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Shucks ya Rickoo count me in on those donations as well......shucks since the old Jet Commander was recycled into Vegan-juice-cans I have too much money keeping me busy.... I thought Dolly the horse would keep me poor but ya know a zillioaire once told me late one night shooting a approach to land in a blizzard... He said..."You know, poor folks have NO CLUE how much work it is to be rich!" Well Komrades get to work .... Help the poor Komrades out . Drive on..... ($hucks rich Komrades need to keep the poor Komrades in plenty of....of......of....)

Well pontificated Comrade..... Of course as long as we are predicting the RED-future we might take into account the latest "Export of knowledge from Kalifornia to Never-add-dah" just across the state line East...... The Nev-rep-crooks passed a bill this week that requires a water meter be installed on every residential water well and the Comrades will "all-wow" up to a 1/4 acre ft of water use.......OR.....you "could" join the water utilities group and use ALL the water you can BUY from.......yep you got it ...... A Kalifornia water company... Ya know I used to make up a tale once in a while but lately I can't even come close to the crap in ....un-reality, non-fake-news. DISCLAIMER: Obviously 99 percent of the huge water pool under the Nev. PahRump valley should belong to Kalifornia since the snow melt in the Serria mtns sneaks over to Nev. So us rich Comrades should pay our Kali-Comrades just because.....they need the$$$$$$ Come to think of it Comrade-Henry as I recall you folks in the Sunshine State have a lot of water and much likely belong to your Bro-Kali-Komrades (nice ring)...... In a bad debt once I obtained a ownership share in a old Jet Commander.....what a great old kerosene-queen..... climbed well flew nice and at climb power the mechanical fuel flow meters spun so fast that you could not read the 10 pound meter rolls.....nice feature is that one day we had to return back to the airport with a passenger med problem and it was so easy to just follow the black smoke trail back to the Santa Monica airport ......oh yes that day we incurred $280 noise fines .....TWICE.......darn that old Commander sure kept my wallet light.... Drive on.......(enjoy the Golden State.....Komrades)

Two days ago blasted off from Last Chance Peak to Lone Pine Kalifornia / Alabama Hills Horse boondocking.. fueled at Smith's in Pahrump at $2.49 gal Diesel and a hour later as we drove through Furnace Creek Death Valley Diesel was listed at only $6.20 Gal.....boy oh boy bet at that price it's got to be OLD diesel in that pump.....it was a nice cool 98f at Furnace Creek and the trans temp climbed all the way to 150f during the 5000 climb out of Stovepipe Wells.... Plenty of F16 jocks buzzing Dolly in the horse trailer but she was busy attacking the hay net so she just waved her tail at them. Great weather at Lone Pine and Diesel is cheep at Only $4.70 gal here... Welcome to Kalifornia..... Drive on.......(don't run out of Diesel in ..... Kalifornia)

