Mike and Carol

A good place to camp the night before you appointment is James M. Robb State Park in Fruita. It’s only about 10 miles from ALCAN making it easy to get to a 7:30 appointment. It’s also just a couple of miles from the entrance to the Colorado Monument, a must see and a great way to spend the day there.

We were at ALCAN this morning. They do good work!

@Colin are the shirts cotton or a blend?

Welcome! There’s plenty of suspension discussion on the forum and lots of Truma expertise, so if you have questions just ask away! Mike

We’ve already got the ALCAN springs, should have done the axles at the same time, but, better late than never! We’ll spend the night in Ridgway before heading to Durango to spend the weekend with son and family. A big breakfast is waiting for us in Grand Junction while our axles are swapped out! Mike

We’re making our way to Grand Junction for our axle replacement on Friday. Currently camping near Park City in Utah.

Our manual lock has been reliable, not fancy but it works!

A little further up US101 after Tillamook just across the border in Washington is Cape Disappointment State Park. It’s a big park and was full the days we were there. A lot of sites on the beach, ours was about 50 yards from the shore but we still heard the crashing waves all night. The weather was cool and gray, probably normal for the end of August.

If you are going up US101 in Oregon you must stop at the Tillamook cheese factory in Tillamook. They have a nice self guided walking tour of the factory and a big gift shop to load up on cheese and other dairy items. We’ll worth the stop! Entrance, the cow portrait leaves no doubt where you are! This is a pretty cheesy photo, buy why not?

After Crater Lake NP we went to Carl Washburn State Park on the coast in Oregon. Nice little park, well maintained. Lots of shade. Active lighthouse.

We came in at the state park, older narrow bridge but great views! We’ve had a nice relaxing stay.

No ferry! There are a couple of bridges across to the island. It’s a different world here, for the last week the temperature has stayed between 52 and 62. Quite a difference from triple digits in south Texas!

We’ve traveled from San Antonio up through NM, CO, UT, NV, CA, OR, and WA. We’re currently at Whidbey Island north of Seattle and we haven’t seen a single other Oliver in over a month! Where is everybody?!? Mike

I assume the power for the breakaway brakes comes directly from the batteries. So, when I switch the batteries off the breakaway feature is disabled. I only switch off the batteries when in storage and I can’t move the trailer without the batteries switched on (raise and lower the front and rear jacks). In fact, the first thing I do when taking my trailer out of storage is to turn on the batteries, so I’m fairly confident that towing with no breakaway brakes is not an issue. Mike

Exactly what I did when we went with lithiums.

I agree 100%. I had the same part fail, not a clean break but it cracked resulting in a steady drip of water. I also replaced the cracked part with a brass fitting. It would have sheered off soon, just like yours did. Mike

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.