nature is urging me to migrate

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The Sand Dunes National Park. one of the picnic areas.

Another incredible Fall day in Colorado. Low 80s in the daytime, mid-40s at night, and single-digit humidity! Perfect, absolutely perfect.

But nothing that perfect can last forever, and next Thursday, a front is coming through, and the low temperatures are supposed to get down around freezing. And worse, it's supposed to get pretty cloudy for several days, which means what little charging I get from the low-hanging sun filtering through the trees will be largely blocked by the clouds, so living on sunshine will be sketchy at best.

I could better deal with the tree problem in the Arctic Fox because I put a lot of solar panels on the roof, almost as many as I could fit. But the Lance's roof is way smaller, so the solar panels I put on the Lance are fewer, and each one puts out fewer amps. And there's really no way I can move into the sun. If you remember the pictures I've posted of the neighborhood, all the streets are lined with big trees. So soon as the sun gets lower on the horizon, as in the Fall and Winter, the trees start blocking the sun, and my ability to live comfortably takes a turn for the worse.

I've already switched to using my small 13-inch computer over a month ago since it uses far less power than my more powerful 17-inch one does. And I only turn on my big computer when I need to do something that requires more computing power, such as sharpening my pictures for the Internet. My little computer will do many things that the big computer does, but the little computer takes minutes to do what the big computer does in seconds.

So as the days shorten, and the sun gets lower on the horizon, the trees start blocking what little sun there is, and the all-too-familiar frequent fronts piling up clouds over the mountains, making for rare opportunities to charge my batteries, nature urges me just as nature urges all the migrating creatures to head South, where only the mighty Saguaro shades the landscape, the desert sun seldom fails to make an appearance, and the single-digit humidity makes even chilly weather comfortable. So I'll make my home there because with a truck camper, literally, every place I park is home.

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Sangre de Cristo mountain range fades into the distance.

The Sangre de Cristo Mountain range fades into the distance in the opposite direction...They seemingly go on forever!

Mountains around Monte Vista Colorado, home to the wildlife area where the Sandhill cranes hang around during the Fall.

Sandhill Cranes.