Where is everyone #5

What a piss off. Get to the bike park and its a sloppy mess. Still water running down the single track and the jump park was closed. The obstacle course area was covered with 4 year olds climbing all over it. Its a bike area not a playground FFS. Dang parents.

 

Yes, abroad. We sold pur places in Australia and Singapore. We will look more into South America. We used to love South Africa, no way in hell we are going back there now though. Everyone we know there is gone and for good reason. Thought about new Zealand, however, they are changing very fast and not for the better. So, it will prolly be South America. We will give it until the end of the year and go from there.

 

What are you riding?

 

I've got a mountain bike. This mud is just too slick there to get aggressive on. Plus it beats the lips up on the ramps when you hit them wet.

No hard riding + muddy bike and muddy clothes just doesn't appeal to me. The odd bit of mud now and then isn't a big deal but when its an inch of snot all the way down the hill its just not worth it.

 

It is sad. What's funny is they originally moved to Idaho from California, I think around 15 or so years ago for the same reasons people are fleeing from it now.

I left the state in 2000 and never gave going back a second thought, even though I have a lot of friends there and love where I grew up. Only moved to where I'm at in Oregon to be close to my old man since he moved here (from CA) when he retired.

The wife and I are thinking about moving in the next few years though. She wants to go back to Knoxville, where she grew up and I'm not exactly putting up a fight to stay here.

 

I read an interesting article a while back. It was saying that it is much more common for Americans to move across the country than it is for Canadians. I couldn't fathom just packing up and moving to Ontario or Nova Scotia. Hell I can't even see myself moving back to BC lol.

 

I hear you again and agree... I know only Brasil and the US... but I think the world has been changing so quickly and for the much worse... that I don't know if there's any place I would like to live for the rest of my life... seriously.... I will be going back to the US but for the first time I am not excited about it... not excited about going back trucking either... since my dad's passing in 2019 I have been seeing and experiencing things in a different way...
The pandemic has changed many things throughout the world... and time will tell what is going to be within a year or two or more...
I was planning on leaving Brasil "forever"... but now I am considering coming back to Brasil.... but everything is up in the air considering future events...
Wish I had a crystal ball...
Not having any meaningful point of reference, no family, no siblings, no children, no home, no nothing... I don't know where to go... a tropical place seems good, among other things... but I must make a living and things seem to become more "difficult" as I age. After some research and considerations, it doesn't seem that "cheap" to live abroad on a small income, even in Brasil... there are taxes to be paid, sometimes in both countries, depending on each person's situation... and - may God "forbid" - if I become disable or need a lot of medical attention, I must have means to take care of that myself...
I have a lot of thinking and praying and researching and "studying" and considering to do this year... actually have been doing this for a loooong time... to decide where my next 5 years or how much time I have ahead to live will be...
Good luck with your decisions... I truly hope all works out very well for you...

 

170 is cheap cheap. Mine has cruise control in it as well but I'd imagine it would work without. New ones with cruise are like 700 bucks or so.

I ended up being able to fix mine. Had a broken wire under the skirt. I've got someone willing to buy my meritor when I finally swap to an 18 speed. Just gotta find the money and trans to do it.

 

Galanz has a 3 in 1air fryer, convection oven, microwave. The microwave is 900 watts but must have a peak over 1500. Because it trips my inverter. I'll be upgrading to a 3k watt. But the fryer and oven work great. Walmart has them for roughly 110.

 

Make sure you check the wattage on the air fryer part. Even a 3000 watt inverter only puts out 1500 watts per outlet. And then, your alternator has to be able to handle the load. An average truck alternator is 145 amps. 145A x 12v = 1740W. So the maximum wattage you can draw would be 1740W at any given time. That includes whatever the trucks accessories are calling for as well as what the inverter is pulling.

A general rule of thumb on peak power requirements, is to double the appliance's listed power requirements. So your 900W microwave should have a peak draw around 1800W. Generally, inverters have a peak output that is double the continuous. The peak output is just a capacitor that stores juice for start up of a load.