Been picking up a few things to prepare for the season and learning a lot about our "new to us" motorhome. Since we have picked it up, I have found only few items that either did not work or I did not understand how they worked. At this point, I only have one outstanding issue and it is not showstopper.

I was having trouble getting the lock mechanism on the door to work properly. The dead bolt worked well, but I really wanted to get the lock to work as well. Found out...

Thanks to a guy in Hinckley Leicestershire. Andy Green. He let me have a secondhand window at a very good price. To cut a long story short its in now and finally watertight. Fell off the workmate and cut and bruised my shin. It hurt for 3 weeks. Its been a bit of a struggle dealing with this problem but its all ok now. Redecorated inside. Had to use that vinyl on a roll ( fablon) it used to be called. Then put a border between the old and new. Looks good. Re upholstered the window surrounds...

We have made a few reservations for the coming season and are very excited about the three destinations we have chosen.

In April, we will be heading to Ocean Lakes Family Campground in Surfside Beach, SC. We have camped there many times as well as rented houses there, but this will be our first big trip with the Seabreeze. We do plan on getting it out for a weekend prior to leaving but have not finalized those plans yet. We will be in SC for a week.

In May, we will...

No business conducting this week. I am taking the whole week off. The newsletter is out, the bills are paid and someone else is handling the phones! I am going to Disney! Well, only if I can convince the hubby. Maybe universal? As much as we enjoyed spending time with family, we are over due for some fun. Next week we have a wedding, so this week is ours and ours alone. I just hope we don't waste too much time saying, I don't know, what do YOU want to do? Been married nearly 40 years,...

Leaving Florida May 2013 to Cape Breton if anyone wants to join us let me know. We are planning our stops now to meet in Port Huron for the float down August 18th through Toronto

Today, we left the Tampa show for Hudson, Fl. To visit with my Aunt and Uncle. They are snow birds living in a retirement community that has mobile homes and sites for rv's. It is always good to see them and as they get on in years and their health ain't what it used to be, it feels important to spend time with them. I think they enjoy showing us around, introducing us to all their friends, taking us to the "Internet cafe". We will stay 6 nights here then head to Jetty park. In the...

One of the things that I feel all the motorhomes that I have seen are lacking in is the abscence of an adequate heating system in the rear of the rv which is supplied with heat from the engine same as up front for the passengers and the windscreen. A blown air system heated by the engine would be a big plus in the back of any rv and should cost nothing extra to run.Why is this not fitted as standard .Maybe rv's are only meant to be used in summer. To this end I decided to get rid of that cold spot...

Spent last Saturday at the RV Show at the I-X Center in Cleveland. Having never been to a show, Sue and I were looking forward to a couple hours of perusing. Little did we know that a couple of hours at an RV show is just enough to keep you there for 4 more.

The I-X Center was thoroughly packed with vehicles. I read in a post on the forums here that it was not as big as last year. Yikes!

The majority of the hall was filled with travel trailers. Sue and I enjoyed...

Finally back out on the road, happy to be here. This trip has us balancing on the top rail of the fence, working at the show, enjoying our rig and getting some park business taken care of when we have some down time. I probably should be working on my newsletter, but there's always tomorrow!I am happy to say after our first attempt at winterizing everything still works and there is no water gushing out of anything, I feel like we accomplished a major victory. Of course, we have five rental trailers...

By the way ,I just want to say that when I write a long winded account of something I rarely read it over so forgive my spelling mistakes. I know I should read it over but I cant abide it ,never could even when I was at school. Anyhow some good news to report. One of the reasons for buying a Sun Voyager was the fact that it had a Cummins 6 cylinder engine. I have loved these engines for years,had them fitted in barges and generators, even got a 4 cylinder version with 4 hours on it in my shed...

Well, we are T-Minus one week until we hit the road for the big Quartzsite RV Show!


We are absolutely workin’ our tails off, pulling long hours trying to get together everything that needs to get done to make this show happen, and I think our wives are going to start boycotting Quartzsite because of this


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Yesterday the weather was pretty good so I thought I would have another look underneath the rv and do some greasing.I wanted to check the brake discs to see if she was marking them correctly and evenly on each side.Couldn't take the wheels off as I still dont have any tools to fit so a look underneath was called for. Our yard is concreted so I didn't fancy lying on wet concrete so first thing i did was make a little trolley from a piece of plywood cut off and a set of sofa wheels which were lying...

The Fort Worth RV Show yielded a few surprises, this year.

Foremost, Newmar has stepped up to the plate with some design changes that might reflect some of the discussions we're had on iRV2.

The 2012 Dutch Star offers a TV that is diagonally mounted in the left slideout, positioned so that (a) viewers don't suffer 90 degree neck strain, and (b) the retracted slideout doesn't preclude TV watching in motion.

Both Newmar and Tiffin have broadened their entryways,...

By Stephen Mercer For The Chronicle | Posted: Thursday, January 5, 2012 7:00 am With the continued sophistication of vehicles requiring fewer hands-on mechanics and more technical expertise, a Centralia company offers services that draw customers from all over the United States and beyond.

“We are known across the country as the place to go for upgrading RV suspensions and engines,” said Brazel’s RV Performance operations manager and marketer Jon Brazel.

Brazel’s...

Hello,My name is james and new to this sight.I became recently disabled with back problems.just scrapping bye now on disability.My girlfriend could never understand my dream to travel.said i bought campers to escape from her.Well she threw me out,left with just the cloths on my back.She even took my dog.After my settlement money went to fix up her house thinking this was forever.I had no choice ,because rent is so high everywhere went with the little bit of money i had left and bought a 1986 champion...