Brainerd area visit

After leaving Spicer, we headed north to the Brainerd Lakes area of central Minnesota. Very beautiful area and a highly desirable lakes area. Lots to do, many gold courses, great fishing etc. But there never has been a nice RV park. In my opinion anyway. Most of the parks are full of seasonal campers and don't show a lot of nice design features or even basic amenties. That's changing, I found about RV Resort Village at the FMCA Rally in Albert Lee. So we booked in for about a week stay in August. While there is lots of work still in process, this place is very nice and will only improve with time. We had a great site overlooking a small man made lake that is in the center of the first phase of the Class A area. A pull in site with a huge concrete pad, properly placed utilities etc. We were treated well and enjoyed every minute of our stay. It was close to many eating places, golf and of course the lakes.

You can see numerous pictures here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/river.ratg/ResortVillageAug09#

If you look at their, site plan at yoiu will see they have some areas for Class A's and also many sites for 5th wheels, travel trailers and Park homes.

Full info here: http://rvresortvillage.com/

Now we'll be home for a month or so while we make plans for our winter trip.

Trip to central Minnesota.

We are off to Spicer, MN for the weekend and then heading up to the Brainerd area for a week. Will post updates about the new RV resort once we get there.

Did a few maintance items on the Bay prior to the trip. Replaced the shore power cord because of separation between the plug and cord outside rubber coating. Now it's water proof again. Made the old one into a extension cord. No longer storing extra cords and adapters in the main electrical bay. Things get to cramped.

Finally got the toad lights fixed. Shorewood obviously modified or messed with the cable connections since they were not as they should have been. Oh well, losing a bit of faith in their service.

More to follow.

A mod to our Allegro Bay

One thing that I have always felt was done "on the cheap" on our Bay is the lack of finishing of the inside of the storage bays. While in Red Bay, we saw the raw material that is used on Phaetons, etc for lining various parts. Actually looked quite simple. We found a material called Ozite that is made for that type of use at Menards. In fact I believe it is exactly the same. Mary trimmed it all out and we mounted it in place with 3M 77 spray adhesive. Looks very good and was not a difficult upgrade. Well worth the time and was a minor expense (less than 65 bucks for everything. See the photos.