Another cooler night to clear out the hot air, then woke up to yet another beautiful day. Once breakfast etc. was out of the way we headed out for our morning exercise by walking around the resort. Slowly the place is filling up, but most of the long term people won’t arrive until after American Thanksgiving.
After lunch, the mail arrived and with it a couple of parcels for me. We decided to try out some LED lights in the trailer. The current ones are small 12 volt “wedge” bulbs, these give off a yellow light rather than white. Because the trailer works off 12 volts the voltage is not constant, rather it will slowly drop until it reaches a certain voltage, then the charger would kick in. This means that the lights would slowly dim then suddenly get brighter. The LEDs work off 8 volts to 30 volts without changing brightness, so with the LEDs we theoretically get a brighter, whiter consistent light. In practice we got a brighter, whiter consistent light, so we are now happier campers. The rest of the trailer will be converted shortly.
The second parcel was a toy for me. A couple of weeks ago Lyn mentioned that it might be fun if she had her own GPS for geocaching, rather than just following me around in circles. I thought about this for a couple of nano seconds and gallantly offered to give Lyn our current GPS. This meant I didn’t have a GPS now, better go buy another one, it was pointless buying the same one (we may have a problem sorting out which is which) so I bought the next model up which is a different colour, problem solved! The fact that the new model had more bells and whistles was an added bonus.
Once the new toy had been checked out it was time to put up an antenna so I can do some radio work, luckily there is a tree a few yards behind the trailer that could support one end of the wire, and the trailer supports the other end.
Tomorrow is our 38th wedding anniversary so we are heading out to Florida for the day