Follow Our Progress

January 20th 2004

	Thought I'd post a picture of our view as we open the bus door...  from one side...
	...and the other.
	We took a giant leap and bought two 165 watt solar panels while in Quartzsite.  We are so excited!  This is better than Christmas!
	Hot wiring a connection to the batteries.  We've been living off the charge on the battery bank for 5 days now, so putting a bit of a charge back in was important... Tomorrow we install a charge controller so we will not have to monitor the battery voltage and disconnect the panels at night.
	We are leaning them up against the side of the bus temporarily,  but will mount them on the roof as soon as we have motivation.
	Emily and Zoe doing what they do best - PLAY!

I received a request to get some pictures of "the big tent" in Quartzsite, so we'll try to get some while we're out and about tomorrow.

Our connection to the internet is really flaky in the evenings lately.  It appears that all of the circuits get busy, so it's been hard to get things posted to the web site.  The mornings are a bit better (before 6:00), so we'll try switching our pattern until things improve.