed up, then walked over to invite conversation with a lone man car-camping in a nearby site. Friendly, named Marios, I soon learned that he was from the Greek/Turkish island of Cyprus, lived in Scotland, and had been working in solar in...
by Allan | Sep 15, 2015 | 2015 Mountaintop PV Adventure
This morning I awoke to gentle rain on the tent, for which I was prepared but hadn’t really expected. I returned to the hot spring, filled the tub and took a nice morning soak. Although the ranch buildings are long gone, the hot springs remains on private land,...
