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Your trailer looks great! Wishing you many happy adventures in your new Oliver. Sherry

@Raspy, John, is this the replacement window/shutter you mentioned in another thread? http://www.zarcor.com/rv_products/rv-door-window-kit/ It looks like a wonderful idea. We've used a shirt over the head bump cushion for a lot of years. This is much more... elegant! Sherry

Supersizelife, the camping world site indicates that the 20" vents can be trimmed to fit. I don't know whose vent Oliver uses. We've found the Camco products are really great. Their customer service is great, too. You might give them a call to verify. My sister had the Camco screens installed on her vents. (Not an Oliver). They look great. Sherry

Truth is, we always fill the tank, and work from the tank. We do the same on delivery RVs. We don’t trust incoming pressure. Easy enough to fill the tank, and work from what we know we have. Sherry

Nana, does the tailgate clear? Without the deployed step, curious Sherry

So, are both the items in the middle photo antennas? The mini dome, and the item forward? Sherry

Thanks for the info. Using an outside wifi is useless to us, most of the time. We almost never camp in places with wifi. We do take our phones to wifi at info centers, etc. Thanks for the photos and the additional information. I believe your system is more complicated, but more productive for boondocking. Just a small question, how tall is the antenna? The supplied antenna from bestbuy was maybe 3 or 3.5 inches, for the Wilson. Thanks. Sherry

If we do overnight at a commercial spot like Walmart, flying j, etc, we spend some money to earn our free spot that saved us a place in a commercial campground where we would have used none of their services. Average expense at Walmart is $20 to $30 in groceries or other supplies. Flying j...20 to 30 gallon of gas x going rate, plus morning coffee... Sherry

We never unhook if overnighting at a Walmart. Or cracker Barrell, rest stop, or flying j, etc. Nor do we put down jacks or put out chairs, etc. Spots are level enough to sleep, if you pick your spot...noise is another consideration, but, hey, just off the interstate, you're tired, and it's free... It's not camping nor boondocking. It's a place to sleep for awhile, and move on to your destination. Our typical arrival is late night, and departure early morning. BLM means Bureau of Land Management. Low price or free usually primitive camping, though some have a dump station and/ or water source. That's camping. And boondocking...imo Sherry

Overland , I'd love to hear a little more about your cradle point. And, which antenna you use? The Wilson booster product is very easy, out of the box. How technical is the cradlepoint? Which of the mobile products did you install? Sherry

We still use wifi calling in some places. My Verizon phone, for example, won't work in many places. But, if I wifi call from a restaurant or information center, anywhere in the world, I can use something like justalk app and not only talk to my daughter, but see her smiling face. For free. If I have enough wifi signal ... A caveat is, some phones, especially budget priced smart phones, don't accommodate wifi calling. I tried to set it up on a cousin's phone for her. Not possible. The phone and carrier have to support it. Sherry

Yes, for over ten years, we've hedged our bets by carrying cell phones from two carriers, Verizon and TMobile. ( One cdma, one gsm). This has worked pretty well for us, as usually, if there is a signal to be found, one of us has signal... No matter what country we are in. In Europe, Australia, and Canada, Paul's TMobile works better. In most of the us, I get better chance at signal on Verizon. We tested the same Wilson WeBoost that Oliver currently installs. It boosted my Verizon signal by a bar or two. Nada with TMobile at our mountain camping property, because there is nothing to boost. 0 x 20 is still zero... But, that bar or two with either service can be the difference in being able to make a call, or just receive a text... I found the Wilson booster to be easy to use. And Oliver's installed price is pretty reasonable, considering its shelf price, uninstalled. Sherry

Depending on your language skills, you may find it helpful to download French to offline translation on google translate app. We made do with a phrase book, dictionary, and a lot of good will. We had a flat tire on the truck in a French town on the Gaspe. A nice young man with limited english skills, (but better than my French skills,) directed us back 10 miles or so to a great tire shop in an "English" town. The further you get from Montreal and Quebec City, the less likely you will be to find bilingual capabilities , in the small French towns and villages. But, we felt very welcome everywhere, and we always managed to get what we needed/wanted. It's part of the adventure... Do stop at some of the local cheese shops and creameries. Yum. Sherry

Btw, shopping for groceries is way better at the Whitehorse Canadian Superstore, anyway...

