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Friday, November 4, 2011Another beautiful morning, another morning of putzing around the site, and some looping.I'm sure we went to Trails End for breakfast, and then we decided to go to Magic KingdomThe Magic Kingdom was mostly all decorated for Christmas already!! Beautiful, but waaaay too early in my opinion!!!To Infinity and Beyond!!A few Fantasyland construction shotsEven the inside of

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Tuesday, November 1stThe day began beautiful and a I got up and headed out on the golf cart. I love looping around looking at the decorations and other rigs at the Fort!!While looping, got a few pictures of friends sitesThis is Doodle in 601This is Karla in 401This is Bob in 604This is Steve's siteAfter I finished my looping and Rick got up and was fed by Missy and TJ, we headed for DTDWe stopped

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The rest of Friday was spent running my mouth with the Fiends already there, and setting up camp, and a Wal-Mart run. Ed and Rita were over on the other side of the loop and so was Melissa, then over on our side of the loop was Lorna and Richie, TJ and Missie, and Stef and Trevor, there was an empty site waiting for the Auburns when they arrived. The Fiends were taking over the 500 Loop!! Found

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Well, it's high time I started on this report.As usual, this trip morphed a few times before it finalized. Originally, Rick and I were going to drive down to the Fort Friday afternoon, Oct 28 and arrive really, really late. Last year we did that and it worked well. Rick drove, I slept. I dropped Rick at a hotel about 1am, and went to the Fort and checked in and set up overnight. Then picked him

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Here are the pics of the Magic Mesh Screen Door I just installed.I got some 1-inch wide plastic trim in a finish similar to the interior T@B finish and a heavy duty Magic Mesh (as seen on TV).I measure and cut the trim to fit around the inside of the door and mitred the corners. Then I found the center of the top piece and stapled the Magic Mesh to the backside of the trim and cut off the excess

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Mornin Sports Fans, well now it is time for the "Beyond" portion of the trip. As I mentioned earlier, I needed to be in Sterling, VA for work on Monday morning, so at 6:00 AM I was up and getting ready to hit the road. I am SOOOOO glad I packed up the night before, cause when I walked out of the camper that morning, the heat hit me like a ton of bricks. It was going to be a HOT one!!! We had

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OK, to continue on, I spent most of Friday afternoon taking camper pictures, then it was time for the Wine and Cheese event.See that yellow T@B in the background. Those folks showed up literally minutes before we descended upon them and set up tables in their "front yard".As I said before, I had a front row seat for everything as most of those pictures were taken from my site.Announcements were

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I recently went on an incredible trip to places I'd never been before, met some wonderful people and also got to combine work with pleasure (so some of my fun was paid for!!!)In addition to belonging to Fort Fiends, I also belong to a couple of other camping groups that are specific to my type of trailer.One is tabtrailers on yahoo groups which is specific to my brand of camper, the other is

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Howdy all!! This was gonna be a non-Fort report of a state park in Alabama. The plan was to do some fishing, chillin and grillin out.I had a day of deferred holiday that I had to use before the end of the month, and since State Parks in Alabama don't take reservations, I also took a day of leave on Thursday, so we could hopefully get a lakeside site.Now for these fishin weekends, we normally go

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Well, the T@B is pushin 4 years old, so in June of 07, got new tires!!

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I'm in a catchin up mode on this blog today!!!As many of you know I belong to several Disney camping groups in addition to T@B and teardrop groups.This weekend a bunch of my Disney friends decided to get together at Stone Mountain Park and Campground in Georgia over Memorial Day weekend. It's a lot closer for most of us, and even some of the Florida folks joined us!!!Here are the pics from a

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Final Day!! This trip WAS a blast and now it's time to wrap it up.Sunday morning dawned HOT. (Of course it's the hottest day of the trip when I have to pack up).All the other folks got out pretty early as they had longer drives home or to other destinations. (One couple still had about 3 more weeks of travel ahead of them!!)I only had about 3 hours of driving, so I took my time. I packed up