Over the course of too many decades have used most modern and a few stone-age navigation sources with mixed results. Electronic nav aids have been the rage in aviation from around the 1920's on and some pretty amazing stuff is installed in glass cockpits these days..........I get spoiled........and have to remind myself that I still need to practice non-electronic navigation........ Being a geezer I still pack a bunch of paper charts just in case..........but even paper can be fleeting at times. Too many moons ago I had a relationship with a aviation group that provided air ambulance services to very remote locations in S. America.......they had a few modified Cessna 185 aircraft with modifications of Lyc. TSIO-540 350 Hp turbo intercooled engines for operations over and around the Andes........There was no GPS back then and the only remote electronic aids was an occasional NDB (Non Directional Beacon) that would run off a old 12 Vdc car battery IF the battery was charged and we would just home into the beacon with a ADF (Automatic Direction Finder) that was simply a AM radio with a compass dial that pointed at the tuned in beacon......sorta......... It was late afternoon and a radio relay message came in that a young girl was badly burned in a gas can fire and it was vital that the girl need to be Med-vac to a hospital ASAP........Weather was marginal but flyable so a Dr and a nurse got aboard and off we flew into some fairly grim turbulence but we made fair time to the remote location and quickly loaded the patent and took off into a mountain pass that I knew would be a pretty wild ride but even though the wind was bad the clouds were broken and a full moon allowed good outline of the pass, cliffs and ridges that we would thread through ............When the high winds flow over high ridge lines and the winds forced over the peaks and ridges often for lenticular clouds (those clouds that often look like giant flying saucers) this is associated with a condition called the mountian wave. Associated with the mountian wave is another group of clouds just downwind from the lenticular clouds these downwind clouds are called rotor-clouds. Flying upwind of the lenticular cloud will result in a very smooooth and strong uplift climb and then as you pass over the midsection of the wave you will sink in the downwind section of the wave and then……….slow down and cinch the harness tight because the rotor is very rough as in overstress the aircraft rough if you fly too fast into the rotor……...I warned the Doc and nurse to strap in tight that we were about to hit rough air and sure enough it hit very hard and all was as expected until……...pilot side door window latch popped undone and the window flew wide open and pasted itself up against the bottom surface of the wing and ……….SUCKED every chart and approach plate paper right out of my knee board paper clamp……….in a split second…….poof…...GONE all of my local Navigation…...POOF…… Of course just getting the window closed as the old 185 bucked and flopped around was no easy task and by the time I get the window closed and glanced at the pale white Doc it looked like the Doctor was in need of a doctor……. The only thing that was in our favor was that I had reviewed the charts fairly well and the weather at the destination airstrip was not too low a ceiling after we were able to let down through a couple thousand feet of clouds and I knew the NDB frequency by memory…….. Sometimes it's best to take a good gander at the charts ……..before you take off…….. Drive on………….(don't drive too fast with the window…….open) P. S. it took a long time and a lot of care but the Doctors were able to recover the girl but it took a lot of skin grafts and more time but she has done well last I knew……...Last time I saw the Doctor some of his color had returned……..but he still does not like to fly…….hummmm

Teach, Tecopa Brewing is...........calling......calling.......... So you get a few two many brews in the belly and who knows...........you just might get silly enough to go over to the geezer pool at the Hot Springs and float around nakeeeed with the O L D G e e e z e e r z...........heck of a biology lesson and who knows you just might find a new germ that you could name after yourself.......... Enjoy the summer........ We gotta head North before you invade the naked-geezeeer-pools........(way more fun than your co-ed-truck-stop-showerz) Drive on..............(look twice..... both ways.........teach is about to go to driving skoole.......)

After a way too long flight old Capt would set at the bar and stare into his drink and mutter.......just spent best part of my life looking at the Greenland ice cap and I'll be dammed if the darn barkeek sneeked a chunk of that darn ice into my scotch......some days you just ........ Drive on.......(don't go drinking with the ....Capt )

Head West young man... Ore-gun is the place where the State leaves the highway scales on 24/7/365 and seldom is the weighmaster around these days most scale layouts are plenty big enough to weigh one wheel at a time just drive each wheel as needed plenty room on each side a very level and....... free of charge..... unless you have as many Ore-gun property taxes that I have ugh..... Come to Ore-gun...... Scale-away Drive on.......($cales are free in Ore-gun..... everything....not so free)

