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Maybe it's time to take a look at Dish for your sat TV service. We change our service address as often as daily with just a 5 minute online chat session.

When I was discharged from the Army and my wife and I moved into our first house, we went to my parents house one weekend to finishing retrieving the items I had left stored there. While we were pulling out my camping and hiking gear, my wife suddenly called out to me that I had left a dirty sock inside my aluminum cooking set! I started laughing and explained to her that the originally white cotton sweat sock was actually quite clean, but had been my "coffee maker" for at least 5 or 6 years while camping. I put the ground coffee in the sock and tied it with a loose knot before dropping it into a pan of hot water. Once the coffee had steeped long enough, I just dumped the grounds out and rinsed the sock until the next batch. Back home, despite numerous washings, not surprisingly the sock remained permanently stained. Later on while prepping for our first camping trip together, my wife made sure I remembered to bring the "coffee maker sock".

It certainly will...

We use a basic Mr Coffee $12-$15 drip machine with just an on/off switch, no clock or timer, for our coffee whether we have power or not. With no power, we just heat up a pan of water on the stove and pour it through the coffee basket with the top open. Then the coffee goes in an insulated AirPot carafe for dispensing as needed. Makes our coffee just the way we like it. Hot and tasty...

A quick way to test if the board is bad if you have a Hydroflame furnace, particularly the common 8500 or 8900 series with easy access, is to just borrow the igniter board from it and try it on your water heater. When you turn it on, there will be the same ~20 second delay that the furnace has, but then it will fire up and work normally if nothing else is wrong.

Coach-Net covers winch outs up to 100' from a maintained or campground road. The distance limit is pretty common, and is based on standard tow truck winch cables being 125' long. I think GS/Allstate has similar wording, but I haven't seen the full benefits wording for the other two.

Are you aware that Good Sam contracts with Allstate Motor Club for their roadside assistance plan? When you call for assistance, it's the Allstate call center that answers the phone, but that's subject to change when the contract next expires. SafeRide by the way, has been around for 20+ years and has a very good reputation in the towing industry. Do various roadside assistance plans use the same service providers? Sure they do... In each town, there's only so many service providers available, and not all will contract with the various plans. Those that do often sign on with multiple plans because it's good for their business, filling in between the more lucrative direct contact calls. The downside is at busy times with multiple plan subscriber calls, the plan that pays the best/fastest will get priority after the direct calls. For many years that was Coach-Net, but I haven't seen the latest numbers in a few years now.

Whenever I pull into a truck stop or rest area and need to park with the "big guys", I look for empty slots that are the least accessible for them, yet still doable for me.

The Bosch eAxle modular drive system that Nikola is using has a listed weight for the 150 KW (about 200 HP) version of 90 kg (about 200 lbs). I didn't find a weight spec for the 300KW version. The eAxle combines the motor, transmission, and electronics in a single package.

Yep, same thing here, shared photo ok, non-shared no good...

I drink a pretty good amount of coffee every day, and don't like to go without it. We use a plain old $12 Mr Coffee 12-cup drip machine that has no bells and whistles, just an "On/Off" switch. When we're boondocking and/or don't want to run the generator or suck down the batteries, I just set the Mr Coffee up as usual, and then pour a pan of hot water from the LP stove into the top through the grounds basket. After it's done dripping, we store the coffee in an insulated "Airpot" that keeps it hot for hours. It's very low tech and easy to do, with no additional equipment needed. We do have a Melitta setup stowed away as an emergency spare, but the last time I saw it was when we moved everything from our old coach to our current coach. Years ago, we had a "Roadpro" 12-volt drip coffee maker in our Class C, and it brewed so slow that we almost needed to start it at bedtime so it would finish by morning. I donated it to Goodwill and bought the Mr Coffee at Walmart.

We use an inline double sediment/charcoal filter for all water coming into the coach, and a secondary PUR filter attached to our kitchen faucet for drinking/coffee water, etc. We use PUR's "MineralClear" filters that reduce 71 contaminants per the NSF certification.

I signed up for the credit monitoring on the 13th, and my activation email came today. Hang in there...

I've never found all these extra charges at KOA's other than an occasional WiFi charge. The price we were quoted on the reservation site has always been the price we paid. Your list reminds me of some non-KOA parks though, that have an extra $1-$2/day charge for 50 amp, and some of them only have Tengo WiFi at a price, while others have no on-site WiFi or cable at all. Oh, wait a minute... Those are Escapees owned parks...

We normally stay at two KOA's twice on our trek south and back north each year, and those stays alone accumulate enough points to pay our VIK membership each year plus a couple of free nights now then, from other KOA stays throughout the year. However, both of our regular KOA's have gotten so busy that getting reservations has become difficult over the past couple of years. This coming winter we're replacing one of the KOA's in GA near the FL line with a GA state park that's only a few miles away, and the other one with a nearby park that's now open year round in PA. We tried that PA park last spring, and were very pleased with both the park and the rates. Given the reduction in KOA usage, it may not be worth it to us to maintain our VIK membership. We'll see how it goes, and we will still have our SKP, GS, and PA memberships that more than pay for themselves...

One of our two furnaces is located below the kitchen sink. The sink cabinet got warm enough in cooler weather that while not concerning, it did limit what items we could store in it. To help keep it cooler, I added a vent high on the cabinet wall using a standard floor register as a louvered grill. The mod was basically free in our case, since I had recently replaced a fixed floor register with an adjustable one, and the new vent just repurposed the extra fixed one.

Independence Day celebrates our independence from British rule, not from the entire world...

I did our '95 Coachmen Class A with Red Max Pro acrylic finish (which was actually private labeled ZEP 3), and the only failure after a year was a relatively small area that started to peel on the rear cap where my prep was probably inadequate. I redid that area, and the coach still looked good when I sold it four years later.

Our 16 year old day/night string shades are still working fine with just minor repairs. Today I had to repair a tension spool when a section broke off releasing the string. I just untied the double string, reversed the spool, and put it back together. Took about 10 minutes including getting the square driver out of the tool box. That's the third spool that's broken recently, likely from the plastic getting brittle, so I'm ordering a package of dozen for $11.45 on Amazon. The restring kit I bought several years ago "just in case" is still sealed. We like our string shades...

Exactly. I did that many times when I had a 211K.

The bladder tank I helped install at new neighbor's cabin near our lakeside cottage last summer was included with the chlorine injection system. The instructions called for the tank to be installed after the injector pump.

Ummm, we rarely winterize because we live in the motorhome nearly year round?

The bladder tank doesn't need to drive all of the water out, just enough so that any small amount left doesn't cause any damage as it freezes and expands. I do suggest closing the valve to keep the pink stuff out of the tank though. It can be tough to get it all rinsed out in the spring. I rarely winterize any more, but when I do, I use the blow out method with pink stuff only used in the drain traps.

You'll likely also need a couple of 1/2" pipe couplings to connect the other hose ends to the existing fittings. I used CPVC fittings from a local hardware store. No rust...

For the "quiet loop" pump vibration isolation, I'm using two 40" replacement shower head hoses. They're very flexible of course, even more so than the isolation kit hoses that Camco sells. The fittings on them are correct for the pump threads.