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2004 was a crazy year. I worked at the FL Attorney Generals Office, where price gouging is housed, but as far as the storms went Tallahassee faired very well.

I agree, once a cat III starts approaching a IV it's time to go. Everyone that lives along a river, water basin, floodplain etc pay attention to every storm. As stated above though, most don't have the leave or the convenience of working remotely so they end up having to stay put or get jammed...

Florida has too many people, especially concentrated in the southern corridors. Even trying to work inland to Brooksville gets jammed up. The main problem is 85% wait until the last minute to make a run for it. I was not born in Florida, I lived there for over 30 years, so I understand that...

Beef stew seems to be a fairly popular canning option. We have a canner but haven't used it yet but we're thinking of giving the beef stew a try. Since we move every 2-3 months having a stock of jars doesn't seem to be the best plan but we may start with one case. If you have a fridge/freezer...

Way too many mods to list...

We spent the entire weekend at our most used secret spot, c-ouch. Not the most difficult to reach but you gotta do what you gotta do, didn't cost much in diesel either.

In full transparency I didn’t know that about sulfur, I was making a Bigfoot joke so thanks, I love randomly learning things. We have only spread something around once for invasive Argentine ants. I can’t remember what it was but we were asked to do it by a ranger so we went out and bought some...

Just spread around sulfur, it's supposed to keep the boogers away so maybe it'll work on bears too :tearsofjoy:

Since we don't keep a US carrier when we overland out of country we would just get another SIM, loosing the phone is always the worst case scenario. Our necessary phone numbers aren't tied to a specific provider so we can use a laptop or tablet in the interim in a pinch. Some non Apple phones...

Yeah but getting a physical SIM to work was difficult in many countries due to the rules. Several times we had people put us under their national ID number since that was the only way to get one. We also had trouble switching back to previous carriers. Movistar gave us the most trouble. We did...

This is how I understand it but I haven't looked into it in 7+ years.

We were hiking in Grand Teton last year and walked into something caustic, so bad Mandi started running back from where we came. Breathing was extremely difficult. We were less than 100 yards from the end of the trail that is next to a boat ramp. The only thing we could think of is someone...

I was told that Mexico is considering digging their own canal, it'll be never ending and will end up on the same heap Pluto did.

No. We also have cooked extensively in our van so it definitely smells like food. We did have a sow and two cubs come up snooping one night in NC, woke us up when one of the cubs started leaning on our passenger side running boards to get a better sniff. We tried to be quiet to get a good look...

If we were setting up a lead battery system today we'd go with a Blue Sea Systems 20A Battery Link . We ran a Blue Sea Systems Automatic Charge Relay (ACR) before we switched to lithium and it was fantastic up until it failed in Chile. When we returned to the States we contacted Blue Sea Systems...

It was close enough and I do know the difference but it was a great opportunity to share a profound tidbit…but I better get back on topic before I receive a citation : o

Stupid Interruption: Did you know that there isn't a consensus on the number of continents? We didn't until we reached Colombia. A friend of ours from Peru, also an overlander, asked us how we felt that we made it that far. We said it was neat to finally step foot on another continent. She was...

Just my opinion, but I wouldn't install anything that I didn't have a high degree of confidence in (unless I was broken down and it was the only way out). If you are already wanting to have the back-up switches I would install those first then save up the coin and add the preferred pod later...

We went to a reputable RV shop and had them pull our custom rear packs apart and add a leaf to each which helped a lot, the original pack made it about 4.5 years and ~60K miles. We have friends that run air bags, which they did have quite a few failures, but they eventually just started carrying...

Every thread becomes what it does, same for every conversation. I thought the Luddite comment was funny and replied to it's author. That's all I did while also sharing some experience. For some reason it was construed as being not allowed or not close enough to the topic. Which doesn't matter...