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We did not intentionally remove the sidebar, however it is now back and working again! That was my fault. Sorry about the confusion for the last few days!

<p style="text-align: left;">Thanks for the heads up on the boondocks site. We are at Rawlins WY this evening after a fun day of sightseeing along I 80.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"></p> <p style="text-align: left;">I will ill keep an eye out for the road and let you know how it turned out.</p>

For sometime, my wife and I have been unhappy with sleeping on the cushions that come standard with Elite Travel Trailers, not to be confused with the larger Elite II, standard with mattresses. I purchased a single sized foam mattress but this too was unwieldy, not fitting either bed well. I had talked to other Oliver owners and was referred to Southern Mattress located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. I contacted them and they indeed confirmed they would custom make a mattress for my Oliver Elite. My conundrum was how I could configure the mattress to access the components and storage areas under the seats. A full sized mattress would be just too much to lift and hold in place as I pulled out storage items, much less to try to work on a component (electrical, hydraulics, water, etc.). As I explained this to my wife telling her I wanted to split the mattress in half, she pointed out it would be very uncomfortable, sliding down in the crack. She said " split it where the bench ends, 1/3 and 2/3s. The crack will be at your knees and you will not feel it". I contacted Southern Mattress and they agreed to cut it where ever I wanted it cut. I traveled to Rocky Mount, North Carolina and found this to be a family owned company. I arrived in late afternoon and the owner took me to his home. There, we hooked up my trailer with electrical and water on a pad next to his home. The next morning I pulled my trailer to the factory and they began to make my mattress. With each step, they asked me to approve the work, include changes I wanted made, etc. they measured the trailer, made the pattern and asked if I wanted extra room to be able to put bed linens on the mattress. The pattern was a good fit for the 2/3 - 1/3 combination. In short, I was very pleased with the mattress. I selected a 5" firm foam with another layer of soft memory foam. That night, I had the best sleep ever in my Oliver Elite. I also had a mattress made for the smaller dinette/bed. I used the single sized foam mattress that I had purchased earlier in the year. Southern Mattress did not object to this. Again, they cut the foam to the 1/3-2/3 combination. Each matress was covered in a premium quality quilted cover, fire retardant and straps sewn in to make moving easy. The mattress was double sewn all the way around to reinforce the straps. By noon, I was on the road, headed home. That night, I slept for the first time very comfortably on my new custom-made mattress. It now slides over easily and stores on top of the other matress while I access the storage and component areas. If you are interested in a quality mattress, custom made, they now have patterns for both the Elite and the Elite II. They can custom make you a mattress and ship to you. They do not press the mattress in a roll. Rather they box the mattress and ship it to you. Southern Matress Company 1812 Cokey Road Rocky Mount , North Carolina. 800-227-8701 Below are pictures of my mattresses in my Oliver Elite. Coy

dear oliver owners my name is dan...I live in Minnetonka mn...and plan on retiring in an oliver...in 5yrs. chasing the sun in my short pantz. I expect to "boondock" as much as possible... and give it a whirl for about 10yrs. have been "snooping" this site for a while now... just wanted to let you all know...I was here.! take care and do well. 10-q dan

Hello Roguebooks! Thank you for your interest in our Oliver trailers. I do apologize for the delayed response from the sales department as we have had some problems with our telephone system and the messaging going to other departments, but it's being fixed. That said, if you will please give me a call directly, my name is Kelly Robinson and I manage the sales department here. I can provide the information you will need in order to make a well informed decision. I'm quite familiar with the Escape and other fiberglass options on the market in the event you have questions regarding comparison. The most important thing I can tell you about investing in our Oliver is that you are doing exactly that, it's an investment that is built to last. We pride ourselves on providing excellent customer service and building a high quality trailer. Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you soon, Kelly 931-796-1178

roguebooks - Bring your checkbook! Two years ago I too took the Oliver factory tour. The very first station I saw in the plant was for frame welding. Those welds were beautiful! I figured that if they were paying that much attention to welds that most customers would never see, the rest of the camper just had to be great. They could have handed me a contract at that very moment and I would have signed it. Now after a year and a half living with my Oliver, there is nothing that has changed my mind. If any of us here can help you on this journey, please let us know. Bill

Welcome roguebooks! An Oliver factory tour would be very helpful for your decision making process. The first time we saw an Ollie during 2010 at a Blue Ridge Parkway campground helped make our minds up about the next camper we wanted. We enjoyed our last camping trip to Upper Peninsula, too. Beautiful area!