Teach, I have been a bit busy dealing with getting a couple of Lawyers Defrocked and some orange-undies so............I have been giving you some time off from me bully-ing and karping at you........... Thankfully Phil has taken up some geezer-advice chores to keep you bruzzzed-and-abuzzed so here is a bit of advice from the Gumps-Grave...................Grumps had a old high-lead-spar rig that was 80 feet long and it had a hitch on the end with a 1939 Wilson-Wasp V-4 Wisconsin powered 400 AMP DC welder sitting in the bed of a Ford model A pick-up bed with the rear diff torque-tube being the hitch of the welder trailer and most of the time it was towed with a Oshkosh 6 X 6 service monster cobbled from a Vee-nose-snow-plow-rig older than your grand-dad.............so..........on some of the worst days of my life as a high-school-punk-know-it-all I wold have to herd this monster down some hilly-narrow-rough-as-hell-logging-road (I not allowed on paved roads) and this monster was HEAVY and UNDERPOWERED (220 Cuminz) but it had FORTY GEARS FORWARD and TOO MANY GEARS IN REVERSE to count AND 4 inch round rear view mirrors that wobbled so bad you could see NOTHING to the rear of the monster...........so how could you make the worst-day-of-your-high-school-age-life worse than having to have to drive the monster rig .......FORWARD............well Teach here is how I made my day even worse.............At the end of the Pig-Trail-Logging-Spur I had to..........I had to.........I had tooooo ...........BACK UP ..........BACK UP......the 80ft Trailer with the 10 ft short tongue trailer hitched to the end of the EIGHTY FOOT trailer...............BAD JUJU........... So............Grumps having well earned ..........Dis-Trust in my driving skills would leave me about ONE HOUR to make 123,000 wiggly tire tracks all around the end of the logging spur and scrape most of the bark and limbs off most of the trees within 100 feet of the road and then........and then.............Grumps would drive up and get out of the K W and shake his head and kick a few pine cones out of the road and then............and then he would pick up one of the broken limbs that I had scraped off one of the trees and then ............he would ..........he would.......scribe a nice flowing ark in the dirt and roll a smoke and light it up and then motion me over into the co-pilot seat and then sloooowly mumble ...........N O W........E i n s t i n eee.....j u s t w a t c h ...... t h i s....i t i s s o o.... s i m p l e .........just put the darn truck in reverse.....and......and wiggle the wheel around some.........A N D ...........just pit the trailer wheel on the stick mark in the DIRT...................S O O O ...........simple ...........sooooo S I M P L E ............. And you know Teach when Grumps backed up that mess right on top of the stick mark in the dirt with a cig hanging out of his mug and not too much steering it sure looked.............S I M P L E............... Teach don't sweat backing Up..........just get out and scratch a ark in the dirt and ......just make sure the trailer tracks stay in the scratch mark............S I M P L E........ Drive on..............(Backing up is just........forward.......the other way) P S Phil.............it's your turn with Teach.......again

Trade-offs........Jack often mentions trade-offs because the RV gig is often so many different things to each RV owner/ operator.....even within a married couple ......I get a hoot out of many of the comments from guys on the forum who are scared-little-boy-toy-slaves who just cringe trying to keep the wife happy with a mobile-manson with Five-$lides, bath & 3/4 and Bluetooth toilet lids and wifi window shades.......NOT me......heck no......shucks whatever Dollymama ....thinks..... Dolly-tha- paint-horse....Might want / need is ALL I have to do.......that's all..... Yesterday we took a wonder-2-Tecopa Hot Springs to soak our ancient bones and we rattled to the springs in the Dollytrolley v2.05 motorhome and parked next to a tiny Scamp 5er eggshell trailer.....the Scamp owner was so proud of his new electronic fireplace that he forced me into his bat-cave to look at the fireplace in operation.....he had to hop up on to the overhead bed so there was enough room for me to see the fireplace.....it was nicely installed....he was as happy as a pig-in-mud AND he gets 16MPG towing.....more pig-in-mud-trade-offs..... So not to be outdone I forced the Scamp owner to climb up into the Dollytrolley to look at the new herringbone plank flooring that we just cobbled in to replace the carpet......he gazed in awe as Dollymama was walking around the full size massage table in the living room and commented......"OMG with ALL this room....do you folks ever get lost"? It's a hoot.....if all our tanks are full they weigh more than his Scamp full..... trade-offs...... Drive on.......(how B I G / small is your.... trade-offs???)

