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RE: RV Parking City Ordnances
I was told that in Los Angeles that you had to get a Police permit to park and only for 72 hours. I went tp PD and they said that the City Council didn't past that ordinance on the second vote so like ALL vehicles parked on City Streets the limit is 72 hours without moving.
We did have a Council thing wanted all RVs banned from parking at anytime in the city. She had to settle for a partial ban, if enough people in an area omplained she would have that area legislated as a no RV parking area. She is now a congress thing and can;'t screw with the RVers in the City anymore but she'll try to make it a federal offence if she can.
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sbishop
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05/24/12 03:52pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: First time traveling long distance
Connie,
I agree with the post that says, campgrounds are better and more enjoyable, that said last fall in ten weeks on the road we used Walmarts about three times. In two places it was the only space available after Sept 15, but I wouldn't do it regularly.
As far as the propane is concened, RV specific fridges are ment and designed to be used while traveling. Our rig has a 1989 model Dometic and there is no pilot light, the burner is on all the time, the flame varies but if I see the green light on or hear the igniter sparking I assume I'm either out of propane or there is a problem. Check your owners manual, if you don't have one, go on line and google the model number and download the manual. Not a big deal and nice to have. Have a good time on your trip.
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sbishop
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05/24/12 03:41pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Night Skies at the Grand Canyon
I forgot how really cool the night time is until we took the DGKs to the Amazon three years ago, hours from the nearest city even the starlight casts a shadow. Amazing.
Forgot our little LED flashlight one night and got lost in the parking lot at the Community Building. Won't make that mistake again.
For those of you that have never experienced total darkness, it is surreal, lost all power on board the sub I served on one time, only the light from radium dials on watches available for a few second. You lose all sence of direction and most of your sence of balance.
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sbishop
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05/24/12 07:33am |
General RVing Issues
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Night Skies at the Grand Canyon
There are some here on the forums that are star gazeers and comment on light polution, well here you go. We were at the GC this last weekend and met David Uberuaga the new Park Puperintendent who is following his predesessor in trying to eliminate light polution in the park. He has done night aerial surveys and has gotten the FAA to approve turing off the flashing lights on the wind turbines, they are now activated by aircraft that enter the area. In some places they have just turned off all outdoor lighting. The Superintendent who goes by his first name for obvious reasons, has a really huge responsibility in running the park is a really great guy and usually wears civies so he doesn't stand out (but looks good in his uniform) is out and about talking to visitors and staying in touch with them. He is trying very hard to bring the Native Americans back to the park and has an Indian Liason Office working on developing education programs to explain the history of the eight tribes that have occupied the area. Some really good changes coming to the park.
With 4.5 million visitors in the park each year there are a lot of things that need improving, we didn't get to talk about the campin/rv access but when we return we will ask about that. I'm sure that after years of neglect that those are on Dave's agenda. For those who might be interested, the Grand Canyon Association is working in partnership with the NPS and by joining you can help push for improvement in the RV areas.
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sbishop
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05/23/12 10:04am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Protectant for hardwood cutting board stove topper?
I am a sawdust maker(advocation only) and use wood boards in our house. We have several varieties and one with five different woods in the kitchen at our condo. I seldom do more than rinse, wash with Ivory liquid and hot water and rinse with cold water. I don't treat boards with anything unless I am making one for a gift, then it's mineral oil. I have a copy of Wood Mag. that says wood is much safer than plastic and why and I also believes it says to use mineral oil to treat. I will look up the article rather than try to quote the study made that use for the basis of their recommendations.
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sbishop
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05/22/12 11:30pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Why do I feel like appoligizing....??
Qcampers,
You got a lot of replies very fast. I'll add mune though it has already been said. I sometimes feel the way you do, but not when campin or glam-ing whatever you want to call it. My brother is a little older than I am and is still working, he chose a different lifestyle than ours fifty years ago and he did lots of things I would like to have done but I helped my wife raise two girls and worked to buy a home for them and when I finally had a great job and benifits we took vacation together. We borrowed almost everything we used on our first camping trip, including a car that was reliable enough to drive to Oregon. During those years we looked at the TC's my other brother had at Clark Cortez's, and a mirade of other RVs and drooled, never once rolling my eyes. Those folks (I assumed) worked for those RV's. Today we have a 37 year old home that is a modest 1350 square feet(and paid for) a 22 year old Bounder (which we paid cash for when it was ten years old and love) and we travel all we can. It may be in some folks minds an extragavance and not cost effective or whatever but we love it and our daughters feel we've earned it (and encourage us to trade up) and our grand kids love the four or five weeks a year they travel with us. Sometimes I feel selfconsience but would I give it up or ever appoligise, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER.
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sbishop
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05/22/12 11:12am |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: So far, so good--our ERA!
Here's a clicky
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sbishop
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05/17/12 09:03am |
Class B - Camping Van Conversions
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RE: California Registration Cost?
