Sorry for this late post, and its out-of-order status..<\/p>\n
This year we are trying a few different RV club rallys,\u00a0 Freightliner, FMCA and Escapee’s. \u00a0 This event was put on by the Freightliner Custom Chassis Club.\u00a0 There were lots of seminars on chassis information but fewer vendors than I expected.\u00a0\u00a0 We were all parked together in a large hard-packed gravel lot with full hookups at the Pima County Fairgrounds.\u00a0\u00a0 The weather was nice, not too warm and even a couple of cooler days mixed in.\u00a0 There was even a horse show going on over the weekend we were there.\u00a0 I especially liked the jumping ring,\u00a0 Dusty liked all of it.\u00a0 He got to growl and bark at the horses, especially when they were coming directly at him.<\/p>\n
Each night there was a dinner and each morning a breakfast provided by the rally.\u00a0\u00a0 There were 50\/50 raffles, where half went to the local Ronald McDonald House.\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully Kathy remembers to write up those donations for a tax break next year.<\/p>\n
There were vendors hawking all sorts of goods for our RVs and a group touring company that explained their RV tours to Alaska.\u00a0\u00a0 We have our sights set on Alaska for next summer (2019) and we\u00a0 just found out a lot about travel up there from the tour folks.\u00a0 Even heard about a mod to keep rocks from making holes in the radiator.<\/p>\n
But the real reason I decided to go to Tucson was to take a two-day Camp Freightliner class that goes into detail on how to maintain my chassis.\u00a0 It was held the week prior to the rally.\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn’t as detailed as I wanted\/expected, but I learned a lot.<\/p>\n
We met a lot of new friends while there from around the US.\u00a0\u00a0 Hopefully we will get to see them again on our travels.\u00a0 It’s a really big country, so that may be more difficult than we know.<\/p>\n
While we were there, we had our coach weighed on the 4 corners.\u00a0 To my surprise, we were heavy on the right rear by about 1,000 lbs. compared to the left rear.\u00a0 I spent the next evening moving about 500 lbs. from the right rear to the left rear and offloaded all the extra clean water I loaded for the weighing.\u00a0 (they suggested having a full tank of water)\u00a0 Now we should be very close to even on the rear.<\/p>\n
I did purchase a battery watering system that is very nice.\u00a0 What sets it apart from the others I have seen is little white floats built into each cap.\u00a0\u00a0 Now I only have to open the battery door and I can see the water level for each cell in a few seconds, and the best part, without crawling on the ground and opening each cap and peering around with a flashlight.<\/p>\n
All in all it was a very good trip!<\/p>\n
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Sorry for this late post, and its out-of-order status.. This year we are trying a few different RV club rallys,\u00a0 Freightliner, FMCA and Escapee’s. \u00a0 This event was put on by the Freightliner Custom Chassis Club.\u00a0 There were lots of seminars on chassis information but fewer vendors than I expected.\u00a0\u00a0 We were all parked together … <\/p>\n