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Aside from the pinched, leaking water line (we just cut off the water and use ice cube trays), our residential refrigerator experience has been nothing but good. That's with more than a year's full-time travel - over 20,000 miles so far.

I'd say the current couch, especially if it has a metal frame in it, is probably in the 200 lb. range. I wouldn't sweat it.

We received our new GlowSteps today and I installed them no problem. They suggested we get the 25 1/2" wide model with spacers but based on others' experience of installing the 27 1/2" model (i.e. Lou Dick), we decided to go with the wider set. They were a perfect fit. As with Lou's installation...

The front half of your rig is similar to our floorplan. I thought we might have to lift it over the bed to get past it, but it slid right between our dresser and bed no problem. The narrowest part of our washer's journey through our rig was that area and it is just over 21" wide. The Splendide...

The one tire guy was going by the published specs on the tire from Nitto, most likely. The 325's have a suggested rim width of 9 to 12". Also, you mention pin weight. Between approximately 4,000 lb. of pin weight and a guaranteed minimum of about 3,500 lb on your truck's rear axle without the...

Yup. I'd just do I-75 and call it a day. You'll have no problems with the hills at the TN/KY border. We used to pull it with our older (2002 F-350 7.3 diesel) tow vehicle and a 15,500 lb. fiver without problems up or down. Only traffic problems might be due to Christmas travelers going down and...

Depends on where on the Gulf Coast you are heading (the Florida Gulf Coast shoreline is pretty long) and what time of the year. However, the two general routes will either be I-75 or I-65. If you are concerned with climbs, hills, etc., neither has much in the way of really long or steep grades...

The 2015 and newer trucks use the variable vanes in the turbo for engine braking. The older trucks have a much less effective method of essentially using natural engine compression from what I understand. We had a 2013 (older method) and now have a 2016 (newer method) and it is a definite...

You can tentatively mark us (Malcolm and Valerie Talley) down to be there on 9/7. We traditionally leave the Seattle area the day after Labor Day (the 5th) and head east on I-90. Red Lodge would be "on the way". Sounds like a fun time.

Hop off I-90 at Buffalo, Wyoming. Take US 16 West to US 20. Take US 20 North to US 14. Take US 14 West to Cody. There was recent discussion that US 16 across the Bighorn mountains is much preferable over US 14 when pulling an RV.

This classic commercial comes to mind:

We've been there. Next time I want to take their full tour (it was sold out when we were there). We drove by and looked them up. They have a nice tour of their facilities, as well. Tours sell out way in advance.

First of all, it's not my picture, just in case. It made the rounds several months ago. Budweiser fully intends on keeping the hitches alive to promote the brand. They still have three complete hitches that travel the country year-round. What they have more or less rolled back on is using them...

The Budweiser Clydesdales are definitely well-trained. They even pose for photos.

From previously having owned a 7.3, is it possible that you have a leak up top? (HPOP hoses, perhaps)? When you get a leak up top, it drains to the rear of the valley cover (intake manifold on a gasser) then down the back of the block to drip off about where you are indicating. It could be...

Ours pop when extended a pretty good distance (i.e. on a normal, level site), especially under fairly large temperature extremes. Back in October after we had settled into our fall site in Alabama, the temperatures were in the 80's during the day and down into the 50's at night. We'd hear them...

Florida, Winter and "not terribly expensive" are mutually exclusive terms. You will find that peak rates (i.e. The highest rates) at Florida campgrounds are during the January to March time frame. Additionally, fall is a bad time to make reservations for the upcoming winter season (I speak...

Having previously worked for Delta Faucet (1990's), I can say that their customer service is second to none. Not sure what your issues were (or are), but they'll usually bend over backwards to fix any issues with their faucets - forever (lifetime warranty). We've put Deltas in all our rigs...

I'm thinking a set of those fancy GlowSteps, probably in the Spring. Our early Christmas present was a "new" chase vehicle - 2012 Ford Escape Limited, fairly loaded, V6, 32k miles.

