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I am implementing new photo galleries which will be used on the Haw Creek website in conjunction with travel pages on places we have visited. The gallery pages are designed to be viewable with most browsers and computer displays.
Currently, the only galleries in place are from Arkansas:
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I will be adding more galleries from Wisconsin, Illinois, Wyoming, Montana, Texas, Utah, Colorado, and other places.
The travel pages associated with each gallery will provide useful content related to the places visited, including description, activities, phone numbers, directions and links to related, and useful, websites.
I’ve included the following picture in PhotoHunt 69: Funky on my photo blog.
Toad Suck Daze, Conway, Arkansas - Hot rod and vintage auto show
Teardrops trailers are definitely cool little campers - FUNKY!
May 5, 2007, 11:51 AM - Pentax K10D: ISO 100, 28 mm focal length (42mm in 35mm format), 1/180 second, F 8.0
Paint Shop Pro XI:
- added depth of field around teardrop trailer
- applied “sandstone” texture effect.
Here’s what the photo originally looked like.
and here’s the tow vehicle it was hooked to.
If you’re looking for tips, hints, and ideas about anything to do with recreational vehicles, this blog and website is not the best place for it. While you’ll find some valuable information here, when I’m looking for RV related information, one of my first stops, and often my only stop, is the RV Forum at rvforum.net. As well, I often spend time at RV Forum reading the newest in discussions that interest me and posting when I have something to contribute.
RV Forum is also a community. While there is always a lot of new folks who come and go, the RV Forum claims to be the oldest online RV community and “the friendliest place on the web for anyone with an RV or an interest in RVing.” While there is an occasional misunderstanding that requires clearing up, there seems to be a complete absence of flaming that I’ve seen on other forums. In fact, recently, I made a serious comment about something I had not realized had been said in jest. After a little clarification, the topic’s discussion continued.
The forum was originally formed on Compuserve and many of the paticipants of today have been on the forum since the Compuserve days. Some in the forum refer to themselves as framily - a made-up word derrived from friends and family.
After more than 10 years at the old location, in January 2005, attendees at a rally at Quartzsite, Arizona, voted to move to a new location because for many it was no longer usable at Compuserve, and there were excessive commercial ads, and far too frequent login difficulties. The forum “opened the doors” in its new location in March 2005. Since then, membership and participation has continued to climb. At the end of February, 2006, there was over 3500 members and there are 10, 362 members today, an increase of 2 just since I started writing this review.
The forum hosts, unpaid volunteers all, do what it takes to keep the forum operating smoothly and contribute significantly to the discussions. When new members first post on the forum, within a few hours there is generally a welcome from one or more of the staff. When I joined on February 7, 2006, there was a welcoming post from both Jim Dick and Ron Ruward within hours, and Carl Lundquist had some great advice for me that basically told me that our truck wasn’t big enough to tow what we wanted in a camper.
As a result of that and my further research, a great deal of it garnered from RV Forum, we traded in our Chevy Avalanche for a heavier duty vehicle that would tow a trailer that fit what we really wanted. We returned from our first relatively long trip just a few weeks ago and for the most part it was relatively trouble free, thanks in part to things I learned from reading articles from the forum’s library and disscussions on many of the boards.
And one of the best things about the forum - it’s free! You don’t have to pay anything if you don’t want to. The cost of the forum is largely supported by the Forum Administrator, Tom Jones. Tom is the person I was referring to having said something in jest that I responded to thinking it was serious - it had something to do with GPS and AdSense. Those who spend much time on the forum appreciate Tom and all that he does, especially now that he has the search feature figured out. Tom gives a lot of credit to others, “The staff here…, truly deserve the praise. Their tireless efforts, along with the wonderful members we have here, are what keeps us going.”
There is a feature that allows folks to help the forum out by contributing, but it’s not touted by the forum staff. I encourage anyone who is a member to fork over a few dollars. I contributed a little bit last year. I suppose it’s about time to do it again.
If you’re looking for information on RVs and the RV way of life, check out the RV Forum.
(Note: I posted this message first on the RV Forum.)
We’re on our first extended trip in the camper that we bought late last year. A lot of the wall space is taken up by cabinets and there isn’t much other space where photos of the grandkids — and others — can be placed and be easily viewed. I’ve thought about mounting pictures on the cabinets, but I’m not ready to put holes in the wood yet.
While picking up some photo-paper at Walmart, I noticed some packages of “Post-it picture paper.” I hadn’t ever seen that before and it looks like it’ll work perfectly for us. I printed one photo on it yesterday of the grand-kids toasting marshmallows which is now “posted” on our daughter’s refrigerator door.
Here’s the link to the 3-M “Post-it picture paper” page
Continue reading about Where to put pictures in your camper…. Post-it picture paper
Parks, the new donor magazine from the National Park Foundation, is available at no cost on-line.
Filled with interesting material, the articles and photography are definitely worth taking a loook at!
Colleen Ford, a retired antique collector, kept a small black book detailing second-hand charity thrift stores that she found on four years of traveling B.C in her recreational vehicle. When friends repeatedly asked her to pass along her map of “second-hand” treasure troves, she started to think about publishing the information. She self-published her book in 2005 and has been travelling the province since, promoting her book and gathering new material for updates to add to her website, also called Thrift Store Guide for B. C.
Peninsula News Review: Treasure map leads to thrift stores
Saanich Peninsula, Vancouver Island B.C.
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