Home! 
We decided to head home. We discovered most of what gear we were missing,
and how everything works. Now we'll take a few days back at home to finish getting setup for our big trip. On the way home in Bessemer we climbed the City Bluff in Bluff View Park. Nice view, but we ascended on a hairy side.. should have almost had equipment!! All-in-all it was a good trip. Turned out we got about 8mpg (mostly because I drove an average of 40mph and used neutral for all the big downhills :) (NOTE TO SELF: DO NOT SHUTOFF AN RV THINKING YOU'LL SAVE EVEN MORE GAS, The Power Brakes and steering is awefully important when it's that big...)
-Joe
P.S. We added the pictures back to the previous days. We never had enough internet time to get them up earlier.


A chipmunk we saw on the way up the bluff.

A view of our RV from the top.

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Packing Up! 
We spent all day yesterday, and probably all day again today packing up the RV and last minute fixes. Hoping to leave for a short test-trip tonight!? I'm still on "emergency" call for another week, so i can't wonder off too far. But I am done with my daily work duties. It is a lot of work packing this thing! 16 hours yesterday, and it barely looks started!!!
-Joe

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First Sleep Test In RV 
After several toturous days of server reloads and other problems,
Spent the day cleaning out Rangenet's Shop today. Helped John get his stuff in the morning, and then Jim and his crew grabbed everything else. Most of it junk, but oh well... Finally got a chance to bring Jims Kids out to Sparta Pit they did some great 12 foot cliff jumps+ rock wall climbing!

Slept in the RV in their Driveway... Went o.k. didn't sleep great, but might be able to once we get used to it...
-Joe


Mari, Kara, and her friend finding a geocache placed by Joe's mom. (We went caching with them the next day.)

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Big Rangenet Final Move 
Long Day. Woke up at 5:45am, was on the road by 6am. Drove 60 miles to Virginia,MN. Shutdown and loaded up 4 servers destined for the cities and took off South. Tried to help Matt setup temporary servers while driving down to cities. Arrived at Onvoy at 10:30am Got mailserver up by 11am, Rangenet website by 11:30 and then customer websites by about 1. Went to matt's apartment to finish cleaning things up. at 8pm brought matt out to dinner, and then headed back home. arrived after midnight. about 19 hours and more than 500 miles! Miranda was a huge help by driving down there.
-Joe


Our Old Server Room in Virginia,MN -------> Our New Server Setup in Minneapolis! (small)


Here is the new Server room, much more professional...

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Strawberry Pie 
Today I went to my parents' to make a strawberry pie. Sara really wanted me to post a picture of my pie after I made it, so here you go. :)
-Miranda



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