{"id":21,"date":"2017-06-06T02:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T02:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2017-06-06T02:26:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T02:26:55","slug":"training-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/06\/training-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are now in Howe, Indiana, at the DRV Mobile Suites factory. \u00a0We are having some modifications made to our RV, (washer and dryer installed, cook top replaced with a full oven\/range, slide toppers installed and a more comfortable\u00a0mattress) and tending to a few minor service issues. \u00a0On the one hand, it’s not exactly what you envision when “going on the Great RV Adventure”, but it’s not all bad either. \u00a0The factory provides very nice full hook up RV parking spots in their parking lot. \u00a0So, we have full electricity, water and sewer conveniences in our RV while we are parked next to the toll road in a giant factory parking lot…..but there are patches of grass for Gerry and the other DRV Mobile Suites folks who are here for similar reasons are extremely nice and helpful. \u00a0We will be here until Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

Ray and Cindy are parked next to us, they are from Illinois and helped us figure out our first full water hook up yesterday when we arrived. \u00a0In otherwords, when I was about to hook up the water fixture backwards, Ray kindly said, “how about you let me show you how to do that?” \u00a0And today Ray showed Steve how to tighten the lug nuts on the RV and truck to the right “torque”. \u00a0Rob had gone over this with Steve before we left, but a refresher course was needed. \u00a0Evidently these need to be checked after every trip and involve the use of an impact wrench. \u00a0For those of you who know us well, you will appreciate the humor in the words “torque”and “Steve” in the same sentence. \u00a0But, we are learning!<\/p>\n

I toured the factory today and saw how they build these units and learned a lot. I am meeting with the service manager tomorrow to go over my LIST of questions which I’m sure will be the highlight of his week – but I figure I need to take advantage of all the resources while they are right here literally in my backyard.<\/p>\n

I’m also using this waiting time to attempt to learn our new Rand McNally RV Navigation tool. \u00a0It allows us to program in our size, weight, height, etc so we don’t get onto roads we shouldn’t be on with our big rig, or with bridges that are too low. \u00a0Not turning out to be as easy as I had hoped it would be to learn how to use….so spending a lot of time figuring out our route for our next leg of the journey which will be to a campground in Minnesota. \u00a0Guy will be joining us there for the weekend and we are looking forward to that!<\/p>\n

So I’m calling this little part of our journey our “training camp”.<\/p>\n

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We are now in Howe, Indiana, at the DRV Mobile Suites factory. \u00a0We are having some modifications made to our RV, (washer and dryer installed, cook top replaced with a full oven\/range, slide toppers installed and a more comfortable\u00a0mattress) and tending to a few minor service issues. \u00a0On the one hand, it’s not exactly what … Continue reading Training Camp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}