Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Hanging in at 34. I think my rain gauge has drowned.

 

Evening Oregon, cooling off now, currently 16°f

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Heading out to the farm to see how mother is doing. I just love being a mushroom.

 

Good evening Oregon and Visiting Ford Fans.

 

Morning and Happy Hump Day! Down hill slide.

 

Good morning Oregon and everyone everywhere else. 35 and no rain at the moment.
Getting ready to take off for Portland VA in a bit. Time for the 6 month test and check up. Cabela's on the way home is always a nice a nice diversion for the trip home.

 

Jim, nice diversion but I always spend money when I go in.

 

Well....there is that. Believe it or not, and for as much grief that she always gives me, it is usually the Warden that ends up spending the money. I'm saving my penny's. Have a new camper on order to pay for and I've been saving my Cabela's club points for a Springfield M1A Loaded model. I'm really close to being there. One more month of using the club card for the power, electric and other monthly bills and I think I'll be there. If we buy something on it today at 5% points rewards today, that will not hurt!

 

 

Good morning Andy, Jim Evan and those to follow.
A little warmer here this morning 39° then the last few mornings.

 

Good morning everyone.

 

Morning all. Looks like I missed all of the fun!

Jim - congrats on the new RV. I think my "brother" has that same camper...maybe a little bigger since he hauls it on a 450. Those two slides are so nice. No way I can convince the wife to go that route since getting the trailer. She wants a 5'er but that's where I draw the line. I want the bed of the truck for other stuff!

We did survive the snow. We had a total of 10" or so at the peak. I missed all of it other than driving in it in the early morning and late at night. Nothing 4wd couldn't handle. Commute was easy once we got past Dayton since there was no snow or ice after that. The rain was crazy.... pretty much a river down the road that did a little erosion damage toward the lower end.

Monday and Tuesday I was commuting to Salem for an airport managers conference... Finally back to the office to a rather large load of poop on my "desk". The good news is I'm off Friday and Monday (holiday) for our first camping trip of the year at Ft. Stevens.

 

Good evening Oregon and everyone everywhere else. Survived the trip to Portland this morning. Wow for the traffic! Took us 3 hours to make the (usually) hour and a half to two hour trip. Some of them folks must have looked up, saw a cloud and went into another panic.

The good news is that I don't have to go back for 6 months. The one surgery hasn't completely healed yet. If it had, I might have gotten away with waiting a year.
Stopped at Cabela's on the way home. Bass Pro has really expanded the fishing section. I was a good boy and did not spend a dime. The Warden did, but I didn't.

Rich, if your brother has a Lance with port and starboard slides like the picture I posted it most likely is the 1062. I'm not sure exactly what year they changed the model # from 1050 to 1062. The 1172 is Lance's 'Monster". That one has two slides, but one is port and one is aft. The 1062 they had at the show wouldn't have worked on a dually as it did not have the swing out jacks on it. I would love to have an F350 (or 450) dually, but that isn't in the cards....especially now. I was kind of keeping my eye out for a used 350 and a used camper. Found a beautiful looking 98 F350 dually with the Monster Lance 1150 on it in K Falls, but it was gone before we could drive down and look at it. That whole set up was 1/2 the price of what we are paying for the New Camper.

We've had campers since 1980. That was the year the rug rats decided to make an otter slide in the mud on the side of the mountain we were tent camping on during an elk hunt up the Salmonberry. Had a huge storm blow in off of the Pacific and we had a heck of a time getting them cleaned up, dried out and warmed up. It was Lance loyalty and our experience that got us. Still not certain what would have happened had the Lance and the Artic Fox been sitting side by side for comparison. By all the 'on paper' figures I've seen and scaled weights I've seen or been told about, I believe the 1062 is about 300 to 400 lbs. lighter than Artic Foxes twin slide 992. That ultimately would be a deciding factor for me. Not so sure about the Warden though.

The show 1062 camper didn't have the swing outs for the dually. To save a few pounds and $261, we didn't order the swing out jacks on ours either. To save 170 +/- pounds and $2,704, we didn't order the big storage compartment loaded "Ultra Deck" rear bumper and just got the standard old sewer hose in the rear bumper, bumper with an old fashioned fold down step.

 

Is it Friday yet?
Good evening Oregon and Visiting Ford Fans.

 

Nope! It is Saturday #3.