Kirk W

Realize that National RV went out of business in 2007 and there were problems with construction materials that had much to do with that collapse. I believe that Workhorse chassis stopped building for motorhomes in 2011. Thus any

Welcome to the Escapee forums! It sounds like you are off to a good start. The fact that it works properly when on propan tells me that all parts of the control circuitry are working properly since both energy sources use the exact same controls. What you haven't mentioned checking is the two fuses on the main circuit board. The 3a one is for 12V and since the controls work we know that it has to be good but the 5a fuse is for power to the 120V heater and if it is open you would have exactly the symptoms that you have described.

The other thing is that shower drains, especially RV shower drains, are notorious for capturing hail and with hair soap and body oils combined the result is a slow drain. I have found that the Hair Grabber used on a fairly regular basis keeps things draining well.

I have a Sig P320 in 9mm and sure do like it. Shouldn't read posts like this as it is hard to justify buying another gun!

About 4 years ago we received a call from Citibank about a potential fraudulent transaction that resulted in their locking the card. They supplied me a special phone number to call back as soon as we determined where we would stop for the night. I pulled off the road and we selected a park an hour farther down the road, called to reserve a spot for the night and then used to call-back number to give them the RV park, city and site number. The following morning a car with FedEx on the side pulled up to our site at about 8:30 and a new card was delivered.

From the site study.com, the following information. Thus you first need a license in any state in which you work. I can't recall ever seeing physical therapy listed among the services of any of the parks we have stayed in. I think that your best bet would be to contact some of the therapy services in the locations that you would like to spend time in. The bureau of labor statistics does predict a growing need for more therapists in the coming years.

Memorial Day will be May 25, and Escapade opens on June 21, leaving 4 weeks to travel the 2,100 miles or so to get there. If she can be gone that long, think about attending! 😀

While the state does not care where you store your things, or any of many other issues, the problem could arise if for any reason, someone should challenge your FL domicile. I suggest that rather than getting your advice from we amateur lawyers, you start by reading Domicile for RVers, written by Susie K. Adams who is an attorney practicing in domicile issues.

The key thing with co-op parks is that they tend to change over time because they are run by the membership and so management practices change when there is a significant turnover of memberships. Our first Escapee park stay was 6 weeks at Evergreen-Coho park and we were made very welcome when we joined in with activities there. We took part when they did a trash walk for the highway nearby as they were the "adopt-a-highway" folks and announced their monthly trash walk at a dinner in the community center. That was in 2000 and we later heard that it became somewhat unfriendly but then a few years ago there was a significant turnover of members so it may be different again now. When the parks began they sold all of the lots in a pretty short period of time so the average age rose steadily for the first 10 years or so until members began to leave age and infirmity. That tends to happen in any retired community and it takes many years for that cycle to smooth out with a wider mix of ages of resident. that same thing tends to happen in any senior community but with a co-op it also means management attitudes change with the members.

The class thing began some years ago with a group who were planning to meet in Quartzsite, AZ to celebrate the move to fulltime RVing. Since we are not into desert dry camping and my wife can't deal with dust, we have never taken part in that gathering and it started on the forums several years after we hit the road. It seems to have evolved to include pretty much anyone who is planning to go fulltime in the particular year, where the first few classes actually gathered on the desert in January of the particular year. At one time the classes had a BOF as well but I'm not sure how active the group is but it is still listed in Escapees Magazine.

The biggest drawback to buying from a dealer that is far from you is that you could have warranty issues. While local dealers of the same manufacturer should do warranty for you, they will not be as quick to do so since the manufacturers do not pay full labor rates for warranty work when compared to the local rate for chargeable customers. It is only normal that they would put the people who buy from them first. I do not agree that all travel trailers are poorly built or that all fifth wheel trailers are better built than the travel trailers(bumper pull). There are reputable manufacturers of any type or RV if you are willing to pay for the better ones but they do cost more. In general it is also true that higher quality RVs will weigh more because materials like thin plywood or particle board cost & weigh less than solid woods and laminates. The same is true for chassis and framework materials. I have never owned either brand but do know the Nash line by reputation as I have known quite a few owners over the years and currently know 3 fulltimers in their RVs. Outdoor RV should be equivalent since it is from the same owners, but I have not known any owners of their trailers. It is interesting to me that comparing the brochure of the two, the 29S is 900# less in dry weight but has a GVWR 5# higher than the 28BKS. My opinion from only looking online is that either would work for you and quality of construction should be pretty much the same. I suggest that you talk with local dealers to see if they can match the price if you share what you have found. Keep in mind that there is added expense for you to ship one from farther away so you could pay somewhat more locally and still be ahead.