I'm not trying to be a smart a$$, but tell you friend to call Cal DMV in Sacramento if you guys can'g figure it out on line. Don't try for anything other thn a regular commercial plate and if your friend can get an excemption he'll feel better Cal is not cheap and San Diego is even more expensive than the tony areas of Los Angeles city. Gas went up $0.15 in the last week because, oh you know all the reasons.
I don't know about TT's and 5'ers but my utility trailer is $10.00 every so often. They don't charge me every year and I don't really know how that $10.00 tax is figured. There is no property tax on my MoHo and it's really cheap.
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sbishop
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05/15/12 08:18pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: Yosemite NP
quiltlady,
As you can see by the bus schedule a lot of activity stops in Early September. Snow normally starts sometime in September and yet the Park is beautiful all year. If it is operating when you are there, the YART bus is a cool ride. You get to see tha area down to Mammoth Lakes without driving the rig up Hwy 120. I'd take a towed if you can and use the shuttles if available.
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sbishop
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05/14/12 08:42am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: A sad day in Ft. Collins CO
I met fifty WWII vets in Washington DC last fall, I was wearing a submarine t shirt and they thanked me for serving. The greatest heros of the forties thanked me for serving. They are the greatest.
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sbishop
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05/13/12 11:46pm |
General RVing Issues
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A sad day in Ft. Collins CO
This might not be the proper forum for relating this but last week an 80 something WWII Submarine Vet from Ft. Collins Colorado died. He served on subs for more than thirty years, during the war he made 7 war patrols in the Pacific when the life expectancy was 4 or 5 patrols and after 5 he could have gone on shore duty. Ma felt that his boys needed good food cooked for them everyday and he was safe there in the gally so he kept feeding them. William "Ma" Irvin was a true American hero and did his duty and never spoke of it, he just kept on cooking for us. Lots of us called or wrote him regularly after his general health started failing and our last call was from our reunion in Branson MO last week. He was bed ridden and seldom spoke to anyone but Camile his wife. When we called and she told him there were a bunch of his ship mates on the phone he took the phone and in a louder and stronger voice that his wife could muster he spoke to us for about twenty minutes. He is on eternal patrol now in the newest, fastest and safest sub ever made. Sailor, Rest Your Oars.
Thank you all for letting me remember him.
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sbishop
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05/13/12 11:32pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Kidney disease
I hope this doesn't offend but kidney function and disease in mammals is pretty simular. My ca had cronic renal failure and the Vet put him on a low ash diet. Ash is where the phosphorus comes from. He was on the diet for about 6 years or more and the last four years I had to hydrate him every other day. Try that with a cat on a three month trip to Alaska. Any way, both the DW and the Eldest DD had kidney surgery for a birth defect, they have to watch their diet too even though their numbers are normal since the surgery.
Can't help with the diet but I can say a little prayer every so often for you and the hubby.
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sbishop
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05/13/12 11:16pm |
RVing with Disabilities and General Health Issues
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RE: Total Knee Replacement Recovery
The same surgeon replaced both knees. The left knee will be two years this coming Aug the right March 12, for the first surgery I had the stocking and four years ago when I had my right hip replaced I had the stockings. This time no stockings. i asked the surgeon why no stockings, andswer, "did a study and found absolutly no differenct between control group with the stockings and the test group without the stockings. Some Drs at Kaiser swear by them and some don't prescribe them All patients swear at them.
When the PT came to the house the first time it was about ten days after the surgery. I went to the door to let him in and after following me into the living room he asked "who was the patient". He didn't want to come back for a second visit, two days later is when the problems started and the hematoma covered the back of my leg from the top of my theigh to my toes and my leg swoll up and was almost twice its normal size. At ER they did ultrasound, and like I posted saw my srugeon and my Family medice DR and they could give no reason or cure except to stay seated or laying down with the leg above my heart.
Try that for about four weeks while your'e refurbishing your S&B and have contractors coming to make bids and do work.
I didn't have any pain until the hematoma and swelling, now I am taking 4 to 8 vicodin a day(under close observation by my family care Dr) and wake up several times a night with severe pain Usually about 04:00 I take two vicodin, thats after two about 11:30 or mid-night.
By Friday I we will have almost all the exterior work done on the house and are taking off for the Grand Canyon for the Annual GC Association gettogether, we taking the four wheeler and staying at the lodge because I can't be sure I can drive the MoHo that far and set up and break down camp.
If I'm not better by a week from Monday I'm going to the ER and raise heack untill someone finds out what is wrong with my knee. By the way, the knee doesn't hurt, the new joint is fine, it's mussle and skin and tendons that hurt. Knee and area around the knee are red, hot and swollen. Why don't Dr's listen to patients? By reviewing my medical recors(we have online access to most of it back to about 2000) my wife and I discovered that a problem I used to have regarding a persistant dry cough was cause by asperating nasal drainage in my sleep and that was agravated by my CPAP machine. Use Zertex D for allergies and stopped the CPAP. Cough gone. Dr's prescribed two short term usage Rx for GERDs, turned out I had a new test done and it showed that there was absolutly no evidence of GERDs but now I have dry tremors as a result of one of the meds. I kept telling the Drs, that the problem was caused by my allergies, I have over sixty years of living with them, but their resent studies showed that lots of people have GERDs and don't know it.
