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Back on the road again.  We have agreed to be BLM camp hosts this summer (2025 again)
at Carbella CG in Montana close to the north entrance to Yellowstone NP.  
 

On the way back to AZ from Montana last fall we stopped at Albuquerque at LaMesa RV and bought a new to us 2018 Flweetwood Bounder 35P

Our old 05 Monaco Cayman 36 PDQ sold after we got back from spending part of January in the LTVA in Quartzsite. We delivered it to the buyer up in Phoenix. So now we can concetrate loading the new MH with all our stuff for the summer travels. It's kind of like each fall and spring like moving in and out of a house.

March 1 2025
We are getting ready to roll to adventures later this week, weather permitting. It's still cold up north. We are going to first head to our birth state IOWA to visit Terry's family and then on to Montana to camp host for the BLM at Carbella campground just north of Gardiner MT on the Yellowstone river.   A view of our  Carbella host site
 We bought a new residential fridge and got that installed in the 2018 Bounder along with the new forced air furnace. We also equipped the MH with $8K of solar and lithium bats. 1200 W solar 600ah of bats new 3000W inverter/converter. More power than I think we will need to run everything and should not have to run the on board gen at all this summer. Knock on wood. We also had the solar installer rewire the coach so when on solar all the electoral circuits are active.



Jan 11, 2025

We are in Quartzsite in the LTVA West just south of the big show tent. There are about 500K to 1 million people camped out here.  Got here fine except now having trouble with our Samsung RF18 fridge not cooling properly.  Always something. Freezer at 10° (S/B -4°) fridge is running about 34° which is OK . Can push the Power freeze and Power cool buttons to spike the cooling which kicks in for two hours. Is meant to fast cool warm food when placed in the fridge. Trying to limp by till we get back to Benson and get it fixed or replaced. Loews has a new model replacement for $1200 that will fit. Still waiting to replace the forced air gas furnace which was determined not repairable as it was rusted from water leak. Found out that was normal for that model unit by the mobile repair guy we hired. Got a portable propane Buddy Heater for now. Do have a table top ice maker so that is  a must have and cam move in our portable 12V cooler from the truck to use inside the MH. This is differently a shake down cruse. Bottom line I do have a Americas RV Warranty policy (paid $8K for 5 years) that has full coverage with only $100 deductible so all this should be covered. Well rhey didn't cover it due to the rust as one of their disclaimers. Oh well thery gave us $500 in good will.

Terry is loving it getting back into the Gem and Mineral Club activities here. Just driving around as this place is packed with RVs and campers, much more so than what we had ever seen  before. Lots of Nomads as in partially homeless living out of vans, cars, tents, school buses, etc. It's something else to witness to be sure.


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