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OK Verizon signal is weak, we have one but I have the WeBoost RV and had to put the antenna up 20 ft or so. People are hanging around the laundry trying to get a signal according to my wife. Have not run a signal test yet. They have a big clubhouse and have activities there, line dancing every morning, Octoberfest tomorrow, And other things I'm sure. It's a nice park except for the cell signal. WIFI is pay extra.

I don't know if that was a separate rate back then but today the Navy calls them Communications Techs: CT. Now, unless that has changed. Just a guess but your father was probably a Radioman or Signalman. I see WT Griffin often refers to "Gray Foxes" in the Army back in WWII in his books, I suspect those were ASA.

My father was in the ASA up until around 1960. Ft Huachuacha, Ft Mammoth, taught at Great Lakes. Spent WWII at running a station at St Lucia as an E7, listening to German U-Boote. Korea over there in Korea. Retired came back the next week at the same job as a civvie. I assume he spoke German. Cell signal minimal here tho.

I'd try around Trenton FL, not on the Gulf but there are two very large RV camps and several medium sized ones. These were not even close to full last winter. You would be near several State Park springs.

Probably if you get there in the first day or so

On our AF I can just run the oven at broil with the door half open in the morning to warm up the camper. The AF has heavy insulation tho. Furnaces are notorious for running down batteries and using a lot of propane. As for your other question it depends on the size of your solar array and the size of the battery pack. I'd recommend at least four 6V golf cart batteries. Lithium are very expensive and do not pay back their investment unless you keep that RV for many years. Solar arrays are less effective in the winter because of the low sun angle and the cloudy weather. Adding foam sheet insulation to the RV belly and putting Reflextrix in the windows will help.

1. The can go places a class A cannot. They are good for boondocking if the unit has high clearance. 2. If you want a loaf of bread you have to break camp and drive to the store. I haven't seen C's towing a toad very often. 3. We have two dogs, 40# and 70# and they do not take a lot of room but they will be under your feet all the time. Cats need even less space. They both sleep 18 hours a day or more. We are in a 30 ft TT. 4. The C may be more cramped inside, depends on what you get. Some of those super C's look bigger. I have not looked inside one tho,.

I doubt any RV's are wired for a fiber or Ethernet connection. Plus many fulltimers use cell phone connections via hotspots on their phones. FiNet would be great but not practical

I'm using FF right now

If a tropical storm or hurricane is predicted to hit the outer banks or any barrier island that you are on, get off. There is no safe option other than that. Flooding and storm surge not winds are the killers.

If you think about it, RVs take 60 mph winds head on while traveling. Or now days 70 or 80 mph, guessing at the speed of all those RV's passing us on the roads. Our heavy Arctic Fox has never had any issues with cross winds so far. I have my doubts about those RV's labeled ultra lights tho.

40 mph is nothing unusual out here in the Rocky Mountain states. We were in the Black Hills area a week ago when someone came by banging on our door and warned us of a tornado watch, our phones had just done the same. I went outside to watch the sky and was treated to a spectacular display of sheet lightning and gale force winds. No twister tho. Winds blow all day out here and can often gust to 40+ mph. But we have an Arctic Fox and they are quite heavy, 9000# in our case. The RV may sway a little but that's all. Forget about putting your awning out tho. 80mph winds are something else tho. Remember doubling wind velocity increases their force by 4 not 2. It goes up by the square by the Kinetic Energy formula. As for weather predictions, yes they have gotten better at some things. Temperature for one. But for rain predictions they aren't so good. They are better at tropical storm tracks too. Check hurricane landfalls over the last few decades we are in a calm period. Also they are finding small storms that would have gone unfound prior to weather sats which first went up in the mid 1970's. But for long decade plus climate predictions the weather guessers are not so good. Lack of computer power is the main issue there.

OK my experience since 1960 in Florida. Late season stores are almost all what's known as Fish Hurricanes. Meaning they churn around the Atlantic and rarely hit land. Early season storms often spawn in the Gulf and in the Caribbean and cause trouble. Late season storms spawn off Africa the the steering winds usually steer them south or north away from most land. Now this is just on average, we could still get a hit from a late season storm. So just watch the warnings and evacuate if required. These storms lose wind velocity rapidly and once you are 150 miles or so inland you are usually safe. Not counting torrential rain and flooding events outside Florida. The weather guessers have just been plain wrong for the last 10 years or more. Mostly predicting lots of storms and getting few that hit land.

