Move - Done!

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Thanks guys.

Bay area traffic

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Bumpy roads and grumpy driver tells us we are almost there.

Day 2

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Start of day 2 and some moron takes up all the parking space clearance
needed to swing the trailer out.

Ah, welcome to California myself.

Done with day 1

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12 hours, 430 miles (including getting lost while looking for our
hotel), 53 gallons burnt already.

Lots of tricks learned about driving a truck *with* a trailer.
Steering a trailer while in reverse gear can be particularly
entertaining for whoever is not driving. Braking to reduce speed makes
you realize how much mass are you actually pulling through that
steering wheel.

All of this with a vehicle that does 0-60mph in 20 seconds.

Lots of fun.

*yawn* rest tomorrow.

Half way through

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Ooooooh yeah!!!

Looking forward to a new start and all the good yummy stuffy food.

Bye bye Oregon

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Yes someday we hope to be back. Thank you for everything.

The apple pie

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This is the same place we had stopped at when we drove down the same
route on dec 17th 2007.

Sinful pit stop I say. Pooja is busy licking off the last bits of ice
cream and the pie.

Apple crisp with vanilla icecream

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Lunch break

Another pic of the ultralight

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Pit stop

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Myrtle creek airport. Ultra light weighs 170 lbs. Surprisingly, No FAA
licence needed. This one cost $7000.

Ok, back on the road

Truck driver’s view

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Fun!

Mmmm breakfast

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Our last breakfast at Sharis and in Oregon.

The trucker’s clan

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80 miles done. 570 more to go. This thing is a fuel drinker. Barely 8
miles to a gallon.

Pilot truck driver

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Photographer : Mrs pilot truck driver

Ok! Here we go

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All packed and ready to go

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From the looks of it this is going to be a fun trip. 600 miles at 50
mph and the loong load. I am all excited already.

Thanks to iPhone to email to flickr to wordpress to livejournal, plan
is to keep updating this blog all along the way.

Weekend was good. We flew from Hillsboro Airport (KHIO) to Tillamook (KTMK) to see the Air Museum. We landed and then parked the airplane in the wrong parking lot. The museum was at the other end of the airport, so had to taxi all the way around the airport fencing and then onto a side road to get to the museum aircraft parking. Weird experience considering this was the first time we were doing anything like this - parking an airplane like a car at an unfamiliar airport.

And then to Siletz Bay (S45) where we walked across the highway (right next to the airport) and had berry pie + ice cream at the Side Door Cafe. That was the best berry pie + ice cream we have ever had. We will surely miss that part of Oregon.

We had done the same route a few months back too but this time we stopped at both places and spent some time on the ground.

It was a lot of fun.

Morse Code is fun.

I don’t update this weblog either when I have nothing to post or when I have too much to post. Analysis paralysis. Well, this time I am in that middle-of-things frame and hence this post.

Taking photographs with professional photography equipment is so much fun, thanks to Joy. He is an awesome photographer with a fine skill and passion of wood working and of course an overly passionate bike rider. In fact the Bullet Bangalore group is how I met him in Bangalore sometime around 2001.

It is like he is overflowing with passion and energy to do what he really wants to do. This time I asked him to just drill two holes in a piece of wood so that I could mount my cheap straight morse key. I ended up taking a video of how he turned that piece of flat wood to a beautiful glassy polished base for the key. Might post that in a few days.

For now, I have an awesome morse key which I can cherish for the coming decades.

Two months ago, I could not find a cheap (~$20) morse key to practice code so out of frustration, I took Joy’s help to make this Version 1 of a Lambic Key all from scrap wood lying around in his workshop. It works well. Had to put a capacitor to fix the contact bounce problem as I was using it on a serial port with a software. This weekend, I put together a CW keyer kit and the V1 key worked flawlessly with it.

Thanks Joy! I’ll pay you back by kicking your ass!

The joys of working at the networking giant.

Maybe I am flowing with the moment but if you have anything to do with systems administration, you would understand this -

[vaibhav@xxxxx] ~$ ping -c 5 -w 2 santa.vsharma.net
PING santa.vsharma.net (69.31.43.218) 56(84) bytes of data.

— santa.vsharma.net ping statistics —
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 1999ms

Sitting in a rundown datacenter in the heart of downtown New York, santa.vsharma.net served well for 3 years. Ran a load full of high volume domains, survived multiple foss.in beatings, a hard drive failure, ran various flavors of Fedora and was upgraded twice. I spent countless number of hours configuring it remotely to keep it running and regular visits to the datacenter to massage it.

And just yesterday, I ran “poweroff” on it so that it can be taken down. Another victim of me moving to the west coast.

But then there is the better future -

Last login: Sat Mar 1 06:10:09 2008 from 171.69.67.61

Welcome to Santa da Puttar - Banta I

[vaibhav@banta] ~$ uname -a
Linux banta.vsharma.net 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:01:45 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

RIP santa. Hopefully, everyone has copied all their data off you and you will not be missed.