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Today, I had planned to do something else touristy, and was really looking to do something high on the "cheesy" factor, but somehow lost the energy to go anywhere. A group of us went to the Mammoth Cave Lodge and had breakfast at the restaurant, but then I came back to the camper and just watched movies all day.This was our final night as a group, so we had a potluck and celebrated Derby Day!!We

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That morning, we all head to Mammoth Cave Visitors center to sign up for various cave tours.Waiting for our tour:A few rules at the entrance:Inside the cave.I was amazed at the lack of color and was told, the color you see in cave pictures is the lights they use inside the cave. Mammoth cave NP does not "color" their caves.This was down a pathway that was not on our tour.After the tour I headed

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Wow, I have gotten behind!!! Time to catch upThursday morning dawned bright and clear and we were off on the road again. Today's drive was much more pleasant on a rural US Highway Oh, and we were down to 7, as one couple had to get back home to New York:Our next stop is the National Corvette MuseumWe once again had a picnic in the parking lot......And then we took the museum tour.....There are

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OK, as I said before, with the rain and the cold, Cumberland Gap National Park was a bit of a bust. All of us cozied in and pretty much just stayed warm and dry. I was asleep by about 8pm and didn't wake up till about 8 the next morning.Since most of us did the absolute mininum setup, we were out of there and on the road by about 9am.Our first stop was in town for McDonalds coffee and/or hot

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May 3rd, about 10am, we pulled out and continued on our drive. By way, for this portion of the journey we are down to 8 of us. The other 5 had to continue home, or onto other adventures.Today was a short driving day, less than 100 miles and the drive honestly was not fun. It was through downtown Knoxville (in an effort to avoid the interstate). It wasn't even an interesting downtown, just your

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The next morning we all gather at the campground entrance for a bus tour to Cades Cove (in the Smoky Mountain National Forest)We all get settled on the bus and off we goWe've got some great river views on the way inWe saw some wild turkeysLots of majestic mountain sceneryA deerand a Bear!!!We also learned that Cades Cove was a thriving settlers community withChurchesCemetaries(If you can prove

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Well, I've been lax on updating things on this blog, so it's high time I caught up.Next is the continuation of the Blue Ridge Rally previously posted, as the caravan left from the rally, so here we go!!!!Sunday, May 1st, 2011, My Birthday!!It turns out there were 12 of us that were going to be traveling together along the Blue Ridge Parkway to head to our next destination.Now, I was SOOO excited,

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This is my tale of an annual event that I attend every year in late April, known as the T@B Blue Ridge Rally that is a 4 night gathering of T@B and T@DA owners usually somewhere very close to the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina.In addition, after the large rally, a few of the folks get together to caravan for a week afterwards to enjoy a few campgrounds and fellowship to another great

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For the last two months, I've been working crazy hours and very little time off. Most of it away from home. We finally delivered the project on March 14th. On March 15th, we hitched up the camper and drove to Fort Wilderness!!!!We were incredibly lazy on this trip, but do a few things!!We arrived on a Tuesday evening really late and was given site 349. (FYI, we booked premium, but this was a

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I've been cleaning up a bunch of pictures and realized I totally missed recording a trip we took in the T@B back in 2009.Here are some pics. It was most definitely soggy!!!(1400 miles)Thanks for lookin!Carol & Rick

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Bay Breeze RV on the Bay Park, Gulf Shores, ALhttp://www.baybreezerv.com/index.html I was in Site 8The Drive HomeComin Next, An unexpected trip to Fort Wilderness at Disney. (I worked for 40 days without a day off, so needed a BREAK!!)(800 Miles)Thanks for lookin!Carol

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We had a FABULOUS week at Fort Wilderness for Halloween.We were in site 1620 in the same loop with lots of other Fiends!!!Lots of Halloween Decorations Around the FortFood & Wine Festival!!Comin Next, A Trip to Gulf Shores in January!!(1400 Miles)Thanks for lookin!!Carol

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Nolin Lake State Park, Site 11 - Handicapped Site, All Concrete, Next to Bath House Park Website: http://parks.ky.gov/findparks/recparks/nl/ Coming Next, A Trip to Fort Wilderness for Halloween! 430 Miles) Thanks for lookin!! Carol

