Yesterday, we picked up our new Navion IQ.
The IQ is a class C motorhome, built by Itasca, a division of Winnebago. It’s built on a Dodge Sprinter chassis and has a Mercedes-Benz diesel engine.
This is quite a a change from our previous camper. We traded in a 31′6″ high profile fifth wheel. We had found that the fifth wheel was just not suited for the kind of camping that we are interested in and that it would not fit in many of the campgrounds we would like to go to.
It will certainly require some adjustments. We carried a lot of stuff in the fifth wheel that we really didn’t need because we had the room and we had adequate margin to our weight limit. In our new camper, we’ve got a lot of margin to the weight limits, too, but there is a lot less room for storing things. There will be much more of a focus in only taking the things along that we really will be using or that we need,
Our first shake-down trip will likely be this next weekend. We’re going to go for a night or two at a nearby state park. We’d like to go for longer, but my schedule doesn’t allow it for the next few weeks. However, the contract job I am working on will be over in about 6 weeks and then I’ll be back to the retired life again.
Our first relatively long distance trip will be to Wisconsin, where our youngest daughter and her family lives. We’ll probably take a few days to get there, stay a week or so, and then take a few tays to meander back home.
We still have a few things to get in order before we take off on that trip. We need to get our CRV set up for towing. I’m going to have to come up with some sort of modified shower curtain so I’ll be able to use the shower — I’m a big guy and the shower is not quite big enough with the installed “door.”
Henry’s Fork of the Snake River, Idaho
Mesa Falls Recreation Area
September 16, 2007 at 10.31am MDT
Canyonlands National Park
September 23, 2007 at 12.13pm MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250); Aperture: f/9.5; Focal Length: 50 mm; ISO Speed: 100
Arches National Park
September 24, 2007 at 10.43am MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180); Aperture: f/9.5; Focal Length: 55 mm; ISO Speed: 100
Now there are two.
The second page I’ve completed since getting back to work developing content for Haw Creek is the page for Woolly Hollow State Park.
Woolly Hollow is a nice little state park in Faulkner County north of Conway and near Greenbriar. The centerpiece of the park is a 40 acre reservoir, Lake Bennett, constructed in the early 30s by the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and the Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) as a watershed project built for scientific studies of the effect of run-off, silt and erosion control in a specific watershed. See my Woolly Hollow State Park web page for more information.
Administrivia details:
I’ve had the page on Haw Creek for quite some time in a different location. However, I’m moving all of my places and images pages and changing their format. I’ve decided to concentrate on optimizing the pages for search engines as well as adding new, accurate content. A lot of the content will be available in other places on the web, but, generally, not all on one site and, in many instances, the information is sketchy and often inaccurate. My intent is to provide useful and interesting material as well as valuable links that should be viable for a reasonable period of time.
Continue reading about Another park page — Woolly State Park, Arkansas
Arches National Park, Utah
Composite image from multiple photos using autostitch
Weathered pilings on the Shore of Chesapeake Bay, Norfolk, Virginia
December 13, 2007 at 2.27pm EST; Camera: Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125); Aperture: f/4; Focal Length: 120 mm; ISO Speed: 100
Fishing trip from one of the Jackson, Wyoming, resorts. The guy in front has his fishing line snagged on a piece of
metal on the bow of the boat.
This photo was taken from the bank of the river right next to the campground we were at.
September 18, 2007 at 12.53pm MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.022 sec (1/45); Aperture: f/5.6; Focal Length: 50 mm;
ISO Speed: 140
Campground at Lake Ogallala
Nebraska State Park System
August 17, 2007 at 8.18am MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60); Aperture: f/4.5; Focal Length: 45 mm; ISO Speed: 100
If you’re not sure that you’re the RVing type, renting a recreational vehicle can be a good way to find out. Our first RV experience was with a rented small tow behind trailer. We later bought a used, near identical model.
On our trips in 2007, we saw a lot of class C RV rentals. This CruiseAmerica rental was at an interstate highway overlook near Badlands National Park. The driver and passengers were tourists from Eroupe — possibly Germany.
August 19, 2007 at 10.34am CMT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/8v Focal Length: 70 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Continue reading about RV Rental at Scenic Overlook Near Badlands
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