HMS Beangle

Welcome aboard! We're sailing across North America in our Bean Stalker teardrop trailer. Come share our journey.

Tag: Chores

  • Chattanooga, Chickamauga, and Chance

    Grab a cup of something, this is a long one. We fairly raced south from Kentucky. The weather projections were looking quite bad across KY, with heavy rain and extreme cold in the forecast, even the possibility of tornadoes in northern Tennessee. Waking early, we slid well south to Chattanooga and set up camp for…

  • Solar panel physics (or maybe it’s chemistry?)

    Solar panels are wonderful. They’re also picky. Our panel has a curve to it, to fit it to the front of the Bean trailers. This means we don’t get 100% of the sun unless it’s very bright, but it also means that it can get some sun most of the time if it’s points in…