Hello Roughbooks I have the Oliver Elite built for me in 2015 with a few custom fetures. I now have a queen sized bed , custom matress as well as the ability to convert my side dinette to a single bed. Look under my posts in the forum and you can see my custom matress. I love my Oliver and find it fine for my wife and myself. If I can answer questions for you, PM me with your number and I will give you a call Hardrock

Ahhh..... Growing pains... The grass is always greener... I know let's try THIS... Maybe they have an early warning system and it went off that a "BUG" was trying to get into the system, so they made it more difficult..(so no one gets bitten)???? I do miss the side bar, other than that the rest looks the same. The login is still in the same place and brings you to the same area. My bookmark to get here goes straight to recent topics, which covers all areas, and I have the keep me logged in checked so I never have to redo it, unless I log out of clear cookies for some reason. I did notice that JWamsley was logged in a lot over the weekend, when I'd come in to read, maybe he recoded and didn't notice it wiped out the side bar and will be nice enough to put it back, don't really see a reason to have removed it purposefully, especially after they had recoded it to be smaller in actual threads. But I guess as long as Oliver controls their own forum, it's theirs to toy with. FiberglassRV is always an option, in that case.

I have this book marked and stacked on top in the Chrome Browser - http://olivertraveltrailers.com/forums/ . . . . . . . . . ______________________________________________________________________ Then I use it as the main and open new tabs for new topics or sections. Running an Android Verizon Tablet, nothing changed here except the right menu is gone that I never used anyway. I hope this helps :)

I'm on my iPad - hotspotting off iphone. Site is pretty much the same for me but the side menu is gone & I liked that. I get irritated that I can't hit 'Home' and go back to the forum home page - Instead It takes me to the Oliver homepage. I generally do fairly good navigating forums & such but this doesn't make sense to me. So...now that the side menu is gone I will have to figure out how to get to all of the places it helped me get to.....why can't it be simple anymore? I know I'm getting old but if something is working, why change it? Kathy

It is not good. 2x to figure out how to log on! Bad interface for droid users. Have not checked iPad or pc yet.

Just slide them extreme right and left so the grommets meet. Has worked for us for almost 100000 miles. The rubber fingerhold grommets create a friction area. You will have an inch or so of cabinetry on the outside edges. Never an issue for us. Sherry I mean, slide the doors till the grommets overlap..

Gooood morning WORLD! From our campsite at Coles Creek State Park, NY, to you. "Sunrise over the St Lawrence"

After a few days of visiting family in beautiful Denver, we are hooked up again leaving for Wyoming in the early morning hours. Tetons, Jackson, a splurge into Idaho, and Yellowstone all on the coming week or so agenda. Though not camping, Denver has been good.

Hi John, we picked the hammer up over on the coast at a little gift shop for $20. It's built really well for the price and I didn't want to carry a tack hammer just for putting the plates on our walking sticks, so this filled the gap. I found them on Amazon but I would contact the seller or the gift shop where hwy 1 was closed on the south end and buy it from them, http://www.raggedpoint.us/ragged-point-inn-San-Simeon-CA/ImagesSlideShow/pages/dd-Giftshop1_jpg.htm https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016Y2AXAE/ref=twister_B06XXS5J8T?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

If I had known, we would have stopped by, Comanche. If no other reason than to see how such an ancient hull is holding up. We are at the CO/KS border tonight. We got caught in a KS hail, rain, and wind storm. 64 is stabilized and remains attached to the tv, but we are rocking like a 20' sail boat in a gale. Hoping the hail did no damage up on the roof. I think this is Dorothy's old house next to my camp.

This is at Table Rock Lake State Park just outside of Branson, MO. This is a great campground and just minutes from Branson and all the shows and activities. We had a good visit to Silver Dollar City during their BBQ and Bluegrass week. The park is right on Table Rock Lake for those who like water activities.