Chillin with lowryder in San Diego

[Hugh R]

The Trophy Wife and I are RVing in San Diego this week. Lowryder's shop is about 1/2 mile from the RV park. He came over with a fabulous marinated Tri-Tip, twice baked potatoes, salad, beer and wine.

Ate, drank, smoked some cigars. Fabulous time.



Jim left, me right.

[craigster59]

Looking good guys! Nice rig Hugh, I think that's the first time I've seen it, enjoy your vacation!

[creaturecat]

You bought that RV, Hugh?

[Baz]

Good to see you are enjoying the RV, Hugh.

Jim - you're really rocking that Reyn Spooner shirt!

Good times - enjoy fellas!

[Hugh R]

Originally Posted by creaturecat

You bought that RV, Hugh?

Yep, bought it new last year. I like warranties and the fact that no one had fcuked in it.

[BRPORSCHE]

Jim is fantastic. Great guy!

[vash]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Yep, bought it new last year. I like warranties and the fact that no one had fcuked in it.

yeeaa...about that.....

[vash]

cool..

tell me..did Jim bring his YETI ice chest? hahah

cool pics.

[Hugh R]

No, sounds interesting

[lowyder993s]

Thanks for taking me up on the invite...didn't realize it was so late when I left Trophy Mrs. R cooked an excellent meal while Hugh and I were able to solve just about all the world's problems! A great nite! Thx. BTW...Hugh is a great storyteller

[crustychief]

Where are you camped Hugh?

[Hugh R]

San Diego Metro KOA in Chula Vista

[strupgolf]

Tell me Hugh, how is the rv thing going with you? I'm considerating buying one this year.

[herr_oberst]

Jim - THIS is why you're not doing Seattle to Portland?

You'd rather be relaxing?

(Glad to see you lookin' good, Jim!) (You, too Hugh!)

[Hugh R]

Tell me Hugh, how is the rv thing going with you? I'm considerating buying one this year.

Look at lots of floor plans and your needs now and ten years down the road. Walk around bed for sure, having grand kids?, towing a car? I got a 30' rig legal at Ca state beaches, Class A is higher and better driving view than Class C, gas unless you're going to put 50k miles a year on it. Biggest frig you can get they're all small, some models have two. Self leveling jacks and two pushouts and I'm cracking a beer in ten minutes or less. Typically one year warranty on the house and truck mfgr on the truck, 3 year 36K miles. I bought a 7 year 70K extended warranty for a couple of grand. The self levelers go out, they can easily be the cost of the extended warranty, they're only covered under the one year house warranty. Customer service for all RV dealers sucks after the sale.

I run the engine and generator every two weeks and move it a few feet to keep the tires round, I park it on my property. Change tires every five years regardless of miles. Corner balancing helps a lot, otherwise front and rear with a truck scale works. Get inner rear tire valve extenders, don't get the cheap screw on flexible ones, they leak and fail. Go to a truck tire place and have them put real ones on.

If you want sat TV dish or Direct. If you already have one at home look into carrying it out to the RV. I haveDISH on the RV and cable at home. Dish you can buy 30 days and use 3 days and suspend service for a month or two and reactivate it for 3 more days and suspend again. So you can stretch out 30 days of service to possibly a year. IIRC, they charge $5 to reconnect each time. Still a good deal. Sat dome on roof if under trees you're SOL. Dish tailgater (for RV's) the cable MUST hook directly into the receiver through a window or otherwise rewire, it cant go through the house cable system because the cable powers the DISH cube antenna which automatically finds satellites, where as with Direct you have to aim the antenna dish.

[azasadny]

Have fun!!

[RANDY P]

from LA to SD?

That's a drive! Free chow tho. Score!

[lowyder993s]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

Look at lots of floor plans and your needs now and ten years down the road. Walk around bed for sure, having grand kids?, towing a car? I got a 30' rig legal at Ca state beaches, Class A is higher and better driving view than Class C, gas unless you're going to put 50k miles a year on it. Biggest frig you can get they're all small, some models have two. Self leveling jacks and two pushouts and I'm cracking a beer in ten minutes or less. Typically one year warranty on the house and truck mfgr on the truck, 3 year 36K miles. I bought a 7 year 70K extended warranty for a couple of grand. The self levelers go out, they can easily be the cost of the extended warranty, they're only covered under the one year house warranty. Customer service for all RV dealers sucks after the sale.

I run the engine and generator every two weeks and move it a few feet to keep the tires round, I park it on my property. Change tires every five years regardless of miles.

I can truthfully attest it's a bad ass rig! VERY nice layout, walk around bed (no fun climbing over others unless they are of the nubile college persuasion!), nice, dark woodwork and a killer looking slate(?) floor. Tres Gauche!

Herr Oberst…I SHOULD be on my bike…but I've been slammed getting the house ready for our new arrival…a red-tail hawk! Getting into falconry, a bucket list item for at least 4 decades! You guys have fun!!! I wanna see a full report!

[Hugh R]

Four hour drive on Sunday, I expect longer tomorrow Wednesday, on the way back.

thanks Jim, slate looking vinyl sheeting.

[Flieger]

Originally Posted by lowyder993s

I can truthfully attest it's a bad ass rig! VERY nice layout, walk around bed (no fun climbing over others unless they are of the nubile college persuasion!), nice, dark woodwork and a killer looking slate(?) floor. Tres Gauche!

Herr Oberst…I SHOULD be on my bike…but I've been slammed getting the house ready for our new arrival…a red-tail hawk! Getting into falconry, a bucket list item for at least 4 decades! You guys have fun!!! I wanna see a full report!

Falconry? Wow, never expected that.