Helmsey......Todd

Officially in, and waiting for rants and fails!

A little late but I'll hop in on this one! This should be a fun one to watch for sure.

Add me to the list of people who would like to see pictures :D

Seeing this picture made me think of TCD, and his hammock, and one of his quotes. But in this case, "It's good to be Anna" It appears she is having the time of her life there. edit: yay for post number 100 for me! :jumpforjoy

Tease :clint:

Great report, loved all the pics. Thanks for sharing!

If I remember right this guys has a boat he pulls behind the trailer, might even be painted to match. On the front of the boat trailer there is a jetski on either side of the hull. It's a pretty nice $etup he ha$.

That could work, would be efficient and provide the desired ability to taste. If you have any contacts left, please call them and tell them to hurry :) It's getting painful at this point. Target usually has those glow necklaces\bracelets in the dollar section at the front of the store. Every once and a while you can find then 50% off.....that's 50 cents per necklace and\or bracelet. I gladly purchase about $10 at a time to provide the kids endless entertainment in the evening adults some time not worrying about the kids.

Caught up and have a few comments: 1. the bucket of gravy. Yes, that is fantastic. Did it not come with a straw or an IV delivery system? 2. Bacon - Have you ever tried Bentons Bacon? It is made in East TN and apparently is all the rage these days. 3. Nice sweatshirt YC....go vols. 4. Glad the emergency was handled swiftly and there were no major issues.

1. Pics with Anna and the ducks...PRICELESS! 2. I like the Dave duck, sounds like it has been well trained. 3. If I try real hard while staring at that last pic I can pretend I'm not sitting in my office right now looking at 5 computer screens. I can almost feel that morning chill and smell the goodness that is cooking. Great, now I'm starting to drool.

Depends on the date next year, we will be at Ocean Lakes this time next year.. But we would LOVE to make one of the GG's to meet everybody. My ears did ring a little later in the evening, I just thought it was due to the drinks :D

Count me in!

Great TR, I have really enjoyed following along with it!

We did it that was out of necessity the first time and just never bothered to buy the "walls" since the tarps we already had worked just fine. Sounds to me like you need another e-z up or two to sit under :D

We use a 10x10 easy up and for sides we use either a regular tarp or a "mesh tarp" and just zip tie it to the frame of the easy up.

A couple whacks with a rubber mallet on the silver cap and it should come right off, might have to alternate sides where you are hitting it to help "pry" it back and forth. Once it is off there is likely a grease zirk under there and you could top off the grease that way but make sure not to use an air grease gun. It can have too much pressure and blow grease out the back bearing seal and into the brakes themselves. If that were to happen you would notice a substantial loss of braking power. To pull the bearing to pack by hand you will still need to pop off the silver dust cap, then remove the

I spent several years doing IT work for the Dept of Energy in Oak Ridge and worked about 50 yards from the building where they worked with the U235 to create the "boom" for this fella. It was really neat working out there, sadly it is demolition project now and all of the buildings\history is going away. There was talk for a little while about building a museum of some sort to remember all of this and the workers\families that worked out there but I believe they decided against doing that. I think they were afraid of offending someone so they scrapped that idea and now it will be an industrial

Love the zoo pics and really looking forward to the pics from the museum.

Great start! I'm officially in for this trip.

Welcome to the party!

Congrats on the new rig! I'm a bit jealous of that storage spot you have, that thing looks NICE!

Man, seeing the pics here and other TR's from cruises really makes me want to try this. I have always said I don't think I'd enjoy a cruise cause I'd just want to drive the boat. But these pics are starting to sway my opinion on taking one. Please don't tell wifey, she does not need to know this info just yet :)

Add me to the ball lubing group, I keep a tube of Red N Tacky handy for my lubrication needs.

No, never heard of that.... I still have a few laying around, but they dont get fired up anymore. Been over a year now since I've been on a track with them. I need to let them go, but hate to see how much money I lose selling them.

I used to be heavy into racing RC cars and had an old popup that I converted for a "workspace" while on the road. I ended up removing the canvas from the ends and instead of bunk ends that slid out, I had a piece that slid out and flipped all the way up and tucked under the extended roof, kinda make a hard "wall". It was an easy out as to what to do with the canvas on the ends. I still had the canvas on the 2 sides for airflow on a nice day. I gutted the inside completely and just used folding tables for my purpose. Now that I think about it I should have had a bar in it :) It was a fun projec