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If you live on wheels or just want to , you found the right place !
If you're wondering how you can start this lifestyle .......you just did.

  STEP 1
  Please post an intro telling us about what's going on in your world so we know you're NOT a scammer/spammer/bot/text miner ,etc.
Lurking is allowed if you have to , I guess . But if you don't post at least once , you will be assumed to be one of the above and deleted .

Optional : What rig you're using (or would like to have) , where you've been and what you liked or didn't about the place .  Found a good shortcut ? or a great repair place ?   Ask any questions you have and reply to anything you know about and have something to add... 
 
There is a ladies only forum , just ask to be led behind the curtain .. 
 
The book of rules: 
1) Have Fun
2) Don't be a jerk.  
3) OR an "internet genius". 
4) AND we've heard all the "theories" so find someplace else for those OK ?
 
 Lots already posted for you to check out . 


And if anybody has ever told you that you ain't right , definitely the right place.

Most of us use the "Vandweller Forum" theme. I would like to change background photo roughly once a month. For those willing, please post a background worthy picture in this thread. Most "liked" will be set as the background on the Vandweller Forum theme for about a month. If you have trouble posting, please reach out to me in a private message and I will give you my email address to forward it to me. Please don't reduce the image to the point it won't cover the entire page.

Don't worry, we won't be losing Blanch's background photo that we're using currently.

If you did not have a custom title, you may notice that your "user title" has been changed to a more travel appropriate name (it was member, senior member, etc).

If you prefer your own custom title, you can change it under User CP.

Where did everybody go?

Queenie wants to know and rat dog and Jolene 
and Joanne or whatever her 
name is.

TJB. Q. RD.

By the time I realized it I was almost to the Ozark fort Rucker gate on a four-lane road with no way to turn around right by helicopter landing field.   By the time I got back to the Shell station there was no sign in my telephone.

I went to Walmart the next day and purchased a Motorola that I can't find the friggin box at the moment it's a Motorola g something piece of ugly word ugly word.  <<<< I'm trying to clean up my ACT but it's very very hard... Boost<<I said m o s t Of the time.   It doesn't hold the settings it doesn't retain my pin it doesn't retain my voicemail password I have spent hours almost every day since I've had it dealing with the automated Verizon system.  They say since I purchased the phone through whatever company it is that set up in some of the Walmarts now that actually front for different ones that they don't have anything to do with the phone being a problematic I need to return the phone.   Also I signed on for a all you know everything and it was unlimited this that and the other and it was supposed to be $70 a month.  I bought the phone on July 9th.   Week ago I got a message that my current phone bill due on August 1st was $125 and some odd sense.    It wasn't until last night that a Verizon customer service tech was actually able to get me into the account reset everything and it's still working first time in all this time that the settings have lasted from one day to the other.

Basically the phone has got some major malfunction that nobody will take responsibility for and I really don't care for Verizon after I've got in with them.  So shortly I am going to get ready and go up to Walmart and buy me a phone and buy me a card I don't know which one of them to use I have a friend that's been on straight talk for a long time.  So if anybody has any suggestions  PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP.

PS. I AM TRYING TO GET MY DEFECATION IN ORDER AND GO UP TO KENTUCKY HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF SEPTEMBER OR THE MID PART I DON'T REALLY REMEMBER.  

 ASPEN DENTAL IS MESSING AROUND WITH MY APPOINTMENTS.  I STILL HAVE TEETH THAT NEED TO BE WORKED ON BASICALLY FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS.   I DON'T NEED A MASK FOR HALLOWEEN CUZ WHEN I SMILE I LOOK LIKE A JACK-O'-LANTERN I AM MISSING FRONT TEETH THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY PULLED.   THE TEMPORARY PLATE HAS NEVER FITTED IT WAS IN MY MOUTH ONE DAY WHEN THE TEETH WERE PULLED.  IT FELT LIKE BARBED WIRE IN THERE. I THINK THEY HAVE AN ISSUE WITH MY TERMINOLOGY.  WHEN I'M OUT IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC I USUALLY CLEAN MY ACT UP PRETTY GOOD......IT'S REALLY HARD AT TIMES. I BET MY FACE GETS SO RED WHEN I'M TRULY PO'D.  NEXT TIME I'M
AT ASPEN DENTAL I'LL JUST GET PISSED...... LET MY FACE GET RED....AND GIVE THEM THIS DAMN JACK O'LANTERN SMILE AND SEE HOW THEY LIKE THAT. 

THE Q & RT HAVE BEEN HIDING FROM THE THUNDER TODAY.    HAIR LIGHTLY IF IT'S NOT RAINING IN THE MORNING BY LUNCH TIME IT STARTS WITH A LOT OF THUNDER AND LIGHTNING.  RAT DOG DOES NOT LIKE TO THUNDER ALSO WHEN THEY'RE DOING THEIR SURVIVAL PRACTICE AT FORT RUCKER THE SECTION OF IT THAT IS RIGHT BEHIND THE BACK FENCE HE JUST COMES TOTALLY UNGLUED.  I JUST TAKE THEM AND GET IN THE BED IT DOES NOT MATTER WHAT TIME OF DAY IT IS IF HE CAN BE BETWEEN QUEENIE AND I AND COVERED UP I GUESS HE THINKS THE THUNDER GOD IS NOT GOING TO STRIKE HIM WITH A BOLT OF LIGHTNING.

