It’s rare for things to work out perfectly. But I am living ahead slow anyway. largely at peace within myself.<\/p>\n
I made serious contact at last with the planner guy that’s going to help me expand my lot in Cienega by 50-100% for next to nothing. It’s a long story, but there was an adjoining chunk that was once set aside for a street that never happened, and probably never will.<\/p>\n
There’s a rooftop tent waiting for me to come get it down in the Valley. The vendor declined to help me install it–short-staffed, they said–and I’m fine with that. I’ve got my measuring tape working overtime in the driveway and I’m looking forward to taking on the project myself.<\/p>\n
Six miles from that place there’s the one where you go to test drive LectricBikes, the same place they build them.<\/p>\n
The Lectric Bike is half of my backup plan, the part that moves, a secondary for the truck.<\/p>\n
The other half of my backup plan has been a little yurt tent–the part that doesn’t move, a Plan B for the RTT.<\/p>\n
But even though it’s beautiful and reasonably priced, I’m going to wait a bit on that one. Because …<\/p>\n
She spotted, on her facebookMarket thing, a 7×14 tandem-axle cargo trailer for $4500 in Prettytown.<\/p>\n
There’s one known thing wrong with it already, and that’s the fact that it’s only six feet tall inside. I wouldn’t be standing full upright in it. But I’m going to have a look at it Sunday.<\/p>\n
I don’t strictly need it now, but I figure it’s worth 3K to me anyway if it’s not falling apart. So I’ll look grave and serious as I study and enumerate it’s flaws, and I’ll make that lowball offer, with an apologetic sigh that will be partly sincere.<\/p>\n
And, either way, I’ll soon be building out my modestly glorious rig a step at a time, and gathering film while I do.<\/p>\n