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Liem Bahneman

@liem.bahneman.com
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Stay at home astronaut, photographer, graphic designer, aviation, geology, astronomy, rockhound, aurora chaser and weather enthusiast. Software Engineer by day. #vanlife

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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 02/10/2026
We have a 110Ah battery. We draw 1/3 to 1/2 of overnight, so the shunt will allow me to figure out what is draining it: tv, fantastic fan, furnace fan, and/or or a phantom drain. Next upgrade is a dc/dc charger for laptop, which eliminates 15–30 precious watts of dc/ac/dc inverter loss.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 02/10/2026
Installed a new MPPT solar charge controller today. When I upgraded the panels from 100W to 400W on the van, I mistakenly paired with a PVM controller which maxed out at 12V, I was wasting 30-40% of my possible charge to heat! Tomorrow I install a power monitor shunt on the battery. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 29/09/2026
Creality announced an amazing 1-second color change/zero waste printer at an incredible price point, but the lack of enclosure/filter in this era is a blocker for me. I would pay $200 more if it had one. It would still be half the price of the color upgrade option (INDX) for my Prusa.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 27/09/2026
Wow, impressive! (here's the real deal from a trip I took in 2015)
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 27/09/2026
Our three weeks in Wyoming is complete. Quite a few stops we had to skip (green flag) due to road conditions or time so we'll have to swing through again. Some new favorites added that we will definitely revisit. The numbered map is the @myscenicdrives.bsky.social planning tool we used. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 25/09/2026
Props to the state of Utah for geological era / fact signs on road cuts around and through the incredible Sheep Creek Canyon geologic backway! I highly recommend that drive. #geology
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 24/09/2026
This place is crazy. The slabs are gorgeous and the “gravel”‘ in the background is all shell fossils free of the matrix. #rockhounding
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 24/09/2026
Tomorrow we hunt for slabby Turritella Agate in the Wamsutter, WY area, though it's really Elimia tenera shells in matrix. #rockhounding (photo not mine)
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 24/09/2026
Here are our finds, cut down to smaller blocks, for the 3 hours we had at the quarry. Some folks 20 ft from us were skunked! We left more fish than we kept and had the luxury of picking and choosing the best of our catch. Can't wait to go back.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 22/09/2026
Waited three days for the weather to clear but it was worth it. Ulrich’s gallery fossil dig is the whole experience. We left more than we kept, took home dozens of specimens.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 21/09/2026
Today’s Cat TV channel is the Magpie Network. Enthralling, much chittering ensued. #catsofbluesky #vancats #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20/09/2026
Sunlight and rain on Mount Haggins of the Anaconda Range, Montana. I was making dinner at the rest area when I saw this out the window.
Black and white image of sun rays illimunating patches of a mountain range.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 19/09/2026
The lightning was frequent last night. It's particularly nice when it's wider than a 20mm FOV. Kemerrer area. #vanlife #wywx
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 19/09/2026
Some Teton time lapse zen. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 18/09/2026
Well that was a nice thing to see while having the morning coffee. Lastnight's lighting was spicy. #vanlife #wywx
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/09/2026
Why does #starlink work (98% ping) non-aligned, pointed east, through a two-story building (I'm in a parking lot of a strip mall), dish pointed right through the building), but boondocking with a couple sparse trees, aligned and pointed north, I get 65%.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/09/2026
"If I were a billionaire, I wouldn't tell anyone, but there would be signs." - literally. Wyoming has age/era of the rocks exposed at more highway road cuts than I would have expected. I love this information, and if I were a billionaire, I would do this for the entire country.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 14/09/2026
Hell's Half Acre, Wyoming though it is more famously known as Planet Klendathu from the film adaptation of Starship Troopers, where many of the fight scenes were filmed. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 13/09/2026
It always reminds me of "Blix" from Legend:
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 13/09/2026
I’m glad I learned that if you call ahead the NPS will arrange for some amazing clouds for your visit to Devil’s Tower.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 12/09/2026
There's some seriously crazy folding and unconformity near the Buffalo Bill dam (WY). What I didn't realize until after the fact is that I actually got to see the Great Unconformity (the same era and missing gap [actually, slightly more gap] as the one at the Grand Canyon). Google maps Streetview:
