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RE: 30 amp rig in a 50 amp outlet
I have a 30 amp rig and was just wondering if there was any advantage or disadvantage to using the adapter and plugging into the 50 amp socket?
There is about 300 of us right now all plugged into 50 amp, adapter downed to 30 amp.......and none of us have gone up in flames!:B
And the shore stations haven burst into flames either, although sometimes I do wonder why they haven't, all these extension cords where under 4 inches of running water all day today!
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 02:54pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: dumping black tank
If it's in the driveway of my home.....it has dumped tanks with a bit of fresh water in both, period.
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 02:30pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Verizon network down in south Georgia
We have been having trouble with our cell phones since last night. They were doing strange things and then we were unable to make or receive a call.
I actually had problems with home line as well but was finally able to get a line out and called Verizon. They have a server down. I don't know what areas it affects but if you phone isn't working, you are not crazy.
I'm surprised ANYTHING works near Atlanta! There are trees and lines down so no surprise there would be no phone service in some areas.
The downpours have been going steady since Wednesday night. 14 inches of water within the first 24 hours and has not stopped since. A trip that was supposed to take 5 hours from Kentucky took me 12 hours! 2 hours of it was sitting on 285 in traffic. Apparently some goof tried walking across 20 in the downpour and didn't make it so all that traffice was rerouted to 285. Then downed trees and power lines across the roads rerouted even more traffic to 285!
There were accidents all over. Cars and motorcycles where spinning out and crashing into each other in front, back and along the sides of me. I was stuck in the middle lane with the MH towing and could not get over to get off. It was so dark, foggy and driving rain the people in the cars could not see my Toad and would try cutting in behind what they thought was the back of my MH.
I have 'never' in my life been on an 'interstate' and have it flooded.
This trip will go down in my book as the most deadly dangerous excursion with my MH. And to add insult to injury when I finally pulled into my reserved, paid for in advance RV site.....I got an attendant with an attitude. I sure he didn't know how close he came to not being an attendant after that trip to get to Georgia!:B
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 02:17pm |
Technology Corner
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RE: Using your onboard shower??
Think about it like this. If the bath house is too dirty to use. what do you think about the pool? the same people clean it, and the same people swim in it. So, If your afraid of the showers. The pool would certainly be off limits.
The last CG I stayed at had a pool and promptly around 5:00 all the adjoing mobile home park residents would get off work, don a towel and head for the CG pool for a bath.:R
One nice thing about that was they never used the showers so they were real nice and clean, but the pool.....you couldn't have paid me to go in there! :B
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 12:38pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: what happened to the new RVTV show?
Yes I am listening. And thanks for the mention above. I know the Travel Channel has a link for viewer relations where they take comments on possible programming suggestions. I think each network has a separate link and/or comment page.
Thanks again for all the support over the years ... the viewers here have been fantasticStewhttp://www.travelchannel.com/About/Viewer_Relations
Did you try IONTV?
I just spoke with a producer who is in the process of launching an Equestrian Program on ION. He claims they are easy to work with, seeking new and different family orientated shows and WELOME new programs. AND no need for cable to receive this channel giving programs a wider viewer base and reaching the traveling RV folks who don't have satellite systems on their MH!
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 11:31am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Gray Water Tank Overflow
.please delete
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 11:16am |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Should I Have Been Annoyed?
After a wonderful 48 day trip to Alaska and the Yukon Territory, I am now in California slowly making my way back to Texas.
Found myself extremely ticked off today by two circumstances:
.....saw a small diameter hose coming from the bin. After waiting at least 20 minutes, I finally asked the guy if he was close to full. He said he was dumping his holding tank and it took "a long time". The rig must have had some kind of macerator pump but 20 minutes plus???
I still don't understand the need for those. There was a MH parked 2 sites down from mine and every other 'night' it sounded like he was starting the MH and letting it run for 30 minutes. I asked my neighbor if he was having battery problems with his coach? Well that sound is from running a macerator pump to dump the black tank.
WHY is there a need to take a "half an hour" to macerate waste instead of just pulling a lever and letting the septic system get the waste in its original state? :B
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 10:58am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Good sams club
Now I see, finally.
I forget there are people out there that would be embarrassed to have it known they are members of good sams. Maybe it would be better to not affiliate yourselves with organizations that would cast embarrassment upon you in the first place.
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rockhillmanor
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09/19/09 10:37am |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Good Sam Badges
Well I am glad I am not the lone ranger on this one. The logo was bad enough, but an 'advertising link' too? :R
I found it VERY disturbing that they would use your email to match up to a public forum and proudly slap their logo WITH an advertising link on your "personal" profile.
Publically displaying what organizations a person belongs to and without their knowledge or permission and attaching it to a profile IMHO crosses the line of privacy in a BIG BIG way.
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rockhillmanor
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09/18/09 06:19pm |
Forum Technical Support
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RE: Good sams club
They will ignore their privacy agreement and stick a logo next to your name in a public forum.Good thing they don't do cholesterol testing.
Yup, found that VERY disturbing that they would use your email to match up to a public forum and proudly slap their logo WITH an advertising link on your "personal" profile.
Publically displaying what organizations a person belongs to and without their knowledge or permission and attaching it to a profile IMHO crosses the line of privacy in a BIG BIG way. :(
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rockhillmanor
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09/18/09 06:14pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: WalMart - slideouts
We need a new forum heading.
LV Living Vehicle
Description of forum, I am homeless, druggie, and/or a criminal and
I have moved off the streets into your local Walmart parking lot.
It is now politically incorrect to say anything negative about me.
