A very pimptastic jayco 314 BDS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgCyqhl8_LM

I love my new to me '04 Winnebago Adventurer 38G. Tons of room, very comfortable. Everything works great, only has about 12,000 miles, just seems perfect for Emo and me. Kitchen is bigger than Panzer's grandparents kitchen. No ostentatious luxury, just solid, attractive, comfortable furnishings made by Winnebago, not Flexsteel or some other outside company. Fulltime RVers on the internet suggest getting something BIG to live in, and I now know why. Life is good. And it will stay good for a long time, as far as I can tell from today.

wow.... nice ride chuck. srsly. good for you.

how do you ham now?.

Screwdriver* on the ladder.

*A screwdriver antenna is a vertical with a section near the bottom with a coil and some fingers which move up or down the coil as the unit is rotated. It is called a screwdriver because the first such antennas were made with motors from cordless screwdrivers. With a whip on top, the antenna may be remotely tuned to different frequencies by adjusting how much of the coil is shorted by fingers. I use a High Sierra HS1800 with a 10 foot whip.

Beats my RV to a pulp with a 2x4. Nice

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sweet ride. you should paint the exterior yellow so it looks like a giant xanax bar on wheels.

Haha, you use VO5 and Barbisol.

Who doesn't use Barbisol? It's cheap, good quality, it's everywhere and it works. (I don't use it- I shave with Ivory soap in the shower but I have a can of Barbisol under the sink for when I have a late afternoon news conference with no time for a shower).

He's got Brut too Panzie!

Cool wheels Charin. You have your women hang their heads off the couch or the bed?

That's great you were able to upgrade your RV again, Chuck. It must be nice to do so well working for the government, when the rest of the country is in such economic turmoil. Congratulations.

Chuck is that your rolls-royce? (much farther up in the thread) It looks like it may have towed an RV but it also looks like it is next to some kind of cemetery urn.

No, just a funny pic I snatched.

h2c, keep paying those taxes.

No RV sex yet, hell, the park has this:



That little gay hairdresser guy is the only one a bit worried about me having a rarely used bottle of prescribed xanax. I appreciate the concern, but everything is fine, really.

I think Gia would approve of this RV, if I vacuumed up all the dog hair.

Hehehehe "cabbage cunt" ! Thats as good as "smegma breath"

No Lou, no amount of metrosexual makeover will help. Brimleyism is a serious and debilitating disease that strikes at more than just people. Sadly the only known cure is the grave.

charin, I was impressed by the RV. How much did that thing set you back? Money-wise.

I traded in a newer Class C for a bigger, older Class A, the value is about $70k. For used prices, rvtraderonline is good, for new Winnies, the company makes dealers list only MSRP, but you can take about 20% off that. My rig new goes about $165k. Best buy is really a late model used RV, but there are a lot of gotchas.

dude, have that thing taken in by a skycrane halfway up a mountainside outside of glacier. cover with brush, set up a spotting scope and a lapua on a bipod on the roof and you've got a perfect huntinc camp. go walk around until you get hungry then grab lunchg and spend the afternoon getting legit shots for a rested rifle in that chambering. there's noserious dropwith that round and you could feel fine guesstimating everything about 500-900 yards, you couldmiss by 2" on a grizzly at those ranges and it's not going far. like 30 feet. it's got enough energy to removethe shoulder girdle and head of humas at 2000 yards and be enoiugh to stop light armored engine blocks at closer ranges. and it's not reserved ffor guns with real antimaterial establishmentt. interventions and barrets are great, but ther's something weird about realizing you're about to shoot an animal with the same bullet your p-51Dwould have used to whack german fighters and strafe at traincars and everything short of main battle tanks or tank killers.

awesomer ly erxecuted, but why notjust use the better one and just take an abrams ino the mountains and sit on the turrent with the full auro thing andjust shoot until your bighornb sheep is in puzzle piece., if you see anything like a blackhawk or big navy chopper on the way to the sheep just shoot until you hit the pilot or qewck a rotor cable and have it taxidermiued when it falls out of the air spinning wildlhy.

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it's cool that you can still go buy a few barret semi-autosthey sell now that are. not you ca people. but the state didn't catch the fact that both the chey-tac .408 and barrett's supposedly near-perfect .416 rigbby creation. not like african hunter who was the actual .rigby shell creator but arival to the .50' in every way and it's superior on people at distances.everything .50 and above is classified as a destructive weapon but the two best choices to fuck shit up you can carry are right under and ergo legal. comedy.