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This is the semi-annual gathering of folks in the Tennessee VolunTears chapter of the Tearjerks. Of course there were folks from lots of neighboring states also :-)The gathering was at Mountain Glen RV Park. http://www.mountainglenonline.com/ in Pikeville, TN. This was a nice little campground with very nice facilities and really nice owners!! We had a wonderful weekend of fellowship and as usual

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Here are a few pictures of our short trip to Fort Wilderness at Disneyworld over Labor Day Weekend. This trip was for Good Friends, Good Food, and Football Site 1221, Premium Site, Water, Electric, Sewer, Cable, and RIGHT NEXT to the Comfort StationI had a visitor one evening. He didn't appreciate his picture being taken.On Saturday night, we invited some friends over for steak and potatoes, plus

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I went to a T@B Rally at the Starved Hollow SRA in IndianaAs I normally do when I have a longer drive, I left after work on Thursday night and stopped for the night.This time I stopped at Nashville Country RV Park, just north of Nashville right off of I-65.http://www.nashvillecountryrvpark.com/It was a nice little park with some good clean amenities. I had site 8 which was a partial hookup

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These are pictures from when I attended the "Tear Days of Summer" Tearjerkers Gathering. The gathering was hosted by the Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Mississippi Chapters.The gathering was at Cloudland Canyon State Park in Northwest Georgia.The park was really nice, the sites were well laid out and the bath houses were in great shape and well maintained.I was in Site 11. Water, Electric.These

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Howdy folks here is my trip report for our SHORT trip to the Fort with the Mouse-ke-T@B.We generally stay at a Value resort over the 4th and just visit the Fiends cause I have to pick and choose my vacations, so the long weekend is all I can take.However, I finally broke down and bought a factory awning for my T@B and really simplified my setup, so we thought we'd try it this year. We decided to

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These are pictures of our week long trip to Little Mountain Marina Camping Resort on Lake Guntersville, AL.This campground is a mini resort with a marina for boating, mini golf, shuffleboard, horseshoes, basketball, tennis, a game room, and three swimming pools. They also have several indoor and outdoor pavillions, and a church on the property. This is a membership campground, but also have

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As long as I've had and been creating my big screen room around my T@B, I just realized I've never really detailed how it was made or how I set it up.Soooooo.Here you go:First things first, the materials:Two - 10x20 Instant Set Up Sheltershttp://cgi.ebay.com/10x20-EZ-Set-Pop-Up-Party-Tent-Canopy-Gazebo-L-Blue-/170400127980?cmd=ViewItem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27aca39becTwo sets of screen

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Since I finally got my hatch leak fixed, I decided to break down and get a Thermarest Awning for the T@B. This will make shorter trips a lot easier with less setup. I'll still set up the monster setup for longer trips though. Thanks for looking!!CarolComing next - Little Mountain Marina Campground on Lake Guntersville. Getting together with some Disney camping friends for a week of fishin,

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This was another weekend at Lake Guntersville State Park, Guntersville, AL. This time I was in site E-24, Water, Electric, Lake View. I was there with the Alabama Chapter of the Tearjerkers "Sweet Tear Alabama" There were 5 other unique homebuilt teardrops at the gathering.Jerry from Mississippi Jerry & SusanReggieKaren, our director Tony & Cim and their childrenStartin the charcoal for the

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Below are a few pictures of some recent mods I had done to my T@B.First is the Plexiglass AC Vent cover. Big thanks to Sharon and Bob at the Blue Ridge Rally for acquiring the parts and installing this for me!!! Next is a rubber gasket placed over my hatch hinge. I ordered a piece of EPDM rubber off of ebay and took it and some pictures from some teardrop forums to my dealer and this is what he

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These are some pictures of the T@B Blue Ridge Rally at Mountain Stream RV Park in Marion, NC. I was in Site 19. This is a GREAT little RV Park that backs up to Buck Creek. Every site has water, electric, sewer, and cable. The park also has free WiFi. There is NO cell phone service and you can't get any TV stations off of an antenna up there. http://www.mountainstreamrvpark.com/ The view from my

