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Post Election Paddle
11/03/04
Bachelor Cove
Roosevelt Lake, Arizona

        Trail Rations
          9/3/04
Among the aspens,
above Mancos, Colorado

What is commonly used by RVers for ground cover under the awnings?
Indoor/Outdoor carpeting?  Some other material like AstroTurf??
I want something I can lay outside both my Class B and tent to keep from
tracking mud/leaves/etc. into each of them.  I don't want to spend

From another newsgroup
Subject: The Houswive factor in the Kerry loss
OK you sons of bitches, listen up:
This is why Bush turned Electoral College into his own personal Delta

Can you folks rec a reliable/honest service center around
Bellingham/Ferndale/Lynden or Blaine in Washington State?

Say, Chris, a while back you gave the URL to a site that furnished
anonymous access to various newspapers, etc on line.
I lost it.  Would you still have it?
Bob

I don't remember this being mentioned here before but this US Department of
Transportation website about "America's Byways" looks like a very nice
resource for beginning travelers.
http://www.byways.org/

Anyone know if there are any problems with this as a toad?
Manual transmission.
Also another question. Are transmission coolers common on new gassers?
I never see it mentioned. Maybe not required?

Well, unfortunately, we've returned from the last 5 weeks out west.......
Where we encountered just about all the weather one could wish for - OR NOT!
In Missoula we had wifi in the campground.  It wasn't GOOD wifi, but it was wifi
none the less, which was nice for catching up on ...

My intial decription got some "he's got to be kidding comments.  Well, I just
noticed that the manufacture posted my floor plan on their site.  
http://www.horizonsrv.com/Photo_Book/index.phtml?az=display&id=49&sort=&tr
ack=10@11@25&gid=25&start=29

I am considering installing four 6volt Golf Cart batteries in the
back of my Dodge Ram for Boon docking. This has been the thought as
  there would be warranty considerations if I installed them in the
5er. It seems as though they have spread the DC power system out

Joy and I are at Cherry Hill Park, visiting DC attractions. Today we
took the Metro into the National Zoo.
It was a good day for visiting the zoo - cool but not cold, and just
about nobody there. The pandas were out frolicking and we watched them

Buried in all the noise about the election was a bill signed by
President Bush last week that allows states without state income taxes
to deduct sales taxes from their Federal tax returns.  The relief is
initially for two years only, beginning in 2005.

GOP criticizes student get-out-the-vote campaign
Thursday, October 28, 2004 Posted: 3:32 PM EDT (1932 GMT)
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- Republicans are criticizing a Wisconsin
get-out-the-vote campaign involving public school students, saying

Had an interesting trip from Albuquerque to Phoenix Monday.
First it was so windy that I was driving slow.
Second, when I got to the Arizona border I stopped to take a leak and
check the load.  I saw that I had thrown a complete wheel, hub and all