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Valentine’s Day Meetup

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Valentine’s weekend was coming up.  The trailer was in the shop in Los Banos.  Roxie was in Sacramento for the week helping her sister with some health issues.  What was the plan?

The trailer was done, Roxie was finishing up her week so many we should meetup somewhere?  I would get the trailer and take it to a campground.  Roxie would alter her path home to meet me.  Sounds like some type of romance/clandestine novel plot.  But it wasn’t.  We just enjoy getting out in our trailer whenever we can.  Since it was already half way between us why bring it home and then go out again.

I left home early on Saturday and headed to Toscano’s RV in Los Banos.  I had dropped off the trailer for its’ final round of warranty repairs before our standard warranty stopped and our extended warranty kicked in.  I got there a bit after 10:30 and went over the list, got a propane tank filled, bought a few items and headed out to a campground somewhere.  Not quite sure which one but I had a primary one in mind.  Roxie had left Sacramento shortly before I got to Toscano’s so I knew I had some time.

On one of our trips to/from the bay area we scouted out the San Luis Creek campground just off of CA152 in the San Luis SRA.  It was far off the main road and had electric and water.  That is where I headed first with some other alternate plans in mind if I needed it.  Luckily I did not.  They had a spot for us and it was not a double spot.  Yes!  As I got to the spot and started backing in I realized what an asset it is to have Roxie helping be back in.  I must have got in and out of the truck 5-6 times looking where I was going and checking clearances.  Roxie, thank you for your help.

I got setup and Roxie showed up about 20 minutes later.  It was very nice to see her after a week away and it was Valentines Day!  We exchanged gifts and cards (she reminded me about Valentine’s the day before, but didn’t need to) and then went out for a lunch/dinner at a local BBQ place.  Very good.  After you have been married 34 years it doesn’t matter the location, just the company.

Here is our campsite (#33):

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That evening we just vegged out but I saw this on Facebook:

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Hmmm.  Mercey Hot Springs.  We had always wanted to visit there…

Numbers

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I love numbers, as Roxie can attest.  My current obsession, she says I have many OCD tendencies, are license plates with 3 consecutive duplicate digits (like 333).  I can thank my dad for that.  Ask me about it if you want to know.

This last trip, to the Rose Parade, triggered a few number oriented items for us.

The first one is that we hit 10000 miles with the trailer.  I log every trip we take and I log where the trailer was towed.  I keep a spreadsheet and do the mapping on Google Maps.  Here is an example from Quartzsite to Van Nuys we did in August:

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This is also how I get my mileage for the spreadsheet.

So that is 10K miles in 2 years.  Here is a breakdown from the spreadsheet:

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Now the mileages that I keep are all very close estimates.  I don’t use the odometer (so who is OCD now?) as I cannot remember to reset it when I would need to.

More numbers.

When we got our first Airstream from my parents they were members of WBCCI.  If you are a member you get assigned a number to put on your trailer so other WBCCI’rs can see it and look you up in the directory.  Their number was 27380 and we were able to transfer it to us when we joined WBCCI, the first time.  It was also easier than trying to take the numbers off!

There is another set of numbers that some AirForums users use.  There was a minor upswelling in the community to have their own numbers.  It was proposed to use BLUE numbers and your number would be your member number in AirForums.

I did an earlier blog post about the blue numbers here.  We dropped out of WBCCI about 5 years ago but never took the old numbers off of the old trailer.

Prior to the Rose Parade rally I figured we could join WBCCI again and we did, joining the 4 Corners Unit.  We could have got the old number again if I tried but why?  The WBCCI policy used to be to issue sequential numbers and not reuse any.  This has changed as they are now reissuing numbers that are higher than 1000.  We got 1646.  However, I mounted them in a different location:

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This way if we ever drop out again we can remove them easily.

And, by the way, I saw a license plate the other day with 5(!) consecutive duplicate digits!!   But that is another story…