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On 12/27/2012 4:19 PM, GuzzisRule wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:36:57 -0500, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:18:23 -0500, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On 12/27/12 11:01 AM, wrote: On Thursday, December 27, 2012 10:15:18 AM UTC-4, ESAD wrote: On 12/27/12 8:59 AM, Eisboch wrote: "GuzzisRule" wrote in message ... Here ya go! http://www.rvwholesalers.com/resourc...aptor_2012.pdf Everything you want in one place. Keep clicking the down arrow. This is what's called a 'Toy Hauler' fifth wheel. --------------------------------------------------- Looks familiar. We had the 377-SE version. Went "camping" once with it and had the most miserable week of my life. My daughter started it all. She and her husband were into camping and were purchasing a new travel trailer. She convinced Mrs.E and I and my older son and his wife to get a trailer as well for "family" camping. I saw it as a good excuse to get a new truck, so I bought the Raptor Toy Hauler along with a Ford 350 Diesel and had the fifth wheel hitch installed. I had a Harley at the time and figured the toy hauler would come in handy. My son bought a slightly smaller fifth wheel and a Ford 250 with the V-10. We all picked up our new RV's the same day at the dealership. My daughter made reservations for all of us for a week at a campground in New Hampshire that they visited often. I forget what the name of it is. I call it "Marty Moose Land". We all had sites beside each other. The trip to the campground was uneventful. The Ford pulled the Raptor with no problem and I thought this was going to be pretty cool. Well, that particular week in the mountains of New Hampshire was the hottest, most humid week I've spent anywhere. Big thunderstorms every afternoon kept us all huddled inside our respective RV's with the AC units running at full blast. When it stopped raining and we ventured outside, the mosquitoes were waiting to draw blood. One humid, sultry afternoon, we were sitting at my son's site trying to have a beer while swishing away the bugs and mosquitoes. His young daughter was playing inside his fifth wheel. As we sat talking, I looked up and saw water seeping out of the storage area door under the master bedroom of the RV. Got up, opened the door, and gallons of water started pouring out. His daughter had plugged the vanity sink in the bedroom and had the faucets turned on full. It had filled the sink and was overflowing everywhere, soaking the carpets and draining into the storage area. I took off to find a hardware store to get a wet vac while the rest started sopping up the water. Gracefully, the last day of our camping adventure arrived. My son and his family left, and then us by early afternoon. My daughter and her husband wanted to stay a little longer, so we said goodbye and hit the road. By 8pm, I had just arrived home and backed the fifth-wheel into it's spot at our house when the phone rang. It was my daughter. They had just left the campsite, got a mile down the road and their vehicle snapped a tie rod. They were sitting on the side of a busy road with a broken SUV, their new, 28' travel trailer and two crying kids. So, dear old Dad heads back to the New Hampshire mountains in his truck to rescue them. Finally got back to their house by 2am, towing the trailer. Their truck was put on a flatbed and taken to a repair shop. The next day I listed the Raptor "For Sale" in a couple of the RV classifieds. Sold it a few weeks later to a buyer in Canada. BTW, that wasn't our first attempt at trying the camping scene. When I first retired and we wintered in Florida, we thought it would be fun to make the trips back and forth in a RV. We tried a 37' Pace Arrow class A motorhome, a Chinook Glacier and a Dodge Sprinter RV. Of the three, I liked the Sprinter the most and we owned it the longest, but we eventually sold the Florida house and rarely used the Sprinter. We ended up selling it to a guy in Missouri who flew out and drove it home. He and his wife still send us email pictures of their travels in it. Camping is great for some people. It's just not for me. I'd much rather live on a boat. We've been to Maine a few times. On one of those trips, we rented an RV and loaded it onto a ferry to take us to an island campground for a few days. The RV, the island, and so forth were fine, but the island was infested with biting bugs. They weren't mosquitoes, they were much bigger, and it was hot and humid, too. Misery most of the time. The next time we went to Maine, we stayed he http://mainestayinn.com/ No annoying insects indoors or outdoors, beautiful rooms, great breakfasts, and