If I remember right I think Coffeeville has a nice city campground that is cheap.

 

silver dollar city has a great campground - just saying :-)

 

We're driving straight to Branson KOA and straight back, but we'll keep that in mind for other trips that head that way Del.

Was going to check out Silver Dollar City, but it looked like they were closed when we'll be there. Might be a little chilly in March anyways!

 

allot may be closed in Branson this time of year :-(

 

check out the butterfly things-- it sounds dumb butt is really fun-- the kids can even release new butterflies into the park. getting them to land on you is hard but fun.

 

looks i am going on a camping only trip to fall river in April-- Memorial weekend going to a wheeling trip at Broken arrow in NE--- might make another just camping trip to Broken arrow sometime-- Go tubing and what not down the river. .

 

We stopped in to check on the camper, to make certain we didn't have an abundance of uninvited guests, or pests. The camper was built in 1991, so it had never experienced the cold temps we had over this winter. Everything looked good "Guestwise" but I found that the linoleum in the kitchen and bathroom had shattered. My presumption is that it got so cold in the camper that the linoleum which is typically pliable became ice like and brittle and when the wind blew, the 30 foot camper may have flexed a little which caused the floor to crack and split. Since I wasn't there, I can only assume. I hope we don't have any cracked water lines, because I did run antifreeze through the lines, but there is a source line that I couldn't get antifreeze to. It's never been a problem before, but I have never had the camper get this cold before.

 

I was worried about ours too after the deep freeze, so we took a load of blankets and other supplies to it on Sunday. Checked it out and everything looked intact and ready to roll for our first camp in mid-April. Jamie made the comment that it still smells new inside, so we're pretty happy with the aging. Turns 5 this year so it's still looking in decent shape for its age, even though we really need to consider new trailer tires in the near future.

You going to re-tile your camper Curt? Luckily there are plenty of good stick-on options that are fairly pliable and wear-resistant.

Be careful, may turn into a new backsplash too for the kitchen! Upgrades tend to start rolling forward like that when you update the design

 

We have been given a box of the square sticky back tiles to put in. The guy who gave them said they threw away a large number of them because they couldn't get the backing off of them, but they had three boxes left. If we have issues, I may just heat them up with my heat gun to see if that helps. Or... we might buy new ones.

Funny you mention backsplash. My wife put up wall paper in it a few years ago, but the heat and cold has not been kind to the paper. I wish she would have just left it be.

 

I’m glad AJ isn’t on here to see the update ideas. My life would be miserable when we get to Michgan if she did.

 

Well thinking of taking the cover off the camper today- and getting it ready to go next weekend.- first camping trip of the year at fall river Lake

 

We brought ours home this last week, Julie put down new flooring, I pulled all of the wheels off and installed hub covers to prevent them from throwing grease all over the wheel, I need to cut the end out of the covers to gain access to the grease zirks next. I camped in it the whole weekend, and did some more work on it, here and there. I had a list of things I wanted to get done. I got nearly all of them done, and it was a good shakedown run.

 

Our first outing is just a few days away, and then it will be our weekend "vacation" home until the fall. Can't wait!

 

That would be exciting! Creating memories in them boys for years to come.

Things on the list, of things to do still are, check tire pressure, cut holes in the caps of the hub covers to grease the hubs, wash the dirty pig on the outside, put a 9 volt battery in the smoke detector, and put new valve cores in the tires, as two are cracking pretty bad. (sooner rather than later)

 

Are your tires in decent shape and not too old Curtis. Not much fun if one blows. It happened to a friend of mine and tore the heck out of the camper.