Where were you with your NEWMAR today?

[Fatboy2004]

$500.00 at the pump and still smiling, that's tough to pull off.

 

[GlampDaddy]

Ingles, fueling up for our trip to Margaritaville.

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You'll be earning Ingles points like crazy! Have a great trip.

 

[Jim]

$500.00 at the pump and still smiling, that's tough to pull off.

It'll trash your Exon card in a hurry.

 

[Scotttkd2]

Back in Ft Myers FL at our winter digs in time to vote today. Also just in time for tropical storm to make its way through tonight and tomorrow. Swell!! Great ATT and Verizon and Starlink RV over 100mb down. Yes I still need to replace the strip of siding lost to Ian, is supposed to be in stock next week. We got very lucky all things considered.

 

[FLSteve]

Ingles, fueling up for our trip to Margaritaville.

@Jim ... let the good times roll ... I mean flow!

FLSteve

 

[Rustymayes]

William's Soaring Center in WIlliams CA on Friday

My Brother owns and operates this glider port about 60 miles from my place in Vacaville. We stopped by for a visit and then on Saturday continued up I-5 to Rolling Hills Casino Resort in Corning. We have decided to start poking around Northern CA, places within a few hours drive for weekend trips. Several of the Casinos have very nice RV parks attached so restaurants and entertainments are nearby. As we take these trips we are gradually figuring out what we need onboard and what we don't. Once I get the Canyon set up as our toad we will start Boondocking further off the grid.

Rolling Hills is right on I-5 so serves as a great stop for left coast travelers and as such I was not surprised to see three other late model Newmar Dutch Stars in the park. I met one of the owners of a 2020 4081 who happened to buy his from the same dealer we used. We had a great chat and it was good to hear that he is having very good reliability with his rig. I look forward to running into similar folks in the future.
We had an uneventful weekend with the exception of a drive belt on the engine developing a nasty squeal that did not disappear when the engine warmed up. I replaced the belt today and that fixed it. I only have 3200 miles on her so I hope that is just a fluke.

 

[Jim]

Three night shakedown run to Margaritaville in Buford GA. Leaned a bunch about our coach that we didn't know before taking this trip. Getting ready to head for Orlando, Stewart, and beyond, hopefully before the snow starts to fall.

 

[J&JD]

Beautiful coach @Jim. Many years of safe and enjoyable travels to you guys.

And if you haven’t checked out this thread in awhile, you might give it a quick perusal for some easy tips.

Ridiculously cheap, ridiculously easy mods to consider

I would love to see what this cleaver group has come up with in the category of super cheap super easy mods. This one I found on a thread several years ago and is pretty hard to beat for functionality, cheapness and ease: Putting the plastic dot over the flush button makes it so much easier...

rvforums.com

 

[RKins]

I saw a LA with the same color scheme heading South in Sarasota on I-75. I thought it was you heading to the real Margarita Ville in the keys.

 

[Jim]

I saw a LA with the same color scheme heading South in Sarasota on I-75. I thought it was you heading to the real Margarita Ville in the keys.

Sigh, not me unfortunately. We were looking at Blue Water Key earlier in the month, but you have to book a year ahead most of the time. Just couldn't being the dates together. But maybe next year.

 

[Jim]

Back in Ft Myers FL at our winter digs in time to vote today. Also just in time for tropical storm to make its way through tonight and tomorrow. Swell!! Great ATT and Verizon and Starlink RV over 100mb down. Yes I still need to replace the strip of siding lost to Ian, is supposed to be in stock next week. We got very lucky all things considered.

That looks like a nice place Scott. I'm looking for somewhere to park my rig during the winter months. It looks like you've got a park model or casita? If you don't mind, where is this?

 

[AuntieDodo]

That looks like a nice place Scott. I'm looking for somewhere to park my rig during the winter months. It looks like you've got a park model or casita? If you don't mind, where is this?

Jim, I’m not sure if it is the same place that Scott is at but you should check out Golden Palms Luxury Motorcoach Resort on Golden Palms Circle, Fort Myers. It is relatively new and very nice place.

 

[Scotttkd2]

Hi Jim, it is called Cypress Woods RV Resort. Www.cypresswoodsrv.net. They no longer allow park models to be added, and the park has about 25% park models currently. There is a link on their site to the new addition Laguna Caribe that is under construction now, geared to only class A RV's, and much larger casitas. I dont have any pricing on those. Due to that expansion, the older part of the park is about to allow larger casitas as well. We bought here for well under 200K with many of the ammenities of the 400-500K up places in S Florida. The trade off is its not Naples/Marco Island, but we like it so far. Nice friendly neighbors and things to do if you want or just sit and relax if you want. I do see a really nice Newell parked here that the owners leave here but have not occupied for the season yet. Prevost parked next to me, and a ton of 5th wheels here. Let me know if you have any other questions. I know the office has a list of lots for sale they could probably email to you. EDIT - the list of for sale lots is on the website.

 

[GlampDaddy]

Centramatic in Alvarado, TX. Makes my wheels go round and round, always in balance. OTA is 0, AT&T was satisfactory, highway noise was atrocious, but the product and service are awesome and price was right! And the added benefit was being indoors for some of the rain.

 

[Jim]

Good looking coach, Buddy!

 

[GlampDaddy]

Good looking coach, Buddy!

Thanks Jim! We agree with you, but have this bias... Of course, it's not a London Aire, which is an awesome coach, too! I guess we're both just AireHeads.

 

[Rustymayes]

Saturday we decided to take the DS out for the night so we went to Jackson Rancheria Casino RV park. Rained the entire time which was just fine with us, wanted to see how foul weather glamping would be. When we got there we were greeted by 40 plus Tiffen coaches enjoying a round up! We felt like fish out of water but met some great folks. After a few conversations with a few owners though we were very happy that we went the extra mile and chose to buy a new Dutch Star rather than an Allegro Bus.
We had a fun one night trip and hit a Royal Flush on video poker that paid for the fill up to boot! We have decided to check out all the Casinos with RV accommodations with in 100 miles of home as quick one or two night get aways.

 

[Neal]

Pictures @Rustymayes?

 

[Rustycoach]

Pictures @Rustymayes?

For some reason I did not snap one this trip

 

[J&JD]

Life Northwest RV Harrisburg Oregon. Small park which is part of a local church. Only here as it is convenient to Coburg Oregon where we had RV Glass Solutions replace our windshield and Freightliner to have the PDM recall and some other service work. Also near Guaranty RV (now Bish’s) where some of our frameless windows are being replaced (Newmar is paying for the windows even 5 years later). Gonna snow in the passes headed back to California so I invested in a set of Easysoxs after following @Neal’s debacle a year or so ago. Hope I don’t have to use them!