RV-Dreams Journal

2012 Fall Rally Announcement

Well, we have contracts in hand and we can now finally announce the dates and location of our first west coast Rally!

Our 2012 Fall RV-Dreams Rally will be held at the River Bend Resort along the Willamette River in Harrisburg, Oregon about 20 miles north of Eugene.

 

 

The dates are September 18 - 23, 2012.

Registration will be open next week.

River Bend Resort has 95 full hook-up concrete pad sites and wonderful facilities for our seminars, meals, and gatherings.  Also, there is a 19-room hotel on-site for our attendees that don't have RVs yet.

We have set aside 60 RV sites and 16 hotel rooms.  The Rally rate for RV sites will be $31 per night plus tax OR for those wanting to stay seven nights, you can get the weekly rate of $175 which comes out to $25 a night (plus tax).

The Rally rate for hotel rooms is a 10% discount off the regular nightly rates.  There are seven double queen rooms, seven king rooms, one ADA single queen, and one suite (private bedroom, kitchen, living room with foldout bed). 

Visit TravelOregon.com for the wonders of Oregon and the Willamette Valley website for more on the area around Harrisburg. 

On both of those websites, you will find:

 "Oregon. We Love Dreamers." 

Lots of Dreamers love Oregon, so we shall see if the reverse is true.  :)

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The Rig Is Still In The Hospital - (Tampa, FL)

Well, I guess the hotel clerk was right.  We thought our rig would be ready to go today, and that we could stay in the parking lot tonight to get everything tested before leaving tomorrow.

But we were informed about 3:00 that it wouldn't be finished.  So back to the hotel room tonight.

Here is the old gray tank.

 

 

You can see where the water had been pooling on top of the tank.  It was certainly coming from a crack in the top next to one or both of those pipes.

At one point we wondered if perhaps the water was leaking from the shower down onto the tank, but we ultimately determined that couldn't have been the case based on when we were seeing water come out of the underbelly.  Louis also tested the shower to make sure we were right about that.

Louis got the new gray tank back in.  He had to re-work the plumbing because the new tank, same part number, had a drain that was two inches to the left of where it was on the old tank.  Sheesh.

Since this is the second gray tank with the same issue, Louis added a plywood support and some bracing to try to keep it more stable.  This is the view from the mid-section of the RV looking toward the front.

  

 

All the parts were put back together, but they needed to wait for all the plumber's glue to dry.

Here is a pic of the tank heater on the bottom of the black tank.

 

 

And here is a pic of the tank heater and the drain on the fresh water tank.

 

I don't think the tank heaters are really necessary for us, especially on the black and gray tanks based on how protected they are.  We've only used them once or twice.  Because we live in the unit, the ambient heat of our rig is usually quite enough to keep the tanks from freezing. 

Of course, we wanted everything tested thoroughly before they put the underbelly back on.  Waiting for the glue to dry, testing the plumbing and tank, and putting the underbelly back on would push us into tomorrow.

During the day, Linda made a post office run and picked up baked goods for the service department and technicians.  Everyone has been so nice, and it never hurts to butter up the folks working on your home.  :)

Later, we packed up our laptops and headed over to the hotel.  We walked over to the Cracker Barrel for dinner.  And then we called it a night.

Hopefully, the rig will be finished at a reasonable hour tomorrow and we can be on our way.  :)

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