mr. cob Posted October 23, 2023 Report Share Posted October 23, 2023 4 hours ago, JGWALES said: We arrived on Quartzsite Az . Hoping to enjoy the winter here. Saw another HDT come into town yesterday. Looked like they were headed out to BLM Howdy JGWALES, There has been a gathering of HDT's in the LTVA ( BLM ) camp ground a few miles south of Quartszite at the "La Posa South" LTVA, for the last 6 years. Most camp in an area about a half mile southeast of the dump/water/trash station. We have had as many 26 rigs at one time and there are usually 5-10 that spend most of the winter there. With luck we will arrive around mid December barring trees falling on our home again like last year. Dave Quote 2001 Peterbilt, 379, Known As "Semi-Sane II", towing a 2014 Voltage 3818, 45 foot long toy hauler crammed full of motorcycles of all types. Visit my photo web site where you will find thousands of photos of my motorcycle wanderings and other aspects of my life, click this link. http://mr-cob.smugmug.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lappir Posted October 23, 2023 Report Share Posted October 23, 2023 2 hours ago, mr. cob said: Howdy JGWALES, There has been a gathering of HDT's in the LTVA ( BLM ) camp ground a few miles south of Quartszite at the "La Posa South" LTVA, for the last 6 years. Most camp in an area about a half mile southeast of the dump/water/trash station. We have had as many 26 rigs at one time and there are usually 5-10 that spend most of the winter there. With luck we will arrive around mid December barring trees falling on our home again like last year. Dave Dave, Don't park under trees and you shouldn't have to worry about it unless you are super unlucky and have a "Tree Magnet" for a home. Rod Quote White 2000/2010Volvo VNL 770 with 7' Drom box with opposing doors, JOST slider hitch. 600 HP Cummins Signature 18 Speed three pedal auto shift. 1999 Isuzu VehiCross retired to a sticks and bricks garage. Brought out of storage the summer of 2022 2022 Jeep Wrangler Sport S Two door hard top. 2007 Honda GL 1800 2013 Space Craft Mfg S420 Custom built Toyhauler The Gold Volvo is still running and being emptied in July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr. cob Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 (edited) 11 hours ago, lappir said: Dave, Don't park under trees and you shouldn't have to worry about it unless you are super unlucky and have a "Tree Magnet" for a home. Rod Howdy Rod, Our home is surrounded by trees, this is the mess we had last November about two weeks before we had planed to head south. https://photos.smugmug.com/Trees-down-on-our-house/i-rNMkftb/0/f343105b/XL/IMG_5359-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Trees-down-on-our-house/i-mZCLPTz/0/26d848e0/XL/IMG_5364-XL.jpg We had four trees fall on the house and garage, needed new roofs on both buildings. Sorry for the links, can't figure out how to load photos the way they used to load on this site. Dave Edited October 24, 2023 by mr. cob Quote 2001 Peterbilt, 379, Known As "Semi-Sane II", towing a 2014 Voltage 3818, 45 foot long toy hauler crammed full of motorcycles of all types. Visit my photo web site where you will find thousands of photos of my motorcycle wanderings and other aspects of my life, click this link. http://mr-cob.smugmug.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lappir Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 57 minutes ago, mr. cob said: Howdy Rod, Our home is surrounded by trees, this is the mess we had last November about two weeks before we had planed to head south. https://photos.smugmug.com/Trees-down-on-our-house/i-rNMkftb/0/f343105b/XL/IMG_5359-XL.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/Trees-down-on-our-house/i-mZCLPTz/0/26d848e0/XL/IMG_5364-XL.jpg We had four trees fall on the house and garage, needed new roofs on both buildings. Sorry for the links, can't figure out how to load photos the way they used to load on this site. Dave NO fun for sure. Won't have to worry about four of the trees now eh? Might be time to do a little additional thinning of the forest for home safety. You might get a break on the insurance too. http://photoposting.is-great.net/?i=2 Here's the link I use I think Jack Mayer put it out there for us to use. You might be able to "Drag and Drop" but I use select. I have an old Picasa program where I can "Copy full Path", but here lately I've been able to just find the photo in "Pictures" and double clicking to upload to the RV.NET:Photo Posting (which is what shows in my status bar now). [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/KvQBtHvl.jpg[/IMG] This is what you copy and paste, but then you have to remove the first 5 characters and the last six, to get this. I paste the link, backspace 6, hit home, delete 5 hit end and enter and voila the photo appears. Good luck. The legs looked a lot better when cooked and the toothpicks made it so they didn't fall out of the rack when I moved them from the kitchen to the smoker. First time I dropped half onto the tray. Thankfully I had a tray or they would have hit the ground. One on the first cook wouldn't stay hanging, so it got over cooked lying right on the bottom rack. This time they all stayed in place. Rod Quote White 2000/2010Volvo VNL 770 with 7' Drom box with opposing doors, JOST slider hitch. 600 HP Cummins Signature 18 Speed three pedal auto shift. 