I do not have a dog in this fight, but, having done a fair amount of Weight & Balance calculations on several DRV units I can state that the tankage (fresh, grey, black, propane) in the DRV often has the POTENTIAL to overwhelm the listed legal carry capacity (payload) of the units with minimal food and personal gear in the units. The POTENTIAL non-tankage-payload limitation is further compromised by the fact that is somewhat difficult to obtain a normal Balance due to the fact that the DRV tends to carry fairly light percentages of pin weight relative to the total weight of the unit since the majority of DRV owners need / desire to tow with pickup trucks that are load limited to near max even with the fairly light pin weight common on many DRV units......... Did Jack mentioned....... trade-offs......... Of course with careful weight management one might keep fresh, grey, black and propane levels low to save weight for somewhat higher payload potential however .........how low do you want to go with your tanks???? Chad hits the nail on the head........more carry capacity (3rd axle?) and better balance would be nice....... Drive on.........,(RV trade-offs......,.,how much money saved is......too much saved?)

P & P, Well there is one thing missing.........NO Rattlesnakes.......bummer..... The local volcanic pumice is very abrasive and as such it is unable to be tolerated under the scales of the rattlesnakes so IF you desire to pet the rattlesnakes you will have to travel several miles East out in the desert .......... Other than the lack of rattlesnakes it pretty darn nice place to camp out........ LINK TO INFO: http://cdrriders.com/events/outbackstationbrochure2013.pdf Drive on...........(no rattlesnakes..........bummer)

Friday June 29th we towed Dolly-the-paint-horse out of Bend out past LaPine turned East and 27 miles out to Outback Station Horse camp & RV park to escape the intense 4th fireworks in Bend that makes horses unhappy. $20 per night gets elec and the BEST water EVER tested by water lab........ancient water so old it has no radio active trace.........stunning water with OLD Growth Ponderosa Pines and S I L E N C E and the camp sites are at least 75 to 150 feet apart .........pull through s that could handle +100 ft long rigs....... Might just not leave until the first frost......... LINK TO INFO: http://cdrriders.com/events/outbackstationbrochure2013.pdf Drive on...........(S I L E N T .....4th)

Blew out of Bend this afternoon and raced a couple antelope ( dropped of cruise as they passed in front....on our way to overnight at the fairgrounds in Burns, OR.... Dolly-the-paint-horse loves to make a few laps on the race track... Tomorrow hope to have enough parts and diesel to wonder over to Winnemueca the Lovelock, Fallon, and overnight at the Rodeo grounds at Hawthorne,NV.... We only have THIRTY tires on the road this trip .......wonder if the air will stay in them for the hobble down to Last Chance Peak Dolly-the-paint-horse camp? Drive on......(hay-burner in tow) AINT SOFTWARE GREAT.........THIS WAS POSTED MONTHS AGO AND APPEARED .........TODAY

Hi M &T, I likely have the wiring schematics that you need.... I sent a long response to your request but this improved beyond use forum soft wear is for the birds so who knows where my reply went..... poof... Anyhow try text or call me at 520_891-3695. Drive on.......(poof response is.... toast) . .

C-L-V..........rest assured that my offense-meter needle is resting at ......Zero..... What I have tried to "gift" you with is "Facts" from the "school-hard-knocks".............I have been there and done what you Think you want to do.............it can get UGLY on a so-so-day and it can get DEADLY on a Not-so-good-day........here is the deal........deadly can be a self inflected-ending, where it gets really ugly is when you make BAD decisions that result in bad endings for other folks. So here is likely your best choice since you are DETERMINED to push past the LIMITS of normal RV use............buck up your $$$ and get a "Expedition-RV" these rigs are essentially a all-wheel-drive-truck with plenty of tire /wheel-well space for chains and winch on each end so think of it as a snow-plow-rig with a RV box on the back with massive heating system(s) to keep you alive at way-too-below-Zero. For way too many years I HAD to attend "Harry-skid-harry-fire-harry-flat-tire-harry-brake-failure-harry-electrical-harry-engine-harry-harry-U-name-it-training EVERY six months..........at Flight Safety International and you know what...........a huge part of that training was things you should not even attempt to do.........but we spent a LOT of time sweating it out in full motion simulators for those time when really bad things happen........ Sitting in a RV Park with snow knee-deep and way-below-Zero might be your bag........however you allude that yo want to exerciser your "Harry-skid-training" on your weekend moves......... This involves risks that involve other folks.......what has just only hinted at here is the Fact that RV units are "Highly-compromised-vehicles" on dry highways in good weather however operating a RV in snow and ice conditions elevates the risk factors greatly....... In my later years I often became involved in wrongful death court cases and a slang-term that Lawyers use in that the accident-perp would be in a ..........."rush-to-eternity".............in other words in hindsight ......what was he thinking?? Maybe I come across a but gruff or grumpy or unfriendly and maybe I am at times .........however I have seen a fair amount of heartache and hopefully your "plan" can be "adjusted" to lower your risk factors......... Drive on...........(RV with care.......)

