Author: The Buchanans Rolling Down The Road

What can be said, about a crusty old curmudgeon, with no fixed address … not much I guess.

January 15th 2020

Beaver Rally Day 2

Day 2 of the rally was our day to help with meal preparation, so at 7am I’m off to try to help, breakfast this morning consists of French toast, scrambled eggs, ham, served with coffee, and fruit. Because there is only four rally days, there are four work crews, of about twenty five which other than a few key players at cook stations there was a lot of us just being spectators. Breakfast seemed to go off well although there were a few complaints about the 8am mess call, keeping in mind in the desert at sunrise the temperature is high thirty’s low forty’s.

Today was diesel Dave’s seminar, a lot of the Beaver coach’s have Caterpillar diesels, Dave is a factory trained technician that worked up until recently, but retired at age 69 and now just presents informational seminars of a few things to keep our Cat power plants running well. He also still maintains his diagnostic equipment and offers to do diagnostic readings and make any recommendations. So I had Thunder checked out and found only one small issue with an idle control that showed up last time about 300 hours ago, the diagnostic print out has a plethora of information, but all in all we are in great shape and averaging over 8.5 mpg which is pretty good.

Interesting page of report

The afternoon seminar was about the BAC (Beaver Ambasador Club) forum, this was the main reason for our joining the club, was to be able to draw on the knowledge of others that had already experienced many of the issues that we were running across. I have mentioned before that it seemed to be of good value in locations issues.

Wednesday brought on a men against ladies base ball match, it is played using a board similar to cornhole only with multiple holes, it was a nine inning game and the men did come out victorious, so rumours have indicated a rematch on Friday afternoon.

Miss Laurie trying for a home run

Our evening meal was beef stew with biscuits, which brought on the conclusion of our teams duties, deserts were plentiful and we found ourselves heading off to the comforts of our coach after a busy day and passed on the fire side with music

January 14th 2020

Beaver Rally Day 1

First disclaimer…our spot out in Roadrunner allows us no Verizon data coverage so we are working off our Roam cell phone data.

Our first day at the rally, had us involved in our registration, the expectations are for over 50 coaches which means about 100 people. Each coach has paid an entry fee and was given a list of items to provide to the “rally masters”. The items were one dozen eggs, two gallons of water, an armful of firewood, that much was the same for everyone, then there was multiple items that individuals were asked to Provide as well, enough salad and desert for eight on our team day, as well as other items for something called Taco Stew. The group gets together for breakfast and dinner everyday, there is a happy hour, as well as a campfire each evening with Lamar.

Day one of the rally is mainly just getting to meet our new neighbours, there was a period between one and three for the actual rally registration. And then from four till six was an evening of appetizers as everyone has brought tables and chairs to form an area where all our meals will be served. At dusk a couple of large campfires were starter, and a movie was shown fittingly – Robin Williams in The RV.

There is a schedule of event going on for the whole rally, with guest speakers, and workshops going on, filled in between by the Beaver games, which has different events on each day.