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Thought this might be a good place to collect mentions, made outside of our circle, to see what others think of our purchase decisions. http://www.fiberglassrv.com/forums/f51/toured-the-oliver-travel-trailer-factory-in-tn-wow-79932.html Direct blog link http://www.twopluslu.com/oliver-travel-trailers-review/

http://olivertraveltrailers.com/milestone-larry-mountainborn-harmon/

Yesterday I installed the micro air "easy start", when I finished and plugged in my power cord, the air conditioner would run for about 5 minutes and shut down, I have the built in surge protector and I checked the voltage on it while it was running. It had 120 volts on startup and when the ac compressor would kick in it dropped to 102 and the surge protector would trip just like it should, turns out I had a bad outlet on the exterior of my 8year old home. Moral of the story is, the progressive dynamics surge protector save me from potentially burning up my ac compressor!!!

When I had my Ollie built, I think (according to Oliver) my Ollie was the first Ollie they built and installed the built - in Progressive Industries unit. Soon after I picked up my unit I drove Route 66 as a retirement celebration. I stayed at a state park in OKlahoma halfway through the trip. When I plugged into the 30 amp power outlet, my unit immediately issued a loud click. I could tell this was not business as usual so I looked at the monitor attached to the Progressive Industries unit. I then called Peogressive Industries and the electrical engineer told me the code I gave him indicated the polarity was crossed, posited to negative / negative to positive. I looked at the box and could tell someone had recently tampered with the unit. I opened the box and indeed I could tell from the wiring colors that the wires were crossed. I did not have access to turn off the main, so I reported this to the ranger station. They sent a repairman and he corrected the wiring. The cost of the surge protector was certainly worth the preventative cost of a Oliver camper catching on fire ! I will never have a camper without the Progressive Industries unit.

I have the Weber Q1000 too, modified to run off the propane quick connect. I also carry the small, rectangular Weber charcoal grill. Even though the Q1000 works great, I use the charcoal grill 90% of the time. In fact, this last 5 week trip I didn't use the Q once. There's something about the ritual of firing up the charcoal grill! Mike

Randy - I just read that article and it made me proud that I made the decision to purchase an Oliver. Bill

No problem with washout, we're actually parked on an old dirt road that isn't used anymore. We will be taking it down to the house eventually but not right away. We have hook ups at the house, but we really don't need them. I will use a tote for now for the black. I need to rent a tractor for a couple days to fill the road to the house up with some new gravel and to make a turn around up here so that we can get a few trailers in here into a circle like in the old Western movies. This is the woods and we do have lots of bears, mountain lions, bobcats, Bigfoots, etc :) Well, our friend Mark and his 27' Bigfoot anyway :) The Creek is just a short distance away also, so we have fishing and gold panning until we get the swimming hole rebuilt. The floods took all of the top soil off of my driveway to the house and it filled in the swimming hole in the creek, so we have some work to do here and only 5 weeks before we leave for the Bandon, Oregon Rally. So... we may have to pass on the swimming hole repair this year because we will be gone for another couple months or so after Bandon. We really like the Rally circuit, so we've got a couple more booked starting at the end of September. Karen is famous with the Casita owners, because she is the artist that draws all of the Casita Coloring Book pages for the art classes that everyone takes at the Rally's. She will be drawing Ollie's soon I hope :) it's not like I've said anything though ;) hehe This one is from the Bluebonnet Rally

Goldilocks looks right at home.

Congrats, that was a long shakeout trip. That's quite the hillside, hopefully washout isn't too much of a concern. Will you leave it there, as your spot in the woods or take it to the house afterwards?

16 weeks and 4 days after leaving home to pick up Goldilocks from Hohenwald, TN, we are officially home :) We arrived this afternoon and are Boondocking in our woods, on our property. We haven't been to the house yet and that will come soon enough. Being a holiday weekend, and because the house is still winterized, we are going to continue living here in our trailer until we get the work done and have the house opened up again. We left early in the morning on February 6th and arrived to stay, today, May 26th. Our longest trip to date :) So we went thru our gate and picked a nice spot up on the hill. We have a spring about 50' away and up hill for water, and for the first time, it took a 7 block high set up to level out Goldilocks. I used up all 3 sets and had to do a double set to get high enough. Set once, roll up, pull the blocks from behind, set them up to 7 high and then roll on up to the top. I guess we will be buying one more set of the blocks ;) We are officially at home, boondocking in the 100 acre wood, with Goldilocks for the first time. Tomorrow we will start trimming branches and setting up the outside.

You have latches that are a later design than mine. I have the rubber straps which are very hard to use.