-Gramps-
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I have an electric smoker that I use outdoors. It works really well for slow cooking a bird up to 20 lbs.
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First off, the new Monaco is not the Monaco that built your coach or mine. I have been doing my own warranty work for many months. But neither of us should let the problems with the now nonexistant bankrupt Monaco stop us or anyone else from considering a coach built by the New Navistar/Monaco. I personally would try a different dealer and see if they can help you. The Roadmaster Fuel gauge should be fixable.
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Best thing to use is Murphy's Oil soap and for heavy stains use either white wall cleaner or Clorox Cleanup Spray. Works Great.
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Well, maybe it was a small rally for the Vacationer UFOers but it's a start!
Gary, Janis, Diane and myself had a great time at the Forest Lake Thousand Trails resort in Mocksville NC this past four days. We drove down together and camped. The main form of entertainment was shopping for all the stuff Gary and Janis need in their first rv. So that meant a trip to Wal-Mart and Camping World in Statesville NC. We also visited Lexington NC and viewed the Pigs on Parade also known as The Boars are Back in Town. This is an artist exhibition of life size fiberglass pigs all done up in different ways like the Painted Ponies in Arizona or the I guess Bulls in Chicago or the Mermaids in Norfolk. We grilled out every evening on my new Chargriller, burgers, chicken, country ribs! Ate the best Pimento Cheese in the world (Conrad and Hinkle home made in Lexington), had fresh white corn on the cob along with some very cold beer. We came back on Sunday just in time for Diane and I to attend The Diana Krall concert in Portsmouth Va with my brother and his wife. All in all it was a very nice four days.
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The Gear rally was a lot of fun. Other than a couple days of rain which in my opinion was better than the heat like we had last year, the rally went pretty well. It was smaller than last year, not as many vendors or attendees, but still it seemed everyone involved had a good time. My wife was the star of the beanbag baseball tourney with 3 home runs and 3 triples. I, in a word, stunk at the game. But I did place third in the great grill off. I spent quite a bit of time in the Workhorse PR booth answering questions about my UFO and discussing the Navistar purchase of Monaco and the new company now out of the starting gate. I for one look forward to what this new Monaco will be doing in the near future. So that is a quickie review of the rally. I will try to post a few pics that my wife took soon.
The Grill off:
I was the only one cooking on charcoal. I used my new portable Chargriller ie smokebox and found myself up against four gassers. I took third place in a hard fought hot contest with my Greek Angus Burgers with Grilled Eggplant slices topped with Fresh Tomato under melted Mozzarella, and Parmeson cheese on the side. The Burgers were actually Feta Cheese Burgers served on a bed of fresh baby spinach leaves, topped with melted Feta cheese of course, fresh cucumber slices and served on a thin toasted multigrain sandwich bun covered with a generous slather of Tzatziki sauce which is plain yogurt, blended with cucumber, lots of garlic, and dill. They were quite good. I got beat by a very elaborate chicken and shrimp kabob entry.
Can't win em all.
Pictures from the Great Eastern Area Rally 2009
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Get this one. I have an earlier version which works great and this one is an improvement over mine.
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I have MCDs. They snap on and have adjustable velco tabs so you can easily adjust them to keep them tight.
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Wolfe10,
My Chassis manual says the mode button has no function.
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Workhorse signs agreement to buy Monaco.
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The mode button doesn't work with all coaches. It doesn't do anything with my chassis.
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I am so ready to hit the road again cause I want to get away. My best friend and business partner died suddenly last week while we were in Florida. This is the second time this has happened to me. Mike was a great guy and friend for almost twenty years and his death has just about devastated me. This is one big care that isn't so easy to cast upon the Lord but I need to, to survive. My rving friends are about the only thing keeping me going right now.
Derrick
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I also use a y valve with quick disconnects. I use opposite genders so that the fresh water hose will not fit on the flush tank connection and vice versa. Plus I have a back flow stopper and triple cut-offs on the black connection. One at the valve, one on the end of the hose and one on the flush connection itself. I turn on all three to flush and turn off all three when done. It keeps accidents from happening as long as I don't forget of course.
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I see that this thread has been moved to a new forum. This is a good change, so all members can feel free to reply not just the A owners.
So keep it up! Hopefully we will be getting new members, cause I really talked the boards up at the Convention!
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We have a 39' Winnebago Adventurer, gas pusher.Nice Coach. We almost bought one ourselves.
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Well, this thread is moving right along.
