Archive for August, 2007

>”We had a complete whiteout. We were at 12,000 feet. We started in sunshine, had the rain, then it turned to snow,” says David Fossey, recalling a recent drive through the Rocky Mountains in Colorado that saw him and his wife, Janice, creep down the steep slope in their 6½-tonne motorhome.

“We still kept going, but it took us about two hours to do about 30 miles,” he says, adding that the drive ranks among the scariest moments of his life. “Horrendous, absolutely horrendous.”

Strangely enough, he says he would do it all again.

“We’ve done all that before,” he says with a laugh. The Fosseys spent 506 days traversing North America on a trip they finished last June.

In fact, for some, the relaxed pace of RV travel is desirable enough to do year round. Those who live this vehicular lifestyle call it “full-timing.”

Peggi McDonald, 65, has travelled full-time in an RV for the past 22 years. She and husband John, 69, both retired from jobs in the Canadian military, now spend their time roaming the roads of North America. They no longer own a house, having opted instead for a 38-foot Winnebago.

“It is our home – it just happens to be a home on wheels,” she says.

McDonald, who writes and blogs about RV living, says that in a motorhome, every trip is a new adventure.
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>Burlington Hawk Eye – IA,
Call them “Sooners,” but they’re not from Oklahoma.

They’re the folks who arrive weeks before the Midwest Old Threshers Reunion and stake a claim to prime land in the campground.

Then, like all true pioneers, they set to work.

Clair McBride has earned the right to call himself a local.

The Farmington IA, man and his wife pulled their camper into town July 26th for the 40th straight reunion. (They first came in 1960, but didn’t begin camping until eight years later.)

Since putting it in park, McBride, the new head of campground operations, has been cleaning shower houses and overseeing other maintenance in his little fiefdom.

“Do I love it?” he said. “If I didn’t love it, I wouldn’t be here.”

The campground sprawls across 60 acres. It’s an egalitarian place where, in McBride’s words, “$6 Wal-Mart tents” share real estate with “three-quarter-of-a-million-dollar mobile homes.” There’s fresh water, electricity and trucks on call to pump out overflowing septic tanks.

“We build a little city down there of 1,500 to 1,800 units for a week to two weeks,” McBride said.

The Old Threshers Reunion officially kicks off Thursday morning.
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>The Coast Distribution System (“Coast”) has decided that a defect which relates to motor vehicle safety exists in certain Weight Distribution Shanks that were sold as part of Weight Distribution Kits, Weight Distribution Shank Kits or Weight Distribution Head and Shank Kits under the “Husky” brand name. These recalled shanks bear a supplier’s factory designation “CTC” and were sold by Coast dealers between January 2006 and June 2007.

The Weight Distribution Shank, which fits into the trailer hitch receiver of a tow vehicle, may break under certain towing conditions. If the shank breaks completely, vehicle crash without prior warning could occur.

The “CTC” marking appears near the support bracket that is welded between the horizontal and vertical columns of the shank that fits into the trailer hitch receiver of the tow vehicle. The “CTC” marking on the shank is noted as CTC-XX-XX, where the XXXX represent the month and year of manufacturer. (See attached illustrations). Your Coast dealer can inspect the shank for this marking, or you may do so yourself if you prefer It is not necessary to disconnect the shank from the hitch to inspect for the CTC mark.
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