I don't think in the past few years I have seen so many posts about homeless people 'living' in their vehicles, staying where ever they can get a free ride or not be noticed...and claiming to be RV'ers.
I.E. Recreational Vehicle = traveling and enjoying the country and PAYING for CG's and sight seeing using well deserved pensions and savings from a life time of working hard for it.
Just remember next time you stop and shop at Walmart late at night and or stop to stay there overnight, sex offenders have to register when they 'move into a home in a neighborhood'. Last time I looked at this law there was not a provision for mandatory registration when 'living' in a Walmart parking lot.:R
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rockhillmanor
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09/18/09 05:52pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: overnight in nashville
Nashville KOA. Nice big clean CG. Nice patio sites with furniture if you want to pay the few extra bucks, to relax outside on. Big rig friendly and nice and quiet.
Easy on and easy off. And close to everything if you wanted to take the evening to do something. I make it a point to stay there every time I travel thru.
http://koa.com/where/tn/42148/
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 09:43pm |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: Interesting WM experiences?
Perry Georgia Walmart Stay away from this one for shopping.
There are homeless people working the parking lot. They come up to you and try to sell you so-called gold jewelry. Told him no and he followed me back to my MH, told him to get lost and then sat and watched as he and 2 others went up and down the aisles approaching people. I then watched as they cornered an elderly couple who looked shaken by it, so I got out of the MH and went up to him again and told him to get lost. I certainly don't need to have to dodge these crooks in the parking lots to get into the store and then have to worry if my MH is going to be intact when I get back.
I went back the next day and told the Manager. He said thanks and added it's hard to get rid of them. One call to the police would accomplish that.
And NOW they are going to allow these creeps to 'live' in the parking lots? What IS Walmart thinking? I think they need to start thinking about their customers SAFETY.:R
And talk about safety in broad daylight in a Walmart steer clear of the one in West Memphis, AR. too.
And no, I never stay at a Walmart I only shop there.
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 09:28pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Walmart tows camper
So now it is ok for homeless people to live permanently in WalMart parking lots?
I sure hope not.
I like many RV'ers use Walmart to 'shop' as we travel. One stop shopping RV supplies and parking lots big enough to park our MH's to do so.
I would surely think that if Walmart starts catering to the homeless and allow them to 'live' in their parking lots, I would think people will stop shopping there.
You wouldn't take your family or let your teenagers go shopping in the bad part of town with druggies and homeless laying in the street. Why on earth would 'anyone' want to take their family where homeless people are allowed to sleep in their vehicles? :H
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 09:15pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: WalMart - slideouts
What about pets at Walmart? This is from a "homeless' blog .......
This is a joke right? Homeless people with a computer and paying a monthly fee for internet access?
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 08:46pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Using your onboard shower??
Never use the toilet in public bathrooms but if the CG showers are clean....but IMHO there is nothing better than a long, long, hot, hot shower from a shower head that has some power to it. Which none of the afore mentioned can be achieved in an RV. :B
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 05:20pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: WalMart - slideouts
LOL... tree huggers and Walmart police! Some can huff, puff, turn blue in the face, and get their shorts in a wad. I couldn't care less. I'm gonna park and rest anywhere it's legal, moral, ethical, and non-fattening, whether it cost something or not. And there isn't anything anyone who disagrees with that can do about it. Nuff said.
Just share your inhaler with them.
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 04:57pm |
General RVing Issues
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Tailgators at UGA give campers a bad name
"UGA tailgaters warned to clean up their trash"
70 TONS of trash from just one game.
They said they are going to put out more garbage bags.:H
Heck fine them for littering!
http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/dynamic/00253/uga-tailgate_253504l.jpg
http://www.ajc.com/sports/uga/uga-tailgaters-warned-to-140564.html
Well this is one quick way to give campers who tailgate a bad name.:R
IMHO this also tells you something about where parenting has gone to over the years, to have this many kids leave THAT much trash.
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 04:51pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Good sams club
They sell your info to 'everybody'. Joined GS and in one week I was receiving mail from about 20 other RV'ing outfits. You can opt out for the GS mail only, but your info is now out there to all the rest and you are not getting it back soon.
All the CG's I stayed at when I asked about my Good Sam discount.....they either replied that it "is already in the price", or "we don't honor that anymore",even though they had the logo plastered all over the CG office.
So every camper, member or not, gets the same price sans having your info being sold and all the duplicate/triplicate mail telling you that you need to pay your dues, even though you have already paid them.
And if you join and pay the yearly dues for the Good Sam Emergency Service you 'still' have to PAY to join the Good Sam Club.:H Don't think so.
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 04:35pm |
Beginning RVing
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RE: Road from Memphis to Birmingham
Two Words - NO gas stations!!
It is an incredible stretch of road but it is readily apparent that for what it was built for in the future, died somewhere along the way. I took it after stumbling across it and got on with out a full tank of gas.
There is 'nothing', nada, zip, zero on that stretch of road. Just short of running out of gas I found an exit sign that said fuel, I exited and found an empty what looked like a gas station that had closed 20 years ago!!
Starting to panic I got off at the next exit to to try and find a town 'somewhere' and stumbled across a Shell station (it is NOT marked at the exit)it was the only station in fact the only anything I saw on that road the entire time. Said something to the clerk about it not being marked by a sign and he replied, "yea that's just how we do things around here". I thought I was in the Twlight Zone!
Great scenary, great traveling road, saw 2 cars the whole time, BUT, "Fill up before you get on"! :B
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rockhillmanor
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09/17/09 04:19pm |
Roads and Routes
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