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Forum: Hi, I am.... 09-06-2023, 12:44 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 996
Posted By honda03842
Newfoundland Again

We recently completed another trip to Newfoundland. Unfortunately I have not been regularly using FRV. It's a great website but I as I age I'm reducing my envolvement in a lot of things.


I...
Forum: Hi, I am.... 09-05-2023, 02:31 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 996
Posted By honda03842
Yes we drove the Trans Labrador Highway in 2008. ...

Yes we drove the Trans Labrador Highway in 2008. We began in Newfoundland and traveled east to west all the way to Baie-Comeau, QC. At the time most of the TLH was not paved.

It was a great trip.
Forum: Fulltiming in a Molded Fiberglass Trailer 08-29-2023, 08:16 AM
Replies: 37
Views: 11,292
Posted By honda03842
Update on a 1991 Scamp 16

We're now 81 and have been traveling for 23 years, about 7 months a year. The last 13 years in our Scamp 16. We've had a number of RV's but our Scamp is our favorite. Many people in our FL RV park...
Forum: Hi, I am.... 08-29-2023, 07:05 AM
Replies: 10
Views: 996
Posted By honda03842
Newfoundland Again

We have a 1991 Scamp 16 that we've owned for about 13 years and have written extensively about the rig on FRV.

We just completed our 12th trip to Newfoundland, our favorite place in NL. Our...
Forum: General Chat 05-25-2021, 11:44 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
LOVE THAT ANTI-SWAY BAR. In 13 years of...

LOVE THAT ANTI-SWAY BAR.
In 13 years of towing small trailers are anti-sway bar has helped us thru bad situations.

Today driving North thru MS on rural Rt 19 with virtually no traffic a green...
Forum: General Chat 05-25-2021, 11:29 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
GREAT COE CAMPGROUND. Wallace Creek on Lake Enid...

GREAT COE CAMPGROUND. Wallace Creek on Lake Enid in MS is a great campground, the best COE we've been to so far. It even has full hookups, rare in COEs.
Forum: General Chat 05-23-2021, 02:17 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
'ON THE ROAD INFLATION' It's been over a year...

'ON THE ROAD INFLATION' It's been over a year since we were last on the road. It's clear that inflation will become a travel factor. For example gas has gone up at least 40% since January, nothing...
Forum: General Chat 05-21-2021, 12:55 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Beth and Adrian. At least we can travel in the...

Beth and Adrian. At least we can travel in the USA. I've written twice to the NL tourist bureau. We both are vaccinated and still can't go. Most people who get it are surviving. We carry...
Forum: General Chat 05-21-2021, 07:54 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Panini Pete's in Fairhope, AL. This is an...

Panini Pete's in Fairhope, AL. This is an absolute must. Get the banana Beignets.

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Forum: General Chat 05-20-2021, 03:46 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
FOOD ON OUR TRIP. Our friends are forever...

FOOD ON OUR TRIP. Our friends are forever suggesting we can't cook in our trailer. When they come inside are amazed by the counter space. We have cooked three primary meals in 5 days on the road. ...
Forum: General Chat 05-20-2021, 03:30 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Summerdale, AL to Elko, NV. We are thinking of...

Summerdale, AL to Elko, NV. We are thinking of avoiding TX in our drive west since we've driven across it 20 or so times.

heading northwest thru the middle of the nation generally avoiding...
Forum: General Chat 05-20-2021, 11:59 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Walt P. We're at Rainbow Plantation in...

Walt P. We're at Rainbow Plantation in Summerdale, AL, an Escapee park.

I've test the Cell Booster in every location and it typically increases the data rate by 2X, here it's 4X. The antenna is...
Forum: General Chat 05-11-2021, 08:16 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Cell Phone Booster

We have T Mobile and generally has provided good service for us. We switched to it when Verizon stopped providing coverage in Newfoundland many years ago. For about $59 we have the senior coverage...
Forum: Towing, Hitching, Axles and Running Gear 05-07-2021, 09:20 AM
Replies: 22
Views: 2,116
Posted By honda03842
We have a Honda Odyssey with Honda's transmission...

We have a Honda Odyssey with Honda's transmission cooler. It's actually larger than the one in my former 17,000 pound motorhome.

My son towed a Scamp with a 4 cylinder Accord and had an...
Forum: Hi, I am.... 05-07-2021, 05:19 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,249
Posted By honda03842
Which Fiberglass trailer?

Once you accept the limitations of a Fiberglass trailer to me the model doesn't matter too much. We've traveled in a Casjta 16, 1 year and a Scamp 16, 11 years. (The Casita was too short.)

We...
Forum: General Chat 05-02-2021, 10:44 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 2,035
Posted By honda03842
I know there's a wide difference in the...