I guess I can add a bit to my original post. My wife Diane and I have been married since 10/7/72. It's funny but when we decided to get married we thought about living in a camper, a fifth wheel because we thought it would be cheaper than a house. So we went looking at rvs and based on sticker price decided it was a nice dream but that was all. A few years later we were convinced by friends that we worked with to take up tent camping so we used our Jerry Ford recession tax rebates bought a Winchester single wall umbrella tent, a cooler, a stove, a lantern, two sleeping bags, made our own pads and headed for the Blue Ridge Parkway. We kept tent camping for the next thirty years unitl my wife started to have major back problems, no longer liked sleeping on the ground, and said she wanted a potty that wasn't hundreds of yards away when she needed to get up in the middle of a cold night. I agrued with her and said they cost too much money. We knocked it around for awhile until one day she was mauled by a pit bull while walking the dog in our neighborhood.
That beast almost killed her. It missed an artery in her arm by a millemeter, took out her Achilles' tendon along with a bunch of other damage. She called me from the hospital, as soon as she was taken out of the ambulance that took her there. While I was driving and praying my way to the emergency room, I swore I would provide her any wish as long as they could fix her up. We filed a law suit, settled out of court, and I suggested we save the money or use it for college tuition for our son. She said I want to use this settlement as collateral for an rv loan.
I kept my promise and on Valentines day 05 I found myself driving an 04 Bounder 36 foot long coach home from a dealer lot. I had never driven one before or even been a passenger in a coach at anytime in my life. I was scared to death but I made it to our street where I discovered it would not fit in the driveway until I took down a tree, which I did. I mean, I hired someone to take it down for me. I work from home and everytime I looked out the window at our shiny new coach sitting in our driveway, I thought I must have gone out of my mind. However, my wife and I love coach camping and if I did loose my senses, I have not tried to find them since.
My non Rving friends and family, when we first bought the coach, thought we were nuts. Money should be saved and invested not put into some great big hole in the driveway you put money into. Well, I am not sure where the biggest hole is, investments or a motor home. At least we have fun with the coach!
With very few regrets about being an RVer
Gramps.
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Where is YOUR next trip?Regards,
jeffbec51
Maybe from Perry we will continue down to Florida to see my daughter. We were at Ft Wilderness back in January and may make it down there again this year I hope. During the Summer, my business usually does not let me get away for long so we camp with our Good Sams Chapter members or Holiday Rambler club in places like Williamsburg, Hatteras Island. We always try to get out to the mountains of North Carolina or Virginia in the fall if not sooner. I would like to take a long trip to Niagra Falls, but we will have to wait and see if we get an opportunity for that. I did manage to take a whole month off in May of 2007 and we visited Tarpon Springs, Stone Mountain, one of our favorite spots, Gatlinburg, Asheville NC with our final stop in Seagrove NC, with its interesting arts community .
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To: FromTheDoghouse
Nice to hear from another UFO owner. We will be at Perry ourselves. I have not met another UFOer in person yet. Maybe we can say hello sometime while we are there.
Gramps
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We are going, it will be our first time as well. Any suggestions from you vets of the convention are appreciated.
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Since there is no official introduce yourself thread, I though I would start an unofficial one.
I am Derrick, screen name -Gramps-. My wife Diane and I along with our Cocker Spainel Nickolas, have been rving since Valentines Day 2005. We started out with a slightly used 04 Bounder Gas which was a really good coach. We traded it back in June of last year for a new Holiday Rambler Vacationer 38plt UFO gas pusher. This is the coach of our dreams. I am crazy about the Chassis, and my wife loves the interior. Two seperate bathroom sinks, two easy chairs in the bedroom with a drop down card table, dining table with four chairs, a hutch/coffee bar. The things she had to have before she would let me get the chassis I wanted. This is a coach that will allow us to take the final step to
semi-fulltiming at some point in the not too distant future I hope.
I own my own micro business selling phone systems, voice mail, computer networks and servicing same. I have had this little company for 18 years. It hasn't made me rich, not on paper anyway, but it put one daughter through nursing school and college and one son throught William and Mary.
We have two grown daughters and one grown son.
I have three grandsons, 9, 5 and one ten months old
Well, anyway that may be more info than you wanted to know. I look forward to reading about you.
Gramps
My wife Diane, Nicolas and Rambling Rose our new coach. -
Well, my wife says "If you ask me, it seems like they are pretty smart guys".
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Hey all, I just found these forums myself. My wife suggested I join and spend a bit of time here.
So I am just introducing myself .
Gramps
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That is a hard question to answer because there are so many different types of slide out motors and mechanisims. You would need to be a bit more specific, like who makes it and so forth.