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And, many pages of reviews from a truck camper forum. A couple of the forum members ordered the less expensive Chinese made version. One wasn't very happy with the "clone.' Here you go, Larry. http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/topic/4643-lagun-cockpit-table/page-5

Here are a few, Larry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GriVnVrjLYw Demo of two sizes of table Installation and review by a liveaboard sailor. Spoiler alert: very long! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndgkur197js https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOZsFMOU8Pg Used as a drop down table with a u shaped dinette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa_vdIcl9t0 Sherry

Larry, we went to the boat show in St. Pete yesterday. While Paul was studying marine hardware in an adjacent booth, I spent some time in the SVHotwire booth. They market a Swedish made table for boats and RVs that is fascinating, and really well made. It's not quite like the one you posted, but it's quite a versatile little table bracket. It is, however, wall or bulkhead mounted, not floor mounted like ours. Sure would be nice to be able to lift up the small dinette table at a flip of a lever to make it more practical to use as a prep table in the kitchen. http://svhotwire.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=97&product_id=13 The people who market this product, among many others, are serious renewable energy innovators. They manufacture a wind generator, at a fairly reasonable price, for boats, rvs, homes. They lived on a boat powered by renewable energy for years, now live in a renewable energy powered home. They also sell pv panels and systems.Their shop is in Tarpon Springs, near the sponge docks. Sherry

Love the ocean colors... sea blue and grey graphics. Hope you have a safe and happy trip home. Let us know if you wander over our way to the Tampa Bay area in your travels. Sherry

Cool table. This poster says it's made inhouse at Leisure: http://www.thefitrv.com/rv-tips/in-depth-review-of-leisure-travel-vans-unity-24ib/ Scroll down to comment 1 on post 13. I see this coach starts around $140k. Wow. Nice, but, wow. Sherry

Great looking truck. I see you have the ground effects cover. That's supposed to reduce drag, as well. Don't you love the fog lamps? We love ours. Really helps with visibility. Was the bed cover on the truck on the lot, or did you add it? We love our UnderCover. Lockable (not that it's that secure...), keeps everything out of sight, and also helps with drag. Really light... the two of us can take it off the truck bed in a few minutes. Another one of those things that might even be faster to accomplish if Paul does it alone.... Sherry

Welcome to the Forum, Jeff!

Canadian government website link: A guide to transportation within US. Follow the links for New York, which is a typical gateway to Canada, and not firearm transportation friendly:

The awning, deployed or retracted does direct roof runoff away from the curbside window, and the door. We added the gutter to the curbside window just because we thought it would look better if all the windows had the same "trim." Our biggest problems with weepholes being overcome are often of our own making: 1. dirty weepholes 2. our sidemount solar panels, left adjusted at a certain angle, can send rainwater down in a sheet onto the port side windows. This we discovered, unfortunately, in the middle of a hard, cold rainstorm that swept through our side of the mountain on a cool summer night. Unable to adjust the panels in the rain, Paul jacked up the port side with the electric jack. Since then, if heavy rain is in the forecast, we try to remember to check the adjustment on the panels before we retire. Often, we do set up our trailer with the port side a little higher anyway. That's the head of the bed side for us, and if our site needs to be a smidge out of level, it's more comfortable sleeping that way. By the way CpaHarley2008, welcome to the forum. You've asked a lot of good questions on your first visit here, and offered some great comments and info as well. Sherry

CPAHarley2008, as to the length, besides the bumper and the tongue, I guess you also have to add in the depth of the propane cover. I'd ask Steve to get out his tape measure again, but I think he requested an even longer stinger than the usual extendable tongue. Our propane cover is well over a foot in depth. The new model cover looks larger to me. Sherry

cpaharley, Does your 2014 have the air suspension and tubular foot steps, as well? Glad they were able to improve the mileage so much with the shutters and other improvements. The Ram is a great truck. Sherry

Awesome. Thanks, Matt. I can now see what I'm typing.

