Quartzsite Big Tent Day!

We had the last group breakfast with the other members of the rally, this morning was kind of a combination of some of the leftovers from the other mornings…with French toast, scrambled eggs, ham, sausage, and fruit. Pretty good spread for the last day, at least the two plates I had were good, we have met a lot of great people, and I think this is an event that we would take in again.

Today at 9 o’clock the big tent opens to the public, and today will be the craziest of the whole nine or ten days, I hope to get there but it will be late afternoon after the masses have left. We are going to the last breakfast of the rally, this will be the left over day, as I suspect the excess of each day will be warmed and served. Hoping for some more ham this morning personally, but I’m sure there will be plenty.

We had a failure of a 350 amp battery switch on Thursday, I was able to remove it from the circuit and get us back up and running, the connections seemed to be tight so I’m not sure what caused the failure. But with a rating of a continuous 350 amps and a 1000 amp monetary rating I’m definitely not pleased. The failure took place after a generator run time of a little over an hour to recharge batteries, but the amperage was only running around the 125 amp range. This is one of the reasons for a trip to the big tent today, tomorrow we will go over to the LTVA to dump before our pass expires, but I expect to stay in the Roadrunner BLM area for the upcoming week, there will be lots of the Beaver Group sticking around for a while.

The big tent will hold some deals, it will also hold a lot of junk, knowing your prices before making any purchases is a necessity. I have dealt with a number of the companies that will be represented at the tent so it won’t be as overwhelming as it was two years ago, but I’m sure there will be lots of pain management, and slice and dice hawkers there as well.

This has been our first rally, and we have enjoyed it, it has been educational, very informative, as you get a chance to learn from other owners problems over the years, many here have had their coaches for years some since new, so the depth of knowledge is great. I can see us trying to fit this into our schedule in the upcoming years.

Beaver Rally Day 4

Well as lovely as it was to have breakfast pushed back an hour this morning till 9am, we are having our windshield replaced this morning at 8 o’clock, we have had a stone chip for a while and as Miss Laurie will tell you it’s perfectly in her line of sight so it’s just time to get it taken care of.

Well the crowd out for breakfast was larger this morning and I must admit it was a lot warmer at 9 than it has been at 8, that extra hour of sunshine made a big difference, pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage patties, as well as fruit were this mornings menu, of course 9 o’clock was when the glass people showed up as well, so my breakfast was a little chopped up, but still hit the spot.

The only seminar was an open discussion with a group of experienced beaver owners, some with twenty years and multiple coaches of experience. The topics were all over the map, and as much as there was not a lot that I was not aware of, there were a few tidbits that I will file away in the back of the cranium for future reference. The discussion went well into the noon hour because it all had to be pushed back for the latter breakfast.

There was a baseball rematch this afternoon, as the ladies were pretty sure they wanted a rematch, and in true beaver style the game that was brought out was totally different than the one played earlier in the week, I didn’t get a chance to play in the first match, but I found time for the second one and again the men were victorious over the ladies…

The evenings fire had us being serenaded by some karaoke, let’s just say some were better than others.