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in less than a month we are scheduled to leave home and head west in our camper to spend the summer in South Dakota ... our camper is not 12 years old and has been towed from ocean to ocean and border to border .... during our time since returning from spending the winter in Texas, we have undertaken some major maintenance and upgrades .... right now we are half way through replacing the camper's leaf springs, installing Dexter's Nev-R-Adjust brakes, and new brake drums equipped with Dexter's Nev-R-Lube bearings .... in addition we have to replace an aftermarket protective fender that would help reduce damage from a tire explosion .... that install is expected to be the most difficult item on our upgrade list ....

Trip Itinerary

June 5 .... Home to Asheville East KOA in Swannanoa, NC ---- https://koa.com/campgrounds/asheville-east/

June 7 .... to Clarksville RV Park in Clarksville, TN ---- https://clarksvillervpark.com/

June 8 .... to St Louis West KOA in Eureka, MO ---- http://koa.com/campgrounds/st-louis-west/

June 9 & 10 @ Jay Henges Shooting Park ---- https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-natu ... ion-center ---- right now their rifle/pistol range is down for maintenance, sure hope its up and running by the time we get there .... if not, the friends we shoot with out there are going to try and come up with a Plan B

June 11 ... to Victorian Acres in Nebraska City, NE ---- https://koa.com/campgrounds/st-louis-west/

June 12 ... to Estelline, SD

August 2 .... to Victorian Acres in Nebraska City, NE

August 3 .... to St Louis West KOA in Eureka, MO ----

August 4 & 5 .... @ Jay Henges

August 6 .... to Clarksville RV Park in Clarksville, TN

August 7 .... to Asheville East KOA in Swannanoa, NC

August 8 or 9 .... back home


we are happy to be able to schedule 4 days Jay Henges .... if the weather and everything else breaks in our favor, we plan to thoroughly exercise our Henry 44 Mag .... we also hope to spend some time shooting while in South Dakota .... toward that end, we plan to have 1,000 rounds loaded and ready to go by the time we pull out ....

When I was a kid we would drive to North Dakota most summers to visit my Mom's relatives. I mostly remember how flat and hot it was, no AC in our cars back then. On the drive there the best part of the day was getting to a motel that had a pool.

we visit my wife's home area which is mid way up the eastern state border above Sioux Falls .... the land around there was sculptured by glaciers back in the ice ages .... I think the term for it is rolling .... the further west one drives, the land does flatten out .... I really enjoy the mild summer temps and low humidity

all 4 of our camper's brake drums, Nev-R-Lube bearings, Nev-R-Adjust brakes and leaf springs have been replaced .... our plan to give them a test run this weekend have been scraped due to tropical rains moving through .... I'm rather uneasy about not testing them before heading west and do hope something can be worked out .... shown below 1,274 freshly loaded 44 Mag rounds that we hope to fire at various stops on our trip out west

Looks like a well armed excursion....

we really enjoy shooting trap so its pretty much standard for us to leave home with 500 to 700 low brass 12 ga shells .... this will be the highest number of center fire bullets we have ever packed .... weather will play a large part in just how many we use .... we have 4 range days scheduled in Missouri and hope to work out some more in South Dakota on each of those 4 days we fully anticipate using 100 to 200 12 ga shells and 200 or hopefully more 44's

yet another Good News -- Bad News day .... the good news is, the the last of our planned replacements has been completed .... shown below in the first two pictures is a new protective fender installed over our camper's tires .... earlier this year while in Texas during our winter trip, a broken spring allowed a camper tire to come into contact with the protective fender ... that pretty well took it apart so we had to remove it .... its purpose is to help contain blown tire fragments so as to minimize damage to the camper and to reduce water thrown by the tires onto the camper's rear auto leveling jacks .... our oldest son took care of it for us and he did a really good job .... prior to pulling out of South Dakota I hope to be able to touch up the paint .... the bad news is the living area slide stopped working at the position shown in the third picture .... no sound of a gear or other such failure .... it's apparently an electrical issue .... the first thing checked was the fuse which was fine .... the next was to check switch ..... as can be seen in the last 4 pictures, a burned black wire ..... knowing that there is a possibility the problem could be with the slide motor/gearbox, and realizing we don't have much time left prior to our scheduled departure date, we have one on order .... the best tech at the dealership where I used to work is on tap to come over and repair/replace if needed .... unfortunately he can't get here until the Sunday before we are due to pull out on Tuesday .... that's cutting it awfully close, sure hope repairing the wiring and/or replacing the switch takes care of the problem .... I guess the good news in the failure is it happened while we are still at home and not somewhere on the road ....

Good luck Jim, and for sure it's better to find problems at home instead of on the road.

good wishes appreciated .... if all goes well, by mid afternoon on Saturday we should have a reliable diagnosis as to the cause of the slide problem .... sure hope its minor (wiring plug and/or switch) so that it can be quickly taken care of and we can move on to other pre-trip preparations

Do you think you'll have time to do any fishing?