Towing with the Ram 1500 5.7 hemi, mileage is definitely a function of speed. If we meander around the back roads, we lose little mileage. Not towing, we're around 15 to 16. Towing, we'll lose 10 to 25 per cent, depending on speed and terrain. Maybe a bit more, if we're in a hurry to get home. On the interstate, we go with the traffic. Point a to b, (like our frequent trips to North Carolina) we take the interstate. Exploring, we love the back roads. We're looking forward to the new smaller diesel pickups. They've been around in Europe, Australia... everywhere but North America. We loved the mileage we got with diesels when we rented in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Sherry

Stan, We'd love to see your photos! The easiest way to load photos here is to open a free account at photobucket, and use the img button above the posting block to load a link to phtobucket photos. I understand with our new software it's possible to directly load resized (smaller) photos, but I've never done it. If you have trouble, pm me, or mountainborn. Sherry

Larry, Paul and I have taken two Canadian tours in our Oliver. Our friend lois joined us, towing her Casita, on both trips. The first was primarily in Ontario, across the top of the Great Lakes, coming back into the US in Minnesota, entering Canada in New York above the Thousand Isles. That was about a month's trip, primarily camping in Provincial and National Parks. The second trip, we went into Canada again from New York, just south of Montreal, and visited Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, returning through the corner of New Brunswick/Maine, from Campobello into Lubec, Maine. That was another four or five week trip, at least the Canadaian part. And, we treasured every day. The second trip, we found fewer Provincial parks open, and camped primarily in private parks, which were all very nice. Both trips were beautiful (and chilly). We didn't even try to take handguns, shotguns or anything else into the country. The list at customs of forbidden items was lengthy...bear spray, pepper spray, brass knuckles, knives with blades over so many inches, etc., etc., etc.and more etc. My niece's husband has Canadian family, and does go up once a year or so on a hunting trip, but he has to take documentation of his hunting trip, and some other papers, to bring in his long guns. I can ask him if you plan to go hunting. We didn't even take our dog, though that is ok with proper papers. Cleaned out vegetables and meat, as well, from the refrigerator. The US side was stickier on produce than the Canadian, but it wasn't worth the hassle to bring anything either way, except the awesome Bay of Fundy scallops. I'll look up the current regulations, which change all the time. and see if I can send you a link. By the way, New York state is very sticky also on gun regs, no reciprocity with most other states, so leave any weapons with someone elsewhere if NY is your gateway. Passing through is ok, but not overnighting with a weapon permitted in another state. That said, camping in Canada is a beautiful experience. We were welcomed wherever we went, even in the rural, and very French speaking areas. Everybody worked to figure out the few language barriers we encountered (my one semester of high school French is very, very bad, and long forgotten.) We carried a small French / English dictionary, and we were fine. We had a wonderful time, both trips. Take extra clothes. Our first trip in July, we had to stop at a Walmart (yup, you'll find them there, too) for sweat pants and jackets. Though it was July, we were really cold at night. but it was one of those summers... Second trip was in the shoulder season (September), and many campgrounds were closed, or accepted cash only, as season was about over. The scenery was breathtaking on both trips, and the people we met were warm, friendly, and helpful==as fellow campers usually are. In Quebec, we watched late season whales sounding in the bay behind our campsite. in NB, we had the finest scallops of my life at a restaurant high above the Bay of Fundy. I bought some frozen to take home, and they made it through customs. We prepared them a few months later, and they brought tears to my eyes, remembering the great times and great people we met in Canada on that trip. We extended our Verizon voice coverage to include Canada for a few bucks a month. Data was another story,and an expensive one, those trips. We limited our data to campsites and cafes with wifi, primarily. Maybe better now. Last trip was four years ago. I checked recently,for a friend who traveled to Toronto and borrowed one of my phones, and data and texting were free on my tmobile phone, but I doubt tmobile has much coverage outside metro areas. Best to check with your cell provider, and data provider. Honestly, we were searched at every entry point, US and Canada, and it's not worth second guessing the regs. Besides that, when it comes to food and beverage, we believe in spending our money where we camp. The fish was awesome everywhere in Ontario, Quebec, and NB and NS. People were absolutely great. Quebec City is like a trip to Europe, without the airfare. Don't worry about the language barrier in rural Quebec. Somebody will find someone who can help, or you'll manage. Sherry

