Barbaraok

What is more important, you and your husband enjoying your life or the money you might spend on some repairs?   If money is the issue, then don’t RV full time.  It is not a question of IF you will have repairs, but when. Have you looked at the costs of a DP routine maintenance?  
 

BTW, if you are sure it is just tightening a clamp, them why pay the money for a service call?  Is there heat coming out the back of the dryer?  

1 hour ago, noteven said:

I was in high shool in the mid 1970’s. We were taught global cooling was going to lead to “ice age” conditions possibly as early as 2020. Somewheres in the archives which I cannot find at the moment I have a copy of a Time Magazine article from that period outlining global temperature decline and the threat of annihilation it represented. It reads like a present day article but opposite cause of the same effect… 

 

Maybe you should go look at this article about the "Time Cover". https://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/

One should be careful of where one picks up information.

"But as John Cook points out over at Skeptical Science, global cooling was much more an invention of the media than it was a real scientific concern. A survey of peer-reviewed scientific papers published between 1965 and 1979 shows that the large majority of research at the time predicted that the earth would warm as carbon-dioxide levels rose — as indeed it has. And some of those global-cooling projections were based on the idea that aerosol levels in the atmosphere — which are a product of air pollution from sources like coal burning and which contribute to cooling by deflecting sunlight in the atmosphere — would keep rising. But thanks to environmental legislation like the Clean Air Acts, global air-pollution levels — not including greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide — peaked in the 1970s and began declining."

Get the AllStays app for your smart phone.  Really handy for looking at an area for all kinds of services.  

Since the kitchen is on the slide, and our slide has a slight backward tilt when extended, the water in the coffee maker is always higher in the back of the holding tank, and butter in a pan will go away from me, but it is so slight that it doesn't bother me.  The slide topper still collects water in a heavy rain and we have to be very care to bring it in slowly so no one around gets a shower.   Hasn't been a problem as we haven't seen real rain in Western Washington since June 14th!   They even have a heat advisory out for Seattle area for tomorrow and Tuesday as it will be in the high 80s for those days!    We just grin at our relatives complaining about the heat. 😎

Is it purposely slightly  out of level to ensure proper  draining off of roof and side toppers?  Not enough for most people to notice, and everything functions properly, but enough for water not to pond.

They have excessive heat warnings out in Seattle area because it is going to be in the mid to high 80s!  My sister sets her AC to come on if it hits 75!   Years of living in hotter climate, anything below 90 just doesn’t raise an  eyebrow from us anymore.   

5 hours ago, LindaH said:

Nevada's roads are good.  Arizona's are pretty good, too, with the exception of a stretch of I-10 west of Phoenix.  It's been a number of years since we've been that way, so it may have been resurfaced by now.

No, that section is still pretty rough, but doesn't compare with I-5 or Highway 99 in California.  The section of I-40 from Flagstaff to Kingman was atrocious 2 yrs ago, but haven’t been on it since.

"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid day sun".  Lyrics in a song by Noel Coward

Welcome to the group Dennis.  I'll second everyone's suggestion of Escapees and Passport America.   If you are interested in membership parks, I'd invite to read our page from our blog on Membership Parks.  There are several things to consider and I agree it takes a while to know if they might fit your traveling style, especially if you haven't done much RVing before you retired.  

RV, I never said I objected to Apple security alerts - all of whom I see before you have publicized them here.  I do object to the almost joyous glee by the authors of those articles, which are usually by NOT long term Apple users.   Never seem to see Apple users pointing out problems with other the products of other manufacturers, mainly because we are happy with our choice and see no reason to try and disparage what others use.  

Well even the dry heat of Arizona at 120 feels almost to hot to handle, but if you are in the shade and have a little water, you can survive.  Contrast with 98° heat + 90% humidity we had in East Texas and we would pull all the guys off of construction projects or other outside work because they simply couldn't handle it.  Which is why in the summer in East Texas big construction projects would start before daylight - like concrete pours at 3:00 am!

US Highway 99 from Bakersfield to Sacramento - has to rank down at the bottom  along with Louisiana I-10 if not surpass it!  

