February 14, 2017

To Tucson, and Beyond! Day three, Tucson!

Day three – Barstow to Tucson – 9 hours, 494 miles We got a great spot at the Tucson KOA. Had a gas fireplace, a nice table, and two adirondack chairs. The campground was clean, really well run, had a fitness center, a Cantina with decent and reasonably priced food and a great happy hour for drinks. Also lots of varied activities, including live music. It also has 400 sites, which we thought would be crazy, but the layout and organization made it a non-issue.

February 13, 2017

To Tucson, and Beyond! Day two, stop in Barstow

Day two: Fairfield to Barstow – 6.5 hours, 430 miles The door issue meant we had to do two long travel days, with no side trips, so today was just a long drive, and an after dark arrival. Campground was convenient, but we didn’t really time to look around. One note, the Chevron near here, by Calico Ghost Town, is convenient, but had the most expensive fuel we found on the entire trip.

February 12, 2017

To Tucson, and Beyond! Day one, stuck in Fairfield

Summary: 14 Days 2876 Miles driven 54 Hours driving 12.5 MPG average (14.7 MPG Max, 8.5 MPG Min) 53 MPH average General driving observations: California roads are terrible. Just terrible. Other states would post “rough road ahead” on nearly every California highway. Drivers in any semi-urban area are terrible, are always in a great hurry, and you can predict them cutting you off and slamming on their brakes to take an exit, rather than losing 2 seconds and doing it safely.

August 16, 2016

Serenity's maiden voyage

We’d been seriously looking at trailers and RV’s for about 3 years. We’d gone to RV shows, and realized there were a ton of trailers, all more or less the same. Then, there were Airstreams. A lot of things, like appliances and fixtures are identical, there was something just a bit more special about them. But, part of them being special was them being twice the cost. So, we just kept looking, didn’t expect we’d get anything soon.

June 22, 2013

Retiring kencasting.com, and moving everything here!

I started kencasting.com in 2004, actually as a test during the beginning of podcasting. I wanted to play with the technology of getting from an audio recording to a streaming post. If you weren’t trying to do that in 2004, you don’t understand exactly what a challenge that was. Get it? I’m Ken, and I was trying out “casting”. Didn’t know if it’d actually be called “podcasting”, since that was Adam Curry’s placeholder name, based on the iPod, and who knew when that would no longer be the way people listened to things on the go?

August 9, 2012

kaydub’s photo http://smu.gs/N8Hdiy

kaydub’s photo http://smu.gs/N8Hdiy via tumblr http://kaydub.tumblr.com/post/29044553059

August 9, 2012

kaydub’s photo http://smu.gs/MA7HDY

kaydub’s photo http://smu.gs/MA7HDY via tumblr http://kaydub.tumblr.com/post/29043736549

July 11, 2012

Pacific Coast 7'12 with Diana

Visiting San Gregorio and beyond with our previously online friend Diana, who came from Germany to stay with us for a while. via tumblr http://kaydub.tumblr.com/post/26965060425

March 14, 2012

Test post for ifttt

Just a test. via tumblr http://kaydub.tumblr.com/post/19280789241

March 13, 2012

What a sliced home dry-aged steak looks like

What a sliced steak looks like, originally uploaded by KayDub. My first home dry aged roast. The sample I cooked up was spectacular. Fork tender, complex, intense flavor.