Hello hello all.

See image below. You will now see a blue message "box" (circle) in the bottom right corner of your screen. We are going to test this in-forum chat feature and see what we think. There are a couple other choices, but this was the most popular. If it pops up automatically,  you can hit the X in the top right to minimize it. It looks like it also gives you a random guest name (it named me Carla), but you can change it.

My name appears twice, so I'm not sure if that's because I created the account or not. I'll be playing around with it some more to see if I can make any other changes.

Happy chatting!

PS Remember all users can see the chat. I don't know how long messages stay. I'll be adding notes or a tutorial when I figure it out myself.

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Usually when I see someone who has made extreme modifications to their vehicle it is for a purpose that makes sense. At least to me. 

Today I saw a heavy modified truck with push bars, wheel flairs high lift and rolling coal. He was towing a 30 ft 5th wheel. 

Now rolling coal is when’s Diesel engine is modified to produce black smoke. I have not looked into this fad but know it really produces a sooty mess. I cannot get it why people choose to blow that smoke. ~~~ All over that guys new 5th wheel. He was doing over 70 uphill.   

Does it make them go faster?  

Hi,

New inmate joining up.  Looking forward to learning new stuff and sharing some of my building.

Thank you!

   

Posts keep getting flagged as content unavailable. But if you reply and hit edit it’s their right read but doesn’t post to the forum.

Someone push a button?


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This is a post about myself and horses that was out of place in the different camping thread.

In my life immediately prior to retiring and living in a cargo van, I volunteered at an equestrian park in Somerset County, New Jersey after working in a cubicle all day.

Not cleaning stalls, I was assisting in beginning riding classes, and in horse care workshops. I got to do the fun stuff, without having to muck stalls. Unlike in my real paid work, I was the recipient of public gratitude for my efforts. Horses and riders (and instructors) appreciated my efforts. It was great therapy that cost me nothing, except for the riding lessons and trail rides.

During this period my riding improved greatly over my previous riding. I call this period as my second incarnation as an equestrian. Basically, I and whichever horse I rode, both together were enjoying riding more.

Sad to leave that behind, but NJ is expensive.

As I was preparing to retire in June 2015, and to leave NJ in October, some bearded guy, with a blog and a forum, was telling me "Go West, old man".

I went back for a couple of their horse shows. At the last one, I saw a horse that had too many people around it. They were adjusting the stirrups for a junior rider. I went over to check it out and I saw the horse was freaking out, with bulging eyes. I held my hand out with the back to the horse's nostrils to let the horse sniff. A shock to me, the horse nipped at me. I asked who is this horse? Nella, was the reply.

I had had one experience with Nella in a horse care workshop about three years earlier. Nella was bothering the student working in an adjacent stall. I was told to check it out and provide overwatch for the student. I leaned against the wall across from Nella, and watched Nella for a while without speaking or any movement. She calmed down after a bit, getting used to my presence. I started quietly talking to no one in particular about nothing much. She began to show some positive interest in me. I told her about something that I knew the horses liked. I would lightly stroke their forehead down to their nose with my fingers. I moved my hand in the air as if I was doing that then Nella presented her forehead to me, lowering her head as she extended her head my way. I gave her the treatment and talked some more. The student was done and we left. I had tried to see Nella again, but they had moved her, and unless I was supposed to be in the barn, I shouldn't be wandering around. Getting in the barn workers way draws negative attention.

About three years later and no contact since. After the nip and finding out the horse was Nella, I said "Nella, it's me, Wayne". Immediately her eyes relaxed, as did her body. Years later, this horse still remembered the 20 minutes that I had spent with her. Didn't remember my smell, but knew my voice.

Later on, I was reading something online which referred to "The Little Prince", the part where the prince is asking a fox, what should the prince do to make the fox his friend. the basic gist was "go the place where the fox will be, sit a little away, and don't talk directly to the fox, just talk out loud about things in general, eventually the fox will become interested in you." This is not a direct quote.

My previous incarnation as an equestrian, our horses wouldn't come to me. Lightning flashing, thunderstorm approaching, I'm there to take them into barn to safety, and they would stay away from me. I was not a happy person during those years. Anger was the core of my being.

What changed me that dramatically, not meds or talk therapy. It was one instructor noting that I wasn't happy, and thus wasn't being the best rider the horse deserved, mentioned "what we do with horses is out of love." She said this with a beaming smile and twinkling eyes, at that moment I felt as if she had unlocked my heart, that love was okay for me. I started talking with that horse, Norbert, about what I hoped to achieve during each lesson and asking for his help to be a better rider. Norbert actually did that for me. I rode Norbert a lot, being that I was 175lb and Norbert was one the few horses that I could ride. My first horse there, Norbert would also be the last horse I rode there, on a trail ride in early Autumn 2015. He gave me the most fantastic canter through the woods on our last ride, which was what I was thinking about in my head before I gave him the signal to canter. He jumped two fallen branches that crossed the trail without breaking stride. He was not known to be a jumping horse. the following rider, the "whip", caught up and exclaimed, "Norbert jumped two branches!" I had felt two instances where the strides were longer, a little bit of floating in the air.

The other night I was outside and walking back towards the RV under a starry sky. I said, without sarcasm or irony, "God, I love this world." Which surprised me, then I thought "am I going to die now?". A novel/play/movie trope where someone achieves happiness, then passes on happily to the after life.