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Over Easter weekend, took the camper out to Lake Guntersville State Park in Guntersville, AL. We decided to drive out Thursday night to make sure we got a good site and it paid off. We got Site E-31, Electric/Water. Close to the water, right across from the bath house.Don't have any activities to report, cause there weren't any. Drove into work on Friday, but the rest of the weekend was just

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Once again, I took the Mouse-ke-T@b to Walt Disney World in Florida. I was there for two weeks and had a Great time. However, this was the rainiest December I've ever had at Disney World.I was in site 2014. It was a good sized site, but a little further from the comfort station than I like.There were lots of beautiful Christmas Decorations around Walt Disney World I also spent some time at Sea

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I joined some friends at Auburn University for their Homecoming Game. Had a great time staying out in the RV fields at the University, watching the Alumni Band and watching the game!!Our parking spot at the RV fieldTiger Spirit all aroundAlumni Band practice at 7:30 in the morning!!Marching practice right after:During the gameTouchdown!!Half-Time Our friends' son!My brother and his son.The Alumni

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Once again we spent Halloween at Ft. Wilderness at Disney World with lots of Friends and had a WONDERFUL time. We spent very little time in the parks this trip. Just relaxed with friends (the people kind and the furry kind).My first stop of the trip was the Forsyth KOA, Forsyth, GA. Site 1, pull through, water, electric. Pulled in very late without a reservation. Filled out the form, picked my

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I just got back from a great time with other T@B and T@DA friends at Four Paws Kingdom in Rutherfordton, NC. This is a nice campground. http://www.4pawskingdom.com/ Especially if you have pets. This campground caters to dogs as they have two dog parks, an agility course, a pond that the dogs can play in and the dogs even have their own bath house!!The owners also plan fun activities for the pet

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I made a T@B grey water sewer line and devised an easy way to store it on the T@B.First I took an old garden hose and cut it off short, and mounted another female hose connector on the other end.I purchased this water hose adapter and siliconed it to a sewer hose connector. The connector looks like this.I put the connector into one end of a standard RV sewer hose, and on the other end, a

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After a long summer of not being able to camp, I finally got out to Natchez Trace State Park with the Tennessee Chapter of the Tearjerkers. We were at the Pin Oak RV Campground which is really nice!! We had a wonderful weekend socializing and comparing notes on our campers, and had some good eatin on Saturday night at the potluck. Even though it rained on and off all weekend, it didn't dampen the

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When we first got our T@B we were hunting for a place to keep her when not in use. The driveway wasn't a good option because we wanted both cars in the garage.My dad offered to let us store her in his backyard and that worked well, until..........One day when picking up the T@B, I got my truck stuck in his yard, and that ended that.Then we kept her in outside storage at a storage facility, and

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Once again I took my T@B down to Ft. Wilderness Resort and Campground at Disney World. I know I've been there a lot, so I'll just post a few pictures of my campsite and the new pool renovations!!We were in site 2061, partial hookup, electric, water, cable and right next door to the comfort station.(1400 Miles) Thanks for looking!! Carol

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I had a few problems with my kitchen hatch, so had it replaced under warranty by my dealer. When they originally replaced it, apparently the hinge had some problems.A few weeks after it was replaced it started "scootching" to the right and would leak if it was wet after I opened the door. So I took it back and they "fixed" it, but the fix was really ugly and gooey with sealant and caulk and a few

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I just recently got a new Tow Vehicle - 2009 Explorer Sport Trac V8 with Class III/IV Tow Package.When attempting to hook the T@B up to it for the first time realized the "Loops" for the safety chains were too big for the existing hooks and breakaway cable.I found the following solutions:Larger replacement Hooks - 5/16" Latch Slip Hook (found at Lowes) solved the safety chain problem:A 3/8" Shank

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Ya see this snow. This was what was going on the weekend before I went camping!!! When Wednesday came around, and it said it was going to be in the upper 70s, then, yep camping I was gonna go!!!So, I booked at Hugh White State Park in Grenada, MS where the Magnolia Chapter of the Tearjerkers was having it's first get together. I had a pleasant drive there, and a wonderful time all weekend with

