A brief video to show off the devices I currently have. The larger, more complex setup is of course for camping. It honestly may end up being useful for me only about once a year. I think the much more useful solar chargers for emergencies, travel, simplicity and so forth are the ultra-portable, foldable solar chargers that fall somewhere between 15w - 40w. I enjoy experimenting with them very much.
This brief video should give y’all an idea of what I’m currently playing around with and testing. I have several of these Big Blue 28w solar chargers, by the way. No need for me to show them all off in this video. They’re packed away in bugout bags and whatnot. The one I do show off is a spare that I’m just using lately for testing and comparisons.
The school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom.
Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp.
For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch.
Consider what they were leaving.
A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional...