1999 Isuzu VehiCross retired to a sticks and bricks garage. Brought out of storage the summer of 2022 2022 Jeep Wrangler Sport S Two door hard top. 2007 Honda GL 1800 2013 Space Craft Mfg S420 Custom built Toyhauler The Gold Volvo is still running and being emptied in July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sculptor Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 Thanks guys, for reminding me. I have been forgetting to post updates in this area for quite awhile now. Our travels this year were from TX to OK to TN to NC to NJ to NY to PA to OH to MI to NC to FL. We are currently on our way back to TX. Today we should leave FL and cross into AL. I can’t say enough about the short visit we had with Rick and Susan. We even got to see their beautiful house. Thank you, thank you! About LAST year and the year before, I have some travel videos on Rumble if anyone is interested. I’ll warn you the music track is lame since I had to use free music. Soo Saint Marie looking toward Canada. Key West looking toward Cuba. Quote Kevin and June 2013 Volvo VNL 730 D13 Eco-Torque @ 425 Ratio 2.47 2014 DRV 36TKSB3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGWALES Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 19 hours ago, mr. cob said: Howdy JGWALES, There has been a gathering of HDT's in the LTVA ( BLM ) camp ground a few miles south of Quartszite at the "La Posa South" LTVA, for the last 6 years. Most camp in an area about a half mile southeast of the dump/water/trash station. We have had as many 26 rigs at one time and there are usually 5-10 that spend most of the winter there. With luck we will arrive around mid December barring trees falling on our home again like last year. Dave If any HDT people are out here in Quartzsite please PM info to me. We would like to meet up with one or a group of you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 Not on the road, but will be in a few days, heading for Mississippi for a couple weeks. And thank you Kevin for the kind words. It was a pleasure having you stop bye. Quote KW T-680, POPEMOBILE Newmar X-Aire, VATICAN Lots of old motorcycles, Moto Guzzi Griso and Spyder F3 currently in the front row Young enough to play in the dirt as a retired farmer. contact me at rickeieio@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danfreda1 Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 There are a few out at Quartzite already. Steve and Gail Dixon are there. I think a few mor are too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danfreda1 Posted October 24, 2023 Report Share Posted October 24, 2023 Leaving Highland Illinois in a couple hours heading to Rend Lake South Marcum Coe park for a few days then Lake wappappello. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGWALES Posted October 26, 2023 Report Share Posted October 26, 2023 On 10/23/2023 at 10:04 AM, mr. cob said: Howdy JGWALES, There has been a gathering of HDT's in the LTVA ( BLM ) camp ground a few miles south of Quartszite at the "La Posa South" LTVA, for the last 6 years. Most camp in an area about a half mile southeast of the dump/water/trash station. We have had as many 26 rigs at one time and there are usually 5-10 that spend most of the winter there. With luck we will arrive around mid December barring trees falling on our home again like last year. Dave This Sunday there is a BIG Halloween party in that exact area at the Big tent. Open to Everyone out there. Starts at 5 pm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sculptor Posted November 8, 2023 Report Share Posted November 8, 2023 Arrived at our winter home in the RGV about an hour ago. Rig mostly intact. Marriage mostly intact. Funny how our long lost friends seem so relaxed and slowed down. I think I can relax a bit now and soak up the vibe. Next year we are taking the road much slower. Probably most of the summer will be spent near the Great Lakes. Beer O’clock now. Quote Kevin and June 2013 Volvo VNL 730 D13 Eco-Torque @ 425 Ratio 2.47 2014 DRV 36TKSB3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve voracek Posted November 10, 2023 Report Share Posted November 10, 2023 On 10/23/2023 at 11:26 AM, lappir said: There is a gathering of HDT's out there somewhere. I think there is a FB group that has the location. Rod Yes there is just South of the Dump station and to the west about a 1/4 mile. In the south La Posa area. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGWALES Posted November 24, 2023 Report Share Posted November 24, 2023 On 11/10/2023 at 8:56 AM, Steve voracek said: Yes there is just South of the Dump station and to the west about a 1/4 mile. In the south La Posa area. I went there today Drove in that la posa south for an hour. Finally gave up could not find any hdt only one mdt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JGWALES Posted December 25, 2023 Report Share Posted December 25, 2023 Merry Christmas. We drove out and found the HDT Group there in Quartzsite Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted February 10 Report Share Posted February 10 We arrived at Skyline Ranch in Bandera, TX yesterday. We'll be here for a month, then meander back towards Cincinnati. Quote KW T-680, POPEMOBILE Newmar X-Aire, VATICAN Lots of old motorcycles, Moto Guzzi Griso and Spyder F3 currently in the front row Young enough to play in the dirt as a retired farmer. contact me at rickeieio@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted March 4 Report Share Posted March 4 Sitting around at happy hour with new friends, one fellow mentions he was working in a campground up in north-east TX several years ago, and someone with a champagne colored Volvo with trailer to match came in, and took the truck to a nearby town to have a bed built. Sure sounds like Brad and Jacylin (sp?) to me.... Our rigs get noticed. Quote KW