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Today I received the Pneumatic Jockey Wheel from http://www.busyoutdoors.com/.It is a huge improvement over the plastic jockey wheel provided by Dutchman. The T@B rolls around so much easier. While it is quite a bit more expensive than just buying a spare assembly here in the US, to me as an often solo traveler, it is so worth it.I have a ClamShell which has the shortest available space on the

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After hearing about a direct way to purchase shocks from the UK, I ordered a pair immediately.http://www.busyoutdoors.com/. The pair cost $145 and change including shipping. This may vary according to the exchange rate for any particular day.They arrived within 4 days of ordering them.Here are a couple pictures of the installed shocks with one picture showing a close up of where the bracket

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Here are a couple of pictures of the InSinkErator HOT1 Faucet I added to my kitchen in the T@B back in November.

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Today we installed a new Pioneer AM/FM/XM Player in the T@B.The first thing I did was mark the opening with a pencil, then took the board down, then we measured the opening area and marked where we needed to cut the hole for the stereo mounting bracket. You can't just center the bracket on the board as the board was installed a bit crooked. Then we cut the hole for the mounting bracket.The stereo

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I installed a new 10 1/2" Coby TV/DVD Player and a Wineguard Antenna for my T@B this weekend.The TV had to be mounted on a board. There was no way to use the mounting holes in the depth of the existing cabinet. I bought a white shelf 11.8 deep and cut it to 15 1/4" wide. I mounted the TV to the board using the mounting template provided.Before mounting the TV to the board, I drilled four holes

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Site 1520, Water, Electric, Cable

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Below is a slideshow of various pictures of the WONDERFUL T@B Rally held at Walt Disney World October 25th - November 1st. Marguerite was an outstanding host and got us a great location at Ft. Wilderness!! We had an outstanding time at our potluck dinner on Monday evening and scouring around the Food & Wine Festival on Wednesday afternoon was lots of fun!! (Marguerite should really try to note

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Howdy all. I'm finally back out camping again after a 2 month break over the summer to get some pesky medical stuff done. The doc released me on September the 3rd so found the first gathering I could and off I went.The Tennesse Chapter of the Tearjerkers was newly formed and had scheduled a gathering at Old Stone Fort State Park near Manchester, TN for the weekend of September 12 - 14th.I arrived

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Here are some pictures of the charge wire and isolation relay as installed in my truck.The blue wire goes back to the 7-pin connection at the back of my truck.The red wire goes to the positive terminal on my battery with an inline 30amp fuse.The thicker black wire is grounded to a bolt inside the engine compartment.The thinner black wire was soldered to a blown fuse after cutting off a portion of

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Howdy all!!This was a quick trip to Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort to meet up with some friends from the camping section of http://www.disboards.com/ in what Disney labels a Grand Gathering. For this bunch, it's an excuse to go to the Fort, hang out and consume lots of drinks and good food!!I arrived very early Friday morning, July 4th and got set up. Some folks that owned a T@DA had emailed me

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Here is a link to a news story done on my T@B and T@Bs in general.http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail;jsessionid=1A95BCB0B44A7CF7A5E553E68ED6D53B?contentId=6838436&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1&sflg=1Thanks for reading!!Carol

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I fixed my fire extinguisher holder. The old one broke, plus even before it broke, the fire extinguisher ended up rolling around in the floor every trip.I used a quick release strap found in Wal-Mart's camping section, cut it short to fit, seared the end with a cigarette lighter and used the screws that came off the old holder and a couple of flat washers to secure the strap to the wood.

