2023 RV/Camping Thread

[bboswell]

Thinking about taking a trip this summer to Southwest Colorado, does anyone have any recommendations on a RV park? Our 5th wheel is 39’.
TIA
TK


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https://mountainviewsrv.com/

Love this park (true resort style) and area!

[tmkrueger]

Reservation booked at DURANGO RIVERSIDE. Thanks for the help. Mountainview looks very nice just a little out of the area we were looking at. Going to stop at Palo Duro Canyon State Park on the way up to Santa Fe NM and then on to Durango.

[DaveC]

Left Buffalo Bill sp this morning, drove through Yellowstone and are now residing in Colter Bay Village Rv park- in The Grand Tetons.
It’s full hook up but really tighter on the spots than I’d like for $112 a night.

I was wondering where the airstreams were this whole trip, I found them here by the plenty.

Yellowstone lake -


New temporary home

Bookoo rv spots here


Canada smoke making a haze the last few days


The illusive airstreams, just two from where my tush is relaxing



Riding these well beyond what they were intended for took a tole on my backside[emoji23].




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[Dale Moser]

Brady, the dog, and I driving home earlier from a weekend of baseball out west near PK lake, pulling the travel trailer. There’s a section of SH254 that has several “S” curves where it goes from flat pasture land, and winds up into some rocky hills. It gets 2 lanes wide each way, and it’s pretty rough with wavy type bumps. Been through there thousands of times in my life, pulling a boat or trailer as often as not, and it always seems like those curves get sharper and the “waves” worse. Today, coming east is the downhill way and the worst curve is a left hander. Coming into it there was no traffic around going my way, and I had just manually dropped my truck into 5th gear with the exhaust brake on, and slowed to an easy speed. I was in the left lane to give myself the right one as some margin for error in case of a blown tire etc. All of a sudden there was a semi truck hauling a tanker (oil/saltwater) trailer oncoming and he was all over the center stripe, the truck cab was leaning way over toward us, and I could see the sidewall of the front tire was rolling over due to his speed and turning way sharper to his right than he should have to. In 1/2 second I went from not being able to see his trailer behind his cab, to looking at the side of it as it whipped out from behind him and I just knew it was gone roll over into our lane at any moment, I could hear his trailer tires howling with my windows up. I dove into the right lane a lot harder than you’d ever want to with a trailer, then had to yank it back left because the road curved left. I knew the tail whip from my trailer was coming and it pulled hard on the back of the truck making my tires howl, but I was able to gather it up using all of the right lane and narrow shoulder. It whipped so hard that the bi-fold stairs under the back door folded completely out. I felt like all the blood left my body, I got cold, nauseous, light headed, and scared out of my mind. The rest of the hour + drive was an almost unbearable sense of dread, or doom, or something weird. All I wanted to do was back that trailer in the driveway and get the hell out of that truck. If I’ve ever been more scared, I don’t remember it. I don’t know how close we came to making contact, or even where that truck ended up, but if any one of a half dozen factors changed even a little bit…it could have been curtains for us. I’m nauseous right now thinking about it.

Hug your families, and say your prayers every day, gentlemen.


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[bboswell]

Brady, the dog, and I driving home earlier from a weekend of baseball out west near PK lake, pulling the travel trailer. There’s a section of SH254 that has several “S” curves where it goes from flat pasture land, and winds up into some rocky hills. It gets 2 lanes wide each way, and it’s pretty rough with wavy type bumps. Been through there thousands of times in my life, pulling a boat or trailer as often as not, and it always seems like those curves get sharper and the “waves” worse. Today, coming east is the downhill way and the worst curve is a left hander. Coming into it there was no traffic around going my way, and I had just manually dropped my truck into 5th gear with the exhaust brake on, and slowed to an easy speed. I was in the left lane to give myself the right one as some margin for error in case of a blown tire etc. All of a sudden there was a semi truck hauling a tanker (oil/saltwater) trailer oncoming and he was all over the center stripe, the truck cab was leaning way over toward us, and I could see the sidewall of the front tire was rolling over due to his speed and turning way sharper to his right than he should have to. In 1/2 second I went from not being able to see his trailer behind his cab, to looking at the side of it as it whipped out from behind him and I just knew it was gone roll over into our lane at any moment, I could hear his trailer tires howling with my windows up. I dove into the right lane a lot harder than you’d ever want to with a trailer, then had to yank it back left because the road curved left. I knew the tail whip from my trailer was coming and it pulled hard on the back of the truck making my tires howl, but I was able to gather it up using all of the right lane and narrow shoulder. It whipped so hard that the bi-fold stairs under the back door folded completely out. I felt like all the blood left my body, I got cold, nauseous, light headed, and scared out of my mind. The rest of the hour + drive was an almost unbearable sense of dread, or doom, or something weird. All I wanted to do was back that trailer in the driveway and get the hell out of that truck. If I’ve ever been more scared, I don’t remember it. I don’t know how close we came to making contact, or even where that truck ended up, but if any one of a half dozen factors changed even a little bit…it could have been curtains for us. I’m nauseous right now thinking about it.

