WHAZAMMO & THE GILLIG

SEND HELP, SEND MONEY... send in the white van and the goons, they need to take me away SO, here it is, six full months after starting this project, actually almost 7 full months !  We have been under so much self-imposed pressure to leave by 10 September that I have not even had time to do the blog. Today is 1 SEPTEMBER... we are 9 days away... we were lied to, this is a cave, not a tunnel, there is no light at the end to be seen (yet)... fatigue and frustration are bad for any project, especially when in the final days before completion.  The money is not an issue, just fatigue. The fatigue is not psychological, mental or physical... it is engineering-innovation fatigue. This has been an extremely rough project to build, it challenged us at almost every turn, nothing, repeat nothing here could draw from the earlier experiences of building four earlier busses... this GILLIG is that unique, it also is possibly among the two-three projects (in my list of hundreds) that I would ...

We have disappeared socially (more so than our usual reclusiveness), and the next 18 months promise to be even more withdrawn, as we sequester ourselves (somewhere) out of the public traffic, and exposure... many of our acquaintances and followers seem to view our online and written productivity as our being very social (rubbing shoulders social-entertaining house guests social-attending banquets/conference/gala social)... wrong! When after locking ourselves away in a small coastal port town on the end of a remote pier as one of three liveaboards in a 100 boat harbor, we feel encroached on, sick of people, and wanting to "get away" by selling our 8 year boat home to go live ashore in a coach, perhaps people should get the message... we are "not" very social. The COVID charade cast in stone a great many of our previous theories and beliefs, the recent events for six or so years have validated what we "knew" and have spoken about regarding corporate and poli...