A common question in the "I'm buying a new RV" scene. There was a discussion about this on the rv.net forums and someone posted a spreadsheet that does the calculations needed to determine how much horsepower is needed to move a mass (vehicle and trailer) up a grade at a certain speed. I thought the Excel spreadsheet worked well, but thought it would be cooler as a web application.

I kind of have a thing with calculators like this. I have done quite a few for Cisco, but they are all pretty boring - ROI calculators of different sorts, equipment configuration tools - things of this nature. But, because I enjoy doing them, I have built a couple that are on this site.

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While a morning conference call at 9am is not so out of the norm, the person to which I talked to was. Our 9am conference call was with a writer with Time Magazine, interviewing us for a possible upcoming article for the magazine!

It started yesterday when I received a comment on a post by Sandra telling me about a possible opportunity to be interviewed. She said that she had read on RV-Dreams.com that a Time writer was looking for some subjects of an upcoming article. I contacted Howard & Linda of RV-Dreams.com and asked if they would pass my name along to the writer.

In what seemed like the blink of an eye, I received an email from Liz - the writer from Time. We set up the time to meet this morning, and she punctually called at 9...

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Big hole. Like a month's worth of hole. The good news is that I think I figured out what it means when I don't make an entry: we are having fun

We have been back in Cali for almost a month now. I have spent most of my efforts here going into Cisco to drum up some more work. Ang got back from Burning Man without incident. We hung out in Morgan Hill for a bit. Went to Sugar Barge RV Park in Bethel Island for a couple of great weeks. Now we are back in Morgan Hill. Thats a lot of movement for a month. Getting ready for more, tho...

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