Carole & Bernie Full-Time RVing

Friday, May 8, 2015

Thor Diesel Rally - Friday

The rally ended this morning with hitch-up breakfast.

We spent the rest of the morning watching a lot of folks packup and leave.

This evening 32 people from the 21 rigs still here went to Cricket's Restaurant just outside of Pine Mountain.

Overall we had 55 rigs at the rally. We had a great time. The 3 guys from Camping World went all out bringing 4 new Thor coaches their BBQ/Party trailer and lots of merchandise to give away as game prizes and door prizes.
It's a beautiful campground/resort here at Pine Mountain. The weather was great. A lot of people made new friends. "A good time was had by all"

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Thor Diesel Rally - Thursday

Pine Mountain RV Resort - Pine Mountain (formerly Chipley) Georgia
Last full day of the rally

The morning started out as usual with a catered breakfast.

At 9:30 the ladies did a craft - USA 4th of July Sign

At 1:00 Camping World gave us an Ice Cream Social

The Camping World guys scooping Ice Creal

At 5:30 we had a catered Country Style Dinner

After dinner was more door prizes followed be some special door prizes donated by Camping World

Canping World guy that taught the painting class and did the RV driver training

The gals with their paintings

The Camping World guy painting was awarded to Alice Chapman

These folks took the RV driver training

These are the golfers

Our entertainment was Randy & Darlene

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Thor Diesel Rally - Wednesday

We started this morning with another catered breakfast.

At 9:30 several of the attendees including the Thor Reps left to play golf and the Camping World guy held a painting class,

At 3:00pm Fred introduced Adam Grudger for a Presentation on the current status and some of the future plans of Thor Industries.

We had happy/social hour at 4:00 and catered BBQ dinner at 6:00pm

After dinner we took pictures of all the 1st time attendees.

Then more info on future rallies and ideas for future rallies.

And we finished the evening with a roundtable where rally attendees got to ask questions and vent their problems.

Thor Representatives

Anson Adams on the left and Adam Grudger on the right.

About Us

We started Tent Trailer Camping with a small Apache Camper in 1970 with 3 small children. In 1972 we purchased an all hard sided pop-up camper called a Free Winds and started doing more extensive trips. Between 1972 and 1978 when our oldest child Kathy graduated from High School we had made many extensive trips and had been in and slept in 45 states with our children. We had been border to border and coast to coast twice and many shorter trips of 600 miles or less from our home in Wyandotte Michigan.

We both retired in October 2001 and started our Full Time RVing adventures on November 17, 2001 in our 31 foot Travel Trailer. After spending our 1st winter Full Timing, which was our test to see if this was truly the life style that we were going to pursue, in June 2002 we traded the 31' Travel Trailer for a 37 foot Triple Axle Kountry Star Fifth-Wheel Trailer and a Ford F350 pickup to pull it.

In April 2005 we upgraded the truck to a Ford F550 Crew Cab Diesel Pickup. And in September 2009 we traded the Truck and Trailer for our 2008 Damon Essence 40 foot Diesel-Pusher MotorCoach.