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This weekend I went to Lake Guntersville State Park. Our Scout Troop was having a waterskiing and swimming campout, so I tagged along to lifeguard and enjoy the good barbecue dinner that was going to be served on Saturday night :-)I got there about 12:30 on Friday, and the place was packed!!! There were only about a dozen sites left tops. (Guntersville does not take reservations except for

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This trip was for the Hoosier Chapter of the Tearjerkers in Brown County, IN at the state park.I started off the weekend by leaving Thursday night and driving to Franklin, KY where I stopped at Bluegrass Music RV Park. It had been a KOA up until a few weeks before and had been bought out by new owners who were working on improving it. It was a Good Sam park.I had a pullthrough site with water,

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We had an "incident" with our bed cleats on a recent camping trip. We have taken the table legs off of the table and we put too much pressure on the wrong spot. I added some reinforcing boards to solve the problem. I removed the existing screws from the bed cleats and added more substantial screws. Then I purchased a 1x4 board that closely matched the finish on the T@B and stained them with

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I just got back from a great weekend in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina with 21 T@Bs and 1 T@DA. Outstanding weekend!!!I left work Thursday evening, May 1st and proceeded part of the way to a little RV Park called Overnighter RV Park right off of I-75 in Athens, TN.The next morning, I headed out and proceed on to Mountain Stream RV park. http://www.mountstreamrvpark.com/ . I was in

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We have some friends (Lee and Donna) that have a 5th wheel and wanted to join us for a weekend of camping, but both DH and Lee have to work on Saturday, so we picked a place close and familiar. We went back to Point Mallard campground. As it turns out, I got site 12 again and our friends had site 14.I got there about 1:00 on Friday and decided to set up sideways so they wouldn't be staring at the

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Today I picked up my T@B from the dealer after having the hatch replaced because it was leaking.Clam Shell T@Bs will allow water inside the hatch, but they have drain holes, a seal, and a drain channel to allow water to leave the hatch instantly and not pool inside the hatch, or get inside the kitchen.My original hatch was not allowing water to drain appropriately and water was staying inside the

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This last weekend was the first 2008 gathering of the Georgia Tearjerkers. The gathering was located at Florence Marina State Park in Omaha, GA. http://gastateparks.org/net/go/parks.aspx?LocationID=41&s=0.0.0.5When I originally planned to attend, I was going to be off from work the entire week and was going to come home from my last campout on Tuesday, clean the camper and restock on Wednesday,

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This trip was to help out our Scout Troop as they cycled the Silver Comet Trail and Chief Ladiga Trail through Georgia and Alabama. The folks that cycled covered almost 100 miles by bicyle over 3 days.On Saturday, we met at the school parking lot and loaded up. We had two cargo trailers, my camper and about 5 other vehicles.From there, we took the Troop to the train depot in Anniston, AL where

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I had another 3-day weekend for President's Day, so decided to take advantage and take the T@B out. I decided to try Point Mallard Park and Campground in Decatur, AL. http://www.pointmallardpark.com/ Point Mallards' claim to fame is it's water park which is open from Memorial Day to Labor Day and has one of the first wave pools in the country. The park also has a golf course, restaurant, batting

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In my quest to take my T@B out at least once a month, I decided to do a local weekend since I have a holiday for Martin Luther King day. Staying close also made it possible for Rick to join me on Saturday night as he has to work a 1/2 day on Saturdays. Everybody thought I was nuts because the lows were going to be about 15F on Sat and Sunday night, but unless the electric went out, I knew I'd be

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This was my first T@B Rally and I had a ball!! The weather was beautiful, but chilly and everyone was really friendly and helpful!! The drive from North Alabama to Townsend took me about 4 1/2 hours and although folks said we were past the prime on the fall colors, I still thought they were wonderful!! The KOA was really pretty overlooking the water from my site.However, I thought the rates were

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Mickey's No So Scary Halloween PartyOn of the boats on Bay Lake/Seven Seas Lagoon for transportation to the Magic Kingdom/Wilderness Lodge from Ft. WildernessThe construction of the "mystery" tower at the ContemporaryA couple of shots of the Wilderness LodgeAnd the one night I actually got to Pleasure Island "very" early. Emil Bleehal was in the PI Live booth explaining why he was at Pleasure

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We spent Wednesday, October 10th at Universal Studios/Islands of Adventure. While these parks don't have the repeat appeal that Walt Disney World has for me, I still like to go over there for a day every couple of years. The one thing these parks do have is loads of visual appeal!! I snapped almost 200 photos that day. Here are the best of the phots.

