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    Posted: 18 Jun 2013 at 8:59pm
Keith-N-Dar,
Thank you for your service. I spent 33 years in the Navy my self. The first 16 years I would in the special weapons program, so our visit to this site was way cool for me. I will try and post about it tomorrow with some pictures.
By the way, the trailer is still there, we made another visit in Nov 2012. With monies being tight now days it may be some time before a real visitor center is built. But the actual missile site is what counts.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jun 2013 at 8:01pm
I look forward to hearing about Minute Man.  I visited it a few years ago when it was housed in a trailer off of the interstate.  I spent four years of Air Force service as a Minuteman Missile Electronics Repair Specialist, and it brought back many memories seeing the site and the bird.  Lots had changed in the 30+ years since I had hands on the gear.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jun 2013 at 7:45pm
P.T. Pod,
If you are going out west key and eye over the next couple of days on our blog. I will be posting a few more of our adventures out west. I just posted about Devils Tower in WY tonight. Some of the other sites will be Little Bighorn, Fort Union Trading Post, Knife River Villages NHS, Minuteman Missile site, Effigy Mounds, Pipestone NM, Jefferson Expansion just to name a few. And this summer we will be in a few Southwestern states to visit a number of NP's in these areas.
If you want to talk off line send me a private message and I will send you my phone # to talk.
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As a new owner of a 171 we are looking forward to heading west next fall and seeing some of the great national parks. Living in eastern Maine going west is a pretty wide open area.
I love reading other peoples experiences and opinions. I have been reading this blog as we were shopping for a trailer. We spent the last 22 years in crank-up truck campers without a bathroom and as I was anticipating a long trip I decided that some amenities were in order.  I was very impressed by the rpod and finding the kind of support that is in this blog has been great.  We have dewinterized it using the information in the manuals  and are adding our own modifications in this first week we own it. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jun 2013 at 10:39am
Little Sweet Pea,
Thank you for the comments. I have not ventured into the world of facebook yet. Doing a blog was going way out on a limb for me. Not so computer friendly. Heck when computers first came out I was in the Navy. As a senior enlisted advisor they gave me one and I gave it to one of my divisions with 150 sailors, they only had one computer so I figured they needed more than I did. When my boss found out he was not too happy. He mentioned I would need it for my job, I said any computer work could be done by me yeoman (secretary), other than that it would be a cold day in ..... before I would use the darn thing. Two years later I found myself in Puerto Rico on an unaccompanied tour ( no family) and a computer. The first 3 months was a nightmare as far as computers. Some how I crashed mine almost every day and they fixed it. Something about giving a person a new item and NEVER giving one the tools how to operate it never sat well with me. After awhile I learned but resistant's on my part is still there.   
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jun 2013 at 9:37am
Hey Carl, fascinating info on your parks blog.  I too keep track of which park, which site, which hike is my fav for future reference. Thanks for sharing. 

BTW, as I am in the western US and most familiar with those locations I find your travels fascinating. Lastly you might want to consider posting your blog links on the Facebook RPod owners site https://www.facebook.com/groups/56931970807/ as people there often share their travels. 

Happy travels, see you on the road. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18 Jun 2013 at 7:09am
Well it's all good. Maybe folks will read the blogs and find a new place to camp or visit. That is the idea behind the blog for me.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jun 2013 at 7:11pm
You have a lot of interest here - not many replies but 141 views so far.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jun 2013 at 6:22am
For the past four years we have been traveling the US, but not doing any camping until last year. So the few camp sites we have been too I tried to keep some sort of memory of the sites for future reference.
The National Parks and State Parks and other such places I could put allot more information into the blog but then each entry might be a mile long. For instance, Keweenaw NHA, the are 23 different sites to this National Park and we have been to ALL of them last summer. They include a couple MI state parks as well. Lots of places to see there. I might enter this NP since I have tons of pictures, but it was last year so I might titled the entry "retro" or something like that.
I mainly started the blog because our kids are always wondering where we are and what we are doing, so now they can follow along. Like I said in another post on this forum, we have visited 142 National Parks and too many other cool places to recall in four years. There are 401 NP's and about 50 National Trails and Heritage areas. SO we have allot of traveling to do.
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