I know there's a wide difference in the application of the Covid rules, with some states being relatively controlling. Of course FL is relatively open. When the President spoke this week, even...
Forum: General Chat 04-28-2021, 08:57 AM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Martin's Hotel and Picon Punch

A bunch of my nieces and nephews were out to Paradise Valley and went to Mrtins Hotel in Elko for lunch. One of the women said a Picon Punche is like nipples "One is not enough and three is too...
Forum: General Chat 04-23-2021, 01:08 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Our son had a 1977 Scamp 13 for about a decade. ...

Our son had a 1977 Scamp 13 for about a decade. We are wanderers, some of the best places we've been were by chance (like Craters of the Moon). We retired at 58 both the same age within days. I...
Forum: General Chat 04-23-2021, 12:53 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Florida is now our home and have spent about the...

Florida is now our home and have spent about the last year here. Virtually everyone in our park has been vaccinated and we have only had one case of Covid and that was in a visitor. He got over it...
Forum: General Chat 04-19-2021, 12:55 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
And are you going to be in AZ sometime this year?...

And are you going to be in AZ sometime this year?

Norm
Forum: General Chat 04-19-2021, 12:54 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
WIth Humor

With Humor, there is no Dark Side if you're traveling in an RV. WE have owned a number and loved each one. Three years ago we bought i993 Bornfree, a 21 foot Class C. The Bornfree was an...
Forum: General Chat 04-18-2021, 05:53 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
We've done 7 or 8 loops of the USA and have been...

We've done 7 or 8 loops of the USA and have been to Elko. Actually our Nephew lives in Lamoille and was married at the CCC campground in the Ruby Mountains. We have gone to the Star Hotel...
Forum: General Chat 04-18-2021, 04:33 PM
Replies: 31
Views: 3,151
Posted By honda03842
Excitement approaching 79

This is our 21st year on the road. Our 1991 Scamp 16 turned 30 this year, really pretty amazing.

We have not taken our Scamp on the road in two years. We had hoped to go back to Newfoundland...
Forum: General Chat 02-13-2021, 04:37 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,607
Posted By honda03842
Steve, Progress is being made. Approximately 1...

Steve, Progress is being made. Approximately 1 in 6 has been vaccinated in Wisconsin some 900,000 of 5.8 million.

Not too bad.
Forum: General Chat 02-13-2021, 06:39 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,607
Posted By honda03842
I have received the vaccine and contacted...

I have received the vaccine and contacted Newfoundland's tourist bureau to see if they would now allow me to visit. The response was we have no plans to allow vaccinated people into Newfoundland. ...
Forum: General Chat 02-12-2021, 08:32 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,607
Posted By honda03842
Rallies and State Parks

We attended a Fiberglass rally on the coast of Oregon in a state park. The rangers mentioned how happy they were to have the rally suggesting that the attendees were easy to have guests.
Forum: General Chat 02-11-2021, 08:17 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,607
Posted By honda03842
Scamp Camp is typically one of the larger...

Scamp Camp is typically one of the larger Fiberglass rallies, in 2019 there were over 70 rigs. It is held in Highland Hammocks State Park, unusual in that state parks are reluctant to give up so...
Forum: General Chat 02-10-2021, 05:42 AM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,607
Posted By honda03842
Bob, If you watch carefully, you find people...

Bob,

If you watch carefully, you find people who do little things in life that make the difference with their actions. Floyd is one of those people that is more than he appears. One of those...
Forum: General Chat 02-09-2021, 02:27 PM
Replies: 34
Views: 3,607
Posted By honda03842
Floyd at Scamp Camp

We drove over to Scamp Camp today to heard Floyd's Tech talk. His informed talk on Scamps is well worth the visit. His willingness to share his long Scamp experience with others, to do it every...
Forum: General Chat 12-24-2020, 11:31 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Sitting here on Christmas Eve Wishing

I've become a Youtube watcher. Recently mostly videos on Newfoundland. Today I'm watching a video by the Smithsonian on Newfoundland.

This is well worth watching if you're thinking of going to...
Forum: General Chat 11-27-2020, 12:50 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Changes

It's interesting how dramatic trauma, like Covid, initiates change. The changes comes even if the trauma has a tinge of question-ability. Today I read a study that said the total death rate per age...
Forum: General Chat 10-30-2020, 06:57 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Is it possible...

"Is it possible to be lost and found at the same time?"

This has been the general theme of Newfoundland's Travel Guide. I received my copy of the 2020 guide this week. It carried me back to our...
Forum: Fulltiming in a Molded Fiberglass Trailer 10-09-2020, 05:06 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 6,296
Posted By honda03842
If you go on youtube and search on affordaplane...

If you go on youtube and search on affordaplane there are numerous regular people building these planes and even more people building planes like this under part 103 of the FAA regulations.

It's...
Forum: Hi, I am.... 10-06-2020, 05:25 AM
Replies: 33
Views: 4,036
Posted By honda03842
A Posssibility

Michele,

One possibility is to work in one of the many state and county parks.

