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Thomas Fanelli - Progressive Industries
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Thomas Fanelli, owner and president of Progressive Industries is absolutely terrific! We moved into our new 2011 Big Horn this week. We are staying at a great park, Spring Hill, in Chapel Hill, NC. We set up on Monday, and moved in on Tuesday. Wednesday we went back to the apartment to clean and cle...
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Others thoughts on the Newmar Line.
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We purchased a 2010 Baystar about a month ago. We were sold on them due to the craftsmanship and quality they seem to have. It has been a good purchase so far it seems but we have yet to take on any long camping trips. I just wanted to feel others out that also own or have owned them to give us their thought and e...
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Sharing our latest travels
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On the road with Nacho Thought you might enjoy our travels to Vermont, New York and Ontario the last couple weeks. Sure do wish we were full-timing or at least part-time full-timing
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I cleared the first hurdle, keeping in theme of the Olympics
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I sold a piece of property and we closed on it today,( first hurdle cleared) I will be able to get myself out of debt and have cash to buy an RV with some left over. whooray!! I;m on track to start my adventure late next spring early summer. The next hurdle will be selling my house, which will happen after the...
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-- Edited by patoneill on Thursday 20th of September 2012 04:08:21 PM -- Edited by patoneill on Thursday 20th of September 2012 04:08:39 PM
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Might Have a Little Hiccup LAST UPDATE: 9-14-12
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While Jo and I are happy living in our fifth wheel here in Oklahoma City, we've been anxious to get to actually travel with it. We were looking at the situation where she could retire early in October of 2013. While we would still need to work for some time to finish out getting out of debt, we've now been...
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Thanks for the Help
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I just wanted to acknowledge the help Linda and Howard have provided us in speaking to Guaranty RV about RV service and full time rv'ers. Your comments to them (as noted in Sept 12 journal entry) were right on the money. I wish all RV service centers could have heard that. Your help in making our lifes...
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beautiful settings! :)
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I Think it would be great if everyone was to share a pic of there favorite places to see and maybe tell a storie of their best experiance of life on the road. I for one would love to hear it. Even tell a story of a bad experiance that has a good ending would be fantastic. I hope to see some pics and stories soon...
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Website Function?
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Has anyone noticed anything different about the the functioning of RVDreams? I often use my IPad, the scrolling function while on RV Dreams has been choppy the last couple of days. Other websites are smooth. G
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Cleaning out Houses
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I know it's been discussed to death but to actually clean out a house that has been lived in by my family for 40 years is an experience that can not easily be described. My mother has agreed to move in with us, hopefully she can even manage to come on the road with us. As a result I am given the task of cleaning o...
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Health Alert
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http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-57505273-10391704/up-to-10000-yosemite-visitors-possibly-exposed-to-hantavirus/
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Sudden passing of Karen
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It is with a sad heart that I tell you folks of the passing away of my wonderful wife, Karen. We would have been married 41 years in October. Her death was from complications of vascular surgery on October 1. She will be missed by me, her 3 , 3 grandchildren and a daughter-in-law and son-in-law. If you ca...
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Boondocking in Doge City Kansas
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This is the road from Dodge City to our camp Our back yard Front yard And this is our neighborhoodOn a busy day we would see a vehicle once every hour or two. I also seen this giant tractor looking thing, the driver waved as he passed buy. On Saturday two people stopped buy to enjoy the trails near buy. It...
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Refrigerator temperature
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I like a cold refrigerator and ours is 36 degrees at the coldest. Is that where it should be? Just wondering if I'm expecting to much. Our motorhome is an older one, 1994 Pace Arrow.
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Need Shore power help
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Roni and I attended the rally in Tn and we were about 2 yrs away from becoming fulltimers. We attended the rally in a rented Class C motoer soon to realize it wasn't big enogh. Last Sept, We bought a 2005 Dolphin 6355 LX. We are now 1 year away from fulltiming. I have a problem with the electrical that I nee...
