Passport America Rally Day 3 Trip to the Beach

Posted on March 25, 2015 by landyachty

As rallies go this is a little slow on the exhibitor and seminar side. (We are again combining two days into one post.) On Tuesday we started out with a coffee (hot chocolate for Miss Peggy 🙂 ) and donuts, and then went to hear Rod Coe from Yankee RV Tours. If you have ever thought about a RV tour – check out their website. Rod does it right, he gets only the best sites for RV parking, knows the best restaurants, and has personalized guides everywhere they go. He is very serious about making the tour the best you will ever do.

After listening to Rod for 90 minutes we went and did a little work at the fifth wheel, and then went to a movie. On the way to the movie we got a burger and I found there was a Whataburger in the area. We had never been to one, and boy are they good! The movie we went to is Do You Believe?. It is done by the people who did the God’s Not Dead movie and has stars such as Lee Majors, Cybill Shepherd, Brian Bosworth, and Mira Sorvino. All I can say is don’t miss this great movie!

We got back to the equestrian center and went for a ATV ride on their horse trails. We took over a mile ride, I didn’t know the trails in the woods were so extensive. We will try to take another ride and take the camera with us.

Tuesday night we had roast pork dinner with all the trimmings and it was an improvement over the chicken from Monday night. Our entertainment was Brent Burns. He is a great comedian and song writer.

Brent cutting up!

On Wednesday we again had the coffee and donuts, then again listened to Rod Coe talk about the Canadian Maritime Providences – he is that good.

Miss Peggy made mini pizza for the two of us and we went to Fort Pickens (part of the Gulf Islands National Seashore) The fort was built-in 1829 and in service through World War II. At one time 1800 men were stationed here. Lots of walking and lots of history. 21.5 million bricks were used in the construction! A single battle from the fort during the civil war is believed to be the largest bombardment in history.

A rose in the war zone.

The canons could cover the entire harbor entrance.

Miss Peggy and I spent some time enjoying the beach.

This evening we had a diner of gourmet Chinese food and it was pretty good. The evening entertainment is Debbie Owen and Tony T. The played oldies from the 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s. and they are pretty good.

They played and sang for two hours. We are getting to bed late tonight!

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Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Him who is the Head, that is, Christ.

Ephesians 4:15

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InstaIling the New Inverter Day 5

Posted on March 21, 2015 by landyachty

Today is our last day at Ocean Pond, the weather hasn’t been cooperating with me on the inverter project and today I put in over 7 hours. Boy am I sore.

The new battery box is now lines with plastic gator foam. You can see the new cables peeking out. It is already for the batteries.

Th batteries are installed (90 minutes later) The batteries are taller than the opening, I had to install hold downs, and the hook up of the new cables is awful as you can barely get tools into the opening.

The new batteries are installed (90 minutes later). The batteries are taller than the opening, I had to install hold downs, and the hook up of the new cables is awful as you can barely get tools into the opening.

The next job is to tackle the existing batteries.

I had to remove all the old cable and pull the batteries out. I checked them (they are only a couple of months old). The new cable is twice as big as the old ones so they barely fit. This was 90 minutes also.

The next project was to remove the existing inverter and prep the stop for the new.

As you can see they are not the same size.

I could never figure out why the old wires were not put in straight.

I had to move the battery transfer switch as I need the room for the inverter. This switch senses if the generator is turned on and turns off the shore power.

Unfortunetly, I have to unwire and reqire the entire device. Another hour.

Unfortunately, I have to unwire and rewire the entire device. Another hour.

New location, look at all the room I freed up!

Finally, with the sun setting, the new inverter is installed.

It looks like a lot of extra cable, and there is. The cable from the new batteries to the 200 amp fuse is six-foot long. The cable from the old batteries has to be the same length for proper working specs. Thus an extra four-foot of black and red cable is floating in the opening. I will coil that up and tie it to the top of the opening.

After a very quick shower we went off to the final campfire. Here are some scenes from tonight.

