Day 14: JohnS_AZ and Heatsync Labs!
Today was our journey from crazy-trafficy-SoCal to JohnS_AZ's abode of awesome :D. Whisker likes to find these middle-of-nature roads for our first hour of travels before getting onto the main highways and managed to find a nice one that went through some of the hills through Loma Linda. Craziest thing was seeing a one lane road become completely packed with cars for miles - luckily going in the opposite direction from us. Morning commute was not cool for them! A lot of ranches along the road with orchards just completely laden with oranges and other fruits. Went through the Mojave, and it was actually a pretty short drive, around 5 hours or so to Phoenix. The interesting thing about Phoenix roads is, they've actually built according to their needs. So there's tons of space on the road for any maximal amount of traffic they're bound to have during rush hours. Refreshingly common sensical! John's house is awesome. It's got like legitimate cacti and an orchard of citrus trees, and he has been an awesome host! He made some delectable burgers, plus green chiles for Whisker of course. And his dogs are as awesome as they sound on IRC hahaha. Each with their own personality and they follow him around like ducklings :D. His pool is also as awesome as everyone thinks :D. Workshop is fully decked, and power tools galore! In the evening we went to HeatSync, to a meetup sponsored by Hackaday (thanks!), and met Todd Harrison of ToddFun, Jacob Rosenthal, Jac Goudsmit and quite a few other regulars of the hackerspace. For a Thursday night, they had a crapton of people. Some were deep in thought in their projects, some were sharing projects they had already made or were working on, and some were just hanging out (like us!). It was a pretty impressive space, with all of the chaos of a working hackerspace :). This one is the second "formal" hackerspace we've been to, and gives us a good idea how to grow the Rabbit Hole. But it also gives us an idea of how to deal with growing pains. Then went back, enjoyed a late night chat about projects and such with the John and then passed out! @atdiy/@tymkrs