Sounds like you have it ALL figured out after all...........I like the part about a 'Harry-skid-driving-course" ....... Dang now that I think about it maybe our Freightliner Century Tandem with the old M-11 and 10 speed Road Rager with the toyhauler would be a real kick in the pants.............'during the ..........Harry-skid-driving-course" ....... Shucks I wonder why RV insurance is so cheep......... Dang I'd just love to see the driving instructors face as he got the old Freightshaker well into the.........'Harry-skid-driving-course"....... C-L-V, shucks for under $70 k you could get both a class A and a truck and trailer and just use the one that makes it through the........ 'Harry-skid-driving-course" ....... Your welcome.......... Drive on.............(Ain't it a giggle giving .........advice

C-L&Vee, Seems like you have a job & Family problem not so much as a RV problem…… VERY FEW RV rigs are configured for travel in snow and ice…...chains seldom fit in the tight and flimsy wheel wells. There is a reason that many RV users are called “Snowbirds” ……….they tend to try to stay several hundred miles South of the “snowline”. We have BOTH class A and a truck / trailer RV and snow is a royal pain in both setups, and can be a danger to you and others on the road. I grew up in a family that operated a LOT of trucks and towed a LOT of trailers in a LOT of snow and it is a DEADLY endeavor PERIOD and it is in NO way recreation PERIOD. On the best of days snow in a RV sucks and on a bad-day it can be deadly…… You ask for advice, and so here it is from a guy that been there and done that……..IF you want to travel in Canada in the winter get a good 4 wheel drive rig and good chains and then camp out in warm motels…… If you simply gotta “RV” just buy some airline tickets for the family……….and have a nice cool drink under the awning…...Christmas under a palm tree aint't all that bad…….. Drive on........(Don't get crosswise in the RV in the......snow)

Time out...... How about the Arch??? Maybe.....just maybe.......Mr Anderson could be the "$olution" to this instance of bad-boy-defacing of public property. Sometime ago I did a couple of gigs with a few Indian tribes and every day was "education" in ......"diversity".... Some tribes have members that are born with the gift of restoring damaged natural places......so....... You want to "wack-bad-boy-Anderson"......well try this one......petition the BLM to "cooperate" with Anderson (a$ he so pleeeeeded in his "oh I have sinned" letter) and then "liddle-Ryan" could pay ALL costs and Ryan would perform ALL the LABOR as DIRECTED by the Native "Restorer(s)" while staying in a NATIVE camp site nearby and substiting on natve diet........ Now this...... "Restoration".....is to be a full-time endeavor ......no days off for Ryan...... Here is the fun part......often these native restorers live life at a "different-drum-beat" than Ryan and the rest of us ...."Invaders"......so this "Restoration" WILL take Ryan TIME and more TIME and since he has pleeeeded in his letter to make amends for his SINS it seems only Christian to help poor Ryan down the road to redemption...... Trust me when the Native passes you the plank of wood with the slimy ell's to eat IT is a Religious ..... Awakening.... Ryan has pleeeeded for our help in atoning for his SINS...... shucks this plan is so good perhaps the judge might help Ryan restore some other ...."$inners-$ins....." Drive on.....(Pass the ell's and....sin no more) .

