The next day it was cold and windy out, so we stayed inside and enjoyed the view through the windows. We barely had cell coverage, but I was able to drop a “pin” for a friend of mine who wanted to come visit. A few hours later, Eric and his son showed up on bicycles. …
Author: Edward Wilkinson
December 26th, 2018
It got pretty cold during the night, so we stayed inside watching the sun come up from inside the Mog. We enjoyed our morning coffee and let the sun warm us up. Eventually it warmed up and I went out for a walk and took more pictures. The great empty spaces are beautiful. We didn’t…
December 24th, 2018
We didn’t have a busy schedule for today. We only had to drive about four miles out to Font’s Point so that we could be there for the sunset. Once we got to the destination, we spent the afternoon reading in the shade. I wandered around taking pictures. It was becoming late afternoon, and the…
December 22 – 23, 2018
The way the holidays worked out on the calendar, I was able to use a bunch of sick days and get a good block of time off from work. So we loaded up the MOG and headed to one of our favorite places, Anza Borrego in California. The drive there took most of the day,…
October 5-7, 2018 – Las Padres National Forest
Well, the summer has swiftly gone by, and the MOG had been resting quietly in it’s warehouse garage, but we needed to get out and take a small roadtrip. So on Friday October 5th, when I came home from work, the MOG was all packed and we headed up into the Las Padres National Forest…
Summertime MOG house
Just a quick update on the MOG. The summer sun and heat has been concerning me, so I worked a deal to keep the MOG in a climate controled warehouse. Sleep well MOG.
Rooftop Crane Cover
A couple of weeks ago I had a cover made for the spare tire that is on the roof of the MOG. Now I figured I should also make a cover for the winch that is on the crane that is used to hoist the 600 pound tire. I took some measurements, and drew up…
Bigger mudflaps
The new 365/80 R20 tires that we put on the MOG are wider than the tires that were on it before, so I figured it was time to install wider mud flaps. The old ones were not very functional anymore. So I found some new mudflaps that were 20″ wide. A perfect match to the…
Trailer hitch and folding wood rack
One of the things I wanted to do was install a 2″ receiver hitch so I could tow a trailer with a couple of motorcycles on it. So while the MOG was at 88844Motor, we fabricated a trailer hitch, and bolted it directly to the frame of the back of the MOG. It came out…
Spare tire cover
It had been bothering me that the spare tire is up on top of the MOG baking in the sun and ageing prematurely. Remember, that’s a $1500 tire getting intense UV all day everyday. So I found a local upolstery place that was willing to make a heavy vinyl spare tire cover. We climbed up…