I am heading out to raft the Colorado River through Ruby/Horsethief/Westwater canyons at the Colorado/Utah border this weekend, and I found a cool, free website that will allow me to embed a map with my current location into my blog. It is called SPOT Trip Manager, and it seems to be a free service that […]
gps, mapping, outdoorsMy kayaking season had to begin somewhere with flowing white water, and the class III Shoshone run on the Colorado River seemed like a nice way to ease back into the cold April water. Plus, it seemed fitting that the van’s first long voyage away from Loveland Pass should take it Glenwood Springs just like […]
kayak, outdoors, stories
When the day was over, I had been asked this by at least four separate individuals. And to think that I had never heard of this trick before this week. Unfortunately it didn’t help, and I needed a bigger metaphorical hammer to get my van moving in the snow again. The spring snow storms have […]
outdoors, stories, van, WestfaliaThe Colorado Front Range had only received 2 inches of precipitation in the past 5 months and it had been balmy throughout the new year, so we all knew we were bound to get smacked with a spring blizzard. The snow came Thursday (3/26) morning and dumped a foot and a half in Boulder. CU […]
stories
Today marks the second week I have had my Zetec up in running in my 1985 Westfalia! I had already put 300 miles on it, so yesterday I gave it a thorough check out and everything looked great. This morning, I drove it up I-70 in Colorado to go skiing, which was the final exam […]
Bostig, gps, stories, van, Westfalia
I can’t believe how incredible the Zetec is in my Vanagon! Joe came down and provided a tremendous amount of help to me this weekend, and we got the van running beautifully today, 8 days after I tore out the old VW waterboxer engine! I will let video speak for itself (PG13 for language)! Bostig […]
Bostig, stories, van, Westfalia
It was another long day and a great conclusion to the weekend to be able to see the Zetec mounted in the van! There was a lot of incidental work like figuring out how to take apart (put back together) CV axles, mounting brackets in the engine bay, transferring equipment to the new transmission, and […]
Bostig, stories, van, video, Westfalia
I am moving forward quickly with preparations on my Zetec engine prior to the transplant into the Vanagon. I have completed the SK-A (adapter) and SK-C (cooling) steps of the conversion process which means that I am a few steps away from being ready to pull the old engine out and put the new one […]
Bostig, stories, van, WestfaliaLast night, I made a training video for work that spoofed the training films from the t.v. show Lost. If you have seen the orientation video for the Swan station, you might find this funny. It really helps to also know that what we are doing with our tests at work is very similar to […]
Glory, video