Yes, the Washington casinos can be nice. We stayed at one a few years ago. We don't stay at RV parks, if we have the choice. Just an example, lake lebarge yukon territory campground outside Whitehorse by 15 miles or so, 20 or 30 minutes, is $12 cad, $10 us, decent sites, some lakefront, and free firewood.... Just saying. We also have enjoyed free Walmart overnight on travel from point a to b. Recently, outside Kansas City,ks. It really got out of hand at White horse. People don't move on, as they should.. Sherry

http://www.liveworkdream.com/2018/07/23/walmart-free-camping-spot/ Probably about time. The whole process was so abused. Far too many RVs vs shoppers. And why? At least three beautiful yt parks within fifty miles... Last few times, we were appalled at the number of RVs, obviously bmany staying far more than the one free night... Sherry

If you can make it, Drummondville has their version of the poutine festival August 23 through 25. You're too late for many of the local music and poutine fests. ... Including the Montreal fest in the old harbor next weekend. That one has free entry, for anyone nearby...go enjpy. Gotta love poutine... If you miss the festival, you'll see it on the menu about everywhere in Quebec, even the little roadside stands... Poutine fest drummondville 2018 Sherry

I didnt want to leave anyone with the impression that the weboost doesnt work. It does. It boosted my verizon signal by one to two bars. On our camping property in nc, i was looking for a boost to tmobile. Wilson/ weboost can't boost zero, which is what i have in tmobile signal there. Thats why i posted the above field test link. Wilson is highly respected. And very effective bidierectional booster. Just doesn't work for me in my back in the woods mountain space in nc. We drove the weboost around the acreage. Interestingly, i got the best signals in a hollow... One att tower showed up, which i didnt expect. But, couldnt connect to... I would have expected better signal high, but it was worse. All depends on available towers in line of sight, i guess. Sherry

Thanks, Overland. When tne installer did a preliminary study on our home, he laid out the panels for best sun, averaging season. We are still zero electric bill on the house, with surplus, four years later. We undersized the system, but apparently kept everything quite efficient in operations. But, our house doesnt move. We find travel camping, with reasonable sun, we are fully charged any day on the road. 200 watts of 10 year old panels, 210 amp hours of storage. We have our problems when we stay put. In the shade... Our recent addition of a portable 100 watt panel makes a huge difference.enjoy the cool shade in the trailer. Move the panel. Also easier to adjust the angle of the portable panels, than climbing up to adjust our trailer mounted panels. Btw, do you have 400 ah storage in your lithium batteries. Im jealous..... Sherry

Most camping world facilities are dometic service centers. Call the closest one and check. We had good experiences with camping world new port richey on our old dometic fridge. they handled everything under warranty, with no cost to us. A capacitor is easy and quick. Hope, for you, thats all it is. Sherry

Sometime in the last few months, we started receiving the new Chevy magazine, "New Roads." In issue 11, there is a great interview with a former head of truck engineering, now aged 101, entitled "Truck Tales." Mary Barra, the new ceo, phones in with a few questions. For those of us who drove Chevys in the sixties and seventies, its fun and nostalgic.... Interview with former truck engineer There's also a good basic article on towing, "Trailering 101." I see that Chevy now supports a rearview trailer camera on its own screen... Nice. Do other manufacturers offer that option? Haven't looked lately.... Sherry

Davids, You have a real knack for explaining technical procedures in layman's terms. Thanks, once again. Sherry

Mingy, I don't have the answer to your question, as our trailer is ten years old, and many things have upgraded and changed. You might want to direct that question to your sales rep. But, I'd like to give you a warm welcome to the forum! Sherry

I know you've already completed your spring trip, but this came up in my feed this morning. I thought I would add it to the thread for future reference for all. We haven't camped in any of these spots, but they're all free. 5 free camping spots in South Dakota

Last month, we had four people camping with us on our mountain property. I was the only one with a working Verizon phone. Att and tmobile got consistent "no Signal" messages, unless we drove a mile and a half down the road.. As an experiment, we picked up a wilson weboost. The guy at bestbuy told me it would only work if there was at least a small signal, but we could return it in 15 days if it didnt work. Well, long story short, with the booster, i showed 4 bars on the tmobile phone and tablet, but got an error signal of no network. The booster picked up a tower, but not one that my tmobile devices could share, apparently. (Because we experience this issue a lot as we travel, paul and I have one each tmobile and verizon phones and tablets... ) I found this field test info on the wilson site. It explains how to check for towers and strength. What i discovered was what I've known for ten years, at our mountain proprrty. The verizon tower near us has great signal. US Cellular comes in also. Tmobile and att cant sign onto these towers. Back to square one, and the booster goes back... My tmobile devices listed all towers and strength. My verizon devices greyed out the capability to see other towers than verizon, interestingly. All devices were recent android. Heres the link to the field test. Maybe it will help you. Its very easy with android. A little typing with apple... Field test Sherry