GR "Scott" Cundiff

Here's one of the news stories that gives the coordinates. Also, the final cell phone ping came from Dyer, which is west of where they were found. Apparently, after they left Luning and ended up on HWY 360 or maybe went on down 90 but turned west on 6 then south on 773. Another interesting tidbit - there is a disbursed camping area about 12 miles from where they were found. It is Fish Lake Valley Hot Well. I found an account from one adventurous camper who actually took a Safari motorhome across from Silver Peak headed for that spot, however, he said he turned back a few miles short of the Hot Well because of snow - so it could be done. Most people, though arrive at the Hot Well from the west rather than the east. I enjoy maps and this kind of research so I've spent some time (as you can tell) trying to understand how they ended up where they did.

I'll mention that my feelings about it being a GPS error are influenced by the location of the car. Reports are that she had sent a text asking for help. Unfortunately, the text wasn't sent until she was rescued and the phone found a cell tower. Her text was coordinates and the word "help." I looked up the coordinates and tried to figure out how a GPS could direct someone to that area. Again, I don't now what kind of GPS they were using, but Google Maps will only direct me to that spot if I put the actual coordinates of that spot as the destination. It never includes that road otherwise. The coordinates are: 37.757753, -117.809568 - check it out to see where the car was.

Yes, I read that. She thinks she remembers another RV - but surely, that wasn't on that one lane road! How could you meet another RV on that road and not specifically remember it? Of course, they may have met other vehicles on 773 - but once they turned off it seems very unlikely. Their RV was found 10 miles on south on that road.

There's a good chance that the road in the photo is the one they turned down. If not, it would be one like it. Honestly, had I tried to take our rig down a road like that I would have faced a mutiny in the passenger seat unless there was a campground or at least other RVs in plain sight. Again, just trying to understand the "they followed the GPS" explanation.

I agree. I went to Google Maps, put in Luning (where they were spotted by someone's camera) and then Las Vegas as destination. I told it to avoid highways. The only alternative from the obvious route would have taken them southwest on Hwy 360. That would have at least gotten them northwest of where they were found and in the general area of where their last cell phone ping was. The thing is Google won't even let you drag the route to where their class C was found - so far as I can tell it doesn't see those jeep trails as roads. Now, this is Google Maps - I don't know what GPS they had. Still, I'm not convinced that this is really the fault of the GPS

I remember that our Hitchhiker had a circle drawn where the vent was supposed to go. When we installed the Spendide they cut that hole out and we were good to go.

I'd say a vented stackable should be your first choice. If you don't have room, then a vented combo (Splendide) would be a compromise. Personally, I wouldn't ever want a non-vented dryer, RV or house.

Well, let me announce right here on this public forum - nope, I don't carry cash or any other kind of valuables. Nada, nothing. So, if anyone is reading this thread looking for information on people, you might as well pass me by. We've got nothing!

A wet dryer sheet works pretty well.

We're towing a 2017 Ford C-Max Energi. Tows 4 down. So far so good.

We've likely been neighbors at one time or another. We've been coming in to Green Caye for the winters for several years now, although we missed a few while we were volunteering over at Battleship Texas.

We always get packages at Green Caye - no problem. They are delivered to the office. They don't want individual pieces of mail, but our Escapees mail package is no problem with them. I don't think I've ever seen a HDT in the campground but I'm not sure.

Big move today - most of it in reverse as we moved from our temporary spot to our longer stay spot. We'll be here at Green Caye in Dickinson, TX till Spring.

Escapees actually suggests (with cautions) that some people might want to use a relative for handling their mail. https://www.escapees.com/how-rvers-get-their-mail-guide/

We get a campground an hour or so from a fringe mass transit location. We then take the subway/train/etc on into the city. Worked great the big eastern cities.

Interestingly we also just had a major black tank failure (cracked tank) that put the motorhome in the shop for almost two weeks. We actually moved into a campground cabin during the repair. In our case our Thousand Trails membership gives us a free week in a cabin each year, so we only ended up paying for the stay over one week. In over 8 years of fulltiming this was only our second time to have to vacate. The other stay was just a couple of nights. We have also stayed in the RV over night during repairs a couple of times. The shop provided us with limited electricity and a water line. We spent the night and went sightseeing during the day. Some of this is downright unhandy, but most of it is just part of life. That is, sometimes people have to vacate their sticks and bricks houses for one reason or another just the same.

Been using FB Purity for years. If I disable it for some reason I can't believe how unhandy and bloated Facebook actually is.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx: I refuse to stay at any campground that would have me as a member.

I won't speak to fairness, but it is common practice to have to pay a higher weekly/daily rate if you extend a monthly stay.

Verizon recently added some pretty attractive data plans - worth checking out: https://www.rvtravel.com/finally-verizon-expands-affordable-hotspot-plans/

The Babylonian was probably just cutting some corners.

It has been a few years but we stayed at Lake Haven Retreat in Indy. Nice place. http://pastorscott.com/travel/2017/06/26/2017-lake-haven-retreat-indianapolis-indiana/

Thanks folks!

Just wondering

Right now I'm reading the Lamb Among the Stars series by Chris Walley. I've read it before, but it has been several years. I think of it as the opposite of the Left Behind series. The plot is built around the concept of the Biblical millennium, an extended time of human life as God intended. Theologically there are "pre- and post- millenniumists." A "pre-" believes Jesus will come back and usher in a 1000 years of peace. A "post-" believes that following success by the Church in establishing Christianity that there will be 1000 years of peace on earth and good will toward men followed by the triumphant return of Christ. Chris Walley takes the "1000 years" as a symbolic number - and, at the time of the book it has already lasted 13,000 years! Humans are now on many planets, all still worshiping the Lord. But something is changing...their "millennium" of peace is coming to an end.... http://www.chriswalley.net/books/lamb-among-the-stars/