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Here is a link to a Good Sam Club article about Geocaching: http://beta.goodsamclub.com/MemberContentDetails.aspx?article=Caching%20In&articleid=1335745 The article contains a good description of geocaching. Butcherknife and I have been geocaching for years, though a bit sporadicly, and find it quite enjoyable. We have hidden 42 geocaches and have found about 350. There are so many wild, remote and very cool places here in the Ouachita Mountains, that we have laid out a Geocache trail that loops through the Brushy Creek recreation area. Primitive campsites, clear streams, beautiful forest and miles and miles of uninhabited Arkansas Outback ! The GPS helps visitors to successfully navigate their way in and out by following the geocache trail. Complete information about GEOCACHING located at: http://www.geocaching.com One of our Geocaches may be viewed at: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=2628e2a2-ecf6-4b14-a274-20bb8c696716 Carved from a tree stump with a chainsaw, here is one of the blue eyed coyote brothers that the cache was named after: Note that the plucky coyote is sticking his tongue out at passers by ! The cache it's self is a steel ammo can hidden nearby that is full of "GEOSWAG" !

Ed & Bev, my short answer is yes. We tow with a Jeep Wrangler V6 having very similar statistics. The 4 door Jeep gives us room for everything from grand kids to grand dogs ! With a higher horse power and torque than our Jeep, I say that it will do a good job for you. > By the way that is a very pertinent and timely question !

Pete is this the one you are using ? Did a search and found this listing on the Cabela's web site, it comes in 4 cup and 12 cup sizes: This is what it looked like: > There were quite a few reviews available on the Cabela's web site about the coffee maker. Most were very favorable, and the negative ones seemed to be related to battery and voltage capacity issues. One guy tried to brew coffee using his small atv battery ! Butcheknife advises that the "stainless steele carafe is a good thing, the way some people drive !" , while giveing me a funny look. Surely she wasn't referring to my cushion flinging manouvers !

The tubeing that I had found on the work bench wasn't a metal that was compatable for welding to the exhaust tip. However the fabricator had just the right size and in a couple of minutes the curved attachment was made. The re assembly went well, everything fit and the test run was successful. No more splatter on the gel coat !

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It has been raining for days and days here in the Ouachita Mountains. We had a camping trip planned, but, instead we will try to catch up on stuff we got behind on. For example : > > Barely visible in this low light photo, is the exhaust splatter from a cold started engine, the 3000 watt Yamaha mounted on the Oliver's tongue. The splatter is not bad at this point, but as the hours pile up, will likely get worse. In the photo the exhaust tip is removed and a 45* tubeing of the same diameter is by it. We are looking at getting the 45* welded onto the tip to divert the splatter away from the coach body. When the generator project was planned we pointed the exhaust towards our direction on purpouse. Though the gen set is extremely quiet, we wanted the noisest spot around to be ours, so we would limit the use of it. Tomorrow, a trip to the wire welder's shop. Then reassembling of the gen set and testing.

Update: We eBayed MS Streets & Trips with the GPS module. Priced the software and module at WalMart for $100 plus. eBayed one for $62.98. I guess that the proof will be in the using. Then we will know if it's a bust or a bargain !

List of stuff in our laptop bag : > Microsoft laptop wireless mouse: The best thing since sliced bread, it takes the "mind of it's own", jumps and leaps out of a vista main operating system laptop. It is optical instead of ball, and operates on surfaces that a ball mouse won't. Jumpdrive or flash memory drive: Great for moving files quickly, from one machine to another, it is small and powerful. Micro SD card, 1 Gig with adapter sleve : It fits the cell phone and so many other devices, that it may be our most used device. Plugs into the laptop slot for photo transfer. Vector 100 watt inverter : Small and convenient, but has limited power available. For a complete charge while overnighting we use a 200 watt permanently installed under the dinette. Mouse pad : You just never know what type of surface you may be trying to operate on because of the laptop's portability. Additions planned : A USB Antenna for the Microsoft trips and streets GPS program. It should be here any day now, we eBayed one.

It started off with a simple neoprene sleve to protect the laptop. But there was no place to carry the power cord with it, occasionally it was misplaced, causing a camping trip time consuming, search. A bag to hold the laptop and stuff was in order. As time goes by, the bag seems to be getting heavier, with manuals, pens, pencils, cords, adapters, jump drive, memory card, mouse & pad, ect, ect.. So, here is some of the stuff we carry as the laptop becomes more and more of a traveling necessity: > > Tell us please about the stuff in your laptop kit and if it works well for you, or not. Your advice could save us from a time consuming mistake !

If one partner had a sheltered storage facility, like a u-lockit, wouldn't that work out quite handily ! Each partner could store their camping stuff in their own lock it, ready to load and go.

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Located near the power panel for ease of hooking up to a seperately fused circuit, it is mounted to the dinette bench seat with 3M two sided tape. The front of the inverter has a push button on/off switch, and three indicator lights to advise of it's operating status. The top has a plug in cover to keep those toast crumbs from breakfast out. The wires run under the gas detector located below the power panel, and through it's wire passage to the fuse panel. No drilling or cutting, quickly mounted with 3M tape, yep, a quick and dirty project that has performed well in it's initial testing phase.

Our small 100 watt cigarette lighter inverter just wasn't quite hacking it. The laptop draws 1.67 amps of current when charging. The plug in inverter is only capable of aproximately .8 amps output. It was working, but it just wasn't rated at enough to work well. Another inverter was in order so we went to eBay and Amazon looking for something small that we could mount under the dinette without taking up too much space. Then there was the problem of not wanting to drill a hole. Here is how we gotter' done:

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Clever, very clever, I just love it !

Yep, he, he, happened to us too. Shortly we bought one. We figure it will out last us. We just love it !

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Bugeyedriver said: Just be sure to wipe off the telltale suction ring from your windshield to keep frisky fingers outta yer TV. > Good advice, Pete !

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We have used GPS for some time now, but have never had a in the tow vehicle navagation system. We are thinking about getting MICROSOFT STREETS & TRIPS WITH GPS MODULE for the laptop. My question is, could that be more trouble than it is worth ? Out laptop has a 15.5 inch screen to help these feeble old eyes and might, I think be too large for comfortable handling in the confines of the tow vehicle while underway. Have you tried this ? Your experiences please !

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