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10/2/20 – Footnote on Alaska

10/2/20 – Footnote on Alaska I made it to the airport on my bike with the battery status meter blinking, the same indication as “reserve” on your gas gauge. I rented a mini-van, took the bike back to the Sockeye

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9/26/20 – All Around Anchorage

9/26/20 – All Around Anchorage Day 2 in Alaska was spent riding the bike trails around the city of Anchorage. Few places capture the outdoors within the city like Anchorage. While riding the Coastal Trail one doesn’t even know there

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9/24/20 – Next stop – Alaska

9/24/20 – Next stop – Alaska For getting to Alaska I had planned to take the Ferry from Seattle up to Juneau. This I had done 48 years earlier with my good friend Roger when we were Coke spies. We

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6/17/20 – Sunride Chapter 3 Begins

6/17/20 – Sunride Chapter 3 Begins For weeks now after I was turned away at the Tesla gigafactory because of the Corona virus I’ve been racking my brain how to continue the quest of riding my solar powered electric bike

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3/13/20 – Tesla Gigafactory, Nevada

3/13/20 – Tesla Gigafactory, Nevada Driving through the night and sleeping only at rest stops I arrived outside at the exit near Sparks, Nevada where my “Mecca,” the Tesla Gigafactory, was located. It seemed odd to me that the freeway

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3/12/20 – Las Vegas

3/12/20 – Las Vegas It turns out I only used two of the three solar-charged batteries to get around Lake Tahoe. Hummm, I’ve got one unused solar charged battery left. The cogs began turning again. What if I were to

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3/6/20 – The Ride Around Lake Tahoe

My goal was to be in South Lake Tahoe at 7 a.m. the next morning. Sure enough I arrived on time. I checked my bicycle tires and filled them within two pounds of the maximum allowable air pressure. I would

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3/4/20 – Paradise, California

3/4/20 – Paradise, California I pulled out of my shop in Portland mid-day on Tuesday, March 3, 2020. My thought was to drive part of the way that day; but, I felt great and ended up driving through the night

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3/3/20 – Load Up Day

3/3/20 – Load Up Day Load up day went remarkably well. I put everything I could for the Sol-Reliant installation behind the seat, in the seat and on the floorboard of the passenger side: tools, 30-watt photovoltaic module, containers for

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Chapter 2 – The Resumption

Chapter 2 – The Resumption After a six-month hiatus lasting through the worst of winter, opportunity materialized out of thin air. I had pondered how to go about getting to these other BIG western states (California, Nevada, Arizona) when I

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Read about global warming and ways you can reduce your carbon footprint in my book, Footprint: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Extinction

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I present at conferences in America, China, South America and other countries on solar energy, global warming, electric vehicles, and reducing your carbon footprint. To learn more go to my speaker’s website.

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My Sol-Reliant solar water heating system has been installed all over the world. Order kits from the Sol-Reliant website.

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