Hank and I are spending the weekend at Flagler. Nine months ago I made reservations for all the weekends in June. I’ve had to cancel the next two weekends and Jean has to work tonight so Hank and I came out to enjoy the great weather.
Hank rode shotgun for a while:
Retirement count: 25 calendar days 18 work days, Jean had 12 work days.
One of my retirement goals to do a lot of hiking. GPS technology has advanced to the point where I could buy a unit which will transmit my location to a satellite every 10 minutes and post the position on a website anyone can access. This is posted in real time.
Some of the cool things: as I said transmits location every 10 minutes, stores location inside the unit every 15 seconds (this is uploaded over web later), will sent and receive 160 character texts, can create stock text for quit transmit, confirms a text was received by satellite, has SOS button, operates for 100 hours, can set the location transmit at up to 4 hours, the unit can be pinged to give it’s location, pairs with smart phone for topo maps, and other cool things.
This is a screen print I took from Ipad. The drive over here on Friday, the way points are every 10 minutes so this will also show where the traffic was the heaviest.
Couple of walks around the park.
The long line going to the bottom of the picture is from the drive in Friday. It looks like it will be a cool tool we can use to show where we are whether we have internet or not. This just needs a clear look at the sky. Oh, by the way it is Delorme inReach Explorer.
It is also summer time.
Strawberry daiquiri time, had two. I bought some frozen strawberries and put them into serving size zip lock sandwich bags, had three in the freezer (thinks for the GREAT idea, Jean). Hank and I are both tired, we were up and at it early this morning, did a walk around the park before PBS’s Car Guys and Wait Wait. Tanya gave me a FitBit at Christmas and today was the first day over 20,000 steps, 21,356 right now.
That’s it for today, no more motor home trip before retirement.