Hear, hear, Larry! Thanks to the IT dept., and many thanks to you for all your help. Sherry

Steve, that's a lot of research. Thanks for the detailed measurements and posts. Did you open up the access to the basement while running the cube heater? Just curious. When we're camped in temps falling to twenties or teens, I usually open a drawer or two to send some warm air into the spaces between the hulls, and prop the bathroom door open in our 17. (The older 17s don't have the basement furnace) I only do this in really cold weather, as the furnace runs more often, and the surface mounted furnace fan wakes me up when it kicks in. Since we don't usually camp with electricity, we've only used our cube heater a few times. I'm not sure we have it anymore. However, even the little wall mount furnace keeps the older 17s pretty cozy in weather in the twenties and teens, but we don't have the benefit of the heat in the "basement" area between the hulls. For those who boondock, it would be interesting to know how the furnace deals with heating the interstitial spaces in the new olivers. We don't have the luxury of cube heaters when we have no electricity. Stan, in the old days in Minnesota, all we did was blow out the water in the lines in my parents 70s class c, and the later travel trailer. We never used rv antifreeze, don't even know if it existed then. Probably did, but we had an air compressor, so that's what we did. Don't remember ever having a problem with frozen lines, etc., but maybe Dad just never mentioned it. Since i used the camper as much as anyone in the family, I think he probably would have mentioned it to me. What a lot of people did was add a half cup or so of mineral oil (very cheap, and no staining) to the toilet bowl to keep the seals lubricated. It doesn't spoil, and doesn't apparently freeze very easily. With the price of rv anitifreeze being so inexpensive, that's what we use now.We winterize our trailer if we're leaving it in Nc in the mountains in the late fall, just in case we don't get back before the first hard freeze. The rv "pink stuff" works great, Once we're home in Florida, it's not really necessary. Sherry

Congrats on the new grandchild, Steve! Sherry

For our 17, we bought a simple van cover from empirecovers. They make travel trailer covers as well. Pretty reasonable prices. http://www.empirecovers.com/rvcovers.aspx They have a fall sale going on right now, and free shipping. Ours is just a tyvek type material with a lining, and was really inexpensive. We don't use it, though, since we bought the solar just after we got the cover, so I can't comment on its longevity. I can understand wanting to keep the oak leaves and the tannin stains off your shiny new oliver! Sherry

Thanks for all your help, Mountainborn. Probably some software glitch, as well, that affects certain browsers. This will probably clear itself up when a routine update of the board software is done. (I hope) For whoever asked, To clear cache in google chrome, go to history, (control h at the main google screen) and select the grey box "clear browsing data" and follow instructions. I'd recommend that you only use the four top boxes checked. Don't clear out your licenses, etc., in the bottom four. Sherry

I'm sure it was a little sad to see the Casita roll away, but the Oliver will sure look good in its spot! Sherry

Hello, all, If you've recently had trouble logging in (and staying logged in), as i did, here's something you might try. Clear your browser cache, and try again. Or try logging in from a different web browser. We've seen problems this week with Mozilla Firefox, and google chrome. Sorry for any incomvenience. Sherryt

That's a great mod, Aubrey. So, with the addition of the relay, the water pump is still activated from both swtches--the outsid shower switch and the indoor switch by the sink? I got the same message when trying to upload photos directly. I went back to using my photobucket account, making photos a two step process. I think small photos may still be able to upload directly. Not sure. Sherry

The king-dome is the highest point on ours. It's at least a foot in height, maybe a few inches taller. I don't know which model Oliver is using now, but the low profile new model is still about a foot in height. We don't use ours anymore, as we cancelled the dish contract after the first year, finding we didn't really care about watching tv while traveling. Removing it, however, would leave a big old hole to be refinished in the trailer roof, so it stays, and the ac unit is at least 10 inches tall, so it doesn't make that big a difference in total height of our 17. Sherry

Steve, do you know which furnace the new 22 uses? Is it the same furnace as in our 17, or a bigger, higher btu model? The new heating system is all ducted thru the storage areas? Sherry