Hug your families, and say your prayers every day, gentlemen.


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Dangit Man!! Glad it all turned out OK. Sometimes it takes that sort of deal to remind us of the things se should not take for granted.

[bowhunterhelm]

Brady, the dog, and I driving home earlier from a weekend of baseball out west near PK lake, pulling the travel trailer. There’s a section of SH254 that has several “S” curves where it goes from flat pasture land, and winds up into some rocky hills. It gets 2 lanes wide each way, and it’s pretty rough with wavy type bumps. Been through there thousands of times in my life, pulling a boat or trailer as often as not, and it always seems like those curves get sharper and the “waves” worse. Today, coming east is the downhill way and the worst curve is a left hander. Coming into it there was no traffic around going my way, and I had just manually dropped my truck into 5th gear with the exhaust brake on, and slowed to an easy speed. I was in the left lane to give myself the right one as some margin for error in case of a blown tire etc. All of a sudden there was a semi truck hauling a tanker (oil/saltwater) trailer oncoming and he was all over the center stripe, the truck cab was leaning way over toward us, and I could see the sidewall of the front tire was rolling over due to his speed and turning way sharper to his right than he should have to. In 1/2 second I went from not being able to see his trailer behind his cab, to looking at the side of it as it whipped out from behind him and I just knew it was gone roll over into our lane at any moment, I could hear his trailer tires howling with my windows up. I dove into the right lane a lot harder than you’d ever want to with a trailer, then had to yank it back left because the road curved left. I knew the tail whip from my trailer was coming and it pulled hard on the back of the truck making my tires howl, but I was able to gather it up using all of the right lane and narrow shoulder. It whipped so hard that the bi-fold stairs under the back door folded completely out. I felt like all the blood left my body, I got cold, nauseous, light headed, and scared out of my mind. The rest of the hour + drive was an almost unbearable sense of dread, or doom, or something weird. All I wanted to do was back that trailer in the driveway and get the hell out of that truck. If I’ve ever been more scared, I don’t remember it. I don’t know how close we came to making contact, or even where that truck ended up, but if any one of a half dozen factors changed even a little bit…it could have been curtains for us. I’m nauseous right now thinking about it.

Hug your families, and say your prayers every day, gentlemen.


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Dang man, glad you pulled it out. Sounds like a near miss.

[tmkrueger]

Sounds bad, glad yall made it!

[Bill M]

Wow, Dale. I'm very glad for the good outcome.

[Mike D]

I know exactly where you are talking about Dale and that area sucks…..it sucks even worse pulling a camper.

Glad it turned out good for y’all.


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[DaveC]

Dale,
Reads like a terrifying close call, glad it worked out in your favor.


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[kry226]