I paid only about US$6K for old Tioga a few years back and rented it out at US$500/mo and got my $$ out of it already.
So... As I said, yours beats it to a bloody pulp.
Likely one of these years will turn it into an "Art-Car" and chill out with the naked hippies in BRC.
ART CARS

Or... That Glacier Nat PK / Skycrane idea is not bad either...

yeah, i never thought of them as what you get ripped-off for in NA, a place with solid-sided walls to sleep or retreat to.
bear country and tents=timothy treadwell. if you could get that anywhere off a highway with some kind of snowline-valley profile you're where you want to be, and he's probably got satellite tv, internet, a shower that's hot as fast as a house and your food doesn't have to end up 30' in a bag and rope in a tree to make sure you eat it not just attracted bears to eat and want to defend what they're eating. refrigerators and ways to cook food that aren't basically a welding torch tank that disperses a little wider and weaker pattern of gas. they suck, most water filters suck. all tents save for moutaineering ones will suck sometime because wind and comfortable ones will get you some night you got to a site at midnight and it's pouring and your black diamond or whatever pleasant tent is now blowing 30 feet and further with the wind while you're soaked and stakes and poles are everywhere.

all it takes is a few plain black snakes or a runaway ultralight and you'll start seeing the reason it's just easier to fucking pay for a nimo and a little weight to set up in wind and dark. a minute or two on lousy ground and you're cool. tarps aren't that fun to actually need, space blankets too. and i'll happily pay a premium over a 400-dollar comfy and light tent to never have to have to carry watertight tent epoxy shit in a huge tube as a tiny hole is getting big enoug you're cutting square feet of that tarp up to create the sealed patch for tonight, who knows what's in store a few days later. hot, overpriced, green, heavy and interior space is designed to be ideal if you're tied to the side of rainier but same as a .357 in any shape you take it because you'd really appreciate the results of it working as advertised sometime. yeah, a python or big nimo's going to rape you for a grand carry very little ammo or people/gear, but one storm way under snowline well-within 3-season territory that makes your outside mag winner of a tent stuck and ripped in a bush while your eye almost got clipped by a steak in the gust.

just bitter

Yeah, it's a tank.

Tioga George

And I don't need a referral to see a specialist.

h2c's post is awesome and then we see jamesn nodding out posting then regain consciousness and pull another post out his ass. These are the little surprises that keep xpt interesting. I'll be damned if I will ever spend 150k or even 70k used for that matter on a depreciating liability- it's never an asset. It pains me to buy a new car much less a rolling mobile home. I guess if I was wealthy enough to compare the comfort of a full-blown RV to a hunting tent without considering the cost of the meat I might harvest, per pound, then I might buy one. But until that time it will be best to just have a friend with an RV. Hopefully one not filled with dog hair and JM porn.

If I knew how to drive one of these things would probably be a lot of fun. I would drive it across Canada and then get rid of it.

My absolute biggest issue is the poor fuel economy. I would probably have to leave all the doors opened all the time in hopes they would act as sails and give me slightly better gas mileage.

There was a Top Gear episode where everyone built an RV and went to an RV park (or whatever it's called) and everyone involved found the whole thing dreadfully dull. Till they started setting things on fire.

It's not a good investment, financially. Initial depreciation is steep, that's why late model used is the best buy. But, I choose this lifestyle, which is actually a bit more frugal than the "sticks and bricks" locked into one location.

Saving the Earth at 8 MPG.

I get about 8, but I'll only drive about 2-400 miles a month with the motorhome. The rest of the time I'm getting 20+ with my little truck. I like to stay 3 weeks or a month in one place.

Yes, the campgrounds are not exciting, that's the whole point. I walk the dog, mess around on the internet, cook, clean, go to meetings, shop, hike, explore the local area, etc. I need to slow down and relax.

Sticks and bricks appreciate, and that has to be taken into account. But I guess when you've taken 450 steps through a 12 step program, and signed up everyone in your immediate area for "dyabeetus" supplies it's time to move on.

Chuck I strongly suggest you find the episode of top gear where they built their own RVs. One of them ends up being 3 stories tall. I think you'll get a kick out of it but I am having trouble finding a link because i don't think RVs are called RVs in england.

Google top gear motorhome challenge

Made my reservation for my first spot in Texas this winter. I'm leaving the 8th and will stay until March, coming back in the little truck for Christmas. East Texas, then the Hill Country, then Big Bend.

Happy and mellow here in East Texas. Same site as last year, here for 3 weeks then to Livingston. Beautiful windows open weather. Life is good.

-Chuck, Winter Texan