Now it turns out that I have two different types of cancer, neither is normally life threatening but I'm not too sure I want to follow the active surveilence for one and out patient removal for the other. I want to be with immediate medical care available at the push of a button after the surgery and I really want removal of the other one too.
Well I sorta got that off my chest, maybe the general contractor will show up tomorrow and get our deck finished so we can have the house appraised for a refinacing and get some more gas money to take the Grandkids on a road trip later this summer.
Rant over, smiling and going to go get a nice cold glass of WATER.
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sbishop
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05/13/12 11:06pm |
RVing with Disabilities and General Health Issues
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RE: Humor...
Can't wait to send that to my Bro and his DW, would be even better if she was driving. He drives the forson, shedrives the JD.
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sbishop
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05/13/12 10:02pm |
Tow Vehicles
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RE: I propose a fishing forum...what do you think...???
I think a sticky in ATC is a good idea. But you wouldn't like the pictures I'd post, lie the one of my 9 year old granddaughter with her 24" bow from Convict Lake in the Easter Sierra. Especially when you saw the one piece Zebco kids outfit she was using when she caught it.
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sbishop
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05/13/12 08:08pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Digital vs analog TV
Okay!, now I'm confused. I'll admit I'm an elderly guy and not to inclined to play with electronics anymore, but, what is QAM? We have three analog TV sets, two are in the MoHo and one is in tne DWs sewing/storage room, the two in the MoHo are on their way out, I have a 19" with a DVD player built in for the front area and will likely buy another just like it for the bedroom, in fact I'll brobably buy a third one just like the one I have now because of the locations they are in we don't need really big TV's. That will make six TV's in all, seven if you count the one in the condo which is digital but one ov the really low priced close outs sild just before the changeover to digital. It is a CRT type but with a digital tuner. Would any of those have a QAM tuner? is a converter necessary for thse new tuners or are we really talking about Qualcom making sure you can't get their upper tier programs without paying extra?
Please don't tell me to Google QAM and all that, "why can't you look this stuff up yourself" routine, I'm just asking for a basic answer, not an explanation of how things work.
Last year we visited some friends in New Zealand to see their daughter get married, they too have converted to digital transmissions and we didn't see any old CRT TVs. All the shows were full screen without any distortation and no need for a Zoom or other ratios, everything was the same, old movies, news shows, sporting events. Seems their Govmt. decided when they went to digital they would go hole hog and not in steps, their programs were always clearer and in higher definition than ours. I don't know much about PAL which they used pre-digital, but their TV's always looked better than ours. Why can't things be that simple with our system? That's really a retorical question, I know the answer.
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sbishop
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05/13/12 07:51am |
Technology Corner
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RE: dishes vs paper plates
We use both, depends what we are having, fried egg are always on real, hamburger helper on paper. Granola in morning is paper bowl. I like glass bottles and glass for all other drinks. Not real green but neither is my Chevy 454 engine.
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sbishop
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05/12/12 07:57pm |
Camp Cooks and Connoisseurs
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RE: reversed polarity on plug?
It should be as simple as reversing the black and white wire on the plug. Probably just need a screwdriver to do it.
Yes, its just that simple but only for someone who is qualified to do the task. First you have to turn off the power (of course that goes without saying, but......) Second you have to insure that the power is indeed off. Then you go about removing the outlet and correcting the problem.
Not trying to be a smart*** but when dealing with a forum with unknown skills and knowledge, its better to spell it out especially when it comes to electricity.
First thing to do is read the post in it's entirety. Then make sure you're suggesting doing work on the MoHo where the problem exists. It seems that removing the plug from the pedestal would turn off the power, then remove the cover from the PLUG, then reverse the black and white wires. Then plug in the cord and test the outlets in the MoHo. No need to disassemble the outlet if the plug is miswired.
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sbishop
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05/12/12 07:49pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Vanity plates
Mine's easy, RVPSHR2. I wanted RV PSHR but it was taken.
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sbishop
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05/12/12 12:46am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Dreaded San Jose, CA Trip
Tom, I have to agree with you Maple Leaf is a stink hole. I don't know any other places up there but I can tell you about some of the mst beautiful places in any of the 50 US states and the're in California and like many big cities SJ, SF and LA seem to suck but there must be a reason so many of us live in them. If you want to spend an hour or two reading I can give you a list of things to do, places to see and many of the Natural Wonders of the World, many within a three to five hour drive of San Jose.
We were in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. this past fall and even though it is the TACKY TOURIST CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, and I have seen much of it, Pigeon Forge is set in one of the most beautiful areas in our country and like most folks in CA, the folks there were really nice. California doesn't suck any more than Tenn., we just have more people here than you do. Oh yeah, did I mention The Great Smokey Mountains, God help us preserve that place.
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sbishop
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05/11/12 09:51am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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