within walking distance of lots of sights and shopping and the waterfront. My wife was *much* happier! We ate too many meals at Mabel's Lobster House, purportedly where President and Mrs. George H.W. Bush had many meals when he was healthier. Lobsters at the dock were about $2.50 a pound. I braved walking into the water at a local beach and got in about halfway up to my knees before the cold chased me out. I love the Maine coastline. On the way back, we stayed at a B&B in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see relatives and old friends. Nice enough place, but no match for the Maine Stay. No bugs. That spot looks nice. I've always wanted to get down to the Seashore Trolly Museum in that area. I was serious in the summer of 2011 but after contacting the museum found out that the main attraction for me (Birney Safety Car) was judged too run down to put on display or even to fix up in the immediate future. The birney car was the only streetcar used in Halifax from about 1921 until 1949..the year I was born. Kennebunkport can get a little crowded with tourists (like us), but when we were there, in the height of the tourist season, it wasn't that bad. There's lots to see in that part of Maine. LL Bean isn't that far away, and it is worth a day's visit. Yeah, that's what I want to see and do when I go to explore somewhere, shop and go to a mall. If you've not traveled to Maine and seen the sights, you're missing a lot. Kennebunkport is well worth a stop, with campgrounds right outside of town (and at least one, that we were in, allows tents!). http://hemlockgrovecampground.com/photo-gallery If you visit Kennebunkport and you *don't* visit the LLBean store, then you're missing out on a great treat. I've been to Maine on two different occasions. I sure as hell didn't spend my time holed up in a hotel and shopping. And you didn't visit the LLBean store? I don't like to shop on vacation.. I don't like spending my time going from retail store to retail store, when I can just as easily go from restaurant to restaurant:) |
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On 12/27/2012 2:57 PM, thumper wrote:
On 12/27/2012 5:59 AM, Eisboch wrote: Camping is great for some people. It's just not for me. I'd much rather live on a boat. Maybe I'll get to try that someday... Does anyone remember the live-aboard simulation that was posted here years ago? Probably one of the funniest textbooks I have ever read. |
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says... On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 14:34:28 -0500, wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:51:11 -0500, GuzzisRule wrote: My first real job was with the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, working the Minuteman sites in Sidney, NE and Minot, ND. Neither place was very exciting. I rode through the Badlands with some Guzzi friends from Holland. Very beautiful country. But, I wouldn't want to live there. I kept imagining a couple thousand Indians coming down and attacking our little motorcycle train. I agree the Dakotas are mostly a lot of nothing but we had a good time at the Minot state fair. We rented a boat in Beulah at the dam, toured the synfuel plant and took the Air Force tour in Minot. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Silo%20hatch.jpg http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/minute%20man.jpg http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/B52.jpg We also checked out Wall Drug and went to the rodeo http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Wall%20rodeo.jpg My favorite area is the Black Hills and on out through Wyoming. There are hundreds of miles of logging roads you can drive with nice hikes along the way. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/sylvan%20lake.jpg http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Danc...h%20wolves.jpg They have real convenience stores in Sturgis http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/convenience%20store.jpg Of course they have this http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Rushmore%20profile.jpg We saw most of those, including Sturgis, on the motorcycle trip through the area. We arrived at Sturgis the week before the Harley Rally. All the vendors, or at least a huge number, had their tents up and their wares on display, so we had a nice couple days looking around. My headlight had gone out, and I was shopping for a bulb. Couldn't find one to fit the Guzzi in any of the places. Mt. Rushmore was a letdown. I don't know what I was expecting, but maybe it had to do with the distance from the mountain to the visitors' center. We didn't go on a mule ride or anything. It just seemed small after seeing all the telephoto shots everywhere. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is VERY scenic. Nice campgrounds too. |
