November 15, 2012

Before the road trip even began, we had discussed building a cabin on Chandler’s parents’ land. This would be a place for visitors and maybe a temporary place for us to live in when we get back from our bike trip. We don’t know where we will end up but we assume we’ll need a month or two before we get readjusted.

The first day was spent clearing the area, deciding the orientation of the cabin and staking it out.

November 16, 2012

We decided to put in a sonotube foundation with 6 piers. The next day we made a few adjustments to our staked points and went to rent a gas powered auger. The auger was used to dig out the holes for the cement piers.

Our goal was to go down 4 feet or get to ledge. We hit ledge on all holes except one, which we got down to 4 feet.