Running low on power

The 2019 Subaru Outback drives real nice. Our tent also looks real nice on top of it.

HOWEVER. It has some really bad design decisions driven by an obsession to gadgetize everything.

I really miss SIMPLE, gadget free cars.

When you open the front doors, a little glowy light goes on to cast light below the door, presumably for people who live in caves. There's no easy way to disable this light.

Seriously Subaru? You won't allow me to leave the door open? Not the best thing for car camping. Now I have to figure out how to disable these damn lights!

Last reported position

The last reported position of our intrepid adventurers, on Thu Jul 04 2019 05:13:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) was:
Latitude: 49.2079617
Longitude: -124.0679098
British Columbia, Canada
Full route map: https://whereami-167313.appspot.com/

Road trip - 0km

The road trip has started. Well.... I guess that's debatable. We're sleeping in a backyard, and the car was so full I had to take the bus here with the kids. BUT, we've technically left the city of Victoria, and we are sleeping in our tent tonight, so I count it as having started.

We've got way too much stuff, we'll have to whittle it down tomorrow, before starting on our next leg.

Last reported position

The last reported position of our intrepid adventurers, on Sun Jun 30 2019 23:29:15 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) was:
Latitude: 48.4259253
Longitude: -123.4135705
British Columbia, Canada
Full route map: https://whereami-167313.appspot.com/

Tetris much?

Time is running out. Just over 48 hours before our primary residence becomes a tent we have yet to sleep in.

I think our container is big enough, just not comfortably so. A trend that I expect will continue throughout our trip.

Last reported position (do people even blog anymore?)

Last time round, we had one child. We had time to blog and keep a journal of our thoughts. Adina even had time to work on a paper and get published!

This time around, things are different. Two children, and blogging is even more obsolete than it was in 2017; but we still want one. Instagram has taken over, we just don't think it's a replacement for a good old fashioned, all in one place, weblog. So - we're blogging like it's 1999 people!

One of our workarounds for having less time writing - at the press of a button, a blog entry with our position on a map is automatically generated. So when we're very busy - this is all there will be:

The last reported position of our intrepid adventurers, on Mon Jun 24 2019 08:12:13 GMT+0000 (UTC) was:
Latitude: 48.4296276
Longitude: -123.377996
British Columbia, Canada
Full route map: https://whereami-167313.appspot.com/

Panic

Uh oh. Two weeks before our lease runs out. Four month old baby. Three year old pre-schooler. Four months ahead of us, living in a three person tent.

What were we thinking?!