Besides going to a race at Keeneland, some other items to do include: Visit Old Friends to feed carrots to the retired thoroughbreds. Not officially a Bourbon Trail stop, but Buffalo Trace distillery in Frankfort is a great trip to make. Another interesting side trip is to head over to...

Applied the renewal sticker to the trailer's license plate today. We'll be traveling tomorrow to test out all our recent trailer fixes (fixed hydraulic leak, new wheel). Also paid our spot up for another month. Our home campground now lets us pay a month at a time and accumulates the days when...

The Montgomery, Alabama Costco had those in stock. Great price.

At that price point, I might be interested in it as a second RV to use as a weekender. It'd look awesome behind an 1960's vehicle.

I seem to remember Rowdy will run up to the top step on our rig. (The knowledge that we carry a stash of dog treats may play into that).

If your rig has double-pane windows, you might want to do a modification to keep the bugs out. If you open each window and look outside, you'll see that the factory left 1/2 to 3/4 inch gaps in the seal to allow condensation to drip out. Unfortunately, the bugs can crawl up through those gaps...

Go ahead and put us down for Friday through Sunday. I hope to eventually get through to someone to make a reservation for me. So far it has been voicemail and long holds.

We stayed there two years ago almost to the day (had to go look at my list of previous stays). I remember because they had Halloween stuff out. It was a nice campground. Limited number of spots for bigger rigs, but we had no problems getting around. They initially parked us on a sunny site when...

We discovered this summer that we had a hydraulic leak in the underbelly. I ultimately narrowed it down to the door-side slide ram inner connection. I cut into the belly a couple weekends ago and verified that nothing was loose and that it was not the hose assembly. I figured out the fitting...

Here's a good reminder to carry an app or atlas that lists low clearances. Back in September, we decided we would try to stay at Kentucky Dam Village State Park for an overnight. On the way in and out on the route our GPS took us is the following railroad bridge over the state highway we were...

Most of your neighbors at any RV park have the same key. You could ask if they can spare an extra. In all seriousness, when we bought our first Big Country, we only had one baggage key on our chain. When we mentioned that to the technician, he looked at the key briefly, left and came back with...

No direct experience with using a gasser for pulling, but I'd say if the current '09 is doing OK by you, the 6.2 should only be better. Given your situation (trailer weight, amount of usage, etc.) it sounds like an ideal setup.

Called them up, they had me fill in their on-line warranty information and attached pictures. Within the hour I had an email indicating they're sending me a new wheel free of charge. I'll look into reporting it.

We had one of our tires go flat right after we got set up in our current spot. Didn't notice until we went to retract some side jacks to put blocks under them. Wondered why the trailer kept leaning and the Level-up stopped with an angle error. Finally ran it to the tire store and they found a...

It's been a while since I finally dropped out of electrical engineering and went back to computer science, but I think the two hot legs on a 50 amp connection are on different phases. If you tied both hots together to use as a single hot, the incoming power will be a mixture of the two phases...

Trust me, if you price out a new RV refrigerator, you'll try lots of other options to get the smell out. Lots.

Until then, I believe they are about the right size for smaller paper plates. They'd be great for outdoor picnics on windy days. :p

The 3950 is a front bath model. There are water and drainage lines between the forward wall of the pass-through storage and the rear wall of the front cargo/generator compartment.

Our agent is Rich Wiersma.

Possibly, but it was my understanding it is an across-the-board rate increase to all customers with 35' or longer RVs. Edited to add: Progressive's rate for the same coverage is actually lower than the original Blue Sky rate, so there's that as well.

When we bought our first Big Country in 2012, I went with Good Sam insurance on it. At the time, it was underwritten by GMAC who subsequently decided to get out of the insurance business. Thus, the underwriting switched to National General. We stayed with GS/NG up through the accident on our...