Same here except that mine is by text. We sometimes use the self-check scanners but haven't shopped where there are scanners that can be taken with you as you shop. Is that only at Frys, or does Kroger have that as well? I think that it is something that we might like to try. One of our son's uses a phone to scan as he shops and then to pay as he leaves but we have not yet done that. A scanner on the cart sounds much more convenient.

I think that the attitude toward retirement travel that you mentioned was probably a majority for some years but assure you that was not the case back when the club began in 1977. All of the founding members when the group first organized were working and nearly all were traveling construction workers. Joe Peterson was a construction electrician. Kay had been a nurse but began writing for a living as they went on the road. (I don't think that traveling nurses had been invented yet) When Escapees started it was not a business but just a group with a newsletter that Kay wrote and published in their RV. The business end started with the first Escapades when someone had to spend some money and organize things to get it started so they then charged a fee to get their investment back. Later came the co-op parks and over time the business side became a bigger and bigger part of the organization, eventually reaching the point of requiring a full-time employee and the first one was Cathy Peterson, their daughter. Bud Carr was a contractor for Rainbow's End and later Cathy's husband and the father of the current generation of Carrs'. I have experienced some of the attitude toward those with less impressive RVs as we were fulltime in a gas powered class A with no slides and much of that was due to budget restrictions. Some of that still exists on these forums. Today we are part of the "tiny trailer" gang as put by a 12 year old boy who attends Escapades with his dad in a trailer only slightly larger than mine. I have found that the vast majority of Escapee members who actively work to be known as SKP's and who take part in the gatherings and activities are neary free from prejudice toward the more budget conscious RV owner, toward those of different races, political beliefs, or sexual orientation and even age. We do have special interest groups like "Birds of a Feather." that tend to hang out together, but I have not found them to be exclusive. X-scapers has been very good for the club as it had gotten to the point that the majority of us are old enough to be parents or even grandparents of many of those now joining. It is only natural for those with similar backgrounds to spend more time together, but I hope that we can all make just a little bit of effort to reach out to others who may not be part of our particular social, political, or age group. If you are part of an organization whose average is rising, the group is doomed, eventually. Kay Peterson was a lady who truly cared about every person that she ever met, or probably that she saw. She was the most caring person that I have had the good fortune to know. Our world would be a much better place if everyone strived to be more like her. In our travels we have met some folks who were far different from us in many ways and we may never understand some of them but our lives have been enriched for having shared some time with them.

Our RV home had an EDPM roof which served well but the constant chalking was a pain. My present little travel trailer has an aluminum roof with is much like the RVs we had back before 1990. Those have good and bad points too. We have two friends who have had RV Armor and both have been happy. One of them was pleased enough the first time that when he traded to a new motorhome he had RV Armor do his roof as soon as the 2 year warranty was up.

It is hard for me to give an answer to your question that is current, but I'll give the best that I can. I was a member of the RV Consumer Group from about 1990 or so up through 2010 or so. I don't remember exactly when we dropped out but at least back then we did feel that the information that they supply was very good. In my opinion the value is much greater for someone who has little RV experience than for those with a vast amount of experience and knowledge gained from owning, maintaining and even doing your own repairs on RVs. I continued as an active part of the group for a time to do my part to help others who come behind me. A great deal of the information that they supply to new members is collected from members who contribute information from their direct experiences and observations, while most of the ratings come from evaluations that are done by examining the specifications of the various models as listed by the manufacturers and doing some computations to determine things like wheelbase ratio and other factors affecting handling and safety. They also use specially trained volunteers who then take factory tours using a checklist to evaluate the construction techniques and materials being used. They are often criticized by some because they do not actually test and examine each model from each manufacturer every year, which is simply not practical due to cost. But they do have technical staff who evaluate the chassis manufacturers use as well as the raw materials and a host of other things. I stayed a member for that length of time because I believe that they have done more to educate the RV buying public on issues of quality and safety than any other group, along with the people at RVSEF. I found the membership in the RVCG to be more than worth the cost back when we were shopping for the motorhome that we bought to live in fulltime and using the information and advice of that group we got a much better price than would have been the case without it and we chose a coach that served us well for 14 years, nearly 12 of them as our only home. While it was not 100% trouble free, there were no major issues and it held up well. On the other hand, I did not rejoin when we chose to downsize to our present small travel trailer as I felt that I had enough knowledge for that purchase and so far it has worked out for 7 years. I have no current information or contacts inside of the organization.

