Results From Denver

This week, we took an overnight trip down to Denver to pick up a bunch of stuff for the camper.  While there, we…

• Had the ladder project galvanized in Commerce City
• Picked up a bunch of aluminum trim at Alreco in Brighton
• Got a second 11R22.5 Bridgestone M711 mounted on an Accuride wheel for our second spare.  (We’ll carry two on the AATREC for extra safety.)
• Loaded up on American Cherry quarter-round trim and 1×4 lumber for interior trim at Austin Hardwoods in Denver

Yesterday, I bolted the 14 ladder components together and mounted the whole assembly to the bottom of the camper.    Here’s how it looks when stowed under the body…

 And partially deployed (it’s just 2.5″ thick when folded up)…

And finally, fully deployed…

Note that in the above photo, the camper is much lower to the ground than it will be when it’s mounted to the chassis.  In its final state, the ladder lets you comfortably climb 54″ to the camper floor, and at that elevation the stairs yield almost exactly 8.5″ of rise and run per step.

Oh, one last thing!  We have a new addition to the PC family.  It’s a “netbook”and I’m writing with it now.  It’s an Asus EeePC, is amazingly compact yet comfortable to use, and offers some great features for the sub-$350 price…

•  Intel Atom N280 processor
• LED backlighting for the LCD display
• 9.5 hour battery life (task-dependent, of course)
• 160GB HDD
• built in web-camera and mic array
• Bluetooth and 802.11 (b, g, and n)
• 2GB RAM (okay, I bought a 2GB module - standard was 1GB)
• WinXP Home

I have been looking at netbooks for over a year now, and finally decided to take the plunge because I wanted XP and MS says they’re no longer going to support it after April 14th.  I chose Asus because great reviews and the fact that I’ve used their motherboards in my last three desktop builds, and ALL THREE PCs are still running perfectly - the first build for almost nine years now (and three power supplies)!

 Today, Saturday, I met my cabinet builder in Wheatland and picked up the replacement stove cabinet.  That means I can get back to installing the galley cabinets, hang the partition wall, and then get to working on the two 50 gallon fresh water tanks and bunks which house them.  Gonna be a good week next week!

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