R & L, Trust me you will be just fine in Bend in June.....oh ya.... I was hatched in Central Oregon and family has had homes since before it was a state (1859)....so here is the weather deal..... only TWO years in a row do I recall watching the Fourth of July fire works in a snow storm......not many places in the lower 48 can have fire works in the snow on the 4th. .....ya know that second year that it snowed we lost a few Kalifornians...... Now the good news ......as I recall I have seldom needed to plow much snow in July in Bend...... We still own a couple places in Bend but we don't need to arrive until it gets over a +100 at our AZ & NV places...... You will likely survive Bend if you take your parka, heavy boots and thick gloves..... Bend has Two seasons.....Snow & Forest Fires...... We have owned a place just South of Waldport forever and almost every year in mid-summer you will have 90 days or more with NO measurable moisture AT ALL.......NONE... We had a 2000 ft long turf airstrip that mowed a lot until mid June then it turned brown and never needed mowing until March..... Now when it rains in can get with the program .......sometimes a inch in a hour but you just put your rain gear on and stay away from swollen fast running water...... Oregon is.....Oregon.....there might be a reason more folks live in Kalifornia ....... Drive on.......(gotta go mow the ..... airstrip)

Geez folks........imagine.......ole Ryan texts his "retained-lawyer-shop" Shyster, Hookum & Screwum P C, LLC .......and.......BINGO a few minutes later......... a canned Damage-Control-Letter-of-Oh-I-Have-Sinned appears along with a web-link-comment-button that feeds directly to the P R section of the "Law-less-Firm" and for about $7,723.00 Ryan is in the drivers seat and his "handlers" have taken command of what the lawyers refer to as........."taking control of the ........."consequences"........and Teflon-coating "Ryan" and making the BLM the bad guy IF they do NOT PARTNER with "Ryan"........ Shucks folks with the proper ........."Handling"..........by " Shyster, Hookum & Screwum P C, LLC" poor and sad "Ryan" could maybe see a uptick in sales of maybe 14% and 5.677% better market share........ Having been a expert witness for some fairly dark law-less firms at times, I can assure you that plenty of "canned-letters" reside on huge hard drives on the lawyer servers......., Perhaps you have been living in a cave but..........Being a JERK these days is..........in fashion........,and the norm..... Drive on...........,(Be a JERK and ..........lawyer-up.......the new-norm)

Pack & Dan.....,., Mighty fine points you bring to the table.........shucks IF we only knew the rest of the story.......hummmm maybe......just maybe those darn .........e m p p o y e e s........drove the company head-jerk crazy and he just could not help the urge to do some arch-engraving...... Shucks.....this jerk gig is ......contagious ........ shuck I feel the urge to go out and.........kick Dolly-the-Painthorse.......however any "real-jerk" knows you never kick a horse because.......It's hell to pay when the horse takes it turn to kick back........(Dolly would be the soft-nudge compared to the "kick" from the Dollymama.......gulp) Ok perhaps you have a point.......those darn employees should lose there job..........maybe next time they will chose a better company owner......... Drive on............(Jerks need to have a ton-of-time taken away cleaning out ditches and colverts......take their T I M E.....) This "jerk thing" is so ......simple.......and not-so-simple......

Well indeed this is fits at least the SAD & DUMB category and it seems likely that with the evidence images that exist that it might be better to NOT beat up on the company and the employees that had NOTHING to do with the punk-like-defacing of the arch......... Might it better "justice" to bring pressure to "PUNISH" the "perpetrator" and NOT the employees? ? Yes of course it's fairly maddening when some jerk gets his jollies wrecking nature and it seems that being a JERK is fairly normal for more and more people and positions but .............to punish innocent employees can bring us into the trap of jerk-ism ourselves ........... Being around jerks makes many of us upset and that is understandable, however....... might be best to focus out and aim the laser of justice at the BLM and let them know that a little-slap-on-the-wrist is NOT justice........ Last time I spent some time in China I became aware of a young lady that was sent to a VERY grim prison for a finance offense and she had to do HARD LABOR for 13 months 14 HOURS EVERY DAY!!!!!! In China they TAKE YOUR TIME.........EVERY DAY........ALL DAY....... Here we Lawyer-Up and seldom have "TIME" taken from the lives of "well-off-Jerks"........... IF this "well-off-Jerk" had 13 months of HARD LABOR ..........EVERY DAY...........might be a few JERKS decide to carve their initials in the doors of their jacked-up pick-ups instead of arches.......... Jerks are a royal pain.......... Drive on...........(Jerks need to do.........TIME)

