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RE: North Carolina Mountains
I'm about 60 miles away and at 3500 feet and colors are increasing more and more almost as I watch. I'm north of Asheville on the side of a mountain. Temp was down to 37* this AM.
Hi Neighbor,
My wife and I will be riding our bikes along the Toe River tomorrow.
If you see us beep and give us a wave.
We live over at the base of Fork mountain at elev 3200 feet.
Are we in God's land or what ?
Jack L
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NanciL
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10/05/08 04:36pm |
Campgrounds, Resorts and Attractions
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RE: WATER HEATER PLUG IN OR OUT?
I leave mine out for a couple of days with the hot water faucets open to make sure all the water is drained out. (for some reason, mine likes to take it's time after the initial drain), and then I put the plug back in.
Like others have said, spiders and other bugs like to expolore dark holes.
Jack L
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NanciL
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10/04/08 05:46pm |
Beginning RVing
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Problems getting to the forums
Is anyone else having problems getting on the various RV forums, or is it my computer?
I have been having off and on problems now for a week or more.
Jack L
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NanciL
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10/03/08 04:06am |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Myakka River St.Pk, Florida ??
hmmm...Soooo...There are no RV sites in Loop#1 close enough to the water to allow carrying the Kayaks to it without major effort?
We have light weight kayaks, and there is no way I would want to carry them from there to the water.
RV's go in both loops.
Jack L
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NanciL
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10/02/08 06:48am |
Campgrounds, Resorts and Attractions
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RE: About to winterize
One other thing;
Pour a capfull of the pink stuff into your outside city water connection, or you well have a broken check valve in the spring.
Learned the hard way!
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/29/08 04:52pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Myakka River St.Pk, Florida ??
Both loops are on the opposite side of the road from the river, and you would have to drive to the launch area from both of them unless you have a portage buggy.
My wife and I are both kayakers and canoers and love that place.
After you explore the lake, get a permit(at the entrance gate house) to do the lower river and lower lake. (it is much better than the upper lake since there are no motorized craft allowed and you can paddle all day in wilderness)
You launch at the bridge that you cross on the way to the camp grounds, and head down river.
Once you go under the highway bridge you will be in complete wilderness.
When you get to the lower lake continue straight across the shallow water (it would be good to have a GPS) until you come to the sand bars where the lower river flows out of it, and you will see the most alligators that you will ever see in one place in your life.
They are lined up like sentinels on the bars and we counted over two hundred.
It is also a birders paradise. Among all the common herons we saw Roseatte spoonbills, wood storks and night herons.
If you get a early morning start you can explore the whole lower river until you come to the dam which is way south west of the park.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/29/08 03:54am |
Campgrounds, Resorts and Attractions
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Residential electrical question
for any of you electricians or electrical engineers.
If I have a 20 amp circuit with 2/c # 12 feeding 20 amp receptacles: will I be in accordance with the NEC if I tap off one of the receptacles with 2/c # 14 and then run through a single pole 15 amp switch to a light fixture ?
I retired ten years ago and don't relish the idea of running out and buying a new code book
thanks in advance,
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/28/08 05:21pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Son's class rank dropped
I shudder to think what my rank was. --probably about 390 out of 400, but for some strange reason all the teachers liked me. Or was it they felt sorry for me?
I retired from the work force six years ago at age 67, making $135 per hour, so class rank doesn't show me diddly squat.
I would be more concerned about him being well rounded rather than bragging about him here.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/25/08 04:28am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Taller travel trailers?
If you can find a Pioneer around, they have a good height to the ceiling.
We have had ours for six years and are looking for the next longer one, but it seems that no one has them any more.
Like you, we are finding that all the newer models are lower and none of them have the good storage space under the trailer that Pioneer has.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/24/08 04:03am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Motorhome (A or C) vs. Trailer (tt or 5er)
Just me, but my reason for a TT and a truck is the fact that I have a cap on the truck, the mountain bikes and gear go in the back of the truck, the two kayaks and canoe go on the cap roof, and when we get to our camp site we can leave the TT and take off to the play areas with our pick up truck.
Can't do that with any of the other rigs.
Jack L
Unless you use the pickup as a toad behind a motorhome.
If I didn't want to tow my Road Runner on a trailer with the motorhome a few times per year, I would have purchased a travel trailer.
Setup time is easier with the motorhome. On the road breaks are easier with a motorhome. Not only do you have to pull over and get out of the truck, but in the summer, how hot do you think it is in that trailer?
If the truck replaces a current vehicle that you have, you'll be financially ahead doing the truck/5th wheel combo. Plus, you'll have a truck for hauling stuff.
Look at late model used trucks and 5th wheels.
Yes, but we are all not rich !
JackL
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NanciL
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09/21/08 02:47pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Hou do you handle a road rage situation?
I had a small jeep Cheerokee that used to solve the problem perfectly.
the rear window washer hose was broken and if I tried to use it, it would send a stream of water backwards.
several time I sent a stream of water backwards, and it immediately solved the tailgaiter problem
Different times I have thought of adjusting the one on my little Ford Escape to do the same
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/19/08 04:20am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Motorhome (A or C) vs. Trailer (tt or 5er)
Just me, but my reason for a TT and a truck is the fact that I have a cap on the truck, the mountain bikes and gear go in the back of the truck, the two kayaks and canoe go on the cap roof, and when we get to our camp site we can leave the TT and take off to the play areas with our pick up truck.
