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RE: How to break the ice with our CG neighbors?
Another good one is to learn to play the guitar. I'll be outside practicing and I've had cars drive past the campsite, stop, backup and then the "Hey, you playing tonight?" starts. And I'm a terrible guitar player. 8^)
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taborekle
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05/17/12 02:50pm |
RV Lifestyle
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RE: How to break the ice with our CG neighbors?
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I've found that if "I" really want to communicate with the next door camper, I look for something unique they might have and then simply go over and ask about it. It might be something as simple as a ice chest, but if it's an off brand, or a color, or a size that's not quite so "normal and average", I'll just simply go over and ask about it. That usually opens the door to more conversations. The secret is to know if you're REALLY not wanted. You can pick up that vibration pretty fast. If so, just tell them thanks for the new information and you'll be looking to get one similar to it. If they're the sociable type, next thing you know, you'll be sharing oil change schedules and cooking recipies!
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taborekle
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05/17/12 02:48pm |
RV Lifestyle
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RE: How long will the water stay good in my fresh water tank
Being as I use to sail...
Sailors crossing oceans would have tanks of water that would last for months. Only in the last 20 years or so did they have reverse-osmosis ssytems that could replenish it.
If you shock your tanks with cloronation, it should be good to go for quite a long time.
Larry
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taborekle
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05/16/12 08:49am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Flooded our KZ spree TT please help!!
I guess I'm alone in thinking that you might be able to save the camper. We had a problem with flooding in our basement during some heavy rains and after vaccuming up all the water the entire basement (after several days) started to smell of mildew. We bought a de-humidifier and let it run 24x7. I was emptying the 2 gallon bucket in the dehumidifier twice a day for a week, then once a day for the following week, then once every other day. By week 3 the mold smell went completely away. I believe that if you can run a de-humidifier in the RV and get a fan in there to promote circulation, that first the surface layer of materials will dry, and then they in turn will want to wick the sub-suface materials to the surface where they will in turn be sucked up by the de-humidifier. I'd never have thought it mine would be able to get out the water inside my walls, but I believe it did. I'd give it a try. You only have the cost of a de-humidifier to loose and in North Carolina you could probably use it anyway.
Good Luck,
Larry
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taborekle
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05/15/12 02:48pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: For those who visit Ocean City Maryland
I use to vacation in Ocean City. No more! To many times I've had some young man standing outside my motel room door screaming to some ladies up on the second floor, all at 2am in the morning. Think of the scene in "A Street Car named Desire" where Marlon Brando is screaming "STELLA!" So the next time we went we took a 4th floor motel room. Nope, some drunks in the adjoining room are ponding on our locked adjoining room door at 1am "Hey baby let us in!" My wife and I have sworn OC off our list of "Family Friendly".
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taborekle
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05/15/12 09:50am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: What do you do?
This is one of my pet peaves. The driver on the on ramp is legally required to yield and it is his responsibility to merge with and yield to traffic and you are not required to pull into the left lane or slow down to "let him in". However, the reality is that the merging driver often just merges anyway no matter what so to protect myself I assume that he may not yield to me and I try to avoid the situation by moving over or slowing down.
It is just the opposite here in California. Traffic must yield and the driver merging onto the freeway/highway has the right of way.
In other words - you better make room for entering traffic.
I might not always like it but even as a driver in my passenger car; I have always thought this is the way is should be.
The driver merging onto the freeway usually doesn't have an option, however, with an additional lane or two available to me - I usually have an option.
Saugus, you are wrong. I couldn't believe your post, so just went to the California DMV drivers handbook at:
http://apps.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/dl600.pdf
And on page 53 it says on the topic of "Merging in and out of Traffic".
"Freeway traffic has the right-of-way."
I don't believe that there is any state in the US that is counter to this.
Larry
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taborekle
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05/09/12 02:43pm |
Travel Trailers
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RE: How would you handle this?
I would take him off my facebook page as fa riend. I'm sure you have befriended him, but understand that he's not just taking advantage of the company, but he's taking advantage of you and his other 'friends' that have been covering his territory. As the saying goes, "With friends like that, who needs enemies.". If he inquires why he was deleted as friend status, no need to lie about it, just say "I'm tired of carrying your load, and seeing all the comments from my fellow workers who are also tired of carrying your load doesn't help, so I've removed you until the situation changes." I find that speaking the truth, never needs to be defended.
I would agree that you should be staying out of it as far further compaining ON YOUR BEHALF to the company, but you also have a duty to forward the companys customers complaints on to the company. I'd ask HR for company complaint forms and start taking them with me to job sites. When a customer approaches you with a complaint, pass them a form and say "My company appreciates your input. Could you please fill out this customer satisfaction form." and then turn them in. That way it's not YOUR compaint, your just the messenger.
