Time to catchup

It's been a long time since my last meaningful post so lets see if I can bring this up to date since May.

As last noted we were at the Holiday Rambler Maintenance Session, MS, in Goshen IN. We volunteered as "guides" for two of the First Timers attending the MS and I presented a session about the eGroup, and assisted monitoring the Round Table that covered the HR/Monaco coaches that were built by Navistar.

Following the MS we spent a day at Selking International to have service done and have the fault indicators evaluated and repaired. Then off to Duncan RV take care of a few items.

From there we were on out way to Vermont to meet out first Granddaughter. Our route took us to the State GS rally in Cotocton. Next we went to Green, near Akron, and visited with friends. We took in Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, and many other sites in the area. After our stay there we headed to the PA Good Sam rally in State College. Next was an overnight at Ives Run, a Corp park, next we moved on to Oneonta NY and stayed at Susquehanna Trails. At last we reached Verrmont where we stayed ..... in Georgia VT for 2 weeks. That gave us time to visit many of our friends and see our Grand daughter. We then went to St. Johnsbury staying at Moose River and met with our FT friends Herb and Ginger.

When we left there we went to Boothbay ME where we attended the state Holiday Rambler rally. This was also the time for Windjammer Days. We also met up with good friends from Vermont and have a great time. Lobster every day.. Back to Vermont were we stayed at Maplewoods  for the month. Yes more baby time. We took a day to take the coach to Clark's Truck Center to have them take a look at our low turbo boost. We went to Syracuse NY for a FMCA rally. Our path took us to the Eisenhower  Lock. At the rally we met with friends from Buffalo and Quebec City.

Photos

Sarasota Ringling Bridge

Coshcoton OH

Between Skaway and Whitehourse

Canal Fulton OH

Lock 4 Canal Fulton

Krohn Conservatory 

Brandywine Falls Ohio

On the road

We left Sarasota heading to Goshen IN. Along the way we visited Rockys CG, Live Oak CG in the FL panhandle, visiting lighthouse, AF Munitions Meseum, friends, Barber Motorsports Museum, friends in Kentucky, and on to Goshen. We will be here at a Holiday Rambler event and getting some work done on the coach.

Currently in FL

Please note that Google has dropped support for picasaweb so any links in previous links to pictures will not work. I will see if I can correct post new pictures here.

Greeley, Loveland and Hudson CO

We attended a Good Sam Rally in Greeley CO where, by chance, Suzette met up with one of her high school classmates that she hasn't seem in 53 years. So that was a unique adventure. We had a good time at the rally and made new friends. We were on the winning team for Bean Bag Baseball also.

After the rally we were off to Loveland and Riverview CG which was our base for seeing the Rocky Mountain NP and the sculpture garden in Loveland.  I did not take my camera to the sculpture garden so I don't have pictures here. Maybe I will those that Suzette took later. Following are a few pictures of RMNP.

During our excursion in the park we were having some problem with the Jeep. I was able to make an appointment with NAPA Car Care and with a tuneup, new battery, oil change, brake fluid change we were on our way.

Oh perhaps you are wondering about our windshield?  It was replaced today while we are in Hudson CO at Pepper Pod CG. A real laid back CG but it worked. The windshield 3 to 5 day shipping took more like 8 days and was just installed today. That will make us late to the rally we signed up in Hutchinson Kansas. But we will move in that direction tomorrow noon.

Scotts Bluff

Next was Scotts Bluff NB for more history. We stayed at Rodidoux CG. Once checked in we decided to ride to the NP for an sunset drive. Bummer the park closed at 1700. The following day we did go to the park and used their shuttle to go to the summit.

We also drove on to Chimney Rock NHS.

Fort Laramie NHS which was cold and windy so I didn't take any pictures. After touring the fort we stopped for F.L.A.G. for lunch. We were told about this lunch stop when we were stopped for watercraft check when we entered WY, if you are in the area stop in it's worth it.

We were told about Oregon Trail wagon ruts and "news paper" rock near Guernsey WYso of course we had to see that also.

Blog Slacking II

Stupid program seemed to get hung up so I posted and am continueing.

We did make a trip into Glacier NP and went on the East side roads for a ways.

I was not satisfied the way the coach was running so I took the closet apart again and dove into the turbo piping. I moved some of the hoses, moved and tightened some clamps and said a prayer.

Next stop was Cottonwood CG in Glasgow MT. Visited Ft Peck and toured the visitor center. Very interesting display and movies about the creation of the dam.

Then off to Theodore Roosevelt NP in Medora ND. If you haven't been then go.

Then off to Rapid City SD. Some where along the road, a thump road, Suzette noticed a crack in the windshield. Once we got parked at Three Flasgs RV Park we went of to pick up our mail at Americas Way. Then it was a call off to the insurance company to see about getting the windshield replaced. We are sure we had glass coverage insurance. That took a while to just make the necessary companies involved, Nationwide, Safelite Glass, who hands off to Duncan Glass. After a frustration a while we new there would be quite a delay where the figured out what glass we needed so after a visit to Mt Rushmore for the evening lighting ceremony and Crazy Horse we continued on to Hot Springs SD.
There we visited Wind Cave, which we toured a couple of years ago, natural area and Jewel Cave.

 The following were along the road traveling near Jewel Cove NM

Blog slacking again

Ok, I have been told that I am not keeping this up to date.
Since last we had spent a few nights in Prince George BC to have service done on the coach. In addition to the normal LUB stuff I had been had trouble with performance or rather than the lack of performance. In Whitehorse I had attempted to tighten up some clamps on the turbo piping. That helped but did not completely solved the issue. So to net it out the DPF, Diesel Particulate Filter, needed to be serviced. That is remove, bake out, reinstall road test. All in all $1400 cdn.. The coach ran well great for some time and then I had to do another parked regen. Don't ask.

Our next overnight adventure was at Quensel BC where we visited an reconstruction of a gold time at Bakerville BC.

The park, Airport CG, had very poor power so I just used my generator.  We saw a few deer in the CG.

Then a few nights in Golden BC at Whispering Spruce CG where we saw the sights.

Then off to Flathead Lake MT and Lakeside RV and Motel. We just got setup and were talking with folks we met last year when we heard the fire trucks. OH look forest fire just up the road. What to do? Of course, set up the lawn chairs and watch the water and retardant drops.