Successful Shopping Trip

We are back from our trip to Odessa/Midland. We made the 240 mile trip a two-day affair, thanks to our good friends Sandy and Charlie who put us up for the night. They also have property and a cabin on the ranch, and Charlie has a nearly complete power system for his cabin. His setup up includes 3200 Amp hours of L-16 Trojan batteries, a PMA wind turbine, and a chest freezer as the first appliance.

We managed to get a sturdy (we hope) wheelbarrow, a chest freezer, a galvanized trough, a portable tent garage, food for the animals, and lots of other odds and ends.  We still don't have our wind turbine up, but hopefully we can borrow an oxyacetylene torch tomorrow for a few cuts, and dig the hole/set a jin-pole in concrete.

Last night we had a fun night out with some friends and enjoyed the Starlight's burger bogo, and woke up today to temps in the 60s and not much sunshine. We heard a few drops of rain on the roof last night but that was all, and we were relieved to find that our tent garage hadn't blown away in the night. We'll see how it holds up, but we were a bit disappointed with the build quality.