I'd also keep a private log of your site visits and what you observe. Date each entry. I've been involved as a juror in a court case where the employer sued a prior employees for unwarrented unemployment insurance payments fraudulantly obtained. You could be called in the future as a witness by your company. (the company won by the way).
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taborekle
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05/07/12 09:38am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Hensley Arrow questions (updated)
I'm trying to plan my installation of the HA I purchased off craigslist.
1. How long should I plan on the install taking?
2. Do most people have to move their propane tanks?
3. Should I just assume I'll need the chain and cord extensions?
4. Should I buy the Hitch Helper?
2 or 3 hours to install.
You should not have to move your propane tanks
You will probably need chain and cord extensions.
You should buy the hitch helper as I've found that very useful.
Hope that helps,
Larry
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taborekle
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05/03/12 11:45am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Mickey and Minnie took up winter residence
Besides the traps, I would buy a small bottle of inject expansion foam and get under the trailer and fill any holes that are large enough to fit your thumb into. That should stop their future entrace.
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taborekle
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03/26/12 07:05am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Trailer Value for divorce
sell it for the 13k ,and be done with it. good luck in your future .
If this is a divorce with lawyers involved, then I would not be hasty to sell the trailer. Your wife's lawyer could argue that you sold it below market value and that you owe her the difference. It could then be also argued to a judge that you are hastily destroying the market value of the estate in a effort to 'hurt' the wife. Selling it for what it can be sold for does not establish market value. After all, you could sell it for $1. That does not mean that it's only worth $1. I would not sell it or deal with it until both lawyers had negotiated the fair exchange price of the asset.
Some might accuse me of wild imagination, but it would not be the first time that a husband or wife in a divorce destroyed assets that could have been co-mutually beneficial to both parties.
This was reason my attorney advised against selling it
Take the Lawyers advice. Your not paying him the bucks he is charging you to ignore his advice. If it means you end up paying another month or two of storage while this is all worked out, then that's cheap compared to the alternative of you paying her thousands over the trailer. OR if you sold it and your lawyer spent hours arguing it after the sale with their lawyer then it gets expensive in his fees. The cheapest thing you can do is to let the lawyers work it out and THEN deal with the trailer.
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taborekle
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03/24/12 07:10am |
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RE: Trailer Value for divorce
sell it for the 13k ,and be done with it. good luck in your future .
If this is a divorce with lawyers involved, then I would not be hasty to sell the trailer. Your wife's lawyer could argue that you sold it below market value and that you owe her the difference. It could then be also argued to a judge that you are hastily destroying the market value of the estate in a effort to 'hurt' the wife. Selling it for what it can be sold for does not establish market value. After all, you could sell it for $1. That does not mean that it's only worth $1. I would not sell it or deal with it until both lawyers had negotiated the fair exchange price of the asset.
Some might accuse me of wild imagination, but it would not be the first time that a husband or wife in a divorce destroyed assets that could have been co-mutually beneficial to both parties.
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taborekle
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03/23/12 08:19pm |
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RE: Is your home haunted?
1 funny story and 2 real ones.
Funny story.
I got up late one night to use the bathroom. On the way back to bed I see the perfectly framed shadow of a person standing in our bedroom doorway, not 10 feet from where I was standing. I shouted out "WHO ARE YOU!" (this very early in the morning). My wife leaped out of bed. I moved, the shadow moved. Err. I held up a hand, so did the shadow. The moon was setting just outside, and in a perfect alignment was beaming it's light through a almost floor to ceiling window against our bedroom door, perfectly framing it Stone Hedge was not in more perfect alignment. When I walked between the window and the door, instant shadow (of myself) against the door.
ok, now 2 stories that are also true.
When my father passed away my family flew out to my old home. My brother Steve picked us up at the airport, and on the way to the old home told me of the dream that he had that night. Dad was facing Steve, sitting on a stone wall with his legs drapped over the side of the wall. "Oh Steve, everthing is so beautiful here, it's so green." (The wall reminds me of Bible:Luke:C16:V26 "..between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they that would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us.." I think that the wall, was as close as Dad could get to deliver his message.
2nd story. Southern Maryland has a haunted lighthouse (famous for the haunt) at Point Lookout State Park. My son, his friend and I visited it during a open house where the "friends of the light house" had a display showing the many pictures of the haunted here. I have to say that my son and friend heard voices from a room that no one was in, and the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end and I felt very 'unwelcome' while there. I HAD to leave.
There is a civil war graveyard at the site, and the light house is haunted by many of the captured prisoners that were kept there that died.
