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a little crazy goes a long way

 Las Vegas, NV
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TurtleHerding 2022 Winter recap… turtleherding.com/2023/05/tu…

TurtleHerding 2022 Winter recap…

Our winter was… an adventure… Nevada After taking delivery of our Rivian and having our normal polish, wrap, ceramic coat applied, we decided to make a trip to Kentucky to surprise my (…

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The journey to our Rivian R1T! turtleherding.com/2022/11/th…

The journey to our Rivian R1T!

We’d been watching the Rivian company for a while.. We’d seen the R1T (the truck) and the R1S (the SUV) in pictures and videos online. There was a lot of interest in Rivian, Amazon and …

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7 years to wear through braided steel hose… turtleherding.com/2022/11/7-…

7 years to wear through braided steel hose…

On Saturday, Oct 1, we departed Las Vegas, NV on our way to Rusty’s RV Ranch in Rodeo, NM… As typical, we had our car hauler pulled out and waiting for us, hooked up, loaded the Model S…

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Starter batteries? Yes, two please. turtleherding.com/2022/11/st…

Starter batteries? Yes, two please.

The evening was Sept 28th… I was looking over various readings in my Home-Assistant instance and something caught my eye. Wait.. our chassis batteries were at… 4.6v ? Clearly, that coul…

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No Tesla, no pain turtleherding.com/2022/11/no…

No Tesla, no pain

Well, that was short lived.. The 2022 Model S is the 2nd shortest ownership experience we’ve ever had with a vehicle.

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Move’n on up! (AstroShed Relocation) turtleherding.com/2022/11/mo…

Move’n on up! (AstroShed Relocation)

You may remember that about 4 years ago, we built a remote observatory – we lovingly call the AstroShed. In the 3 years, through a combination of poor timing and poor weather ( for astronomy …

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An extra screw and a broken belt turtleherding.com/2022/01/an…

An extra screw and a broken belt

While relocating my astronomy observatory, I routinely had extra bits in pockets. I tried to be diligent and ensure the pockets were always empty when I put clothes in the laundry area, but… …

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Dash AC hiccup turtleherding.com/2022/01/da…

Dash AC hiccup

Another little issue that popped up during our drive back from Byron, NY to Las Vegas, NV — our dash AC stopped working! Which, was unfortunate, since it died as we were dropping down through…

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AquaHot not heating after engine overheat turtleherding.com/2022/01/aq…

AquaHot not heating after engine overheat

This is more of an informational post in case it could help someone else who experiences this issue. Back in August, we had a failure of the fan drive gear box in our 2016 Tiffin Allegro Bus, which…

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Dodging tree limbs in the dark turtleherding.com/2022/01/do…

Dodging tree limbs in the dark

A bit of a heads up, this is a verbose post. After being stuck in Gary Indiana for 4 days, and getting the rebuilt fan drive gear box installed, we were understandably eager to get on the road. It …

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Yes, we’re still alive! turtleherding.com/2022/01/20…

Yes, we’re still alive!

And yes, we’re still terrible bloggers. But, for the record.. we do this for fun, from time to time to keep our friends and family up to date. It’s easy to let the blog slip when weR…

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2021-08-13 On the road again! turtleherding.com/2021/08/20…

2021-08-13 On the road again!

Technically, we were on the road again yesterday.. but that’s getting ahead of where we left you with our last post. Picking up from there… I called Tiffin several times on Tuesday for …

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2021-08-10 That fix was short lived… turtleherding.com/2021/08/20…

2021-08-10 That fix was short lived…

Here we are… again.. with no engine cooling… Stuck in Gary Indiana. I (Michael) am not a mechanic by trade. I’m very capable at doing about anything I set my mind to, but there…

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2021-08-08 Turtles not herding turtleherding.com/2021/08/20…

2021-08-08 Turtles not herding – UPDATE

We’re all fixed up! Check the post for the full update and action shots of Michael fixing things.

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2021-08 Where’s the Herd? (and upcoming live-drive) turtleherding.com/2021/08/20…

2021-08 Where’s the Herd? (and upcoming live-drive)

Hi everyone! We admit it… we’re terrible bloggers… But, here’s a catch up on the past few months… Michael went BALD in Las Vegas! (temporarily… ) We installed so…

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2021-05-26 Lunar Eclipse Time Lapse turtleherding.com/2021/05/20…

2021-05-26 Lunar Eclipse Time Lapse

Partly cloudy and a dirty dome on my allsky camera limited the ‘awe’, but you can still certainly tell that our Moon is diminishing in brightness ( and going ‘dark’ ) in thi…

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M 13 – Globular Cluster in Hercules turtleherding.com/2021/05/m-…

M 13 – Globular Cluster in Hercules

M 13 is a Globular Cluster about 145 light years across and 22,200 light years away. It is composed of several hundred thousand stars! Details: Comprised of 5 minute exposures for each filter: 6x R…

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Update: Relocate your Starlink turtleherding.com/2021/04/up…

Update: Relocate your Starlink

Starlink recently ( past month’ish? ) added the ability to relocate your Starlink service to a new service address via the customer portal on their website. On my live drive stream a few days…

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2021-04-17 Live Stream: Tesla Road Trip to the Astro-Shed turtleherding.com/2021/04/20…

2021-04-17 Live Stream: Tesla Road Trip to the Astro-Shed

Yes, the start time is 4am Pacific / 7am Eastern I’m heading to my remotely operable astronomical observatory ( lovingly called – AstroShed )I have some parts to swap out to help the se…

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2021-04-10: Live Stream – Mobile Internet Antennas & Boosters youtube.com/watch?v=qzOzUh9J… turtleherding.com/2021/04/20…
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