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seat belts
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Have you added a seat belt? We took our three 12yr olds grandkids for a ride yesterday and there are only seat belts on one side of the dinnette. One had to sit on the sofa. I would love to change that but don't know if I can. I wish at least they would have put one seat belt on each side of the table instead o...
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South Dakota Vanity License Plates
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When we lived in Virginia in our pre full time days we had a vanity license plate on our motorhome: "R SANITY". Since we've hit the road full time and now are SD "residents", using a personal mailbox address, we tried to get a SD vanity plate when we changed everything over to SD. ...
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Gift Card Greed
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I can't believe the greed of corporate america. I found a $5.00 gift card in my glovebox for a popular fast food place here on the west coast. I went there for lunch yesterday and ordered the number one combo with a large drink. The total came to $6.91. I handed the counter person the gift card with a $5....
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Dodge City, KS. Anyone out there familiar with the area?,
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We are finally on the road, stealth camping as we go. Currently we plan to go back to the stick and Brick in the spring to clean it up and sell it. Just did not have the patience to do that now. We really wanted to get on the road....Bad. Are travels will take us to Texas in a few weeks ...or So. There I hope to ta...
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Not RV Related - Well, Sort-of
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We are currently experiencing something we haven't in months. As I write this, we hear rain falling on the roof of our RV and little streams of water running down the windows. I had forgotten how soothing the sound of rain on an RV roof could be. Hopefully, our drought will now be over, and we pray for th...
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Terry and Jo
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Never Expected This
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On Monday a police helicopter began circling the RV Resort. A few minutes later a siren was heard and a marked police car with siren and lights flashing began speeding through the interior roads of the resort. Next an unmarked police car was seen also racing up and down the resort roads. It seems th...
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Mom in the Back?
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Quick question for the RV Dreams family, would you travel with your 83 year old mother in the back. Conditions are as follows, 45' Motorhome, two front seats of coarse have nice Flexsteel captains chairs with seatbelts. Back is the standard configuration, Flexsteel sofa / booth combo, your mom woul...
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Evergreen trailers
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Now that more of them are showing up, who has one and what do you think of it? Has it met your expectations?
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Stuck home but mind wondering!!!!
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Todays one of those days ,I walked down to the storage yard and looked at the coach. I want out of here so bad , just give me back my open road and the map to the unknown....... I love this forum , it has helped me keep my sanity while I wait it out and dream for my return......(I will be back!!) six more month...
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traveling with friends
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We are considering a trip out west with another rving couple, two trucks, two travel trailers. We have never traveled with anyone else before. What kinds of things should we discuss before we take this trip, like speed of travel, eat out or in, state park or resort, etc. We want to still be friends wh...
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Camping along the Mississippi River
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Hi everyone! We got back late yesterday after our weekend camping at a COE campground and thought I would share. Corp of Engineer Campgrounds are great. I know Linda and Howard like COE campgrounds also. I probably shouldn't give away my secrets, but another nice one along the Mississippi is nea...
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Stress level less/different?
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Feeling really stressed w/work other family issues. Keep dreaming that it will be "better" when.....we go F/T ect....I know this can a dangerous propositon emotionally, trying to keeo it in the day, but keep thinking it will be less stressful when we get out on the road, my DH even said mos...
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Is time really passing more slowly, or is that just my imagination?
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We're planning a trip to the Florida RV Super Show this coming January as part of our due diligence (researching plans to become full-timers). It will be fun checking out different RV's and related goodies. Even better will be the chance to connect with other RVers attending the show. Now that we'...
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Plans Have Changed
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With the economy the way it is we had decided to lease the house out and have a local real estate agent manage it for us. In final talks with the agent he talked us into putting it on the market for 60 days and see what happens. That still gave us plenty of time for leasing when it didn't sell. It hit the multipl...
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Overnight Stops in Parking Lots and Rest Areas
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HI All, I have been reading about stopping to get some sleep in rest areas and such. Everything says to keep your slides in. Unfortunately when our slides are in our 5th wheel completely inaccessable. The two slides in the living room/kitchen are controlled by one button and cannot be opened separe...
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