Larry
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taborekle
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02/10/12 06:06am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: toyota dealership made me very angry today
Thats the problem with lies, you have to keep track of them.;)
Ok, so on a rather minor issue, you have discovered that you can't trust that dealer's service department. Good thing to know.
While a letter to Toyota might be in order, understand that it was not Toyota that did the lying here. It was the dealerships service department. I would write the dealer owner a letter to express to them your displeasure on this issue. They might not have a clue whats going on in their own service department.
Reguardless of how the dealer owner responds to you, I would NEVER take the car back to that service deparment.
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taborekle
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02/10/12 05:15am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Had a ride in a Chevy Volt
Whops! Sorry folks, as I had a complete brain drain. I meant the LEAF, so every time I wrote Volt, I meant the Leaf. Gaaa.
But I think that the Leaf and the Volt are really overpriced. I was at the DC autoshow this weekend and had a chance to talk to a Chevy sales rep about the Volt. $39K for a 4 door sedan? Really?
And the Nissian Leaf isn't much better at $34K.
They need to get the price down to the lower 20's.
Larry
I've been looking at the Volt for awhile now. One of the things that the Nissian Sales rep said about the battery replacement is that with any electric vehicle with a battery, the battery pack should last for years, and by that time who knows what the replacement cost of the pack would be (implication is that it would be less expensive then today).
With the Volt though, I still can't get over the initial purchase cost. With all those fewer components (like a engine), you would think that the cost would be much lower. My bet is that their one of the few on the market, so they have tagged a higher price. As more electric vehicle manufacturers ever the market with their product, then the price of the Volt will come down. Why not wait for a few years and get it at 2/3rds the price of one today?
I also don't buy that we need new electric lines and power plants for this. The Volt power station has a timer to ensure that the Volt charges up only at night, when there is plenty of excess capacity in the grid and when the rates are the cheapest. By the By, Nissian pretty much insists that you buy their powerstation when you get the Volt.
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taborekle
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01/29/12 08:49pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: How did you get rid of fire ants?
To keep the dogs safe, apply the bait or pesticide as close to the mound as possible and then cover it with a overturned laundry basket, or plywood or really any covering.... Made sure that the dogs can't overturn it or move the covering (stake it down). The ants will get to it and the dogs are still safe.
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taborekle
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01/29/12 06:34am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Had a ride in a Chevy Volt
I've been looking at the Volt for awhile now. One of the things that the Nissian Sales rep said about the battery replacement is that with any electric vehicle with a battery, the battery pack should last for years, and by that time who knows what the replacement cost of the pack would be (implication is that it would be less expensive then today).
With the Volt though, I still can't get over the initial purchase cost. With all those fewer components (like a engine), you would think that the cost would be much lower. My bet is that their one of the few on the market, so they have tagged a higher price. As more electric vehicle manufacturers ever the market with their product, then the price of the Volt will come down. Why not wait for a few years and get it at 2/3rds the price of one today?
I also don't buy that we need new electric lines and power plants for this. The Volt power station has a timer to ensure that the Volt charges up only at night, when there is plenty of excess capacity in the grid and when the rates are the cheapest. By the By, Nissian pretty much insists that you buy their powerstation when you get the Volt.
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taborekle
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01/27/12 12:43pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: direct TV complaints
I definately believe him, as I to have been screwed with by DirectTV. I was a DTV customer for 12 years.
My story is that last year in October I got a call from DirectTV offering to extend to me (almost) FREE movie channels on a trial bases, (HBO, CiniMax and others) for 6 months for $1 along with NFL sunday edition (I don't watch sports). I inquired at the time what the catch is, and was repeatedly assured that I could cancel at any time with no fees or penalties involved. I agreed, and we got the movies.
Fast forward 6 months on and we see our bill go from $110 to $240. I called Customer Service and they check and the special that I was enjoying had expired. Ok, no problem, please cancel the extended service. Ok, they say, and we will refund you back $60. But wait aminute! 240-110=130, not 60. Oh, well you got NFL Sunday ticket and you have to pay 6 months for that, and that's the additional $70.
So I and try to explain the conversation that we had 6 months previous (no contract other then the verbal) and they are SO SORRY that -I- have this misunderstanding, but I still owe them $70.
So I say, "Look, I've been a LONG time DirectTV customer for over a decade, and you REALLY don't want to tick me off on this." (Them, Sorry), "Are you SURE you want to insist that I pay you the $70?" (them, yes), "Last chance, and there is nothing that you can do?" (them, sorry!). "OK then!"
