Author: Van-Tramp

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Compact Jr rebuild, repaint and flooring

Last month I completely demo’d the interior of the trailer. Since then I have been slowly picking away at the rebuild and have finally reached a the stage where I can start building the trailer back up. My first step in the rebuild was to repaint the interior walls after...

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27th Annual Franks Ride for Children

Frank’s Ride for Children is an annual poker run to raise money for children with life threatening diseases. “Frank Aulino, the founder of this event, was an active member and officer of the Longmont Moose Lodge. He pulled his friends and local community businesses together to raise money for children...

How things change 0

How things change

Not even one month ago I was waiting for the snow to clear to begin doing some outdoor activities; hiking, biking, etc… and now, this week, the weather has taken a new approach to keep me indoors and fat. It’s 85 degrees here! I know, to anyone that lives at...

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Tim nearly lost a toe

Leaping into the air after breaking a glass bowl in the kitchen is not a good thing. When you come back down, you tend to land in the same area as all the broken glass! Tim found this out the hard way last night. We spent the night in the...

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4 wheelin’ Lefthand Canyon

The Trail Blazer’s transmission gave out on Imelda last weekend and with a repair cost in the $4,000 range it was decided to simply replace the aging truck with a newer SUV. Imelda had been talking about getting something with 4WD ever since coming to Colorado, with the snow and...

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Summer 2013 Colorado todo list

I have so many travel/activity ideas romping around in my head for this summer that I feel the need to put them on ‘paper’. Many of these activities are the same ones that I think of each summer but continue to pass up when something else, (usually larger and more...

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The last day of my life

It was 5479 days ago and Imelda and I had just finished our final child birth class that very evening. It was her final day at work that day, having just begun her 3-week maternity leave. We had just completed a late evening walk through the mall and even ate lemon...

5 days? 0

5 days?

What happened? Did I fall into a coma? Five days have passed since my last post and I honestly do not know where they went. I know I worked on the trailer rebuild a bit on Friday… then woke up this morning. What the heck? To make matters worse, we...

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The cost of April 2013

This month is a little different than the past few months. It is the first one in which I pretty much sat still for the entire month. This causes a shift in my primary spending… from gasoline to other things. Instead of the normal $300 or more, I only spent...