Frank - very nice to meet you and Betty yesterday & Mike and Colleen today

Driver,
I just read your post...pretty scary. I remember the wind being rather "blustery" at times. Sorry to hear about your parking and leveling experience. I hope all is well now.
I have a bunch of name tags and pens for folks to put their name and screen name on. Also have the door prizes on board and tickets for the drawing. We will be pulling in on Thursday in the VA row. Look for the irv2 banner. I will try and hang it as soon as possible so we can be located. We should be towards the head of the VA row. Nice to hear we made the Rally Program.
I got an email from Rosie at Winnebago today asking me if I knew who the head of the Skinny Winnie row was. Can you try and find that out. Somehow we got connected with that group of View owners and I'm not sure how??? I told Rosie I would try and find out for her. Thanks. See you soon.

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Originally posted by Olive:
Unless you run into a problem like DriVer did with his jacks, You really are not to dig into the rally grounds. That is why they tell you to bring wood and also have wood here for leveling. ....

I think digging a hole or two in the grass is a fact of life out here in the rolling hills of Forest City.

When they led me to my spot in C8, two or three of the parkers came up and said they had a shovel for me to use to dig a hole and more wood if I needed it. I did not even ask, they told me I would be needing to dig a hole. So I pulled ahead 20 ft and carefully cut a 3'x4' outline in the sod. Then cut in and under this very large divot that would engulf my rear dually about 6 in deep. In the front I have 14"x14" wood pads I put down. My first attempt to raise the front pushed the blocks in the sod about 2" deep. So I had to get two more and stack on each side to get the front end up about 10" high. Last time I had to go thru this exercise was at 7000 ft in the High Sierra Mountains.

Anyway were now settled in and the rally grounds are now filling in. We're now almost surrounded by 40 footer's. Good thing Winnie doesn't make 45'ers. (PSSSST, heard yesterday on the tour that Engineering may be designing 40+ for 2009).

Took a great John Deere factory tour today. Can you imagine 48 acres under one roof!!! They consume a massive amount of steel and iron...their big tractor weighs out at over 20 ton. Their 13.5 liter had some big honk'n 2-piece pistons. Really neat stuff to see.

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Originally posted by glenda1908:
I have a bunch of name tags and pens for folks to put their name and screen name on.

Glenda, We'll be bringing a table and cover and we also have a Sharpies to use to write down people's screen name and name as they enter the tent. Looking forward to seeing you again.

Sorry that I can't help you with the View Owners.

Driver,we are headed your way. We will be in Davenport tonight and FC on Thursday. Thanks for the help with the "gathering"! I heard from Rosie this morning and she found the person she needed to talk to with the Skinny Winnies. Hope the weather has calmed down. We were told to head to the red barn if the siren went off! Layed there in the coach one night and prayed that it didn't! Sure was windy though. See you tomorrow.

Glenda

glenda1908 when you go thru Cedar Rapids on I380, you will be going past my house. I'm at work now but we are planning to be there on Sunday.

John, I'll wave anyway ...maybe even blow the airhorn

Lots of Coaches - Slow Movin' ....

Right around 1pm today when the parking tent opened up there were 2 solid lines of motorhomes all the way out to Highway B14. They were able to move that crowd into the campground pretty quickly and this afternoon there's a steady stream of motorhomes coming in. Pretty soon I expect we'll be buried in here up to our ears in Winnebagos and will loose our view.

Tomorrow at noon I am told will begin the toad moratorium where you are not allowed to move inside the campground in a car other than service or vendor vehicles.

Tomorrow I expect that we will be going to the registration building and pick up our "Goodie Bag". Within is the schedule and layout of the vendor area.

Currently 93° and .

Expecting it to rain tomorrow and through the weekend with heavy downpours expected by late Friday. By Tuesday it appears to clear up and hopefully we'll get through the week pretty nicely.

When you come to the WIT proceed to County Road B14 and take a left into the fairgrounds. Follow the signs. There will be folks there who will assist you coming in. Do not enter through the main gate. B14 or 330th Street is located south of the campground - you can't miss it.

Roxy says it's hot and to let her inside.

Rock'N Reunion
50 Years On The Road

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

This is to announce a change of time for the iRV2.com Site Gathering.

The "Party" is scheduled to begin at 3:00pm to 3:50pm on Monday July 21. We ate the last event scheduled for that day so I believe we can run a little bit over.

Some of the attendees are making batches of snacks. Colleen is making a batch or her excellent trail mix and we will have a quantity of plactic cups for those interested. We are bringing our own beverages in a cooler bag.

I believe that there will be chairs in the tent and I'll update that information over the weekend.

See you there!



PS: From Monday to Wednesday you all are invited to come to the Workhorse display for FREE Pop-Corn!

Hey DriVer, are things ok over there??? That was one heck of a storm that passed thru.

Over here in section C8, I saw the lightning strike in your direction and almost instaneously heard the crack of thurnder. I figure it was no more than 600 feet away.

I had my rig unplugged from the pedistal just in case of a lightning strike in the area.

Hope all is well,

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