Showing posts with label car trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car trips. Show all posts

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Way of life 2

Way of life 2

Go RVing

Or how to go on camper trips. I myself would buy a nice traveling van for $10,000, and sleep in Walmart parking lots at night(See:Freeparkingovernight.com), or at truck stops(See:Truckstopinfoplus.com), or rest stops, or at campsites on other nights. So 15$/night is 450$/month in lodging(go to priceline.com). You can take showers at campsites or hotels, or truck stops, and wash clothes at a laundromat at truck stops or in town, or with a plunger and bucket filled with either reusable alcohol(redistill it) or soapy water. When it's cold just turn on the car heater, or travel south for the winter like the birds do. And when you're bored just turn on a your wireless mobile broadband internet card connected laptop, or show up at an internet hotspot like subway for free wifi access(See AT&T wifi hotspots in yellowpages.com), or have an Iphone or android phone with wifi internet, which probably have a built in wifi reception indicator. For any mail you may need a P.O.Box. and pay bills over the internet. Also I want to get a storage shed for toys that will use once in a while like a bike or a kayak, or anything else that you want to bring along for a trip. But when move to another state just put all of your stuff in a new storage shed. But it would be better if all that stuff was with you all the time and you had a full sized RV.
All you need is enough money per month to pay for the following:
  • Food
  • Lodging
  • Gas
  • Maintenance
  • And tickets to events that you want to go to.
  • Food: $300/mo or less
  • Camping fees: $300/mo
  • Gas/insurance: $300$/mo or less
  • Maintenance: $300/mo or less
  • Medicine: free
  • Emergency money: $1000 in the bank
  • Storage shed: $15/mo
  • Long distance towing: Paragon $100/year
Total: $1,200/mo or less. But it would be even less if you shared the cost between more than one person.

Go to you pick farms for cheap food, go restaurantouring, go to casinos if you have tons of money to blow, go to concert tours, go to national parks, go to tourist attractions, go to all of the amusement parks and try every ride in the nation, go to car shows, go to fancy locations like NY or LA or Vegas, go hiking around the country, go fishing and catch salmon during spawning season, go on bike rides on all the different bike trails around the US. Find a piece of land or apartment for cheap in the friendliest town in the US(Anchorage?) and finally settle down and build a home out of stone or wood and garden there, building net worth off of sweat equity alone.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Instant Cold Drink, No Refridgeration Needed

This idea has already been invented so just use this info for fun reading. And for technical reasons it has never been cost effective to produce.

This idea I recently submitted onto "Whynot.net":

This idea would work on non-carbonated beverages.
I think that if you were to pressurize a canned beverage, with air of the same amount of pressure as any other pressurized canned product, and then you released the pressurized air in the can, then it would immediately be a cold drink, and it would never have required refrigeration.

This is easily shown by buying one of those cheap "canned air" cans that are used for cleaning computer keyboards, which get very cold if you release the air all at once. Different initial pressures, equal different end temperatures once pressure is released.

This would be a good gimmick for marketing a product and may even be the way that all non-carbonated beverages are packaged one day.

And they should only be packaged in small sized containers so that you can drink the whole can before it gets warm.

This would also save energy used on vending machines, which currently use lots of energy to cool down water and other sports drinks, at gyms all the time.For maybe a little extra production cost(which people would be willing to pay), and a little more aluminum used per can for sturdiness, you could probably save as much energy in refrigerator operation, as is saved by using compact fluorescent bulbs.

Of course special design considerations are necessary for safety and ease of drinking. Maybe a solution is, a small hole to release the air and then another cap or opening, to open after the pressure is released. But a good engineer could easily figure out how to make it work.

If nothing else this would be a great novelty to see this one day.