Things never go as planned and this trip is no different. After getting up at 4:30am on June 2nd (the planned departure date), I put the finishing touches on the bike, packed and was all ready to hit the road when I realized I had misplaced my bikes registration.
*Facepalm*
Without the registration I was stuck the following day. I got up Monday and rushed to the town office only to find the computers were down.
"Double Facepalm"
Luckily around noon the computers got up and running and I was able to get a copy of my registration.
I filled up the gas tank and stopped by the house to kiss the dogs goodbye.
Here is a photo of the bike right when I left the house:
I ran into Bill on New Canada Rd. right around the corner from my house, he snapped this one:
It almost broke the camera...
And I was off. Here is the route I took to Newport.
The northeast kindom is just so damn beautiful, I took these but they hardly do it justice.
Finally I made it to newport and met up with a friend. We went out for dinner at this sandwich shop that also had buffet style goodness with chicken marsala and other delicacies. I ate about 2.5 pounds.
06/4/13
The northeast kindom is just so damn beautiful, I took these but they hardly do it justice.
Finally I made it to newport and met up with a friend. We went out for dinner at this sandwich shop that also had buffet style goodness with chicken marsala and other delicacies. I ate about 2.5 pounds.
06/4/13
I got stopped at customs and searched but they let me through...
Today I visited two aquaponic farms! One homestead style and one commercial.
Both were super interesting in their own rights. This first was Dennis's he has been running it about five years and uses coy (sp?) fish. Some of his fish are over two feet long. He builds custom greenhouses for a living with cedar and flexible double layered corrugated plastic. Its a neat set up. He has these actuators that open vents in the rough that are thermally actuated but require no electricity. Also the roof acts as a rainwater catch and provides all the aditional water to the fish. His system has never been cleaned and he likes it that way. It runs itself. Here are some pictures:
Today I visited two aquaponic farms! One homestead style and one commercial.
Both were super interesting in their own rights. This first was Dennis's he has been running it about five years and uses coy (sp?) fish. Some of his fish are over two feet long. He builds custom greenhouses for a living with cedar and flexible double layered corrugated plastic. Its a neat set up. He has these actuators that open vents in the rough that are thermally actuated but require no electricity. Also the roof acts as a rainwater catch and provides all the aditional water to the fish. His system has never been cleaned and he likes it that way. It runs itself. Here are some pictures:
This is Denis's website:
He builds awesome custom cedar greenhouses and does ready-to-operate aqaponics systems.
Dennis has this super cool 89 Lotus that was imported from Japan. He took me for a ride in and the thing screamed.
Yup so that was sweet. Then I was off an hour or so north of Montreal to ML aquaponics INC.
Mar the owner / operator runs this Rainbow trout / lettuce operation with scientific precision. Everything is monitored and controlled. To start a franchise operation like this would be about half a million dollars.
What is distinct about his trout aquaponics is that it is an unlinked system. That means the water does not simply circulate from fish to plants and back.
At first Marc was hesitant to show me around his operation but once he came out and I showed him bike he said "ok you want to see it? lets make it quick". He even allowed me to take a few pictures.
Here are the two legs of the trip today - the first was from newport to Dennis the second from Dennis to Marc. It is way colder up here in Saint-Agathe-des-Monts.
And that's all for now folks... This bloggin stuff is hard work.
Thermally actuated how? Are the pistons charged with a high thermal-expansion gas, then plumbed to a solar collector? Congrats on making the trip happen.
ReplyDeleteAs you can see the pistons aren't hooked up to anything. The way he explained it the when the pistons hit a certain temperature the fluid inside them would expand cause them to open the windows. Obviously there would be some delay between greenhouse temp and the operation of the pistons ( time for the fluid to change temp) but i thought it was a really nice simple concept.
DeleteWhat happened to the bike trailer?
ReplyDeleteIt almost killed me.
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