Brady, the dog, and I driving home earlier from a weekend of baseball out west near PK lake, pulling the travel trailer. There’s a section of SH254 that has several “S” curves where it goes from flat pasture land, and winds up into some rocky hills. It gets 2 lanes wide each way, and it’s pretty rough with wavy type bumps. Been through there thousands of times in my life, pulling a boat or trailer as often as not, and it always seems like those curves get sharper and the “waves” worse. Today, coming east is the downhill way and the worst curve is a left hander. Coming into it there was no traffic around going my way, and I had just manually dropped my truck into 5th gear with the exhaust brake on, and slowed to an easy speed. I was in the left lane to give myself the right one as some margin for error in case of a blown tire etc. All of a sudden there was a semi truck hauling a tanker (oil/saltwater) trailer oncoming and he was all over the center stripe, the truck cab was leaning way over toward us, and I could see the sidewall of the front tire was rolling over due to his speed and turning way sharper to his right than he should have to. In 1/2 second I went from not being able to see his trailer behind his cab, to looking at the side of it as it whipped out from behind him and I just knew it was gone roll over into our lane at any moment, I could hear his trailer tires howling with my windows up. I dove into the right lane a lot harder than you’d ever want to with a trailer, then had to yank it back left because the road curved left. I knew the tail whip from my trailer was coming and it pulled hard on the back of the truck making my tires howl, but I was able to gather it up using all of the right lane and narrow shoulder. It whipped so hard that the bi-fold stairs under the back door folded completely out. I felt like all the blood left my body, I got cold, nauseous, light headed, and scared out of my mind. The rest of the hour + drive was an almost unbearable sense of dread, or doom, or something weird. All I wanted to do was back that trailer in the driveway and get the hell out of that truck. If I’ve ever been more scared, I don’t remember it. I don’t know how close we came to making contact, or even where that truck ended up, but if any one of a half dozen factors changed even a little bit…it could have been curtains for us. I’m nauseous right now thinking about it.

Hug your families, and say your prayers every day, gentlemen.


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Dang, sir! Glad everything worked out and all are safe!

[Tbuddyandroby]

We made it back from New Braunfels yesterday evening. We visited San Marcos, ate at The Saltlick, looked around Caney Lake, and visited Pedernales Falls State Park. It was a great first trip with the new camper! The only mishaps were: I had to get a rear inside tire patched on the dually (picked up a screw), I overflowed my half bath toilet on the 3rd flush a little (thank God it was mostly clean and maybe a couple gallons on the floor), and the dealer didn't line up my hot/cold water to our stackable washer/dryer and momma Wasn't happy (I got them open yesterday when we got back).

[Tbuddyandroby]

Brady, the dog, and I driving home earlier from a weekend of baseball out west near PK lake, pulling the travel trailer. There’s a section of SH254 that has several “S” curves where it goes from flat pasture land, and winds up into some rocky hills. It gets 2 lanes wide each way, and it’s pretty rough with wavy type bumps. Been through there thousands of times in my life, pulling a boat or trailer as often as not, and it always seems like those curves get sharper and the “waves” worse. Today, coming east is the downhill way and the worst curve is a left hander. Coming into it there was no traffic around going my way, and I had just manually dropped my truck into 5th gear with the exhaust brake on, and slowed to an easy speed. I was in the left lane to give myself the right one as some margin for error in case of a blown tire etc. All of a sudden there was a semi truck hauling a tanker (oil/saltwater) trailer oncoming and he was all over the center stripe, the truck cab was leaning way over toward us, and I could see the sidewall of the front tire was rolling over due to his speed and turning way sharper to his right than he should have to. In 1/2 second I went from not being able to see his trailer behind his cab, to looking at the side of it as it whipped out from behind him and I just knew it was gone roll over into our lane at any moment, I could hear his trailer tires howling with my windows up. I dove into the right lane a lot harder than you’d ever want to with a trailer, then had to yank it back left because the road curved left. I knew the tail whip from my trailer was coming and it pulled hard on the back of the truck making my tires howl, but I was able to gather it up using all of the right lane and narrow shoulder. It whipped so hard that the bi-fold stairs under the back door folded completely out. I felt like all the blood left my body, I got cold, nauseous, light headed, and scared out of my mind. The rest of the hour + drive was an almost unbearable sense of dread, or doom, or something weird. All I wanted to do was back that trailer in the driveway and get the hell out of that truck. If I’ve ever been more scared, I don’t remember it. I don’t know how close we came to making contact, or even where that truck ended up, but if any one of a half dozen factors changed even a little bit…it could have been curtains for us. I’m nauseous right now thinking about it.

Hug your families, and say your prayers every day, gentlemen.


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After coming back on our short 3 1/2 hour trip, and sometimes "white knuckling" my steering wheel, I can't imagine and Don't want to know what you're experience, Dale. I had several idiots cut me off in traffic and I had to get on by brakes- Hard, I have a new found respect for truck drivers pulling heavy loads, now.

[Tbuddyandroby]

What TPMS do you guys recommend, and ones to stay away from? What's the best bang for the $?

[Huntin]

I bought this dehumidifier to use during storage. Drill a hole about half way up the water tank (blue) and leave it in the sink to drain into the gray water tank. Works good for us.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TRV5ZJZ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details