Almost no difference..... Our toybox is under 10k And our Morgan Cargo box stands at 12'-2" so we have a built in headwind in normal wind conditions..... I flight plan @ 10 mpg but have seen as low as 7 and high as 13.5 with a big tail wind. Cummins has a nice chapter on their website regarding the aero-effects of trucks and various factors pertaining to milage and improvements that can be obtained..... Drive on.....(tail, cross, head.... Winds)

Blew out of Bend Wednesday afternoon and raced a couple antelope ( dropped of cruise as they passed in front....on our way to overnight at the fairgrounds in Burns, OR.... Dolly-the-paint-horse loves to make a few laps on the race track... Thursday we hoped to have enough parts and diesel to wonder over to Winnemucca then Lovelock, Fallon, and overnight at the Rodeo grounds at Hawthorne,NV.... NOT TO BE.........99 Miles out of Burns and 126 miles North of Winnemucca the Dollymomma called on the radio and said..."Old Blue just died".........I coasted the Dollytrolley into the ditch and walked back to the GMC and opened the hood and all looked OK........got in and cranked the engine but it was obvious that it was out of ignition timing......I crawled back under the hood and shined a bright light on the distributor cap and checked the hold down screws all was tight....... The wind was freezing and a few snow flakes would blow by so I said we will get a tow to Winnemucca ..........it only took TEN hours to get the tow.........Fortunately Dolly was in the horse module in the toyhauler so we drove the 52 miles South to Mc Dermitt and dropped the toyhauler and Dolly at the rodeo grounds and then when the tow truck arrived he informed me that he could haul the GMC but that the tow insurance had forgot to include the horse trailer in tow behind the GMC.......hummm ....so.....I crank up the Dollytrolley and lead the tow truck 52 miles back North up Hwy 95 and load the pickup on the rollback and then the dispatcher calls and says that they will tow the trailer after all..........so the Dollytrolley just had a 104 mile milk run in the middle of the nite.......... Next day I tell the mechanic how the GMC seemed to have lost ignition timing so he ran the codes and NO codes were in the computer and the ECM self tested perfect so..........he pulled the distributor cap off and the rotor fell out on top of the engine......one screw was still in the rotor and the other screw was in the bottom of the distributor.......a new cap and rotor was installed and we decided to celebrate by spending the evening at the Winnemucca rodeo / convention center watching the Western States Ranch Rodeo Finals and it was a great show...... Friday we departed Winnemucca in moderate rain and sleet but the weather started clearing South of Lovelock and was sunny at Fallon. The GMC need gas at Hawthorne and I helped a older gent with a new Volvo repair a airbag leveling valve anchor on the lower cross member when the pivot-rivet pulled out of the hole in the cross member........I cranked the generator and used a angle grinder to remove the rest of the rivet from the rod link end and then we installed a capscrew stolen from a air hose clamp on the Dollytrolley...... We wondered the another 100 miles south on Hwy 95 to overnight at the rodeo grounds at Tonopah (much new and much smoother paving the last 30 miles into Tonopah)......... Yesterday we departed Tonopah and had a lunch stop in Beatty and then drove south to the Last Chance Peak where the Dolly winter camp is just East of Death valley....... We only had THIRTY tires on the road this trip .......and air stayed in them all for the hobble down to Last Chance Peak Dolly-the-paint-horse camp.........all in all, just another .....adventure in hay burner hauling....... Drive on......(hay-burner in tow)