10 Best Things

 OK, Here are the 10 best things we love about our new motor home. After having the new rig for 1 year today.

Number 1

So much easier to maneuver in the RV park. It's way better to park in small sites and works well in big sites also.

Number 2

The big engine, 360 HP. We get 9.4 miles per gallon. That's way better than the big truck got. It works great in the mountains. The engine brake is fantastic! Just touch the brake to set the down hill speed and it stays there. This is huge!

Number 3

The TV setup works well. It has 3 TV's and one controller to route the different things to watch on each TV. The TV in the living room is a 50 inch, that's the biggest TV we've ever had. The satellite dish on the top is the best. The TV goes down to travel.

Number 4

The Nautilus water system is great. You can control all the different ways to run your water easily just by turning a couple of nobs.

Number 5

The 8K generator that runs nice and quiet. We use it going down the road on those hot days to run both air conditioners to keep the RV cool.  It only sips on the diesel fuel.

 

Number 6

The macerator pump. It can empty the tank in about 2 minutes. Fast and easy!  Make that crappie job more fun.

The whole wet bay is just so nice. Everything is all in one spot.

Number 7

The controls to run the whole RV is so easy. One touchscreen to run all the lights, slides, climate control, and all the other stuff and it has an app on our phones to do the same thing.

 

                                            The phone app.

Number 8

We love the residential refrigerator. This is a huge improvement over the old RV that had a "Nevercold" refrigerator. No one should ever buy an RV without one. The ice maker and water in the door is fantastic. That is why we run an RO water system in the RV.

  Number 9

Just the quality of the whole RV is great. I would buy another Jayco RV. It has insulated windows that make it a lot cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. The paint job is fantastic. Just keep it waxed up and it looks great. The old RV had stickers for the graphics.

    Number 10

The leveling system is great. It has enough power to lift the front wheels off the ground. It has a phone app to run it too.

Buying this motor home is one of the best things we've done. The old one was good for the time we had it, but this is way better and we are glad we got it!

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The new RV in our winter home. 

Live Happy and Always Go Big.

  

A little Behind

 Been a little behind in the blog. We're all settled in at the BGE RV Resort for the winter. The weather has gone a little cool but it will warm up. We had our first happy hour.

Every Sunday at 2:00 happy hour. Bring the dogs and have fun.

Katie was glad to see her good friend Gracie! They just have a ton of fun together.

We got the RV washed and waxed. Looks good. We drove 5500 miles on our road trip to Eggtoberfest at Atlanta and back. We spent $3000 in fuel and $6000 in RV parks. The motor home worked great. We like it better than the 5th wheel. It's way easier to park and drive.

We made a trip to Mexico to get our teeth cleaned and a checkup. I need to go back and get some work done on a couple of teeth.

Our neighbor Gord is down from Canada for a month. The last time he was down was 3 years ago.

John cooked us breakfast. Peggy made us Bloody Mary's. Life is good.

Neighbors, John and Toni have two standard poodles, Katie is a little nervous around them. They are pretty big.

Good Bloody Mary breakfast. Nice and sunny but a little cool out.

We took John and Toni to the Arizona Market place. We had a couple of beers, met some old friends and listened to the band play some good music.

Got some funny pictures of Peggy. (special effect, not what it looks like) Just having a little fun with my phone.

I think Katie is happy to be back at the BGE RV Resort.

Katie loves Chewy!

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Matt making a killer, good looking Pizza on the BGE.

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Eggtoberfest!!

 We had a ton of fun at Eggtoberfest. Heidi, Matt, Bill and Marsha met us in Atlanta for the Eggtoberfest. They had it at a different venue this year. It was at Coolray Field, a minor league baseball park. It was different but it worked out good.

There are a lot of people cooking on the field and up on the concourse of the park. 

Taking a little break from stuffing our faces with really good food. It was a beautiful day. It was really good to see Matt and Heidi, glad they came down to meet us.