Try a mobile RV Tech: https://www.thervgeeks.com/mobile-rv-repair/

Just north of Rock Springs WY is a wild horse area, I assume it is BLM land. Not attractive country tho. We drove around and did not see any.

Hmm...well my wife's aunt had a house in Ochopee, not far from Midway, and we visited once. The skeeters were so bad that you could hold your hand to the window screen and there would be a solid black with skeeters outline when you took your had away. Can's say we noticed that the skeeters we too bad in several other visits to the 'Glades over the year tho. We camped several times at a state park at the west end of the TaMiami trail a number of times and had visited a number of spots in the park and the Cypress Swamp. So maybe it was the season for mosquitos that one time in Ochopee. But the worse bug problem I ever saw was in a Wisconsin park.

Worst bugs we have ever seen are up north. But speaking for Florida, skeeters mainly appear after a long dry spell followed by rain. Not usual conditions in the winter where every front brings a two day downpour. This does not apply to the Everglades area where they can be truly horrific.

We just bought it off Amazon, there are videos on YouTube showing you how to do the replacement. Dometics are a bit trickier than Carefree since they have that strong spring that you need to lock in place. Doable if you follow the instructions carefully. That is based on the Dometic we had on our old fiver. Get vinyl fabric not the old stuff which delaminates and that is the cause of it failing. Anyway our carefree took two hours max to swap out the fabric.

We have been by there and camped near there but have never stopped tho I have heard several people say it was worth it. Next time we are in the area we will check it out. The cg is supposed to be good for a transit stop too.

Maybe some Reflectrix which I have plenty of would work, tho I have had no problems

There is one in Great Basin NP in Nevada right on the Utah border. Lava Beds has a lava tube cave but it was closed when we were there. Craters has several short lava tubes. There is a large cave in the Carlsbad park that is not open to the public. Florida Caverns SP have a nice tour but it isn't to be compared with major NPS caves. Better than I recalled. There are lots of long caves in Florida but they are underwater, Manatee Springs has one that is ten miles long (probably longer), a deadly one too. Ginnie Springs is another. We have an unexplored one on our property.

We spent a week there, after the winter rush, late April maybe, and were not impressed with the park. It's mostly permanent sites. I think they have a lot more activities in the main season but nothing was going on when we were there. Not much to do and no major shopping in the area either. Prescott is a long drive. I'd look further south there are a couple of Escapee parks down there.

Karchner has been on our todo list for a couple years. Getting a tour slot is the problem. Maybe this winter. We've been in all the national caves except Timpanagoes, we went by there but didn't have a tour reserved and only were going to be there one day. Blanchard in Arkansas is a good tour but is run by the USFS and they aren't allowed to advertise and are not well known. I think we saw a road sign pointing to Blanchard and followed it over miles of Ozark county roads to find the place. My wife hasn't been to Oregon Caves and my visit was so long ago I don't recall what it was like.

Tickets right now run about $21 a head for tours, we did not feel like spending $42 to take a cave tour so we did not purchase one once I failed to find the normal rec.gov pass entry on the order form. We have already taken all the normal tours multiple times over the years so it was not a major sacrifice. My wife questioned the ranger at the order desk when we got to the visitor building. We considered Diamond Cave tours but never really investigated before we left the area.

Well years ago there was a women begger who had her station at the exit of the then local SamsClub, dressing in ragged old clothing.. An article showed up in the local paper where a reporter, doing actual in person investigations, followed her when she left. She got in her car, not a Caddy, and drove 25 miles away to a nearby lakeside community where she lived in and it turned out owned, a nice middle class home. The reporter questioned her and she finally confessed that she cleared, tax free, over $200 a day begging. This was maybe 15 years ago so that is pre inflation bucks. Her begging income must has plummeted after the story appeared and she vanished from the local scene. Maybe the IRS got her.