Tire Covers

I was not a tire cover believer but I am now!  A few years back we had a major blowout causing over $6,000.00 in damage.  Thanks insurance company you did a good job and so did Good Sam Road Side Assist.

From this we learned that you need to keep all your tires at correct pressure all the time.  So we added monitors on each tire and an alarm goes off if the pressure drops or rises above a set range.  Please note cold and hot temps can make big changes in tire pressure.

Second, age matters a lot.  If tires are over 5-7 years old they probably should be replaced, sooner if you see damage.  This is an item you need to budget for, tires are not cheep, nor is the damage they can cause if they blow do to age related causes.

Third, tire covers are a great low cost addition to reduce solar damage.  So if we park for more then one night we put our tire cover's on.  Reducing solar damage even if only 25% of the time can add life to your tires.

Just our opinions.  Feel free to add your comments.

Temp Stabilizers

In our Class C we tend to get sway when we walk around, if laying down one really notices.  Our RV does not have built in levelers so we tries these for about $80.00 for the two.  You can see the second one on the other side of the back of the home.

With these manually put in place (takes about 5 minutes) the sway is reduced by more then fifty percent in our opinion.  So we are happy with the result's. They each come in their own carry bag ready to go, so we store them in one of our basement lockers like the one you see above the stabilizers.  We plan only to put them in place when we stay two nights or longer.

Look these up online if you are interested.

Comparing two sizes of Digital Antennas for TV

Comparing two sizes of Digital Antennas for TV in our RV.  

I first bought the smaller one and it gave me from three up to 18 channels only 2 to 8 were watch able.  My old roof mounted predigital one gave me none.  In S/W Wyoming over the air channels can be hard to find.  The larger one seems to bring in more watchable channels.

We have an old antenna on our Motor Home.  In big cities such as Nashville Tennessee it works fine however in S/W Wyoming, if not for cable we would not have TV we get no over the air channels until now.  I went to Walmart and bought a $15.00 HD Digital Thin Antenna.  We now get 2 channels in our RV:)  So these thin antennas really do work.

States Covered to Date

The states covered to date are for my wife and I.  Our kids felt we should start over with each motorhome, I disagreed.  At the age of 61 I will count the trips we have made in our three Class C Motorhomes since the early 90's.  They are 28 and 30 they can start the count over when they sell their current rigs for newer models:)

We still need to cover the N/E and N/W plus Alaska and Hawaii to cover all fifty states.  We will be in Hawaii next year and would like to see Alaska in a few years.  We also want to hit our two territories in the Carrabein , Porterico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as well.

States Covered to Date

The states covered to date are for my wife and I.  Our kids felt we should start over with each motorhome, I disagreed.  At the age of 61 I will count the trips we have made in our three Class C Motorhomes since the early 90's.  They are 28 and 30 they can start the count over when they sell their current rigs for newer models:)

We still need to cover the N/E and N/W plus Alaska and Hawaii to cover all fifty states.  We will be in Hawaii next year and would like to see Alaska in a few years.  We also want to hit our two territories in the Carrabein , Porterico and the U.S. Virgin Islands as well.

Under the Sea

We enjoyed having a fine dinner under the sea/bay by pier 39 on Forbes Island.  In this photo you can see some of the windows a foot or two under water and ones above as skylights.  The diner was very nice and the boat ride out and back was free and quick.