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Broke the 1979 record by 35 inches, almost 120%z: Record snowfall If it keeps up it may be a late Tioga Pass opening

Freecampsites.net Is the one I used extensively. But I see your link is owned by that group and goes to the same page. It has roughly the same info as Campedium but without the begging for money. The two sites often call the same site by different names which can be confusing. I do chip in a few bucks every year. I prefer the way the info is presented on FC. The Dyrt takes begging to a whole new level and I almost never use them.

Lots of good suggestions, I'll go thru them tommorrow. The wife has a trip with the grand daughter scheduled for today. Weeki Wachee to see the mermaids. Thanks everyone for the good advice.

We have had minimal problems finding spots, that is on coast to coast trips and maybe 15000 miles last year. That excludes anything north of the Mason Dixon line in the east. My theorey is that these shortages mainly are occurring in NE states and other states that closed down their own state parks or limited camping in commercial parks. Spots in or near major parks are always tough to get but even with that we camped for weeks in and around YNP, Tetons, South Rim and Bryce. Boondocking helps. But we had almost no trouble finding spots in commercial parks, we camped in over 50 locations this year

Nice DIY mioni project

Anyone know of a good app for storing and retrieving easily data like DL license and other cards, licence tags, and so on a mix of text info and photos like of tags.

Hmmm I don't recall paying that much when I renewed, yhe must have kicked it up.

That's a new one for me. Their website has lots of words but not much info. "Up to half off" what ever that means and most critically NO MAPS. I looked at Louisiana's listings and it was a list of parks fluffed out to take up as much room as possible on the page. The location is just the nearest town. You can use google to get directions, one park at a time, but I want a map so I can see what parks are near my planned route. A park in LA near twomules means nothing if I'm going down I10 and Twomules is at the northern border of LA. And it is $40/yr PPA certainly has a quirky set of limitations on their parks but at least I can see where the parks are located. And IIRC it's $20 or $25/yr HH and Boondockers is the same company now.

There is only one membership card that is cost effective and that is PPA which puts you in the black on the second or third park. GS maybe worth it if it's still $20 and you get 10% at thousands of parks. That usually just covers the taxes.

They are worthless when you consider the discount vs the price of the card unless you stay frequently at KOA. The ran the cost of the card up to $33 and I think dropped the discount to 10% so at the average $55/night you'd have to spend 7 nights to get into the black on the deal.

Loves has very pricey fuel, unless you have a discount card. So why would you expect their camps to be less expensive. The KOA discount card is worthless, a KOA manager told us not to waste our money buying one. We did find a couple of KOAs far out from anywhgerewith moderate $40/night charges but the majority sticks with the $55 price. It may not be 'set' by KOA but I'll bet it is the recommended price given to the franchisees.

Hopefully they aren't going to be the KOA standard $55 and up per night

I hadn't even thought of that issue before. Kirk may have the solution tho. I'm not sure what BCBS covers. But it looks like it may work in Canada. We have dual coverage since my wife isn't on Medicare yet.

Looking at that map posted on the Escapees site, it is obvious that the program is worthless unless you live in the Midwest or a small area around NYC

Glasses act as safety glasses which may be irritating to wear but are really needed in some of those occupations you mention. They are a pain to clean all the time tho. And that brings up another issue I ran into recently. The last two sets of glasses I bought had Nikon lenses in them. Like you I have worn glasses since grade school and take good but not obsessive care of them However both sets of those glasses developed scratches bad enough to make them need replacement. The first set I got a new prescription for and whille ordering the new lenses the optician (@ Walmart Optiical) said that I should have brought them in for free replacement. Turns out they have a 1 year warranty at Walmart. And when the second new set got scratched just as badly in 6 months I did bring them back. They hinted around but would not come out and say that the anti-glare coating on the Nikon lenses was the problem. When I was ordering some sunglasses at a different store I asked about the issue, instantly asked if I had the anti-glare coating but also would not plainly say that was the problem. So no hard evidence but I would not get anti-glare especially not on Nikon lenses. I ordered the sunglasses without that coating. link The beat around the bush in that article and try to blame the wearers, but the above quote says a lot.

I'll skip them too, not even sure it would work on me anyway my farsightedness came from catarac surgery. Sounds like a technology for the excessively vain anyway.

Is that map for the TSD or Escapee's plans. Rather worthless card whichever it is for most RVers

Not too bad if insurance covers it.

Extremetech Sounds interesting but not if they cost $600/bottle like a recent dry eye treatment. I'll wait to see what my eye doc says

Well 1.9 billion/yr for 5 years gives 9.5 billion with a supposed 12 billion backlog. So it takes a major bite out of that backlog. And how much money can the parks effectively absorb a year anyway? Remember Obamas stimulus where the targets of the money blizzard could not spend all that money, a bunch (danke Gott!) ended up coming back unspent.

Waot one, didn't the last congress and president pass a major new funding bill for the parks?? Billions for maintenance?

I assume you mean Yosemite for YNP which generally means Yellowstone. Confusing that two major parks both begin with a 'Y'. Yes they need to be upgraded but this still will create an even worse situation in Yosemite for up to 2 years.

No doubt that lots of boondocking areas are overloaded. Valley of the Gods for example. I have stopped publishing locations for that reason. Unless they are well known already. Carabella outside Gardiner/Yellowstone is a prime example. There must has been more than 50 rigs there when we camped 2 years ago. Not to say that the place was trashed everyone seemed to be well behaved in that case. But this year we found that the BLM had turned it into a designated camping area with fewer than 20 camping spots. Much nicer sites but many fewer get to use the place. Stll free but one spot has hookups making me think that a cg host is in the plans which will probably convert it to a pay cg. The parks themselves have caused a lot of the overcrowding by closing their internal cg temporarily because of the 'plague panic'. YNP must have closed more than half their internal spots leaving few places for campers to go. This despite the fact that camping is one of the safest activities you can engage in during the 'panic'. Yosemite is closing many of their campgrounds next season. These parks need to be enlarging and improving their camps not reducing their numbers.

Utah has so many Boondocking spots that they would have to declare half the state as stste parks. Most on federal land too. so the state does not control them.

That website is 404 right now, probably overloaded with responses