Generally they rarely pay anything but do provide a free full service campsite. The work is usually not...
Forum: Fulltiming in a Molded Fiberglass Trailer 10-05-2020, 05:19 AM
Replies: 35
Views: 6,296
Posted By honda03842
Part 103 Airplanes

There is a class of airplanes under FCC regulation 103. Interestingly the entire regulation fits on 9 1/2 x 11 sheet of paper. A license is not required to fly these planes. The entire plane must...
Forum: Modifications, Alterations and Updates 10-04-2020, 06:57 AM
Replies: 710
Views: 193,587
Posted By honda03842
Solar Panel

A number of people have searched this thread for our solar panel installation. It is not here but in the following thread.

Since I posted into about our taped down solar panels I have received a...
Forum: Problem Solving | Owners Helping Owners 09-30-2020, 04:11 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 1,659
Posted By honda03842
If the seat and your cubbie holes are similar to...

If the seat and your cubbie holes are similar to the Scamp, my solution was to cut a couple of holes in the front of the dinette seats, build a couple of trays, mounting them on slides and bought two...
Forum: Modifications, Alterations and Updates 09-30-2020, 09:15 AM
Replies: 84
Views: 12,235
Posted By honda03842
PS to taping them down

Before we bought our Scamp we had a Sunline 15.5 and mounted tray solar panels to the roof. Driving down the Labrador Highway, a dirt road at the time, those thru bolts eventually leaked. Vibration...
Forum: Modifications, Alterations and Updates 09-30-2020, 09:12 AM
Replies: 84
Views: 12,235
Posted By honda03842
Tape the panels down

We used Scotch Permanent Exterior Tape to attach 2 flexible Solar Panels to the roofs of two Scamps about a decade ago. Our Scamp 16 has had one taped to the roof and has been in all kinds of...
Forum: General Chat 09-30-2020, 08:52 AM
Replies: 21
Views: 2,149
Posted By honda03842
In 20 years ...

We've been to all the states and provinces in our RVs over the last 20 years. When we began we expected to take 3 years to see it all now recognizing we won't live long enough to see everything. ...
Forum: Problem Solving | Owners Helping Owners 09-29-2020, 02:19 PM
Replies: 16
Views: 3,396
Posted By honda03842
I have mounted solar panels on a 1991 Scamp 16...

I have mounted solar panels on a 1991 Scamp 16 and a 1977 Scamp 13. I bought flexible solar panels, I believe in both cases a 100 watt panel. I attached these directly to the roof with Scotch...
Forum: General Chat 09-28-2020, 03:59 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Sixty and counting

We are at 60 members who have requested the Guides to NL, Labrador and Port Orford.

I would be happy to know if the recipients make it to these destinations. You can send me an email to my...
Forum: General Chat 09-28-2020, 03:56 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
We are linked. I did get your email and PM. ...

We are linked. I did get your email and PM.

Wishing you well.

Norm
Forum: General Chat 09-26-2020, 07:16 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Email

I sent you a PM with my email address. I find the PM to be somewhat quirky. On a few occasions I've had problems.
Forum: General Chat 09-25-2020, 03:48 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Guides: Newfoundland, Labrador and Port Orford

I have now sent out 54 copies of the Guides. I hope everyone who asked received their copies. If some how I missed you, please send me another email.

I have been away for a while on a family...
Forum: General Chat 09-18-2020, 07:17 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,814
Posted By honda03842
this is a BornFree. I own a 1993 BornFree 21...

this is a BornFree. I own a 1993 BornFree 21 foot Presidential on a Ford F350 chassis. it is spacious with tons of storage and a huge dry bathroom. It weighs about 7000 lbs, gets 11 mpg and we...
Forum: General Chat 09-06-2020, 02:43 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
i've never disembarked in Argentia but it doesn't...

i've never disembarked in Argentia but it doesn't an hour in Port aux Basque. Just realized the battery problems slowed things down.
Forum: General Chat 09-06-2020, 02:02 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
The first time we went RVing we did not...

The first time we went RVing we did not disconnect and had the same problem of discharging the car battery.

Two repair items we carry are a DC air pump and a jumper battery pack. Of course we...
Forum: General Chat 09-06-2020, 01:51 PM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Newfoundland ponies

You are referring to the little ponies bred for working in the mines. My recollection is there is a conservatory for them on the Change Islands.

The Newfoundland Pony Santuary, Change Islands, NL...
Forum: General Chat 09-05-2020, 10:39 AM
Replies: 66
Views: 6,418
Posted By honda03842
Seasickness

I had a PM today about seasickness on the 6 hour ferry to Newfoundland from Nova Scotia.

We've made this ferry trip about 20 times. Ginny is particularly susceptible to seasickness and has never...
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