This was the 25th Eggfest. This was our 4th one.

The marching band.

The marching band was having a good time.

Happy hour at Bill and Marsha's lot.

Here we are having lunch down on Little 5 points in Atlanta. The food was good.

After Eggtoberfest we stopped at the Monkey Wrench Brewery to test out their skills at brewing. It was cold and good.

Katie bonding with Heidi, she loved Heidi.

We are back in Yuma! It was a 10 day blast back. We stopped at Betty's RV Park for 4 days. Betty's is always fun. On Saturday we went to Touchet's bar for the Cajun jam session.  This is one of the best places to go for Cajun Music.

Our friend Joe is in the band. We have not seen him in 5 years but he recognized us right away. I love the people in Louisiana they are the most friendly people.

The band!

On the way back we drove thru 2 days of rain in Texas, it was not fun. It's good to be back in Yuma. 

Oh look at what we found in the Buck Bald Brewery.

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Big Green Egg Museum at the factory store.

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Biker Benefit

 We went to our favorite brewery in town on Saturday for a biker benefit to buy a ballistic vest for the police dogs. They had a 50/50 raffle and raffled off brewery merchandise. We didn't win anything. They had the dogs there and did some demonstrations of the dogs at work. It was pretty impressive.

This one sniffed out some contraband in a jeep.

They raised close to $1000 bucks.

They had a good turn out for a good cause.

We took a little road trip to Blue Ridge, GA and found The Grumpy Men Brewery. The beer was really good and they had a really nice patio to enjoy the great outdoors. We've been really enjoying hunting down breweries on this trip this year. We've found some good ones.

Here is another one in Hayesville, GA. Hayesville Brewing Company. They had a nice patio here too, overlooking a cow field out in the middle of nowhere. It's just fun finding places like this.

Here is another one! But sometimes the beer is not that good, like the cream ale I had here.

Patrick the Brew Master at Buck Bald Brewery doing his magic.  

We added a place to put our shoes at the end of the bed, it was Peggy's idea, and it worked out great. 

     

When we are at a park long enough to order parts for the RV it's a good thing. We ordered a windshield cover and it worked great.  We should have gotten this before we left Yuma. It's nice to make improvements to our home. 

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Katie relaxing in the sun.

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Music in the park

 We are in Murphy, NC at Rivers Edge RV Resort. This is one of the best parks we've ever stayed at. The sites are 125 feet long and 50 feet wide, with nice grass between sites. We've stayed here before. This weekend is a little crazy here in the park with weekend people, but they'll be gone on Monday. It's a little rainy this week, and predicted almost everyday. 

Nice big site. And it's raining. 

The town has grown a little since the last time we were here. They have a nice Brewery, Buck Bald Brewing. The beer is very good.

I love these hop lights they have and they sell them, $200 each. But I don't have a place to put one up. They would have been great at our home bar back in Saginaw.

Katie had a new friend here in the park, Frankie the french bull dog. He would come over every time his people weren't looking. It was pretty funny.

 

We took a little road trip to Bryson City. We stopped to watch the river rafters go by. This is the site of the 2013 Canoe Freestyle World Championships.

Nice place to sit and watch. 

 

We found a nice Brewery in Bryson city. The Mountain Lakers Brewing Company. They had a food truck out back. We had Garlic Chicken Rice and it was good. We'll be going back again.

The park has had music this weekend at the pavilion. Friday night was a jam session that was pretty good for not having played together before. Saturday was another band and tonight Karaoke. I think we will skip that, I don't care for Karaoke.

This guy can play two saxophones at the same time.

Got a new toy. The Air Selfie drone. It flies out takes a picture then flies back to lands in your hand.

I think we found our old truck here in the park, but it's not. Same year and everything. Looks good and for sale.

  

Do Not take the Motor home this way. Only 6' 6"!

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Our Pilots dash in the Motor Home. You can never have too much information!

 

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