Mike and Carol

The red one is owned by a couple in San Antonio. They are forum members @jellybean.

We have an appointment on Sept 19 at ALCAN for new axles. Looking forward to the upgrade.

We really enjoyed Two Medicine campground!

We’ve also had the wires come off of the water pump itself. There are two red wires, I don’t think it matters which spade they’re attached to, it just took me a few minutes to find them! Mike

I believe they started production of the LE2 before the shutdown in 2008. @ScubaRx or @bugeyedriver will know for sure. Mike

Bill, I hope you have lots of fish in your cooler. We’re on the Washington coast and we haven’t seen a single Oliver all month! Mike

When we were at TRNP a “herd” of Bison (15 or 20) walked through our site, a couple brushed up against the trailer. We were peering out the windows!

Looks like you may have run over something. The dent on the bearing cap and the wheel chip align.

I’ve been plugging the power cord into the outside trailer outlet when on shore power and into a Jackery when not. I just coil the power cable so that it fits in the cut out in my case. The Ethernet cable for the mini router sits in there, too. The dish sits on top. The case was from Amazon, not expensive but got great reviews and has worked well. Cut outs for the mini, mount, power plug, mini router and cables.

Ray, I’ve been reading posts over on the Airforums for many years, always entertaining and informative. I hope you keep your Oliver and tell us about your boondocking experiences! Mike

We have great memories of Joshua Tree NP. It’s a special place.

What a great trip! We were just at Crater Lake, amazing. We’re currently visiting some of the few parks we haven’t seen yet, Great Basin, Lassen Volcanic, Redwood, Crater Lake, Olympic, Mount Ranier and North Cascades.

The TAB 400 is a nice trailer. The Oliver will be a different experience! Enjoy Wyoming, Grand Teton NP is one we plan on returning to since we enjoyed it so much the first time! Mike

We had a great visit to Crater Lake National Park in Oregon. We stayed at Mazama campground, which is pretty large (6 loops), mostly no hook ups except for a dozen or so electric sites in loop F. It’s about 6,000 feet elevation, temps this week were low 40s at night and mid 70s during the day. Not bad for August. It’s been 100 degrees back home in Texas this week! There’s a nice camp store and lodge close by with a nice gift shop and restaurant (we didn’t utilize). The lake itself is pretty awesome. It’s the deepest lake in the US, almost 2,000 feet. No inlet or outlet, fed only by rain and snow melt (44’/year). The movie at the visitor center was interesting and explained in detail how the crater was formed. We did a hike part way around the crater, which is at 7,000’. Our campsite is a short pull through on a one way road that put us on the wrong side for this type of site. Our door opens to the street and we have everything else on the other side. All of the pull throughs on this side of the street have the same issue. Not a big deal, just a bit tight maneuvering in to the site.

Good info, John. Thanks! Mike

Congratulations and welcome to the group. We’re here to help! Mike

We usually stay at Durango Ranch RV Resort, it’s on highway 550 just south of town. We’ll be there the end of September on our way back from the PNW. We had friends who stayed at Alpen Rose RV park in Durango and were happy. There’s also a nice RV Park in Bayfield, a little bit of a drive but a nice park. We’ve stayed there a couple of times. It used to be named Bayfield RV park now it’s Outdoorsy Bayfield.

Do you have a trailer store (horse, farm, H-haul, etc) nearby that could do some checking? In the end it will probably be something simple, something someone with some automotive or trailer electrical experience could run down.

We had that experience at home while testing in the driveway. Once I got into the house the signal dropped, still had a bar but it was noticeable. I deployed the mini router and the situation was fixed. I guess it depends on the number of walls the signal has to go through. We’re now at Lassen National Park, the tree coverage is more dense but I found a small opening and the Starlink is doing its thing. Mike

We haven’t needed our router yet. With the dish on the box on the tongue we get a strong signal. I’ve now got it on the truck tonneau cover, we’re under a lot of trees (Lake Tahoe, CA). Even with a narrow view of the sky it’s working well. My sophisticated mount. Sky view. There’s a bunch of satellites racing through that blue patch.

Lower Lehman is closed. Lots of work going on there. I think Wheeler Peak is also closed.

I plug the SL into the Jackery for 110 power. Here I have the dish sitting on aluminum box on the tongue and Wi-Fi is plenty strong both inside the trailer and behind the trailer where we’re sitting. I have the mini router but haven’t needed it yet. Heading to Lake Tahoe today.

We’ve been camping in Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada the last few days. Our campground (Upper Lehman) is at about 7,700 feet, small and no hookups. There are only a few sites large enough for our Oliver. We’re pretty happy with our site, #3. There are a few other campgrounds, also small. The Wheeler Peak campground is at 10,000 feet. We went up there and did a 3 mile hike to a couple of alpine lakes. The air can be a little thin up there when hiking uphill!

I’m okay with this change. It will be interesting to see how low “low-speed data” is. We’re currently camped at Great Basin National Park with very sketchy cell service and the Starlink mini is working great. No utilities here so I’m using a Jackery power supply that was 50% off on Amazon prime day. No complaints. Mike

We use the speakers quite a bit. I bought a small used SiriusXM receiver from Amazon 7 or 8 years ago. I wired it into the Furrion and we can listen to news, sports and any of the music stations wherever we are. Mike