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RE: This is revolting
Click on the link, the Las Vegas NPS is hiring Graffiti Removal Specialist or rather is looking for volunteers to train into that position. The parks there are apparently overwhelmed with paint. But it is LV of course.
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agesilaus
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10/18/19 07:11am |
Around the Campfire
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This is revolting
This topic has been moved to another forum.
You can read it here: 29985668
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agesilaus
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10/18/19 06:39am |
RV Lifestyle
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This is revolting
That they need to hire one of these: Graffiti Removal Specialist
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agesilaus
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10/18/19 06:39am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: About painting a 5th wheel
I have not but it seems likely it uses automobile type paint, acrylic I believe. There may be a store that sells it near you. Here is your chance for a candy apple red fiver..ugly but unique.
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agesilaus
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10/16/19 07:59pm |
Fifth-Wheels
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RE: Keep using Eternabond until entire roof is covered?
Clean the roof and coat it with something like Heng's Rubber Roof Coating.
I restored the roof on our 1996 Southwind. After applying Eternabond to the seams and roof edges, it took 2 1/2 gallons of Heng's to coat 30' of roof with two light coats. It's easy to apply and does not need a primer.
Ditto on the Hengs. Probably not a permanent fix but good for several years anyway. I used it on our old fiver, it went on easily after I cleaned the roof. I think I used 2 gallons on a 35 ft fiver and that was for two coats. You get a nice smooth white finish no brush or roller marks.
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agesilaus
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10/16/19 02:33pm |
Tech Issues
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Camping tables-any favortes?
I've been thinking we need a folding plastic camping table that would fold up and fit in the basement. Anyone have a particular brand and model that they like? Or one that the dislike? There are a large number on Amazon I see, hard to pick a good one.
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agesilaus
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10/15/19 05:42pm |
RV Lifestyle
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RE: TOGO comments?
I have been using a Verizon MIFI for a couple of years now and it seems to work decent. What is there about this TOGO that makes it better? I am curious. The MIFI has unlimited data for $20 a month with multi users.
The TOGO has 5 antennas, 3 4G and 2 WIFI (or maybe the other way), a wireless router, and is all packaged in a sat TV style housing-8 inches high. All you need to do is run 12V to it and it's up and running. Setup is via an app. The TOGO package is $399.
Winegard site
AT&T provides unlimited service for $360/year. Paid up front, the equivalent of $30/month. You can either log onto external WIFI like the campground or use the cell service. From the reviews I see almost no one uses the external WIFI. The system is not a booster but having all those antennas on top of your RV makes it about the same as using a booster.
The reviewers admit it has some small problems but all of them say it's the best deal available right now.
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agesilaus
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10/14/19 02:58pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: TOGO comments?
Don't know. A TOGO system search mainly brings up speaker systems. Not enough info.
TOGO Roadlink C2; Winegard is involved too.
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agesilaus
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10/14/19 04:42am |
Technology Corner
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TOGO comments?
In the next week or ten days I'm going to buy a TOGO system and then the AT&T package. Anyone have any negatives that will persuade me not to? I understand it isn't perfect but it seems to be heads above anything else. Verizon may be better but they aren't offering anything in the same ball park.
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agesilaus
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10/13/19 08:13pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Truckers Atlas ~ Best ~ most preferred
~~ Thanks ~~ REALLY MISS my Streets & Trips AND all my other OBSOLETE soft ware. Why do they mess up the good stuff ??
Yeah I still have S&T 2012 installed on my computer, but don't use it much anymore. We generally use Street Atlas 2015 but I like the navigation on S&T better. You can import data from RVTW into SA with a little fiddling and also you can send it to googlemaps and excel among others.
As for why did the become extinct? People stoped buying it preferring to squint at their 5 inch phone screens instead of the 15 or 18 inch notebook screen. I've had people see the notebook open in the truck with the nav screen up and they are amazed that you can do that. Heh.
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agesilaus
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10/13/19 10:39am |
Roads and Routes
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RE: Truckers Atlas ~ Best ~ most preferred
Rand McNally 2019 Truckers--I found it to be almost workless because of the yellow/orange highlighting of the truck routes. This obscured just about all the other detail on the map. And there isn't that much detail in the first place. This map would be fine if all you are interested in is following a truckers route. But for many RVers who want to deviate from those paths you are better off with a better atlas.
Get RV Trip Wizard or other planning software that marks and avoids hazards on the trip. You put in your rigs height and length and it adjusts the route accordingly.
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agesilaus
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10/13/19 09:57am |
Roads and Routes
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RE: Push to privatize National Park Service campgrounds
This article goes more into details.
Advisory council recommends expanding private business in national parks
Warren Meyers the fellow who I linked with the extensive comments about privatization points out that many USFS CG have been privatized for years. Personally I know that all three springs in Ocala NF are privatized. They generate a bit of minor irritation when they charge a small parking fee to Access card holders and Seniors I'm sure. But it's only a buck or two so no big deal. The springs show no sign of Disneyfication.
