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RE: Where do you store your wine?
We have 6 bottles from two wineries in the Moab area we have to figure out were to store. They will probably be tucked in back under the sofa. Right now they are just wedged in front of the sofa on the floor between the ottomans.
The wine cubes from Target Salianron mentioned come in two sizes. The smaller cubes will fit in an overhead cabinet of a Sprinter Pleasure-Way Plateau exactly two deep. Very efficient storage. Unfortunately, Target does not sell the wine in Minnesota for us so we can't buy any until we reach Iowa or Wisconsin on our travels.
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Davydd
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10/05/08 09:08am |
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RE: Hot Stew is Cooking!!! B Out West Rally
There is plenty more. Those two cans went into the stew. :)
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Davydd
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10/04/08 03:40pm |
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Hot Stew is Cooking!!! B Out West Rally
Here it is...
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k309/Davydd_2006/RV%20B%20Rally/BrowningMeat.jpg
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k309/Davydd_2006/RV%20B%20Rally/HotStewCooking.jpg
I forgot to mention this is at the B Out West Rally.
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Davydd
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10/04/08 03:09pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
It's raining but I have set up a screen tent, dug a hole and started the charcoal for the stew and tonight's potluck.
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Davydd
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10/04/08 01:45pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
Well...don't everyone get too excited. It is raining right now here in Moab as I type. :( We've had two days in Arches NP full of hiking. Today we had planned a loop drive along the Colorado River and the La Sal Mountains and hitting a couple of wineries. The rain should not stop that. Then pizza tonight!
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Davydd
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10/03/08 08:56am |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
There are no fire pits in the campground. The tent sites have charcoal grills on stands but the RV sites don't. I asked about making my stew in the Dutch oven pot and charcoals and they said they could accommodate me. I suspect I might grab a nearby tent site grill.
We did the Delicate Arch walk today. It will be 87 degrees here tomorrow with a low of about 52. It is really nice. Dandi Dinmont, AbbyArts, Heinzsite, HighlandTravelers and Marty the Mutt Mom are here tonight.
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Davydd
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10/01/08 07:28pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
Len and Rebecca (Dandi Dinmont) are here as well.
We just finished eating at the Moab Brewery. I know how to smell them out. :) Actually we ate there 10 years ago so knew where it was. I don't think there is a pork tenderloin sandwich in all of Moab.
Don't bother to go to Dinosaur National Monument on your way. It is pretty much closed up except for weekends now. About all we could do was walk in a mile at the Jensen, UT access and look at a small bone or two and some fossils we could not recognize.
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Davydd
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09/30/08 07:34pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
We just checked in at 5 PM today. We are in Site 22. We'll have a couple of days here before the start to relax with little travel after 7 days on the road.
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Davydd
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09/30/08 05:34pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
We spent Thursday night at Blue Mounds SP in Minnesota near Luverne, Arrow Campground right in Wall, SD on Friday after a hike in the Badlands, Legion Lake Campground in Custer SP on Saturday night and Moraine Campground in Rocky Mountain NP Sunday night. Tonight we are in Steamboat Springs at a campground just outside of town. We may or may not be in Moab tomorrow depending on what we do at Dinosaur National Monument doing research for the grand kids. :)
At Custer SP we got kicked out of one campground because of a reservation snafu by the park. The site we set up in had been reserved but wasn't marked. We went to another CG and got the last site just in front of another B van. Rocky Mountain NP was jammed. The park was free this past weekend and I think all of Denver was there. Still we managed to get a campsite on Sunday night but it was pretty full. The elk were in full mating season and everywhere including four females that occupied our camp site. The weather was perfect the whole way so far. Julie was right. The aspen trees are at their peaks for fall coloring.
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Davydd
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09/29/08 07:09pm |
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RE: RV.net 6th Annual Class B Rally. Voting Results Are In!
Any of the choices would have worked out for us. Geneva on the Lake will allow us to visit our favorite restaurant, Nick's Kitchen in Huntington, IN for the third straight year on the way and give us time to go to Washington DC before returning west again for the Indy 500. What a rut. ;) I guess we may have to forgo the Kentucky Bourbon trail tour for another year. That's probably what we would have done if the Indiana site were chosen.
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Davydd
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09/22/08 06:08pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
It took me over two hours to wash the B today. Tomorrow we will stock it and be ready to head out Wednesday afternoon. It is possible we could arrive early. It just depends on what we do once we actually get underway.
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Davydd
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09/22/08 05:58pm |
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RE: BEE Social Group, Lafayette, LA Meeting LA LA
It is good to hear all is well with you Larry and Lory and the campground. I was a bit worried.
My cousin's family compound vacation home on the beach in Galveston survived Ike I understand but a neighbor's tree fell on their home in Spring, TX northwest of Houston and left a gaping hole in the roof. Our son-in-law's parents live in downtown Houston and they did not lose windows or electrical power.
After Moab we will probably close her down for the season so April will be a much anticipated trip.
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Davydd
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09/22/08 05:52pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
We are heading out Wednesday but first we will go slightly east to La Crosse, WI for our grandson's University of Wisconsin pre-school campus Ocktoberfest parade. This year as a 3 year old he may not be as mystified and actually throw the candy to the spectators instead of dropping it. :B
Thursday afternoon we will head west on I-90 toward the Badlands and Black Hills. After that we are still open as to where to head next.
We now plan to return a longer way and head out from Moab south for El Paso, TX. I was surprised that it was 650 miles away. My brother called me yesterday to tell me that he is moving back there to teach high school and has to start October 6. They gave him a signing bonus and moving expenses. Last year back in Minnesota all he could get was substitute teaching positions. The year before he taught in El Paso. So instead of exploring more of Utah it looks like Carlsbad and Guadaloupe are now in the loop.