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I went to several Eat to the Beat Concert Sets during my trip Juice NewtonStarship with Mickey ThomasLittle RichardDavid Cassidy

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Me with Mickey & PlutoThe "group" on Tower of Terror. The contrast of us old pros on the left compared with the newbies on the right that were absolutely terrified made this a GREAT picture!!! The "group" in front of Rock n Roller Coaster. Pam, Allison's mom, Allison, Lori, Jack's daughter, Carol, Sen, Big Brian, and Jack.These are my friends David and Buff, that spent the first week in my

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Here are a few shots around the Disney Studios. For some reason, I took very few pictures around this park.Me in front of the Sorceror Hat (BAH).Me & Rick (my hubby) in front of Sorcer Hat in September. Walt's plane that he used to survey the property before purchasing it.

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These are pictures of the various shows, plants and animals around Disney's Animal Kingdom.Festival of the Lion KingBeautiful FlowersWonderful artitecture, theming, and authentic performing groupsAnd of course, the animals

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These are various prictures around the Magic KingdomThe Barbershop Quartet performing on Main StreetSome pictures from the afternoon paradeCasey's Corner Piano PlayerFrom the Hall of PresidentsThe Enchanted Tiki RoomHaunted MansionThe Liberty BellTommorowland The Laugh Floor Warehouse and Stitches Great EscapeThe Mad Hatter and AlicePooh & TiggerSonny EclipseSpace MountainSome great

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Me at Spaceship EarthMe on Test TrackMe & Rick (Hubby) in front of Spaceship Earth in SeptemberI had dinner at Teppan Edo one evening at the Japan Pavilion. It was a wonderful dinner. The servers and chef had the perky meter on "high" that evening :-)This is a group of drummers that play at the Japan pavilion periodically throughout each day. Very good.This is part of the Morrocan PavilionThis is

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This is the campground I stayed in on the way home from WDW. It was the Starke/Gainesville KOA in Florida. http://www.koa.com/where/fl/09248/ It was fine for an overnighter, but one of their main rules was no freestanding awnings or screenrooms on RV sites. Well since most Tiny Trailers and Teardrops don't have attached awnings, I wouldn't recommend it for a T@B or Teardrop gathering. Also,

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For those of you who saw the post earlier, I decided to rearrange the blog a bit. The trip was way too long to give a detailed blow by blow. So for the first post here are pictures of campsites.Here are a couple of pictures of the campsite where I stopped on the road for before heading to Ft. Wilderness at Walt Disney World. Easy pull through site. Level enough that I could plug in and run the

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Here are a few pictures from our weekend at Joe Wheeler State Park in Alabama. http://www.alapark.com/ This was a very lazy weekend for us as we spent most of the time at the campsite just napping, reading, watching/listening to football and relaxing. We gave two tours of the T@B.The campground itself was georgious with lots of privacy between sites, a paved driveway for each site, and each site

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I finally got the permanent vinyl graphics installed on the MOUSE-KE-T@B.We went with fewer ears this time, but I still think it looks cool :-)Also is a picture of a lock box we bought to leave the keys at the campsite so we don't have to keep up with them.Thanks for looking!!Carol & RickComing next, our weekend at Lake Wheeler State Park

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2nd Outing in the MOUSE-KE-T@B and my first solo outing. I picked up the T@B from storage on Thursday evening, loaded her up and was able to leave work at 1100 on Friday, so was on the road by noon. The Boy Scout Troop I volunteer for was going Whitewater Rafting on the Ocoee, so as their BSA Lifeguard, I tagged along. Instead of tent camping with them at the National Park, I decided this was a

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As I've said several times, I really wanted the T@B to match my tow vehicle, so over the last few days we addressed this.The first thing I did was take the handle trim off of and taped up the outside and test painted the inside and let it sit in the sun for two days to check for peeling/cracking, color match, etc.It passed the test, so I pulled the camper home from storage and took the rest of