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On 12/27/2012 10:13 AM, GuzzisRule wrote:
If you've not traveled to Maine and seen the sights, you're missing a lot. Kennebunkport is well worth a stop, with campgrounds right outside of town (and at least one, that we were in, allows tents!). In a few sites. :-) http://hemlockgrovecampground.com/photo-gallery |
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On 12/27/2012 1:39 PM, JustWait wrote:
On 12/27/2012 2:57 PM, thumper wrote: Does anyone remember the live-aboard simulation that was posted here years ago? Probably one of the funniest textbooks I have ever read. Textbook? Apparently that's a fairly limited sample. ;-) |
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On 12/27/2012 1:36 PM, JustWait wrote:
As much as I hope nobody on my team hears me say this... From my point of view, Yamaha race engines are more durable than Honda, Kawasaki, KTM and even our beloved Suzuki, IN MY OPINION in the last few years. Some other manufacturers such as Gas Gas, a Spanish motorcycle, are now using Yamaha engines... I had a lot of fun on an RM125 but was always working on it. No experience with modern stuff however. |
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On Thursday, December 27, 2012 4:36:37 PM UTC-5, JustWait wrote:
As much as I hope nobody on my team hears me say this... From my point of view, Yamaha race engines are more durable than Honda, Kawasaki, KTM and even our beloved Suzuki, IN MY OPINION in the last few years. Some other manufacturers such as Gas Gas, a Spanish motorcycle, are now using Yamaha engines... Back in the '70s, if you wanted to have fun you rode a Yamaha dirt bike. If you wanted a better handling, faster bike and didn't mind working on it some (and had the cash), you rode a KTM/Penton. One of the best handling enduro bikes I ever rode was a Maco 250. A bit heavy, but a great bike. The guy also had a Maco 400. It was a beast. |
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On 12/27/2012 3:26 PM, ESAD wrote:
On 12/27/12 3:14 PM, iBoaterer wrote: In article , says... On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:51:11 -0500, GuzzisRule wrote: My first real job was with the US Coast and Geodetic Survey, working the Minuteman sites in Sidney, NE and Minot, ND. Neither place was very exciting. I rode through the Badlands with some Guzzi friends from Holland. Very beautiful country. But, I wouldn't want to live there. I kept imagining a couple thousand Indians coming down and attacking our little motorcycle train. I agree the Dakotas are mostly a lot of nothing but we had a good time at the Minot state fair. We rented a boat in Beulah at the dam, toured the synfuel plant and took the Air Force tour in Minot. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Silo%20hatch.jpg http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/minute%20man.jpg http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/B52.jpg We also checked out Wall Drug and went to the rodeo http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Wall%20rodeo.jpg My favorite area is the Black Hills and on out through Wyoming. There are hundreds of miles of logging roads you can drive with nice hikes along the way. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/sylvan%20lake.jpg http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Danc...h%20wolves.jpg They have real convenience stores in Sturgis http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/convenience%20store.jpg Of course they have this http://gfretwell.com/ftp/dakota/Rushmore%20profile.jpg Damned right, Wall Drugs is the home of the famous Jackalope! Needles Highway is a pretty cool drive. I camped outside of Deadwood, it's a really neat town. Then of course, there is Mt. Rushmore, and the Corn Palace made me hungry!! We get good and hungry, lock up the tent, and then walk over to this place: http://rhinocafe.com/ The grilled salmon is terrific, but so are the daily chef's specials. Good prices, too, and fabulous service. We've been going there for about 10 years, and there's hardly ever any changeover in the staff. Across the street: http://www.brigantine.com/miguels_co...-coronado.html Absolutely the best pitcher of margaritas ever. Food is very good, too. Sure is nice to have a wife who takes you places. Is this gig a union sponsored affair like the others? Be sure to take a snap of the rocky shore with your room key and stumpy fingers ruining the shot. Hee hee. |
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