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Mike, Looks like a great trip!!!!!!! Like the photos, too! If you pass through eastern WY, visiting Devils Tower is nice to see. When we visited South Dakota, camped at Custer State Park. Visited Mount Rushmore, Sylvan Lake, and Badlands. Visited while camping at Custer SP SD: Sylvan Lake SD: Badlands SD:

To the Oliver Family, Even though we purchased our Ollie used and out of warranty, the first time we took the unit in for work Oliver took care of the minor problem for no charge. Made a long lasting impression on me when I told the Tech we purchased our Ollie used and he said when you purchased an Oliver, you joined the Oliver Family! My Sincere thanks to everyone at Oliver TT for your continuous efforts to improve an already great travel trailer!

John, Excellent installation. Thinking about installing a back-up camera on our Ollie, too. Edit: Hope you don't mind if I build a similar back up camera installation. Been looking at different backup camera systems, was not aware of the Garmin backup camera used with the GPS until seeing your unit.

John, Tested the plug with a 15A extension cord, not as heavy as the the 30A Furrion shore power cord. Leave slack in the cord and it can un-plug, unlike the Furrion cord. Will see how it works out. The 45 degree down feature on your pigtail sounds like it will work well. Would like to see your set up, too.

Purchased the ALEKO 15A to 30A adapter plug for my Ollie. While testing the Honda EU2000i Gen-Set with Micro-Air Easy Start 364 installed, it worked great running the Ollie's 13.5K Dometic AC at 86F outside air temp today. Appreciate the ideas in this thread:

Mike, Fine photos and looks like a great trip. We were camping at Pokegama Dam Campground on the Mississippi River in Grand Rapids MN when we learned Grand Rapids is where Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm) was born. Visited Judy Garland's home and museum there:

Pete, Excellent reflection Sun Rise. I have plenty of Sun Set shots, but you have to be an early bird to catch the Sun Rise!

Welcome roguebooks! An Oliver factory tour would be very helpful for your decision making process. The first time we saw an Ollie during 2010 at a Blue Ridge Parkway campground helped make our minds up about the next camper we wanted. We enjoyed our last camping trip to Upper Peninsula, too. Beautiful area!

Kathy and Clair, Thanks! Will visit Big South Fork National Recreation Area – Bandy Creek Campground this year. We camped at Fall Creek Falls SP TN earlier this month, fine State Park:

mattyd, Welcome!

Clair and Kathy, Welcome! Many nice and knowledgeable folks here. We just started camping in the TN plateau area this year and love it. Hopefully will meet you while camping soon!!!

Debbie and I met John last week after he picked up the Ollie in TN when he purchased a Gen-Set from us. They were also having a family reunion in TN last weekend. Had the pleasure of meeting his Wife, but did not have the pleasure of seeing his new Ollie when we met. Assume he's on the road heading home right now. John, Safe travels!

Our favorite local State Park where we enjoy hiking does not have a dump station. It has fine campground restrooms and showers. We use the restrooms and showers as much as possible, but use the Ollie's toilet at night to prevent middle of the night campground restroom trips and skunk encounters. Normally the 6 gallon tote is less than 1/2 full including water used to flush. I dump the tote in the restroom toilets daily keeping the tote weight low. It only takes 10 minutes to set up & 10 minutes to knock down the drain hose/tote setup daily. This is our preferred method to handle this issue.

Rotated the photo for you!!!

geO, Saw one 35 gallon tote with pneumatic tires. The guy replaced hard wheels with off the shelf small pneumatic wheels/tires, no noise while towing to the dump station and very durable, too.

geO, This is the second try with totes for us so far with the Ollie. This set up would work with larger totes with wheels, too. Use this 6 gallon tote with an 8' flex hose connected to the Ollie. The previous owner of our Ollie cut thin wall PVC pipe in half to cradle the flex hose and also supplied us with the 8' flex hose. Use the PVC pipe at dump stations, too. Outhouse Humor : :)

John, Our Ollie wheels are rated at 60 PSI. Been running 50PSI, but 60 PSI sounds like a better way to go. First thing I did when we got the Ollie home was try to find matching 18" Ion wheels for the TV, but could not. Hope to eventually match the Ollie's and TV's wheels when we replace tires on both.

Mike, Thanks! Some State Parks in TN have golf courses, too. Did not take time to play a round, but managed to hit balls on the range and practice on their putting green.

Here's recent photos taken at Fall Creek Falls SP TN. Like to hike to waterfalls, we had a fine time at this State Park: Out standing in it's field:

Mike, Sounds like you camped at Bandits Roost Campground? We Kayak there and plan to take a motorcycle for two up twisty riding next trip. Agree, never know who you may be talking to while camping. Posted this photo here last year of a camping trip to Glacier NP MT with our previous aluminum CampLite camper a few years ago. One morning a nice fellow was looking at the camper and showed him the all aluminum structure. Took his photo with Debbie, Jungle Jack Hanna:

Brandi, Welcome and Congratulations on your new Ollie! We purchased our Ollie used from a couple in MO and they recovered the dinette cushions and two pillows on the bed before our purchase of the Ollie. Sorry I don't have additional information for you:

Chixter, Agree, believe that 1.1mm cord would outlast the shades! The 1.5MM cord I installed is working fine so far, but difficult to install on in longer shades. Looks like the original cord size was close to 1mm.

Appreciate wheel maximum pressure information in this thread. We have Commercial TA tires on 5200 pound capacity axles, Hull #075. Could not find a load/pressure chart for BFG Commercial TA LT225/75R16 E tires yet, except for maximum load 2680 pounds each @ 80 PSI cold. Found a Michelin load/pressure chart for Michelin XPS Rib LT225/75R16 E. Maximum load 2680 pounds each @ 80 PSI cold. The following chart shows Michelin LT XPS Rib reduced pressure tire capacities. http://www.michelinrvtires.com/reference-materials/load-and-inflation-tables/#/

Yvonne & Doug, Congratulations to Crew #223 on the beautiful Ollie!!!!! Agree, the folks at Oliver go above and beyond correcting problems to making the Ollie experience very positive. Like the water falls and Ollie shots, too. We enjoy camping in western NC & eastern TN, hopefully meet y'all sometime camping. Best Regards from Crew #75! Bill and Debbie,

John, Took some photos while working on the Ollie today: Cord plug: 15A Cord Adapter used while connected at home: