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I was going to suggest either Coulter Bay RV Park or Flagg Ranch RV Park but looks like they may be full. You might give them a call - they might have a cancellation or suggestions.

Joe, yes, full hookups with water and sewer and 50 amp

ShortBus, Sorry I didn't understand you original post. We have friends who prefer the more restricted and upscale properties so I thought that was what you were looking for. You might try Big Rigs Best Bets. I purchased one of their books years ago but you can now access it online. http://www.big-rigs-rv.com/Home.html Where we usually spend June each year, most people are in their late 60s and early 70s but many have a campfire every night. Also where we are now at Chama, NM several campfires every night and most people here are retired. We don't do campfires because, like you, my wife has COPD. In our travels, we have visited several parks that do not have individual campfire facilities but have installed centralized fire pits. If the smoke get too bad at our site, we have close up and turn on the A/C.

Joe, Try Pellicer Creek Campground. Short drive into St. Augustine. It is about a mile off IH95 on US1 South. We spent last winter there to our Northeast trip. Great WiFi and 190 channel Directv provided. http://www.pellicercreekcampground.com/

Here you will find a couple of sites to start you off. http://www.doityourselfrv.com/luxury-rv-resorts-parks/ http://prevost-stuff.com/Real_Estate_List.html You won't see me at any of these places - not my style.

Welcome back Bill. Really have missed seeing your posts.

Welcome to the FMCA forum. Enjoy your coach. May it create as many good memories for you as ours has.

I just looked at their website. They are a little pricey and looks like they nickel and dime you. Also their policy states no refund of deposits. Not a place I will ever make a reservation.

I had the problem last year on my coach. I thought I might have to replace the alternator. When I started checking to see what I needed to do to remove the alternator, I found a loose wire connected to the alternator. I labeled and removed all wires and cleaned all terminals. That has been a little over a year (and 5,000 miles) ago and it has never happened again.

Jim, We replaced our Norcold 1200 LRIM in June 2015 with a Samsung French Door 19.4 cu ft model. We have a modified sine wave inverter and have had no problems. When we are preparing to travel, I turn the inverter on and after we arrive at our destination the temps are still exactly where the should be. And the batteries still are at 100%.

I use the Garmin RV 760LMT. We used in on a trip of 5500 miles last year and did not have any problems. Even used it in the Jeep to get us to a parking garage in downtown Chicago - got us in and back out with no problems. Of course I do not totally rely on the GPS alone - I also have Delorme Street Atlas on my computer and may look at FMCA and Good Sam Trip Routing and RV Trip Wizard.

Welcome to the FMCA forum!!! Take a look at the article and it will explain the reason for supplemental braking systems. http://roadmasterinc.com/products/braking/why_brakes.html And look at this one for a summary of towing laws by state. http://www.brakebuddy.com/towing-laws As Rich stated, if you are not in compliance with the towing laws and have an accident, you could be held liable for damages and your insurnace could deny coverage.

I decided to try RV Trip Wizard about a month before we began our trip from Florida to Texas in April. I have used Delorme Street Atlas USA for several years for trip planning but it is not RV specific and the version I have really needed to be updated. RV Trip Wizard can really be customized with your trip preferences - some of which I use and some I don't. I especially like the feature to set miles per day. I like to plan for 300 miles per day so I set a minimum of 250 and a maximum of 400 and the program will give me circles at those distances along with indicators of campgrounds in the area. The campground we were want to go to in Texas was not in the database so I entered the address. Then I put the information in the Missing Campground function of the program and in just a few days, our campground was added to the database.

Sorry to hear that you are dissallusioned with FMCA. We have been members since 2009 and believe it is a wonderful organization. We have seen FMCAssist work twice for others in our travels and it appeared to be handled smoothly in both cases. We have made many new friends through FMCA.

I don't really know anything about your coach but in ours we have a panel which includes controls for Fantastic Fan, Ceiling Lights, Slideout, Speaker Volume, etc. If you have a central panel in the bedroom for various controls, it might be there.

We lived in Kerrville for 20 years until we decide to hit the road in 2011! Another great bike ride is from Bandera to Tarpley, Vanderpool, Leakey, Camp Wood and Rocksprings. There are so many great places to go in Texas. If you get out to the Big Bend area, try Davis Mountains State Park. Just a few miles from McDonald Observatory and the great programs they present.

We made the trip to Alaska and Canada in 2012 with Adventure Caravans and really enjoyed our trip. If you are former military, you might look at SMART http://www.smartrving.net/ We have friends who have traveled to Alaska with them but at a lower price because they are non profit.

I don't know what floor plan you have, but looking at the Monaco brochure, it appears that you probably have a large sliding window over either a dinette or sofa. We have large sliding windows at the dining table and sofa in the driver side slide in our Alfa. Our installer removed the window at the dining table because it was closer to the refrigerator. They took the Norcold out through the window with a forklift and brought the new refrigerator in through the window with the forklift. I would not remove the windshield. The guy that did our install has done over 100 installs - they work on other coaches but specialize in Alfa.

Joe, To post the picture: 1. Go to the gallery. 2. Click on the picture you want to post 3. At the top of the screen will be the address "community.fmca.com/..." Highlight or just right click on it. 4. Select Copy from the drop down menu. 5. In your current post where you want to add the link, right click and select Paste from the drop down menu. 6. the link will be added. http://community.fmca.com/gallery/image/4039-img-2172/

Welcome to the forum!! Enjoy the coach.

That price for a residential refrigerator is way out of line. We replaced our Norcold in June 2015 with a 20 cu ft Samsung French Door for just under $2000 installed.

If this is a new motorhome still under warranty, the dealer needs to repair it.

Greg, Welcome to the forum! I use the site often when we are preparing to travel. If I don't find a recent review of a park that interests me, I check it out on RV Parking. http://www.rvparking.com/

Roy, I have a spare clear bowl that I install on my new primary filter, then I place it in a small plastic wash basin and place that on the frame under the old filter. As soon as I get the old filter off I, quickly as possible, replace it with the new filter assembly. After replacing the secondary filter, I use the primer pump to remove the air. At one time, I filled the new filters with clean diesel before installing but I quickly decided a primer pump would be nice so I visited my CAT dealer and got one to install. Remove 2 bolts put the primer pump in place and torque 2 bolts and done.

Dave, Get a 5th wheel toy hauler - but a lot of wasted space for just a grill. With that grill you will be welcome wherever you go. No real advice on carrying that - I have a Weber Q2400 electric I just put in a storage bay.