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  1. So the day I brought the trailer home... It was Friday Sept. 8 2017. I got it home that day and parked it into the back yard. I wired up an electric plug for it in my basement and ran the water line to it. I turned on the water and ran inside and made sure there were no leaks and then ran into the house to watch the OK State/South Alabama game. I enjoyed the first half then went back out to check on this new trailer. In the back there is an outdoor kitchen with a sink, kitchen, microwave, hot plate... When I came out at half time I saw water pouring out of the back of the trailer from underneath and out of the outdoor kitchen. My brand new, almost $30,000 trailer. Turns out that the faucet on the outdoor kitchen had been left on and being a rookie I didn't even think to check it. Turns out that the gray tank for the outdoor kitchen will only hold so much water before it backs up and overflows the sink and runs into the underbelly. So on my brand new $30,000 trailer, not even having possessed it for eight hours, I had to take a utility knife and cut a big section out of the coroplast underbelly and pull out gobs of soaking wet fiberglass insulation. I was legit depressed for like 3 days over that but it turned out not to be a big deal. I was able to get all the wet insulation out and after I let everything dry out I replaced the insulation and patched it up with a new sheet of coroplast.
  2. Brand new... And not necessarily with the trailer. Like the water hose springing a leak, the sidewinder sewer hose support breaking, I lost the outside cover off of the back of the fridge, I had the water line that connects the outside to the inside under the bathroom sink come loose, the water supply line to the toilet broke on our last trip, the wheel fell off of my honey pot one day, light covers fall off... Just little things but it is almost every trip.
  3. I gave up trying to read it all on page 12... Anyway, we bought our camper on Labor Day weekend in 2017, we've got an '18 Palomino Puma bumper pull. We talked about it for a long time and my nephew in Houston was about to get married so we thought we would just jump into RV'ing and take a two week road trip around the wedding. Just like troph I went out and bought a bigger truck immediately too. Our trailer dry weighs around 8900 lbs so that was a little much for my F150. The first truck was a '10 F-350 daully with the 6.4L diesel. I had it for 2 years. I loved the diesel torque and the stability of the duals but even though I live in a small rural town having a dually as a daily driver wasn't very practical. Plus maintenance on the diesel was beginning to strain the budget ($80 oil change, replacing the dual batteries, starter, oh and the fan clutch was a motherfucker.) So when it was time to replace the tires I just traded it in. Plus at the time I thought 10-11 MPG was bad. The truck I have now is a '15 Silverado 3500 with the 6.0L gas engine. It's my fist GM truck. It will probably be my last GM truck. It pulls the trailer OK I guess, but it is pretty gutless and any kind of up hill has it almost redlined. Oh and thirsty, with the trailer I get about 6 MPG. My plan is to just hang on to it though for a few years, I'd like to get one of those new F350's with the 7.3 gas engine next but I'm gonna have to wait a few years until the used ones drop down into my price range. Our trailer is a Palomino Puma 32 BHKS, its a 36 foot bumper pull with a bunkhouse. Our first big trip was my nephew's wedding trip. I live northeast of Tulsa and he was getting married in Houston. So I took two weeks off and we drove to New Mexico. We spent a couple days in Red River then spent a night in Roswell, then the next night we stayed in San Angelo on our way to Houston. Then Houston for a few days in a commercial park for the wedding. Then we went to New Orleans and stayed at Bayou Segnette for a couple days then headed back home, with a stop at Petit Jean State Park in Arkansas (this was probably my favorite). It was a handful of a trip for us as first timers. We've taken maybe 15 or so trips since and made some boring youtube videos of some of them (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp_VFVVO_bMTtKx_WOSJ1BA/videos) 😃 My girls are in dance and it's been pretty handy to have for their competition trips, we usually try to stay in a state park nearby and take an extra day on those trips to enjoy camping. Haven't used it so much this year though, the competitions were all cancelled in person. We had planned a trip for early summer to Mt Rushmore but put it off because of the 'Rona. Haven't done much recently either because we are saving up for a trip to Telluride in January. I kinda love/hate the trailer though.... I really enjoy where it takes us and the time with the kids but I don't sleep very well in it. I have a few sleeping disorders that I have been able to kind of get under control in the last few years but the tiny bedroom in the trailer gives me trouble. We've been talking about upgrading to fifth wheel and right now this one is on the top of our wish list...
  4. Man I wish I found this thread sooner... I'm trying to get caught up but I had to stop at this post. It makes me laugh because I thought the same thing when we started (we bought our trailer 3 years ago almost to the day). Keeping it properly outfitted and fixing the daily breaks never end. Just part of it
  5. SMU should mark it down as a TCU forfeit on their record.
  6. JMFP

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    Depends... What kind of belly tat do you have? I say totally OK if you have one like Lincoln.
  7. Bullshit. That's all you're doing.
  8. This but they have to keep the masks on...
  9. And then because this is Surly someone told them they were wrong.
  10. Colorado State and FSU players are accusing their coaches of shenanigans.
  11. Doesn't OU already do that anyway?
  12. I don't where he is but I hope and pray Thujone has fired up mspaint and is hard at work right now. We need him now more than ever.
  13. And, you know, doing the student part of student athlete
  14. Toby Keith probly already has an order in for 10000 cases for his bar and grill.
  15. https://time.com/5335799/soccer-word-origin-england/
  16. 🤣
  17. I think for most people its who dies, not how many.
  18. Students getting deported won't have anything to do with football, lulz, it has to do with their visas getting pulled if their school goes online only, so yeah they might be upset if they can't stay but some students can. I mean, they are foreigners and don't have big dicks to swing around like the revenue earning athletes but its another issue the SJW's will push. Foreign Students Attending Schools That Operate Online-Only This Fall Will Be Barred From the U.S. And I don't disagree, shit happens but college and the real world aren't the same place. I'd bet there will be plenty of Student Karens pushing the special benefits for athletes angle because they can't live in the dorms too and are missing out on college experience and they (daddy) didn't pay all that tuition for online only and... just to have something to bitch about. Really I dunno what will happen but I think that only allowing student athletes to live on campus will be an uphill battle.
  19. It probably matters to the regular students who don't get to be on campus, especially foreign students who might get deported... You know there is going to be a group of pissed off students if athletes are allowed on campus but they aren't.
  20. The Georgia flag is an almost exact copy of the stars and bars. The Mississippi flag had the confederate battle flag in the corner.
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