Dan, I'm sorry, but this is a long running point of contention between RV and myself regarding the intelligence of Apple users.    And like most Apple users, I don't have updates automatically loaded, but we still get alerts and then we decide whether it is time to upload the update or whether it can wait until we are somewhere with better cell coverage.  

DJW - ?

You do know that we get automatic alerts from Apple when there is a system update, right?  

Solo, you know that all threads go off on a tangent at times.  I assume that you've already looked at AllStays and RV Park Reviews for private parks on the east side?

On 7/7/2021 at 6:55 AM, packnrat said:

yes lumber.

yes fuel.

yes food.

i need to work on my trains, and at the cost of a sheet of plywood. ($60.- $85.00 usd) my rr might just go bankrupt.

cost $100.usd to fill my fuel tank on my pu truck. and that's only four days commute.

i have had to cut back on what i buy at the store. some days i do not have a quite belly... but maybe this says i can lose some weight?

heck even the dmv has raised there tax rates to reg a truck, my 2001 fiver is now costing me over $200.usd a year. up $22.00 from last year. and that was more than the year before.

Plywood prices are falling because the saw mills are back working. May take time to get to your area, but the mills are running!

Do you really need your car if you are traveling with several others that have cars?  That would increase the possibility of finding sites.  

There are 3 dots on the right side of your post.  Click on it, and file a report asking the moderator to remove you.   That would be the quickest way I know of since there doesn't appear to be a way under account settings to completely remove yourself - which by design protects you from someone else removing you who isn't a moderator.

1 hour ago, Danandfreda said:

If you sold your sticks and bricks you should not need a loan for an rv

You assume that the house that was sold had been owned for decades and so resulted in large amount of funds from the sale.   That isn’t necessarily true.   Some of us moved around quite a bit during our working years, moving every 4-5 years, so never made huge amounts off of each house.   
 

Due dates don't stop you from paying ahead of time.   I pay our credit cards the day after the billing cycle closes, and sometimes during the month I'll go ahead and pay a big charge on the card ahead of the closing date.   With online payments you can set up weekly payments on credit cards so that you have ALWAYS paid at least the minimum due by any due date.    Yes, it takes a little work to get to that point, but it can be done.  

1 hour ago, Chalkie said:

Yes, it would have been nice if once you had your second shot they would have laminated it like a drivers license with a hard to forge (note I did not say impossible) laminate.

But you will probably need a third shot, and there is room 9n the card we received for that 3rd shot.

25 minutes ago, Chalkie said:

Thanks for the link Kirk, but those are made in China, that is a non-starter for me when there are multiple listings on Amazon KN95 masks that are made in the USA.

Then order those.  Kirk just provided the link, and once there SEVERAL different types were offered in addition to the one he linked to.  He was providing a service, not looking for masks meeting requirements he didn’t know were required when he posted.  Yes, it is a little thing, but better response would have been:  “Thanks Kirk, I was able to use that link to find US made masks in addition to the one you used as an example “. 

Well the cost of doing 2 test (one pre test and one at-home test at the border) means not going to do it for a trip to enjoy a day in Vancouver or Victoria BC, so common before the pandemic during the summer in Western Washington.  

Randy,  remember we are talking about people who already are vaccinated, so  the masks are a secondary line of defense, the vaccination being that first line of defense.   The masks will grab 50% or more, depending upon type, of  viral particles being exhaled by the infected person,  so that if you walk through an area where they were, assuming you are still keeping distance from them, a lot of those exhaled particles are on the floor, you are blocking a large share of what remained in the air, and the smaller amount that might get through are handled by your immunization.    I went into Fred Meyers and Walgreens yesterday, in the Seattle area, and wore my mask.  And saw a LOT of white haired older individuals like myself, with their masks on.   And this area doesn't have a massive outbreak, but in a large box store with lots of people, I just feel more comfortable having a little bit more protection. 

Before we went full timing in '06, I went through 2 shredders getting rid of old paperwork.  We have file boxes full of old bank statements, etc., from when we were married in 1966!  All the boxes had multiple stickers on them from the various moving companies we used for all our moves around the country.   Checks from the first week we were married - $15 for groceries for the week!