And since I was well out of my obligation contract with DirectTV, I looked at Metrocast cable (neither FIOS or Comcast is available) and they were more expensive, but DISH network offered me close to the same programming, better receivers and 1 extra TV hooked up on a 2 year contract with free installation at $30 less a month then DirectTV for the first 6 months and then $20 less a month after that). DEAL!
So Dish comes in and does their install thing. I stack my old DirectTV receivers in a corner and I call DirectTV and tell them to discontinue my service and send me the boxes to return their receivers. Man you should have heard their cancellation department scream. "Oh, but sir, you have been a customer for years" (guess your customer service department shouldn't have ticked me off then), "We will forgive the $70 charge" (to late, and why couldn't customer service do that when I asked them to), "We will pay the DishTV cancellation fee", (sorry, no longer trust you, and their cheaper), "We will meet their pricing for the first year" (sorry, but no).
Their cancellation department called me once a week for a month offering deals to get me back. I told them -nooooo-.
Bye bye DirectTV, hello Dish.
For those that have never had a problem with DirectTV, it's all good unless you have a dispute.
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taborekle
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01/27/12 12:17pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: planning a trip out west
We are planning a 3 week trip to Montana late August to mid September. Departing out of Chicago with new 27ft TT (32 bumper to bumper).
We want to hit Rushmore, little big horn, glacier and Yellowstone. Any suggestions for the trip? Traveling with 2 dogs and 1 wife.
Steve
Devils Tower. I believe that there is a KOA with pool that is less then a mile from the Tower and would provide a some pretty scenery. Look at the area with Google Maps and you'll see what I mean. I believe that a overnight stop with either a morning or afternoon here would cover it.
Look at the KOA at Big Timbers (route between Great Falls and Billings. There is a water park that is right next to the campground. Call to ensure that the WP is open, but I've always thought that that would be a nice overnight place.
Going into Yellowstone, I would try to avoid the route between Yellowstone and Deere Lodge. The road switchbacks up a mountain. Its a well maintained road, but I wouldn't want to do it with a tow. Again google maps will show the route switch backing up the mountain. There is a bar/hotel in Gardiner that serves a terrific prime rib. Can't think of the name of the place, but ask the locals when you get there.
Great Falls has a very neat water park at the Mitchel pool along the Missouri, and a nice skateboard park. Giant Springs is worth seeing. There is a interesting park outside Great Falls below Ryan Dam.
Ft. Benton has some of the original fortifications still standing, a pole boat like the one that Lewis and Clark used, and a very interesting museum.
I grew up in Great Falls, so most of my knowledge is around there.
Larry
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taborekle
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12/26/11 08:03pm |
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RE: Grrr in-law rant.
I agree with the above that it's the DH responsibility to set the limits.
It might not be rudeness on their part but just forgetfullness. I don't see that it would be rude to greet them at the door and at that time remind them that you have a no-smoking house ("but we have set aside this smoking area outside with a butt kit for your use.").
For the gifts that you receive, try the spray fabreeze. There are numerous other odor eliminators. I think you should find one that works for you and then once the in-laws leave, wash or treat the gifts in them, to speed along the de-odoring process. The issue is yours and yours to solve, so I would look at this that you have some work to do to resolve your odor problem. I think it's to much to ask others when their wrapping your families presents in their house to refrain from smoking.
As to the size and scope of the presents, you or the DH need to have a frank and open conversation with them about the limits of gift giving. If they break your established limits, then the next stage should be that you have to reivew all gifts for the children before the kids get them and ok them.
Good luck,
Larry
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taborekle
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12/22/11 07:32am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Jayco hitch failure
While no one wants to hear it, and most would never admit it, many of the frame and running gear problems are due to not necessarily over loading the trailer but in load placement… notably three and four bikes, generators, or platforms of firewood hanging off the back of the trailers bouncing down the highway…
Another contributing factor can be over doing it on tire upgrades like when switching to LT tires… their straight side walls, heavier un-sprung weight, and higher PSI on the short springs of most RV trailers create a very harsh ride… never even considering the tires are a part of the suspension systems and every change effects something else… not always for the better…
But we just don’t know the details about what happened here or why, but since a friend operated a weld shop doing many frame repairs of all kinds for several local dealers, rear loading of gear is a likely suspect…
The thing there is the owners never admit to over loading the back of the trailer and don’t believe the damage it can do to the tongue of a trailer even though it’s a likely cause for metal fatigue in the tongue area…
This seems to be a common thread from JJBIRSH, which is that frame damage comes from loading. This thread is a classic example of hijacking a frame failure and linking it to improper loading. I would like to point out that NOTHING that the OP has posted has suggested any loading of any kind is involved in this. Lets not suggest possibilities where there's no data to support it.
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taborekle
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12/21/11 02:08pm |
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