I haven't seen anything on Discovery channel about it yet, but it was written up in the current Escapee Magazine.

There are differing opinions about what RV is best or better, but if I were in your position, I would be shopping for one of the following, based on our 12 years on the road fulltime in a gas powered class A. Tiffin Open Road, previously the Allegro Newmar Canyon Star Winnebago Adventurer In my opinion, those are the top manufacturers of gasoline powered motorhomes for quality and reliability.

An excellent point! I suspect that our age plays into the reason it became cost effective for us to shift to plan G. It seems that ever since we passed age 75 our rates jump more each year and the differential in the two plans became greater.

Thanks for posting that! We have missed that place in our travels and it looks to be a place we need to visit. Catwalk Recreation area... another view.

True. And based on your description of yourself, you most likely have never experienced the sort of spirit we are speaking of. I suspect that you also have nothing on the RV to identify yourself as an SKP to other traveling members, and that is fine for those who prefer it that way. We were much that way ourselves our first few years of membership. But we chose to spend an extended period of time in an Escapee co-op park due to the proximity to grandchildren and that was when we began to understand. The club side of Escapees is no different than any other club or association in that if you never join in with the other members you will never make any ties to them. Clearly you joined for the mail service and related benefits, just as we did but when a family crisis caused us problems and some Escapee members stepped up to help because we were Escapees even though we hardly knew them, that opened the door for us to begin to reach out to others. It is interesting to note that those who choose not to join in also criticize and say it isn't a club. There is an old saying that I believe applies here. "If you want to have friends, you must first be one." We have made more friends from our involvement in Escapees than any other organization we have ever been part of. In fact, there are several members of these forums that we have met only because of the Escapee connection. It wouldn't hurt to be friendly to each other here as well as the younger members. 😊 I think that some of us sometimes forget that too.

Actually, the case that I mentioned was with a Citibank card that also pay 1% when you use it and another 1% when you pay the bill. The text came to my phone within a minute or so if the merchant terminal sending it to them and almost instantaneously upon my reply to that text the merchant got approval. The entire process took less than 5 minutes. I later went to the Citibank card website and using the "Contact Us" feature I asked about the incident. The reply was that card issuers share lists of merchants who have a high rate of stolen or bad cards used and do that as a security check. The reply didn't say what happens if you don't reply and I didn't ask. I have not received any spam from Citibank to date and the last time I looked, nearly all (if not all) credit card applications ask for a phone number.

I would take that to mean that we can, but must do so before the January 1, 2020 deadline. We had plan F for several years but then found that changing to plan G, which is the same as F except it doesn't pay the Medicare deductible, saves us about $50/year each as the total of the premiums for our plan F compared to plan G were more than the amount of that deductible.

That is because we volunteer moderators not only hide spam posts but we do the same for duplicate posts.

You are thinking of a place to connect from the power source to the RV, and not one for a neighboring RV to share power from you? If so I would go with one of the suggested types but I would also install some type of change over switch to make only one available for use at a time, just as a safety device. I once helped a friend wire a home-built RV for 50A service and we put a Marinco socket near each end of his RV for ease of connection to shore power. He also did that with his city water connection.

As far as making lower priced RVs welcome, I think that most members do that and most of them are welcomed here also, but the point is clearly a good one. We never were part of the high price group as we were fulltime in a gas powered class A in the mid-price range and now travel in a travel trailer that cost $12k, when we bought it new. If Escapades are any indicator you see pretty much every imaginable type of RV there as well as some really creative homemade ones. I do realize that the younger folks are more active in the "social media" and I even participate to some degree with the gang on Facebook, but none of that is any reason to ignore the fact that some of the younger folks have expressed a feeling that they aren't wanted here by the older generation. Let's make an effort to make those who do come here welcome, not only here but also in any gathering of SKP members. As much as I am happy to see the success of X-scapers, we need to make an effort to bridge between that subgroup and those we participate in.