Mike Goad on September 18th, 2007

Today we drove from near West Yellowstone, Montana, down to a campground just south of Jackson, Wyoming. The shortest route would have been through Yellowstone National Park, but that probably would have taken the longest because of the speed limits in the park and the amount of traffic even this late in the season.
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We’ve visited Yellowstone National Park quite a few times over the years. Normally, after Labor Day the crowds are no longer there except at the most popular spots like Old Faithful. Usually, even there, the crowds are not as large.
In 2007, it’s different. The crowd to watch Old Faithful was huge and it was [...]

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Mike Goad on August 26th, 2007

Our drive today was a relatively short one. We went from the Rushmore Shadows campground–about 9 miles south of Rapid City, South Dakota–to the KOA that sits just outside of the fence of Devil’s Tower National Monument in Wyoming.
Images from the I90 rest area at Sundance, Wyoming:

Silver Buffalo Berry (see reference) - silver refers [...]

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Mike Goad on July 25th, 2007

I’ve just completed updating and verifying links on the Tear Drop Trailer page. The following manufacturers’ links are current as of this evening:

Adventure Teardrop Trailers: Full Size; Half Size
Big Woody: Deluxe, Standard, Ultimate, U-Finish

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Mike Goad on July 11th, 2007

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 [...]

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Mike Goad on July 7th, 2007

I’ve finished working on the page for 5th wheel manufacturers. The following were updated:
Keystone RVs
Models: Big Sky; Challenger; Copper Canyon; Cougar; Everest; Fuzion; Hornet; Laredo; Montana; Mountaineer; Raptor; Springdale; Sydney
King of the Road
Models: Crown Marquis; Royal Villa; Royalite

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Mike Goad on July 5th, 2007

I’m working on updating this blog’s parent website, Haw Creek Outdoors. I’m currently working on the page for 5th wheel manufacturers.
I’ve tried to maintain links to the pages for all of the models of all of the manufacturers. However, this generally results in having dead links that need to be cleaned up in [...]

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Mike Goad on March 28th, 2007

Your electrical power will come from the battery or batteries on board your RV (if you’re not connected to AC power at the campground - MpG).
If you don’t have an isolator between the battery on your trailer and the one that starts your tow vehicle, you will have to unplug the two to prevent draining [...]

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Mike Goad on March 15th, 2007

With rising interest rates and fuel prices, the last two years have been difficult for the RV industry. With the looming crisis in the sub-prime mortgage rate and possibility of tightening of underwriting by lenders, the RV industry could be impacted by the housing slump and souring consumer confidence, according to Bruce Hertzke, CEO [...]

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Mike Goad on March 14th, 2007

I’ve updated my web page for class C motorhomes in the RV manufacturers corner of Haw Creek Outdoors.
The current updated links for the page are included here:

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