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  1. I grew up camping but Mark hadn’t and his only experience was with the military. It took me quite a while after we were married and had kids to talk him into going. I told him MY CAMPING was much different from the military and of course used the guilt of denying the kids the experience. Fortunately he finally agreed. We started out much like others tent camping with the kids and our first “RV” was a very old and well abused small 72 popup. We kept that for 3-4 years until the canvas completely rotted and it basically fell apart. We then moved up to a newer used and huge Fleetwood popup. We probably only kept it a year or so. From there we lucked into an 84 24’ TT that had belonged to an older gentleman that barely used it. It still had the protective plastic on the carpet and he had never used the restroom in it. (This was in the 90’s) I think we had the trailer for 2-3 years. We moved from the TT to an 85 Pace Arrow MH with no slides in probably 97 or 98. Made quite a few long distance trips in it even for an older MH. We trader it in on our first new purchase in 2004 of a Winnebago Minnie Class C 31’. We were empty nesters by now but still working so it was just weekends and vacations but we really liked it and kept it for 12 years until we were ready to retire and go fulltime. We knew it was not a suitable rig for fulltime. So we traded it in on our second new purchase of a 2015 Forest River Blue Ridge fifth wheel. We also traded in my Jeep Liberty for a 2015 Ram 3500 dually. It had everything we wanted for fulltime living (after we added some upgrades) and we kept it for six years. Last year we decided we were ready for a change in our camping style and wanted to switch from a fifth wheel to a MH. We knew from our research we wanted either a Newmar or a Tiffin. We found a 2016 Newmar Ventana LE that checked almost every box on our list for fulltime living. And we are back with another Jeep as a toad, although a Cherokee Trailhawk this time. So all total - I guess we are on RV number 7 over probably 36 years. And unless we win the Publisher’s Clearing House or (God forbid) something tragic would happen to our current coach, this is probably the last one. Vicki
  2. We are fulltime and watch all of our TV by streaming apps over cellular service. We don’t use a VPN and have not had a problem with any app yet outside of our domicile/billing address area. We just have to be sure to login every 3 months in our domicile area to YouTubeTV and I can have my son do that for me. Other apps such as Netflix, Prime, Disney, Paramount or HBOMax doesn’t seem to make any difference location wise except when we were out of the country. Then we had to use a VPN and with some apps we had to use certain locations for it to work, at least with Nord VPN. Vicki
  3. Vern, Mark has been diagnosed with age-related dry macular degeneration though it is not at the point of needing treatment yet. We looked online for information about an aspirin treatment in reference to AMD but only found where they said it was shown to have no affect. Do you just chew/swallow a 81mg/low dose aspirin daily as you would for a heart condition or is there something else to this treatment you read about? TIA Vicki
  4. We wouldn’t be without them either. Even made them a condition of one of our purchases. The dealer had to include toppers and install them before we took delivery. Vicki
  5. Rover

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    We’ve been fulltime for six years now and very rarely reserve in advance. We do of course make reservations for events such as rallies or festivals we want to attend or if we need to be in a specific area at a specific time for something, we will reserve a site to make sure there are no problems. We are set up well for boondocking so we don’t worry about not finding places and often prefer to boondock. We also have a campground membership that allows us to stay free at many campgrounds but has to be reserved at least three days out. Sometimes we don’t know where we will be in three days or how long we might want to stay. But we try to take advantage of those full hookup stays for a few days when we can, especially after boondocking for awhile. Actually, being fulltime is an advantage in that we can be very flexible and adjust our schedule or our direction to go wherever the vacancies are. Happy Travels! Vicki
  6. The Boomers BOF has 50 sites reserved and we were able to get one of them yesterday evening. I don’t know if there are any left or not. There is information for registration on the Escapees Boomer Facebook page. Vicki
  7. Thanks Chad. Hopefully we will hear from the tech who actually installed our system when he gets back from vacation. It could be our system is already programmed the way we would like. It would be great to have you look it over in April. We’ll be in touch. Vicki
  8. WOW Chad! Thanks for that very thorough explanation! Mark hasn’t read it yet as we are on the road to our next stop but it makes sense to me. Most of our load is carried by inverter 1 with very little on inverter 2 so using opposing programming would be much better I think. Is this something we can change? Just a programming change and not a wiring change? Maybe with your guidance on a phone call? Thanks again for taking the time for such a great explanation! Vicki
  9. Sounds like we might be able to arrange some kind of meet up when it gets closer to time. I do have another question for you about our Multiplus 3k Inverters. We finally got a call back today from the company that installed our system (although the technician that actually did our install is on vacation). A different technician said that when on 30 amp our Inverters should each be set to 15 and then when on 50 amp set to 25. We both remember the tech who installed telling us differently. What do you advise as the correct settings? And do we need to change any settings when we are strictly boondocking? Thanks, Vicki and Mark
  10. After January 5th, we are going to be following the SKP Boondocking BOF schedule and I think up until January 23rd we’ll be just east of St. Cloud. Then we move to the Three Lakes WMA NW of Kenansville and will probably stay there until February 21st. After that we’ll be heading out of the country for a few weeks. Would be great to meet up with anyone on here. Always love to put faces with names! Vicki
  11. Actually we will be going thru Tennessee on our way to Indiana in April but it won’t be until after the 17th. I guess it depends on when your rally is. Vicki
  12. Thanks for the offer Chad. Would love to take you up on it but unfortunately, we are going to be in Florida in January. We were in Quartzsite last winter. Merry Christmas! Vicki
  13. Thanks John and Kirk for the suggestions. The problem has been solved thanks to a phone call and some troubleshooting from Chad Heiser. I had sent him a PM earlier. Thanks so much Chad! Don’t know how it happened as we were not in the system doing anything, but somehow one of the settings on one of our new Multiplus 3k Inverters just switched itself to off. Something so simple, yet you had to go thru some screens and menus to get there……and being new to us ….. just never even occurred to us that it could just turn itself off in the settings rather than trip a breaker. Technology….lol! We’ll eventually get it all figured out ….. hopefully without more incidents like this one though. Thanks again, Vicki and Mark
  14. Opened up the box with the transfer switch and found one of the two switches shown below appear to be tripped. Mark says it will not easily move to reset by hand and he is unsure if he should try to force it. Any advice?
  15. 2015 Newmar Ventana LE DP currently in park, 30 amp site with earlier incidents of pedestal breaker tripping. No codes on PI EMS protector. We have an extensive solar install almost identical to Chad’s system with the same equipment if you have read his information. Which if it was working correctly, should have provided any additional power we needed over the 30 amp instead of tripping the breaker. But we scaled back on items anyway and the breaker hadn’t tripped the rest of the day. Come 10:00 pm and suddenly everything connected to an electrical outlet shut off. The overhead lights still work along with the furnace. The generator will run but still no power. We checked every breaker inside and out that we could find. Nothing had tripped. We reset the breakers. Nothing. The business that installed our system is evidently closed today as all we get is a recording when we call. Any suggestions on what to look at next? I thought this morning maybe the transfer switch but have no idea how to troubleshoot that. TIA, Vicki
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