Good Golly, I Actually Made IT!!

[Nasty135]

Gary, That is one sweet ride!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif Sounds like its gonna be hard to take ,Being on the road and all /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif ENJOY yourself and your retirement... /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

Thanks Mark! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

I expect that I'll be posting quite a bit as we travel around, so that you guys can figure out what you want to do when your time comes. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Bird]

Garry, I may have missed it somewhere, but what kind of dinghy will you be pulling?

 

[dummy]

<font color="blue"> I got a feeling I'm going to be talking to myself a lot while going down the road </font> Just don't keep score during the trivia quiz time. Makes you feel awful when you can't answer the questions correctly!

Hope the retirement road is full of great times and no potholes or traffic.

 

[Golfgar4]

Bird,

I'll be towing my '04 Colorado crew cab. It's a safe vehicle for towing 4 down (all 4 tires on the ground) and will provide a bit more storage space in the bed. I have a lockable cap over the bed.

 

[Bird]

Garry, I drove one of those not long ago; nice little truck.

 

[Boondox]

Wow, that's HUGE! If you come visit us, remember to not try to drive it over Smuggler's Notch. In fact, if you want to visit it's probably best just to park in the valley and give us a call! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Have fun! Enjoy that retirement! Pete

 

[hobbyfarm]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What is retirement? )</font>

Congratulations Gary,
You made it! That's an idea denied to many people. Enjoy it. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

In the mean time, you can think of a good come-back when a young snot-nosed kid looks at you and says, "get a job you old fart!"
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[Golfgar4]

Yeah Bird, it is a nice truck. It has that 5 cylinder engine in it. It's O.K., but I sure can tell I'm missing one cylinder when I get on the highway! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Pete,

We'd talked about that! We kind of figure that there will be times when we'll have to park a ways away from where we need to get to. But it's something we're willing to live with. I do remember seeing some idiot trying to get one of these through the Notch when we were out there! Had traffic really screwed up.

Hobbyfarm,

Let the kid say something. I'll just blast him with the air horns and then run over his tricycle. /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[Bird]

I don't know anything about Smugglers Notch, but I drove up to the Trapp Family Lodge in a 40' Bounder before I got a little car to tow behind it, and I think I drug the skids on the back end once somewhere up there.

 

[sassafraspete]

Holy Canoly..You cheese heads sure know how to retire. A few yrs down the road, I'll just be throwing my 20 yr old cabelas tent in the back of my 1990 mini van. I think I am green with envy. Just wishing you the best...enjoy the success and fruits of many hard years of work.

sassafraspete

 

[Boondox]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I don't know anything about Smugglers Notch, but I drove up to the Trapp Family Lodge in a 40' Bounder before I got a little car to tow behind it, and I think I drug the skids on the back end once somewhere up there. )</font>

Jeez, so close and you didn't come visit!?!

Smuggler's Notch is the typically wicked curvy road till you get within a couple hundred yards of the top at which point you need to navigate a very sharp S-turn that passes between two enormous boulders eight feet apart. And of course once you realize you can't make it, you have to back that big rig (bus, RV, tractor/trailer, etc) about a quarter mile down the curvy road to the nearest turnaround. Every year at least one vehicle can't make it, and the road is blocked for most of a day while the state troopers and highway department work to free things up.

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( so close and you didn't come visit!?! )</font>

Yeah, that was before I ever heard of TBN. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[graybeard451]

<<Damon Escaper double slide>>

Good luck on your retirement Garry. That rig is beautiful, and the slide outs will make a world of difference on rainy days, you'll see. Enjoy and I look forward to posts about your travels. Richard

 

[Bird]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( the slide outs will make a world of difference on rainy days )</font>

Are you talking about the water leaks that slide-outs are notorious for? /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[ronjhall]

<font color="blue"> Are you talking about the water leaks that slide-outs are notorious for? </font> /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Poor Garry. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif Now he will be worried how much they are going to leak every time he moves those sliders out. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Poor Garry. Now he will be worried how much they are going to leak every time he moves those sliders out. )</font>

There's always something to worry about when you buy something new that you may not totally be familiar with.

But fortunately, I do tend to ask a LOT of questions. And the question about leaking slideouts was one of them. I have to accept his word when the seller told me that he never found any leaks.

We're off to South Dakota tomorrow to get our new drivers licenses and to register to vote. We'll also meet with an insurance agent to get some estimates for coverage on the MH and our tow vehicle. This will be the first chance I'll have to log in with my new laptop. Should be fun!

 

[Bird]

Garry, I was only half kidding; well, maybe not even half. The guy probably told you right, but those things do tend to leak and they often leak in places that you don't see or know about until a fair amount of damage is done. I have no idea what percentage of them leak, but I met one guy in our travels who had been parked in one place 4 or 5 months and he told me his slide-out wouldn't come it, so I went with him and showed him how corrosion, due to water, was his problem and we fixed it. One of my brothers has a 38' fifth-wheel with two slide-outs and he's replaced seals (of course it's about 10 years old and I'm not sure how often the seals were replaced). That brother used to be in the RV repair business and the other brother is currently in the RV repair business and slide-outs generate a lot of work for him. Of course, being a bit out of date, personally, I don't even know which system that Escaper has. I'd be inclined to guess hydraulic over electric, but don't know that for sure. Slide-outs do make for some nice living space, but I avoided them myself.

 

[graybeard451]

<<Are you talking about the water leaks that slide-outs are notorious for?>>

No, I had a slide out on my last camper, it never leaked, but on rainy days when you're stuck inside, the extra room keeps the camper from closing in. I didn't mean to give Garry something to worry about. Sorry, Richard

 

[ronjhall]

<font color="blue"> We're off to South Dakota tomorrow to get our new drivers licenses and to register to vote. </font>
I have to ask. Someone that has lived in WI is going to SD for drivers licenses? Why?