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I would agree with this. When I was doing the desensitization thing, I administered my own injections (I'm a retired Army nurse, so not a big deal). I she or her husband are willing to learn how - and it's OK with her allergist - this is an option for the road. The vials are just stored in the refrigerator and she'd need to have Epi-Pens with her. Rob

How are you having your mail forwarded? If by USPS, they are completely unreliable these days. I'm currently tracking a Priority Mail flat that was sent from the Baltimore area to Las Cruces, NM, last week (not an Escapees mailing). USPS sent it the wrong direction in the first place and it has spent the past four days circling in and out of a distribution center in MA. I only use FedEx two-day for Escapees mail forwarding and have never had an issue doing it that way. Rob

Thanks, everyone... you've convinced me! Rob

After a loop in Southern Utah with friends this spring/summer, we're considering heading north before going east. It looks like one way to avoid the really steep grades, tunnels, etc., in the central Rockies would be to take Colorado 3 from Rifle, CO, to Craig, CO, and continue north to then slant NE to the Black Hills and Mount Rushmore. What can anyone tell me I-70 in Utah and then Colorado 3 going north from Rifle? The Mountain Directly doesn't raise any red flags for that route and we rather like getting off the beaten path. (Rig in signature.) Thanks! Rob

We are domiciled with Escapees in Texas and have purchased three vehicles while in other states (a truck and an RV in Georgia and a car in New Mexico). With the Georgia purchases, the dealers downloaded a form from the Texas DMV site attesting that the vehicles were out of state. We had to have them inspected the first time we were back in Texas. With the New Mexico purchase, the dealership was 25 minutes from the Texas border and the nearest Texas vehicle inspection station. We were required to take the car down to get it inspected before the dealer could complete the Texas registration and titling with Polk County. In all cases, the dealer(s) handled everything (except taking the car to get inspected, of course). Rob

We don't use anything on the back end, but we do use Capital One Shopping on the front end (Laura has some Capital One accounts and I'm one them, too.) Their plug-in installs in your browser and checks the price of things you're looking at. If there's a better deal elsewhere, the app will tell you; if there's a coupon, the app will tell you. We haven't been using it long, but, so far, it seems to work well. Rob

There is a PC health check utility you can run on the PC prior to upgrading. It will tell you which apps and hardware items will be problematic (if any). I have a fairly new PC, so no hardware problems. I'm running some very old apps (as in 10+ years old) and they are running fine. The upgrade went very smoothly of both my wife's and my Lenovo notebooks which were running Windows 10. Rob

Right on the card on the Escapees promo page it says EFS/WEX. That's the same as the TSD fuel card. I have the TSD card, but I can't speak to the difference in discounts between the two. I don't think my TSD card is good for gas. Rob

Yep - that's a good/frequent fix, too. Strangely enough, right after I posted that I hadn't had that issue for a while it did it again! I just now got the computer on-line, but it took a complete network reset in the Settings menus.😐 Rob

I was having this issue quite often for a while. What I had to do was clear the DNS stack on the computer: From the search bar, run "cmd" (run as administrator) Type or copy in this command: netsh winsock reset (and hit "Enter") It just takes a second or two. You may have to reboot the PC. I'm now running Windows 11 and, after the last update, it has quit doing this. Rob

I agree with this wholeheartedly! Rob

Since magnetic north varies, there are times where magnetic and true north can be the same... for a time and only in certain places. In 2019 this happened in Greenwich in the UK. Rob

You can have Dish authorize an external hard drive to use your Wally as a DVR (a thumb drive won't work). Read your Wally manual for specifications and requirements and contact Dish to have it authorized (one-time fee) when you get the drive. Rob

I think you can only switch between plans during Open Season (which it is now - until 13 December). You might want to look into switching now. Rob

Based on your post, I had a nice, long chat with Apria Healthcare this morning. I told them that we were mobile and that my wife has TRICARE Select now, but will transition to MEDICARE and TRICARE For Life next May. We discussed shipping to different locations with billing/domicile in one place. Their response was... no problem! We would just have to order supplies by phone (rather than on-line) so the temporary shipping address could be put on each individual shipment. I'm considering moving over to Apria in January when we move our primary care over to a new internist in New Mexico. Thanks! Rob

We have used Lincare/Optigen for my wife's CPAP supplies since hitting the road (TRICARE coverage). We've had no issue with them except for one or two shipping address mix-ups - which they corrected and paid for. What kind of issues are you having? Have you had your provider send in new orders at least annualy? Rob

We've had a couple of instances reported on one of the other forums I belong to. Rob

I've replaced one of those regulators twice in the last six years. One was probably a diaphragm failure, the other the gauge failed. The company sent me a new gauge and then the regulator stopped working altogether about nine months later. The third one is still in use and working OK. It's mounted inside a heated utility bay on our fiver so we don't have to worry about freezing. For the OP: they are SO much more than surge protectors - they are electrical management systems (EMS). One of their most important duties is to protect your motor-driven appliances (think ACs, residential refrigerators, etc.) and sensitive electronics from low-voltage situations - a common occurrence in many campgrounds. Permanently installed "hard-wired" EMSs are convenient and greatly reduce the risk of theft. Rob Rob

This is exactly how we use ours, too. Rob

While nice for a teardrop, I'm with Kirk on this. As full-timers, I can't imagine living full-time in that kind of space. When the weather is nice, all the world is your porch; when it's blistering hot, freezing cold, pouring down rain, etc., that little trailer is going to get incredibly claustrophobic. Other considerations are storage space (you have to carry everything you need with you) and the wet bath. A wet bath means that the entire bathroom is your shower... nothing on the counter that can't get wet and you have to dry it down each time to prevent mold and mildew. Rob

No - those are zoned as residential. Rob

The "Yes" and "No" are appearing just below our Escapees member numbers. This is where the lifetime membership information used to display... perhaps they just forgot to label it. Rob

I'm also with Dutch. I've used the TireMinder A1A for about six years now monitoring 10 tires. I called Minder Research yesterday and had a conversation about upgrading just the monitor to get more bells and whistles. TheA1AS would run me $300+ ($349 I think he said... but I quit listening at that point). I scroll through and check everything before each departure but, while on the road, I never look at the monitor unless an alarm goes off. Too much stuff to pay attention to while driving. I'm "newly happy" with my original A1A monitor. Rob

It depends on which data plan you get. Streaming TV and movies takes a lot of data (about 2GB/hour for HD). Doing all the other internet stuff doesn't use nearly as much. The device will work fine. We have a Verizon JePack 8800L with an unlimited data plan. It has been our only internet connection for the TV, two laptops, a wireless printer, two Kindles, two iPads, two Echo devices, and the phones when they're on WiFi. Rob

Tu esposa tiene razón. My wife is natively bilingual (born in Argentina, raised in Costa Rica, lived in Spain for 10 years as an adult and another 7 back in CR). She has masters degrees in education and Spanish and also studied at the University of Madrid. OK - credentials out of the way. She says that the Spanish King Ferdinand theory is widespread but it's urban legend. A more academic explanation is this: Castilian Spanish of the Middle Ages had originally two distinct sounds for what we now think of as the "lisp": the cedilla, and the z as in "dezir". The cedilla made a "ts" sound and the "z" a "dz" sound. Both in time were simplified into the "lisp", or what Spaniards call the "ceceo." Interestingly, with her gift and ear for languages, she picked up the "lisp" while living in Spain. When she moved back to CR, her friends there told her to drop it (in no uncertain terms). To many Spanish speakers in the new world, the "lisp" reeks of colonialism. Rob