Do I look tired or what, it is after dark but the flash makes it look earlier.

Susan is one of the hosts at Ocean Pond.

Eleven of us were at the fire tonight. Gospel music was sprinkled in with Haggard, Cash, folk and praise & worship songs. We all had a good time.

Miss Peggy and I make blueberry and cherry camp pies for the eleven.

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“‘If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.’ Then He said to them, ‘Take heed what you hear. With the same measure you use, it will be measured to you; and to you who hear, more will be given. For whoever has, to him more will be given; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him'”

Mark 4:23-25

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InstaIling the New Inverter Day 3

Posted on March 19, 2015 by landyachty

This is where we left off yesterday. After tearing out a few more electrical pieces we went off to Lowes. The main thing I needed was a small load box.

This is the schematic for just the remote control for the inverter!

This is the schematic for the new Inverter, the old one had two wire and plugged into a outlet.

You may not notice it in the picture, but I have removed the entire main panel and lowered it 1/4 inch.

This is the small sub-panel I went to Lowe’s to get, now comes the fun. The dimension stated does not include the cover. 😦

After removing the cover and installing the breakers and ground plane plus putting in the main power input this is what I have. I then spent 45 minutes cutting the sides off the cover as you have to put a cover on for safety purposes – things don’t get easy. This will provide the circuits for all the outlets, the TV/Stereo setups, and the microwave. These are the items we want to be able to run off of the inverter when we don’t have outside AC power nor want to run the generators. I have left a 20 amp breaker open for future expansion. I have already run a separate 120 volt AC circuit just for the airbed.

I then prepped the inverter for the move tomorrow. The batteries (four of them) will tie into the little black box at the end of the 18″ red cable. That box is a DC 200 AMP circuit breaker. The control panel on the front of the inverter will be taken off and moved (via remote cable) to the main control area inside the RV.

With rain off and on today, plus the trip to Lowe’s, an electrical supply shop, a short walk, and the fruit/veggie stand we only got in about 5 hour of work.

We started the neighborhood fire at 6:45 tonight and were rained out by 7:45! We hope the rain runs its course tonight, but it is raining pretty hard right now!

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Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known among the nations what he has done. – 1 Chronicles 16:8

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InstaIling the New Inverter & Dr. Debra Visits Ocean Pond

Posted on March 18, 2015 by landyachty

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After taking an extra-long walk, I started in the process of adding two new batteries and the new larger inverter.

In this picture you will see the old inverter removed (it has the fins), now comes the problem the new inverter needs twice as much room as the old one :).

To help this problem and the fact that I had to get on my hands and knees to see the gas gauge and generator controls, I decided to move them up from here (they are the two loose things)

To here:

They are now out but not moved! Why you ask – I thought this would be a 15 minutes project, just add wire and move them up four feet. Well the area above is solid wood so it took me 90 minutes to get the wires moved. I found out there are 9 wires and I don’t have 9 different colors.

Dr. Debra came out to Ocean Pond Camp at 2 PM to check out Miss Peggy, Miss Mary Ann and myself. She also brought a diet plan for me! Miss Mary Ann getting an adjustment on her knee.

Miss Peggy getting her neck worked on.

…and yes Dr. Debra likes to talk.

She brought her puppy as she on her way to Fort Lauderdale.

I started back on my project at 3:30; I finally got the generator controls installed.

This is the wiring behind the panel, what a mess! I will be rewiring it.

After another (shorter) walk we had a quick diner and went over to the community fire.

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“Your dead will live; their corpses will rise. You who lie in the dust, awake and shout for joy” Isaiah 26:19 .

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Day of Rest and Family Visit

Posted on March 17, 2015 by landyachty

We started out slow today as Dr. Debra ask us to take it easy for 24 hours. We got a call from Miss Peggy’s step sister that they had a change of plans and they were going to be going through Lake City today about noon. Gosh had to shower and shave two days in a row.

The Big Red Truck wanted to show off her new shoes.

Old Shoes – think we got our monies worth out of them?

New Shoes – She is proud.