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agesilaus
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10/12/19 04:54pm |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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RE: Push to privatize National Park Service campgrounds
There is a multi park vendor who does this sort of thing. He takes over State and Federal park campgrounds. He runs them, maintains them, improves them and still pays the state or Federal agency a fee for doing so. And he does not raise the fees and still makes a profit. He runs the Coyote Blog That link to his Park Privatization pages, where he explains how he does it. He hires many workcampers. Let me warn the delicate among us that is is a strong Libertarian and while I agree with his economic views his other views I don't. The other side of the fence will reverse that.
So it can be done, some of the parks he manages are on the top ten Arizona Parks list. So he improves parks and does not convert them to "Disney lands'
I just spotted this:
"I was asked to write a 400-word essay for an outdoor magazine on “should national parks be privatized”. Here my response. By the way, I put the stuff about myself and my company in under duress. It was not in the original draft and he wanted something personal.
Should National Park’s be privatized, in the sense that they are turned entirely over to private owners? No. Public lands are in public hands for a reason — the public wants the government, not, say, Ritz-Carlton, to decide the use and character and access to the land. No one wants a McDonald’s in front of Old Faithful, a common fear I hear time and again when privatization is mentioned.
However, once the agency determines the character of and facilities on the land, should their operation (as opposed to their ownership) be privatized? Sure. The NPS faces hundreds of millions of dollars in capital needs and deferred maintenance. It is crazy to use its limited budget to have Federal civil service employees cleaning bathrooms and manning the gatehouse, when private companies have proven they can do a quality job so much less expensively. The US Forest Service, for example, has had private operators in over a thousand of its largest parks for nearly thirty years, and unlike state parks agencies or even the NPS, it is not considering park closures or accumulating deferred maintenance, despite having its recreation budget axed. Why? Because its partnership program with private operators is a fundamentally sounder, lower-cost approach to park operations."
Read the rest here
And that example of Yellowstone, that is one NPS park that has privatized their campgrounds for years.
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agesilaus
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10/12/19 07:50am |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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RE: Push to privatize National Park Service campgrounds
Seniors are one group that might be hit hard by the policies, if adopted.
The memo argues that the 50 percent discount for seniors should apply only to base campsite fees and encourages NPS to introduce “new senior fee blackout periods during peak season periods.”
A good idea that makes a lot of sense. Why do seniors get a %50 discount to begin with, or a discount at all.
I suppose the theory is that:
1) They've paid taxes for 45+ year
2) They theoretically have lower incomes
3) They vote in very high numbers and are quite vindictive towards politicians that take away some benefit. They are also very loud while being vindictive.
Number three is obviously the most important from the political viewpoint.
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agesilaus
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10/11/19 08:01pm |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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RE: Push to privatize National Park Service campgrounds
The report ot a moderator button still is FUBAR so I'm bringing this to the moderators ATTENTION MODERATOR before is devolves into a political furball.
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agesilaus
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10/11/19 07:05pm |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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RE: Blizzard hits plains states and PNW
Are you goofballs actually arguing about the weather forecasting 131 years ago?
They were there for it.
ROFLMAO...............
Not the forecasting, but why the Pony Express operated by Paul Revere was not able to warn everyone. Why do you think Grover Cleveland was able to beat out Benjamin Harrison in 1892 and get his old job back?
Yes Sir, Oct 10 1888, The temperature dropped from 40 to -30 in a matter of minutes. Those poor school children froze to death in their tracks. They did not even find them until Spring. Especially hard hit were the ones who had to trek uphill to school both ways, with no shoes.
No just discussing the fact that a large segment of the population thinks everyone wore in fur suits in caves communicating in grunts before facebook was invented.
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agesilaus
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10/11/19 04:07pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Carlsbad Caverns NM
The main campground is Whites and it looks rather shabby from the outside and I see it has poor reviews. We were never tempted to stay there. The town of Carlsbad is about half an hour away and has a few CG. We stayed at Bud's and it was OK for a short stay. Not much choice and none great.
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agesilaus
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10/11/19 06:37am |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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RE: Blizzard hits plains states and PNW
Because of the high winds, ice and snow there were no telegraph lines left in service in the area.
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That was after the storm-. Normally warnings work best when sent before an event not after.
"The Schoolhouse Blizzard, also known as the Schoolchildren's Blizzard, School Children's Blizzard, or Children's Blizzard, hit the U.S. plains states on January 12, 1888. The blizzard came unexpectedly on a relatively warm day, and many people were caught unaware, including children in one-room schoolhouses."
"The blizzard was preceded by a snowstorm on January 5th and 6th, which dropped powdery snow on the northern and central plains, and was followed by an outbreak of brutally cold temperatures from January 7 to 11. "
Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888
I don't know if there were two different blizzrds or just the same event in two places.
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agesilaus
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10/11/19 06:18am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Generator pros and cons
Or for reasonable periods of time, cut off the gas valve, run until the gas in the carburetor is used up and it stalls. Add StaBil to the fuel in the tank.
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agesilaus
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10/10/19 03:30pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Camping around Christmas time
Big Bend is popular I hear. SE? Everglades? GSMNP is a bit cold then from what I hear. The Keys but they are very very expensive and very hard to get into at the last minute (which in this case means not booked a year in advance) Lots of FL parks but they are packed with snowbirders. Probably the same for the southern Alabama and south Texas parks.
There is always the old standby_Disney World and the other theme parks.
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agesilaus
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10/10/19 03:25pm |
RV Parks, Campgrounds and Attractions
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