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I vote go to California. Just don't stay there long enough to get declared a resident. Linda

Deal! I wondered how you'd get there and still be able to drive the thing back. Once back in Deming will you have a toad or go without like we did in our View? Linda

Lee, If you wind up going to Forest City, the city park has a bunch of campsites and dump/water islands where you can spend a couple days testing things out. Winnebago has a small campground where you can plug in while waiting for service if you have a punch list. Service WILL knock on your door at 7 AM so plan to be up and ready by then. The dealer there, Lichtsinn sp?, has a good reputation. Winnebago also has their own rally grounds where they host the Grand National Rally. In July, I think. Good place to go to meet other View owners and learn what mods they have done. They park all the Views together because they fit back to back in sites that would only take one of the larger Class A rigs. The rally grounds only have water at the end of the row but, when we went to the GNR, the View owners chained their hoses together down the row so anyone who wanted to could refill their tank without having to move the rig. That's also where I broke my face but that's another story. Linda

Cool! If we were going to buy another View that's probably the one we'd buy. I think it's the best plan for being able to use it without having to open any slides or to hassle with the beds. Be aware that carpeted area between the beds is the equivalent of a gasser's doghouse. I like the idea of the nightstand between the beds. I always had to tuck my clock and flashlight under my pillow since there was no bedside place to put them. Those beds are pretty skinny, though, so be sure to test them to see if you can turn over without falling out of bed. Otherwise, you might want to store some pillows on that doghouse to reduce headaches. Linda

Wow, Lee! I bet you sleep for a couple days to recover from that speedy trip! Better than being too sick to move, though. Or spending all your time in shops like Roger. I hope everyone's luck turns good and everything offers smooth sailing now. Linda

Lee, I've been told it is not a good thing to top off your DEF. It messes up the measuring system that tells you when to refill it or something like that. Linda

Thanks to Jeri's prompting I had Dave move my pin today. Don't want you all trying to do a meet up with me in North Carolina now that i am back in Minnesota. We've had some weird weather this year--big snow flakes one morning then very warm sunshine that very afternoon. Linda

Happy anniversary! May you have 34 more of them. Linda

We had some of that thunderstorm last night. Today it is sunny but windy. They are preparing to do some major roadwork on I-494 just west of us and Dave is being entertained by the machine that moves the concrete barriers back and forth to make the three lanes that are normally all northbound be two south in the morning but two north in the evening so they can close the regular southbound lanes during construction with minimal interruption of traffic. Makes me think of that old sign that says, "Work fascinates me. I can sit and watch it for hours." What can I say, we have no novice RVers trying to park their rigs in our view here in the apartment. Although there was an interesting-looking RV parked at Perkins where we had breakfast this morning. Linda

Lee, My iPad's iOS doesn't update until I tell it to. Wonder why your's doesn't wait? I bet Dave could tell us. You must have something that says update automatically turned on somewhere. Linda

I checked to see if I could beat that with the local campground we stayed at when preparing to go full-time but my map says it is 12 miles so we only tied you. Then i read Dave's post about moving within a campground so I guess the time we had to move up on the hill to avoid a flooding river was even shorter than that. Those moves do help offset the occasional too long day, right? Although they don't help you feel rested at the end of one of those longer days. Linda

Durham, NC, is not in the mountains. Snow is so rare there that the staff totally freaked out when we got about two inches. Linda

If you have a good credit card you can take the gang to Silly Al's in Quartzsite next January. That will go a long way towards getting you accepted. Linda Sand ps. If you don't understand that's a joke you may have trouble fitting in to this group.

Moving from one rig to another is one of those exciting/frustrating things. Hope you fall mostly on the exciting side of that equation. Linda

When I got light headed and dizzy in an exercise class they sent me to have my blood pressure checked. It seems when you go on a very low-salt diet while taking BP meds you can get your pressure low enough that not enough blood reaches your brain. Just something you might want to have Lynn check out. Linda

Remember when we thought rain was an excuse to run outside barefoot? Linda

Toni's comment about their "other life: resonates with me. There's my life with Dave in the apartment and my life away from him whenever I travel elsewhere. Trying to switch back to the apartment is proving a little harder this time because I haven't figured out yet how to bring bits of the other life into this one successfully. It's just so much easier to let go of the other life and slip back into this one the way it was. But, I don't want to regain that 35 pounds nor do I want to lose that increased mobility. So, something needs to give somewhere. i wonder what and how it will be? Linda

We have owned three Sprinters but only the last one had DEF. The only problem I had was getting the DEF bottle to the fill place. Too heavy for me to lift that high. Sorry to hear you are having problems with yours. I hope someone figures out a solution soon. Linda Sand

Yes, he is. He got that last stubborn day/night shade out of my van's window. BTW, the new van owner likes the curtains you hemmed for me. My thanks go to both of you. Linda

I made a reservation to go back next winter Jan 3-Apr 3. Now if their kitchen staff would just come up here and do all the meal planning, cooking, and cleaning up in the meantime it would be easier to stick with the plan. I'd move there full time if I could get Dave to go too. I miss him too much to be able to stay away more than three months, though. I learned that my first snowbird winter when I was ready to go home long before the weather wouldn't freeze my pipes. Linda Linda

Too late for the bags; I already unpacked them. But the big box I shipped home is still waiting. Linda

Two of my three checked bags made it past the layover. I guess that must happen a lot because Delta has a system here for delivering lost bags. That third one was delivered right to our apartment today. Now, if someone would just come unpack them for me. I sure do miss traveling by RV. Linda

Honey can have one benefit sugar does not. If you eat local honey, it can decrease your susceptibility to allergies. Linda Sand

Tomorrow is a travel day for me. By airplane. Boo. At least Minnesota is having Spring this year so it won't be such a shock to my system to go back there from North Carolina. Wonder how many of my bags will make it past the layover in Atlanta? Linda

If you eat root vegetables like rutabaga you might try putting honey on it. I know people who put maple syrup on vegetables so honey might work there. Linda Sand