We did a couple of small projects, found out Miss Jackie & Randy read the GPS wrong and it would be 1:30 when they got into the area. After a long walk (Dr. Debra scolded me about losing some more weight) we went into Lake City with stops at the post office and Wal-Mart. We meet Miss Jackie & Randy at Applebees. Being it is St. Patrick’s Day I had corned beef and cabbage, the others had regular Applebee’s food. After eating lunch and catching up on kids and grandkids we got back to Ocean Pond very late in the afternoon.

I Couldn’t get Randy to smile for the camera – he was smiled out for the day!

We had some fruit and veggies and went over the community campfire at Lenny & Mary Ann’s. Seems Ken is out of the campfire mode, but he and Helen came over anyway. 🙂 We talked for hours around the campfire and solved some of the problems of camping in Bushnell, FL, the mail system, and Detroit. I was still tired from Monday’s late night and was ready for bed tonight.

Here are three picture as a blast from the past.

Official family portrait from 1984.

Miss Peggy and I on a no kids getaway in Tennesse. There was snow on the table when we got up.

Miss Peggy and I on a no kids getaway in Tennessee. There was snow on the table when we got up.

Snorkeling with the kids in 1991. Mike was reading somewhere!

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“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.”

– Ecclesiastes 3:11

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New Tire and Atlas Orthogonist

Posted on March 16, 2015 by landyachty

This is a big day for the Big Red Truck, she is getting new shoes!

She and I took off for Lake City right after 8 AM, got a breakfast sandwich at Hardee’s (yeah I know not part of my diet – but the truck insisted), we went to Tire Kingdom to get her new shoes. They put her up on the rack at 9 AM and she was done at 10:45. It takes a while to balance and change out six big tires. She was so proud she insisted on a wash, fresh diesel, and that I go to Wal-Mart for some “Freon” as the can went empty on Sunday’s refill. Well – Wal-Mart was out of her brand, and I went to a place called Water Works for her wash. She is too big to go through automatic car washes so it is wash by hand. Being in a hurry I found out (too late) that Water Works is a dump. The bays are all muddy and the hose you hold is so dirty it took six washes to get my hands clean.

Used to be a nice wash.

We made a quick stop back at Ocean Pond for a bite of lunch. We loaded up our friends Len & Mary Ann and took off for Valdosta, GA to see Dr. Debra Pavlovic-Oklochany.

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Dr. Debra owns Atlas Wellness of Valdosta and is a leader in the Board Certified Atlas Orthogonist program, our son-in-law is Dr. George Sooley of Danville, IL is also a Board Certified Atlas Orthogonist. We hadn’t had x-ray updates in about 2 years and were ready for the entire package from Dr. Debra as we aren’t sure we will be able to see Dr. George prior to starting work April 1. She had a very busy day and she takes lots of time with new clients. Mary Ann was also there to see her. Our appointment was late in the afternoon and we didn’t get out of her office until after 8 PM. Click on this link Chirocorrection then hit YES. Change the number to

ACD L 1.25

Cervical R .50

Frontal L 2.00

Atlas Rotation Anterior `1.50

Axis Rotation R 4.00

Short Leg Left

Degeneration 2

Hit continue, follow the instructions and you can see what good guys like Dr. Debra and Dr. George can do for you. (These are my numbers) Miss Peggy, Miss Mary and I all had adjustments today.

Dr. Debra is so interested in our life style that she is coming to Ocean Pond on Wednesday to check out how we live and do a check-up on the three of us!

She saw Docs doing things like this and she is interested.

After we left we went to Austin’s Cattle Company for a late dinner. We returned home after 11 PM. A very long day.

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“…to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”

Acts 26:18

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Tag Archives: RV Doctors

Passport America Rally Day 3 Trip to the Beach

InstaIling the New Inverter Day 5

InstaIling the New Inverter Day 3

InstaIling the New Inverter & Dr. Debra Visits Ocean Pond

Day of Rest and Family Visit

New Tire and Atlas Orthogonist