T-680, POPEMOBILE Newmar X-Aire, VATICAN Lots of old motorcycles, Moto Guzzi Griso and Spyder F3 currently in the front row Young enough to play in the dirt as a retired farmer. contact me at rickeieio@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgiaHybrid Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 Sounds like they took their rig to Herrin Welding in Kilgore, TX like a lot of us have. Quote 2023 Thor Magnitude XG32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted March 5 Report Share Posted March 5 Yep, Kilgore is just 8 miles from that campground. Quote KW T-680, POPEMOBILE Newmar X-Aire, VATICAN Lots of old motorcycles, Moto Guzzi Griso and Spyder F3 currently in the front row Young enough to play in the dirt as a retired farmer. contact me at rickeieio@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deezl Smoke Posted May 15 Report Share Posted May 15 This morning, May 15 2024, about 10:15ish am, I spotted a light blue Volvo with a white smart on back, dragging a beige 5er at the state scales on US26 westbound, just west of Portland Oregon, weighing their axles. Anyone claim that? Quote I'm a work'n on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lappir Posted May 26 Report Share Posted May 26 Arrived at the Southern Iowa Fairgrounds Tuesday afternoon just before the "Storms" in Iowa. I'd just unloaded my Jeep at the local John Deere Implement location. (They have a nice loading dock). And it started to drizzle. Got parked, plugged in, put the jacks down, sort of leveled after unhitching and put the slides out just in time for the wind and rain. See the tree the first tree in the video? Well here is what the inside of it looked like. And here is how it fell not long after I had driven through that area. Of course I would not have stopped in that area if the wind had been blowing when I arrived, but it's a good thing the storm didn't happen a day later when the parking lot was full of Stock Car Racing fans. They have pushed it all on the grass for now and maybe in a few weeks we will have a large "Bonfire". They will have to push it back out into the parking lot though. You can see my truck in the background. And the end of my home here. Jeep is home too. Thankfully the small pea sized hail didn't leave any damage on anything. Rod Quote White 2000/2010Volvo VNL 770 with 7' Drom box with opposing doors, JOST slider hitch. 600 HP Cummins Signature 18 Speed three pedal auto shift. 1999 Isuzu VehiCross retired to a sticks and bricks garage. Brought out of storage the summer of 2022 2022 Jeep Wrangler Sport S Two door hard top. 2007 Honda GL 1800 2013 Space Craft Mfg S420 Custom built Toyhauler The Gold Volvo is still running and being emptied in July. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted June 9 Report Share Posted June 9 We're in Adrian, MN tonight, meandering towards Alaska. We're finding that city parks and county fairgrounds are cheap and convenient places to stay. As a bonus, the cheapest diesel in MN is at the entrance to this campground. Quote KW T-680, POPEMOBILE Newmar X-Aire, VATICAN Lots of old motorcycles, Moto Guzzi Griso and Spyder F3 currently in the front row Young enough to play in the dirt as a retired farmer. contact me at rickeieio@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted August 27 Report Share Posted August 27 Got back home to south-east Indiana Friday. 79 days, 10,1xx miles, and we're still talking to each other. Gotta say, there was no mechanical trouble on the trip. Truck and coach performed flawlessly. We did discover that the learning curve for managing batteries, generator and inverter is steeper than expected. But we survived. We went up the Alaska Highway, stopping in Grande Prairie to visit with Darryl and Rita. Came back the Cassiar, which is beautiful. In fact, everywhere we went in BC was beautiful. Quote KW T-680, POPEMOBILE Newmar X-Aire, VATICAN Lots of old motorcycles, Moto Guzzi Griso and Spyder F3 currently in the front row Young enough to play in the dirt as a retired farmer. contact me at rickeieio@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sculptor Posted August 27 Report Share Posted August 27 Rick, Very glad to hear you had no breakages and that you were safe the whole way. You’ll be posting lots of photos of course. 😉 Quote Kevin and June 2013 Volvo VNL 730 D13 Eco-Torque @ 425 Ratio 2.47 2014 DRV 36TKSB3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickeieio Posted August 27 Report Share Posted August 27 I'd love to post pics. Unfortunately, I got a new computer and it wants to send everything to "the cloud". Dag-nabbit, I want to have it in the computer, not some stinking cloud!!! That said, I did take some pics with my phone, and likely can post from there. These old, fat fingers and phones don't always get along. Quote KW T-680, POPEMOBILE Newmar X-Aire, VATICAN Lots of old motorcycles, Moto Guzzi Griso and Spyder F3 currently in the front row Young enough to play in the dirt as a retired farmer. contact me at rickeieio@yahoo.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hatrack Posted August 28 Report Share Posted August 28 Rick, If you're using Win11 go to taskbar by clock, find onedrive righ click go to settings and turn off start with Windows, right click again and chose close onedrive. Ken.... Quote 2024 DRV Fullhouse JX450 2017 DRV Fullhouse JX450 2020 Volvo VNR 42-640, D13, 455hp, Ishift, 189"wb, factory single, ET Junior Hitch @ 195", Jacklopee, Directlink 2016 GMC 3500 Denali DRW, CC, LB, Curt 25k, Sold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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