At the end of our 3rd season of RVing we say goodbye to our beloved Jayco Swift 184BH and hello to a Keystone Hidehout 24BHSWE. Like alot of RVers the shopping for a new rig basically starts the day you bring home your existing rig. For us the Jayco was our first venture into this way of travel and really acted as a way for us to determine if we would use the trailer and like camping as much as…
The annual running of the Wasatch 100 is a great reminder that we are leaving summer and moving into the fall season. It is usually on my way up to our base camp that I see the first signs of leaves changing in the canyons. This year the colors were already going strong and in fact over the weekend we could actually see a change. The Wasatch 100 is one of those premier events for Amateur Radio operators and provides…
This weekend I helped support the Salt Flats 100 run which was held out on the Bonneville Salt Flats. A few weeks back I traveled to the salt flats to do some range testing and this weekend was the actual event that we were testing for. My shift started Friday morning and went until about 10PM, then I was to be back on shift at 6AM. For my overnight accommodations, I could have grabbed a hotel room nearby but I opted…
This past weekend we took the trailer out to the Bonneville Salt Flats for the day to do some range testing with my Amateur Radio. We were testing for an upcoming 100 mile run that I help support where crazy people find enough courage to run 100 miles across the salt covered landscape. The other radio operators were on the other side of the sharp pointy mountain range or the right side of the picture above. We were specifically testing…
Today we hit our local RV show to just do a bit of window shopping. We currently own a Jayco 184BH that we are really quite happy with. As with most RVers we are always looking at what other options there are and thinking about our next rig. The Jayco 184BH was/is a great fit for us in nearly all areas but there are a few things that would cause us to upgrade. So of the pros of the Jayco 184BH…