![]() ![]() Holy Gila monster, the Milky Way was like a vast, psychedelic puddle of sparkling galactic vomit, to make a figure of speech. Lesson 5: When you have no electricity and it’s night in the desert, look up. But no, it’s a way more deluxe modern appliance hooked up to an electric thermostat and electric starting mechanism, which unfortunately requires electricity. Maybe you’re savvy to these things, and you were already saying, “Why don’t you just fire up the propane heater?” I thought the same thing, pal, okay, and once again the answer to the question is “death by technology update.” If it had been just a propane furnace that had a pilot light I could even light manually, we would have been golden. The trickle charge from the Expedition to the Airstream batteries while we drove was not nearly enough to overcome the severe depletion I had laid on the system while it was parked at our house. ![]() Ha ha! What a dependable captain I was turning out to be. And let me now also remind you that we had no goddamn electrical power. It was November 15 and we were in the high desert, closer in feel to Flagstaff than Phoenix, so it was in the ballpark of 36 degrees outside. ![]() We might as well have been in any parking lot anywhere, for all the good this place was doing us. ![]() On that first night, however, I’ll repeat, we had no hookups. ![]()
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