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We purchased the Shurhold 3100 Dual Action buffer from Amazon. Great for weekend warriors! 🙂 Learned about it from another forum member here. Experimented on our vehicles first, before using it on our 2015 LE2 Ollie. Last Fall compounded and waxed the roof and nose of Ollie with great results. Before the next camping trip going to compound/wax the rest Ollie. Still had Meguiars 67 One Step compound and Meguiar's Flagship Marine wax on the shelf, used that with the Shurhold buffer & pads on Ollie. When we run out of Meguiar's Wax will start using Shurhold's wax. They have many videos on their website and on Youtube. Plan to use wax for normal annual care for Ollie's finish. https://shurhold.com/ https://youtu.be/rd9G8r4VQdk https://shurhold.com/collections/buffers/products/worlds-best-dual-action-polisher

Moved to this state for a job and retired here. It's a great place to live and play. Took this shot at Linville Gorge, not too far from Linville Falls Federal campground, on the BRP. We like camping there late spring and early fall.

Yep, We never reserve a campsite at Mount Pisgah. Most of the Federal campgrounds on the NC BRP have about 1/2 of the sites as walk-up sites that cannot be reserved. These campgrounds can fill up during Holidays. When it's +90s and humid in the lower elevations of NC, Mt. Pisgah at 5,000 above sea level has very nice temps in August, see highs of 70s to 80F. No water/electricity at the sites, but not really needed with Ollie. I have been using a portable dump tank at Mt. Pisgah, but thinking about taking an extra length of black/grey dump hose keeping Ollie closer to level because of the descending grade at both ends of the dump station. Don't know if Balsam campground has walk up sites or a dump station, it's above 5,000', it's a Federal campground not too far from the NC BRP. The highest campground in NC, around 6,500', is Mt. Mitchell SP, but it's tent camping only.

After seeing an Oliver Legacy Elite for the first time during 2010 at Mt. Pisgah Campground on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we really liked Oliver Travel Trailers and wanted one! We also enjoy riding a motorcycle two up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Before buying Ollie, compared the pros & cons of buying a toy hauler to buying an Ollie. Oliver easily won for us because we also wanted Ollie for cross county travel and did not want to take a motorcycle on those trips. Plus we really like Ollie's looks, how efficient it is to tow, and how pleasant it is to camp in. When we camp on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Federal campgrounds and want to take a motorcycle, we tow the motorcycle with another vehicle. It's allowed to stay in two campsites as long as you use two geezer cards for $10 per site per night. When we take a motorcycle, we don't stay during holiday weeks, so there's plenty of extra sites available for everyone. One of our 2022 Trips to Mt. Pisgah Campground on the BRP:

Agree, New Year's Resolution, will focus on learning to relax more during 2023! 😁 Hope you & your Family have a happy & safe New Year!

Just testing! ☺️

Wishing everyone and their family a safe and wonderful New Year! Bill and Debbie Ollie LE2 #75 .

We had a Diamond Back covers on a previous Tundra and Frontier. Really like Diamondback covers. Should have purchased one for our 22 Tundra, too.

Ollie is getting a late Christmas gift in January, a Victron MPPT solar controller! 🙂 Merry Christmas!!!! Bill and Debbie LE2 Ollie #75

Merry Christmas to you and your family!!! Hope everyone here has a safe and wonderful Christmas!

Congrats on your new to you Ollie #49! Merry Christmas!!!!!

Auto Owners Purchased our LE2 used during 2016. Increased the insured value two times so far, looks like we will need to increase it a third time to keep up with increasing replacement value. 🙂

When it's time to rebuild our 5200lb axle brake assemblies including installation of new bearings/races, will probably install disc brakes instead. The 5200lb axles have larger drum brakes compared to the 3500lb axles and do a good job stopping our LE2 Ollie, too.

Pete, Absolutely beautiful! Been thinking about eventually replacing the drums & brakes on our 2015 LE2's 5200lb axles. There are very few 5200lb axles on LE2's in case some are wondering, Oliver installed a few on LE2's when they ran out of 3500lb axles. Will give Ron a call when ready to pull the trigger on that project. Thanks for posting!

Agree, we see very dangerous practices at gas stations. When I top off the fuel tank of my airplane at an airport without fuel services provided, safety precautions must be taken to prevent fires & explosions. It will be interesting to see the development of hydrogen powered vehicles.

SeaDawg, Beautiful photos of a great year!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!! Some of our Ollie TN & NC adventures during 2022:

Steve and Mike, Thanks!

Seeing diesel locally $4.65 to $4.70 in our area of NC What’s gas prices in your area of Texas?

Denver, NC today, prices dropped a little for regular 87:

Good interview! Our single 100AH BB battery is working great for us with two 100W suitcase solar panels.

We replaced two group 27 AGM 12V batteries with a single 100AH Battle Born lithium and it works great for our needs.

Fuel prices Denver NC today:

John, Congrats on your new Ollie and Thanks for the furnace report!

Mike, Welcome! We purchased our 2015 LE2 Ollie used during 2016, really like camping with Ollie. Don't have factory solar on our Ollie, use two 100W Renogy suitcase solar panels with a single Battleborn 100W lithium battery. Tow Ollie with a 2022 Toyota Tundra, nice combination for us. Plenty of very knowledgeable folks here for input on camping & towing an Ollie.