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Davydd
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09/21/08 01:50pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
Actually B4 was just 3 numbers as I remember. At B5 Jim Tewell announced how we were going to play and that was that. He mentioned we were going to open the gifts when we selected them from the table. I didn't think about it a lot until this discussion but it was actually quite a bit different as I described. No matter how we play I have already selected our bee-youtiful gifts and they will be in play if Sally (Salianron) doesn't stalk me before hand. ;)
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Davydd
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08/24/08 04:34pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
In regular bingo you have winners and losers. At B4 playing your own numbers that you wrote down was closer to playing bingo. Some could walk away with multiple gifts by the luck of the draw. The gifts were supposed to remain wrapped as I understood it so snatching was based on size, weight, shape, attractiveness of the package, or maybe some guessed or inside knowledge of what the gift was. By luck of draws especially if your numbers were called early you could have ended up tappped out as others decided to snatch from you. All you could do was passively sit by and since the gifts remained wrapped you had no idea what your fortunes were. At the end the gifts were opened but it was nearly impossible to know what they all were as people dispersed.
B5 was not quite a gift exchange nor was it truly bingo. True under the rules you walked away with a gift (not a bad thing) but during the course of the game your gift desires ebbed and flowed. As each persons name was called from a random pick they got the chance to pick from the table or take a gift from someone else. Since the table picker unwraps his/her gift and shows it to all, everyone sees and knows every gift. Then the fun begins. Obviously, some gifts are neater or perceived in value over others so snatching begins or people take their chance at the table. The skill is keeping track of who has what gift and the timing of being the last (third) snatcher. If there were not a snatch limit the game could theoretically go on forever if one gift was left at the table and unlimited snatching continued. As some gifts expired after three snatches the strategy changed and people holding desired gifts without much attention all of a sudden came back into play. The limit forced someone to alter strategy and choose the last table gift over what was known to still be in play. There was a lot more suspense, interaction, envy, surprise, strategy, cunning and intrigue in regard to the gifts during the game. Every participant was potentially active until the end. To me it was more of an interactive game than just passive luck of the draw. I played both ways and that's how I viewed it.
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Davydd
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08/24/08 06:09am |
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RE: U.K. trip
Roundabouts are growing in popularity because they seem to move traffic and are deemed safer. I know Carmel, IN is building them like crazy and it is happening in the suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul as well. Here is an article from the Minneapolis/Star Tribune on them. They are a bit daunting the first time you encounter them.
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/26264309.html
New England has had them. They're coming to the rest of America. I don't think I would have a problem with a B driving them but I noticed last weekend in northern Minnesota lakes region some pickup trucks pulling a 5th wheeler and a fishing boat in a train. I wonder how they would deal with them.
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Davydd
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08/06/08 08:28am |
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RE: Interest in a Rally
It seems you would like to exclude everyone who doesn't follow this forum, do you think that's fair.:@
Rodger
Is it fair to exclude other RV.net forum members that don't monitor CVC? Yes. Rallies are about community and despite it seems RV.net's disciplined policies a lot of B members have shown a desire to have a community beyond strict discussion of B only topics. I suspect a vast majority only visit the CVC forum and only occasionally peek in another forum. Thus organizing and discussing rallies are really a community building exercise within CVC. That simply will not happen in the Rally forum because most will never see it and it will die or the semi off-topic discussions in the rally threads like discussion of potluck might get diluted by the broader A, C, trailers, etc. community with comments serving no purpose toward getting to know fellow attendees. We have a few former B owners and still interested B owners like Gary and Gene posting comments you object to yet former B owner Handbasket seems to be able to post in the official RV.net rally and even attend with impunity though no one, including you (and me), objects that I am aware of. Is that a lack of consistency? Should the official RV.net organized rally thus also be in the Rally forum? And is it truly any more valid than the Moab and LA rallies since it mostly appeals to now a seemingly select region that was unwilling to give Niobrara a try in an area that was central to more members across the country?
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Davydd
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08/05/08 07:15pm |
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RE: U.K. trip
When we toured England and Wales we rented a diesel Kia Sorrento SUV. Here it is considered a compact SUV. In England we felt we were one of the biggest cars on the road.
We noticed the trailering was a lot more liberal. It was not unusual to see compact cars pulling RV trailers.
The roads in Wales were scary. They have no shoulders but do have stone walls right up to the edge of the road. I got out and measured what was considered a main highway and it measured 15'-7" wall to wall. The larger commercial trucks and busses had 4 inch square steel tube rub rails welded to the frame on the curb side of the vehicle.
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Davydd
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08/05/08 04:12pm |
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RE: First (annual?) B Out West Social - PIZZA for anyone else?
The stew was an example of bringing more potluck than you can eat. I believe there were anywhere from 8 to 12 servings and with the cup dipper and small paper bowls provided it might have been slightly more but there were nearly 40 of us! As long as everyone doesn't bring just Dorito chips we should be OK. ;)
That was the inaugural Dutch oven attempt. :)
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Davydd
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08/05/08 03:58pm |
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RE: Interest in a Rally
So far we've attended two RV.net B rallies, one BEE social, and have two more socials planned. We've also attended two mini-B rallies with a half dozen people. The mini rallies were local to Minnesota. The other rallies jived nicely with our schedule where we could combine purposes. The two planned socials in Moab and Louisiana are convenient excuses to get off our duffs and get moving to areas we would like to visit. Rallies are a good reason to get moving, i.e. commitment. You also learn a lot about B life and that is helpful. The friendships are great too. It is nice to be connected out on the road.
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Davydd
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08/05/08 09:13am |
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