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Here are some pictures of a few minor things I did to the T@B.I bought a piece of indoor/outdoor carpet to make a larger rug for under the awning and had some left over, so I used that on the interior floor of the T@B.I removed the base of the table to reduce weight and provide some storage room under the bed.I discovered the bottom edge of the awning rail is very sharp. I took a file to the

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Today myself and my audiophile son installed a couple of cutoff switches for the outside Speakers on my Clam Shell.The first thing we did was open up the upper closet shelf again becuase I knew there were some speaker connections in there. When we disconnected one of the wires, instead of two speakers inside or outside turning off one inside left and one outside left turned off, so we had to go

Carol & Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17678053492781843567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975145186707501799.post-33554183926500394082007-07-22T21:32:00.001-05:002010-10-22T16:19:58.693-05:00

We just got back this afternoon from our first T@B outing. It was OUTSTANDING!!! The MOUSE-KE-T@B worked flawlessly. We had an excellent site, and excellent weather. We gave 10 tours of our T@B and some friends from home even popped in on Saturday night and we visited with them.We did learn a couple of things that we need to do to the T@B yet. On the ClamShell with the Coby TV/DVD unit, there is

Carol & Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17678053492781843567noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975145186707501799.post-73982446850091985052007-07-19T16:43:00.001-05:002007-07-19T17:44:17.553-05:00

Today I finally got my XM radio hooked up to my T@B. Originally, I had purchased an XM Car Kit with an FM Modulator. Well, since I have the Coby TV unit, what I really needed was the home kit. So I went back on eBay, resold the Car Kit and Modulator, and purchased a home kit. The home kit arrived last night. While I had everything torn apart, I decided to also install a cable splitter/switch,

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Today I installed a battery disconnect switch for the MOUSE-KE-T@B.The disconnect switch came from Wal-Mart. I drilled a hole from the battery compartment in the clam shell to the small storage area next to the port a potty with a 1" spade bit, then two smaller holes for the mounting screws. I used some screws and washers I had around the house to secure the switch to the wall.Here is what it

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Here are the first of the Mickey Mouse Decorations transforming our T@B into the MOUSE-KE-T@B.Mickey Mouse Paper Towel Holder. I was hoping to velcro this to the counter top, but there was really no place to put it, so it will go in the upper kitchen cabinet during travel.Mickey Mouse Cabinet KnobsCustom Clock from CafePress.com. Hung on wall with Command Adhesive Hook. Will go in storage cabinet

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Here are some pictures of some things I did to the T@B to optimize the kitchen and interior storage of the MOUSE-KE-T@B.Hang Bar Removed and Plastic Storage Drawers put in the closet. It is held down with heavy duty velcro. These will hold our clothes. For longer trips, I'll have additional clothes in a plastic footlocker in the truck. To the left of the drawers is a broom, dustpan, mesh

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I thought I would post a few pictures to show the inside of the 2007 ClamShell before I made my changes to it. This is the inside with the table up. This is the front bench.This is the portable toilet.This is the front closetThis is the table lowered and made into a single bed.This is the double bed and the CoolCat ACThis is the TV/DVD/CD/AM/FM Radio Next, some storage Mods and MOUSE-KE-T@B

Carol & Rickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17678053492781843567noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5975145186707501799.post-9164365868676228672007-06-29T13:09:00.001-05:002007-06-29T13:16:49.847-05:00

One of the first things I knew we needed was a sturdy step to get into the T@B. I had looked around the various RV parts places and at the Big Box stores and the only thing I felt was sturdy enough was almost $100.So, I decided to build my own. I still need to sand and paint it, but here is our step stool for the T@B.We used a 2x10x8 board. The platform is two pieces of 2x10x2, and the verticals

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We have joined the ranks of T@B Owners!!(100 Miles)On Saturday, June 23rd, we purchased a 2007 White with Red Fireball Graphics Package Clam Shell T@B.Now the colors were not our first choice, but it did have the mechanical options we wanted such as Cool Cat, no furnace, TV-DVD unit, and 12-volt fridge, but saving several thousand dollars over MSRP on an ordered unit, we figured we could paint

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