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I don't think a 2011 with 114,000 miles is worth trading in on something newer. I have a 2012 Ram 2500 diesel and it has 150,000 miles and other than some dings, dents its perfect. Keep up with the maintenance and save yourself $20,000 If you must get a newer or new truck. I'd try to find a gas 1 ton that was in a 2 or 3 year lease and buy it. The used diesel truck market right now is crazy over priced. I've considered selling my truck and getting a gas truck just to get away from the maintenance of a diesel. With modern gas trucks you get just as much pulling power, at far

I asked the guy at the check in if he'd take the truck and camper to the site set it up and get dinner going so I could go into MK.. I even offered him $20.. nadda

I was always told early October was a great time to go.. Guess I'll find out

I've done side by side tests with the yamaha and honda and there is no difference in the sound. It would be my guess that any 2200watt inverter / generator will be just as loud / quite as the others in real world situations.

Not really a fair comparison the yamaha was 3300 watts and the B&S is a 2200 watts.. Both when under full load are not loud enough to cause you to speak loudly at 25 feet from them. When camping with our 5th the Yamaha gen is pretty quite, we only run it for a few hours to charge batteries in the morning, and evening so as to not annoy everyone.

The boy does make me nervous but hes not really a daredevil so he calls for help long before I get nervous about what hes doing. We are currently camping in a 2015 Keystone Cougar 333mks. My wife has been hinting at the idea to get a mid bunk 5er

We purchased a B&S p2200 for our tailgate. It gets used 8 times a year for about 4 hours each time. So far no issues, this being the generators first season its a short sample so far. We had a Yamaha inverter / generator before the B&S and it ran flawless for 5 seasons. Its the 3000 watt and it was primary purchased for camping. We purchased the B&S because its lighter and easier to use for tailgating.

So Saturday started and it was our final full day camping. I woke up early 5:45 and the rest of the house was still fast asleep. I stealthily snuck out of the camper and went for a long walk around the camp ground. Several of the larger bus style campers were breaking camp and headed do Bristle for the race. I was lucky enough to get a guided tour of one of them, and it was fantastic. But heated marble floors really just are not my cup of tea. By the end of my walk around 7:45 most of the early risers were up and about and lot of campers breaking camp and headed out. I strolled ba

Ok its Friday and the cold weather moved in overnight I believe it was in the mid 40s when we got up but Dad did something right for a change and made sure the heat was on so it was warm and toasty in the camper. Mommy isn't much of an morning person, and well Cody just wants to play in the morning and sometimes this causes conflicts. As I was making breakfast I kept hearing Cody say bumpy. I went back to inspect what was going on and found the tractor trying to scoop Mommy's head from Cody's Pluto pillow. I was amused, Mommy wasn't. Well after a big hardy breakfast

He's an amazing 25 month old Boy that's for sure. He loves hiking, as long as he can start out on foot and move to the backpack once he gets tired. Thx for the positive feedback!

They don't let you wash at the fort?

Plan for a long stay. The trees don't like to work on a schedule from what I've been told.

This is what we did.. Thx that makes life much easier.

Sorry for the massive delay in posting, The morning after posting this I was struck with the flu and just started to move around the house. So day 2 (Thursday) we woke up and it was a beautiful day another 78+ temp and not a cloud to be seen. The plan was to go into GSM National Park and do some hiking, then do lunch in Gatlinburg and shop the craft fair. My wife loves to take nature photos so we stopped a several overlooks and snapped pictures of the trees changing color. It was really beautiful. We stopped at the visitors center and it was a mad house, so we che

October 13th 2017 we will be checking into the Fort for a 2+ week stay. We will be traveling with at least a three-year-old ( his bday trip). We hope to have a 2nd child adopted by that time and it will be less than a year old. I'm not a huge fan of taking an infant into Disney for a whole day but know it can be done with proper planning and proper gear. So we've invited both sets of grandparents to attend for some, or all of the trip IN THEIR OWN accommodations.... My mother has committed to coming down for a week and staying at one of the resorts or possible a cabin at the Fort (sh

This will be my first ever trip report, and it may be a bit heavy on pictures so sorry... My sister and her family lives in the Knoxville area so we decided to do a relaxing trip down to Great Smokey Mountains national park, and visit with the family. Turns 2 of her 3 girls had a cheer function in Pigonforge that weekend, bonus. So on Wednesday we packed up the truck hitched up the camper and were on the road heading south on 75 by 9am. Traffic was light and everyone but me got to nap. Five hours and a few pitstops later we pulled into Ancor Down RV park Great pla

I spent a week and change at3. Tropical Palm Rv Resort . It's a nice facility but for the price not nice enough. The bathroom / showers were very old and dated, the washer and dryers never worked. While there we lost power for several hours and lost water for about a day. This was in Jan of 2015 and it was under new ownership and they were trying to work through all of the maintenance issues associated with the park. Also they really pack you in tightly

Thx, tomorrow doing a bulb count and then placing an order...

Has anyone swapped out the lights in their RV to LED lights with success and if so where did you get them from?

My last 3 trips to WDW we've done the online check in and usually as we get off the plane or are in line for the magic express bus we've gotten a text with our room number. It's been great since we go drop our carry on bags and head into the park. Several friends have stayed at the fort recently and all of them has used online check-in and said its worked great as long as you arrive after noon...

That is, but i do know just where it was taken in the park.

Thats inside the living seas i believe? This should be an easy one

My sister and her kids live in Knoxville and we camp in the Smokies a few times a year. So far our favorite campground is Anchor Down RV park. The sites are amazing, lots of good family friendly stuff to do at the park. Not the cheapest park around but well worth the cost. http://www.anchordownrvresort.com/ It's also far enough away from Pigeon forge and Gatlinburg to not be in that mess, but close enough to get to it with limited driving.

The haunted mansion with Eddy Murphy may be the worst ever Disney movie...

We went looking on Thursday, and the wife said "In two years we are getting a mid room bunk room". We walked through about 4 different models of midship bunk room trailers and the one she liked the most was the Grand Design 377MB. She said by then our truck will have 250k miles on it and we can replace it too. So mama spoke, and Daddy will have to do... This is one of the reasons we have set our sites on the floor plan we did, it has the extra bedroom for the kids and the loft if our son when hes old enough to sleep there. I'd guess this timeline will be greatly accele