My personal locator beacon (PLB) arrived and is ready to use. Couldn’t be easier to set up. It comes activated with batteries that expire in 2019 and has a test button. The only other action required is to register the device and your name at NOAA. Their registration website comes with the PLB literature. Should…
Many people have expressed concern about my traveling into the mountains by myself for 6 weeks So I began to think–thanks to the incessant media coverage about black boxes, pings, and towed pinger locators–that the world needs personal black boxes. Someone could make a great deal of money by inventing a personal pinger device for…
Late yesterday afternoon I decided to take the camper out for a night–needed to reload stuff and organize both van and camper for the spring season.Tango and I needed some outdoor time, too! One corner of the lift system malfunctioned. A spring goes up into each of the telescoping corner poles, which is what lifts…