Can't do that with any of the other rigs.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/19/08 04:09am |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Traveling with fresh water tank full
While discussing a tire wear problem on my trailer, the service rep. told me I should never travel with my fresh water tank full. I should wait till I'm close to my destination and fill up there.
I've never heard of this.... Any comments????
He is on your side.
I would never travel with a full tank unless I was boon docking and couldn't get any water.
It is tough on your tires, tough on your brakes, tough on your tow vehicle, and most of all tough on your gas budget.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/19/08 04:02am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: What to do with septic tank smell during storage?
It sounds like you never put any chemicals in the tank for storage.
We just empty the tank and flush it the last use each year, but then add a mix of chemicals and water.
We have never had a problem,
there is no need to add antifreeze to your tank. there is a small amount that goes in when you winterize your system, and the tanks are so large that the small amount of water freezing in them won't hurt them.
All this is in accordance with my manual, and has worked fine for us for the past six years.
We have never gotton a smell.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/19/08 03:58am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Florida's Nature Coast - Chasshowitska
Yes it is trashy, the bathrooms don't work, you can't fit anything longer than 8 feet into a space, your trailer will be broken into while you are two sites over getting drunk with the good old boys, everyone is sitting around smoking pot, and the alligators will come right up to your picnic table to eat the squirrels that are rabid and can't run away quick enough !
Now everyone please forget about this place that we discovered years ago and go to other places, so we won't have any problem getting our site.
In reality: I honestly would not recommend it for anyone who is not a paddler, boater or fisherman.
We are off exploring in our kayaks or canoe every day, and when we return we usually head directly into the TT so we don't have to fend off the mosquitoes.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/18/08 05:12am |
Campgrounds, Resorts and Attractions
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RE: Florida's Nature Coast - Chasshowitska
Your not supposed to let the cat out of the bag !
Now everyone and their brother will be going there.
We are avid canoers and kayakers and have been going there for years,
Last winter in that first little cove on the left about a half mile down river, there was a cow manatee with her calf, (as there is every year), but also a lone porpoise.
We played with the baby manatee for about a hour. It kept wanting to nuzzle our hands, and would roll over to get it's belly scratched, and while all this was going on, the porpoise came over looked us right in the eye, and then it flipped and rolled over.
We have awesome picures, but I don't know how to post them here.
hopefully you got up to the "crack" for a dip in that "Garden of Eden" like pool.
We will be there again this year.
Just don't go there on a weekend in the winter. You can't get near the launch area and both sides of the road leading to it are packed with boat trailers. It is a zoo.
On the weekends we take off and hit other wilderness areas that are just as good, but not as well known, or we do shopping.
If any of you paddlers want some good paddling trips there, just let me know and I'll e-mail you them with descriptions, GPS waypoints, and other pertinent info.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/17/08 05:04am |
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RE: Security & crime rates for CG and state parks?
I think it boils down to you have to pick and choose.
We have never had a security issue in about twenty yearts of Rv'ing, but every so often I will by pass one that looks like it might be risky to stay there.
Most of the state parks we have been to have security gates at night, and many of the better Rv parks have them as well.
There are some un managed National Forest Campgrounds, (not Natioanl Parks) that I would not stay in but I think if fate is going to be nasty to you, and can happen just as well in your own home as at a Rv park.
I think if you are paranoid, you might want to give up RV'ng. Regardless of your private reasons, you are not going to be at ease regardless of what any one says here.
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/17/08 04:49am |
General RVing Issues
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The trailer came in handy yesterday
For a few weeks now I have been trying to figure out how to get some ten foot sections of aluminum guttering and drips edges home for a addition to my house that I am building.
My truck with the cap on the back only has the six and a half foot bed, and the stuff is so prone to bending or getting squashed that I couldn't secure it to the roof racks, couldn't put it in the bed with the tailgate up since the lift hatch would squash it, and couldn't figure out how to secure it with the tailgate down.
Yesterday we took the travel trailer to our local dealer for it's annual maintenance, and on the way back as we were passing a Lowes, it dawned on us that we could lay the stuff right on the trailer floor, which we did and now I have it home and in perfect shape.
Any one else have any clever use for their "high end construction trailer" ?
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/17/08 04:36am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Closing up the trailer for the winter - moisture & mice?
From experience on the mice:
Don't use the poison bait.
We had either a mouse, chipmunk or some other critter eat some and then crawl in to one of the heat ducts and die. When we turned the heat on, the smell was horrific, and I took every single part of the plenum and the registers apart, but it was in the middle of a duct where I couldn't get at it.
I now use the regular old fashion traps.
We have never had any problems with moisture
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/17/08 04:26am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: addiction
I like my additions and the problems they present.
I am addicted to canoeing, kayaking, cycling, camping, hiking and cross country skiing.
I am one of the lucky guys whose wife is also addicted to the same stuff.
Cheers,
Jack L
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NanciL
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09/16/08 04:55pm |
Around the Campfire
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