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 12/09/2026
Today, on the Lake de Smet, WY channel of Cat TV: chukkars! #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 11/09/2026
Driving at 9000 feet in Wyoming hits different. (Hwy-14, Big Horn Scenic Byway)
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 10/09/2026
Squirrel patrol, Yellowstone NP #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 30/08/2026
It only works for US-based network addresses. The rest of the world doesn't have the wool pulled over their eyes. I capped this via vpn from the middle east:
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 26/08/2026
One of the reasons I love having a 3D printer.. random repair. Looking up this specific part # would have taken longer than it took to CAD it and print it. The lower tray on our dishwasher lost a pin for a wheel. Probably a $15 part, too. #3dprinting
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 23/08/2026
Designing and printing a 3D model for yourself is one thing. Printing and planning all the parts, decals and instructions for someone else to assemble is another.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 22/08/2026
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20/08/2026
Refining our Wyoming road trip.. 4-5 weeks. That's gonna be a lot of rocks. #vanlife @myscenicdrives.bsky.social
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 19/08/2026
Obviously, it is PIƛǨIYMISĥ.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 11/08/2026
Washburn, noir #catsofbluesky
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 11/08/2026
I brought back several pounds of this from the Caribbean. The Pirates of Nassau Museum in Nassau has an artifact rum bottle that largely represents the shape of the glass hunks we found, the first time I'd seen a whole specimen. Very, very thick, dark brown pieces.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 10/08/2026
No, you haven’t
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 09/08/2026
I was raised with the belief, partially in thanks to Schoolhouse rock, that the USA is mixing pot. It applies at all levels.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 08/08/2026
At the Willapa Bay KOA with the grandkids. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 03/08/2026
USA passport renewal form is ambitious on height:
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 24/07/2026
No question.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 21/07/2026
Today’s office, this’ll do. Sauk River, Mountain Loop Highway, WA cascades #vanlifr #vancats
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 20/07/2026
Van back from genset rebuild, new AC and 100W more solar (400W total). Got the van catified. Zoe is chill in the van and has no desire to escape. Washburn is a maniac so it’s mainly for him: added dowels and clamps to secure the rear screen, velcro added to secure the slider screen. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 19/07/2026
Washburn trying out his new three point harness from Sweden. Cooler and more secure than the Velcro type and less pressure on the scruff. He’s got a long van trip in the fall we are acclimating for. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 18/07/2026
I’ve decided to sell off the entirety of my spacex patch collection. That fucker took away 11 month of my livelihood and I am happy to be rid of it. Over 400 patches, souvenirs, coins blah blah. One lot big lot. This isn’t even all of it:
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 18/07/2026
I wonder if/when the geolocation for photos I took in Grand Staircase-Escalante or Bears Ears National Monuments will fail to show up in my iOS photos search because the region has changed. I hate all of this.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/07/2026
Washburn doesn’t loaf, he Falkors.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 17/07/2026
Bears Ear National Monument is so stunning, it was an area we drove through a few years ago and made a point to take an entire week for the next year, just savoring every mile of UT-95 from Blanding to Hanksville. This is an overlook of White Canyon looking toward the Henry Mountains. #vanlife
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 16/07/2026
That would explain why so many Flock cameras are conviniently located at Lowes and Home Depots. These are near me:
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 16/07/2026
I printed a Magellan payload because my cutaway IUS was looking a little lonely. It’s a really tall stack at 1/32. #NASA
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 15/07/2026
Hundreds, if not thousands, of ancestral Puebloan sites will lose any semblance of protection. It is not like looters care, but now there's little to protect these sites. Google "Operation Cerberus Action" and see just the kind of people who are out there just salivating at this executive order.
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 15/07/2026
This is not a coincidence is it?
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 15/07/2026
Coincidence?
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Liem Bahneman @liem.bahneman.com · 15/07/2026
One of the more beautiful spots to have woken up on our trip through Bears Ear NM last year. White Canyon is stunning. This is no longer protected.
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