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The RV Life Chapter 4

February 18th, 2013 · No Comments

Good day to all!
Hope everyone is fine and had a fantastic New Year and even better Christmas! This is only the second time in 20 years we did not hold our annual New Year’s Day party at our house in Calgary. I am not going to lie, there was a void there. I shed a [...]

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The RV Life Chapter 3

December 7th, 2012 · No Comments

So here we are on December 7 in the Jellystone park in Lake Charles LA. They are really nice people and  have been a customer a long time. So when last seen,our intrepid rver’s were cocooned at Meridain RV park in Phoenix owned by my buddy Stoaksie. So our tour itinerary  went like this:

Phoenix until [...]

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Ahhhh- The RV Life Chapter 2

November 21st, 2012 · 1 Comment

Well this is the second chapter in the 6 month odyssey of the road trip of life. So where we left it, we had just crossed the border with the new alternator running like a wrist watch.
Our trip from Calgary reads like a Fred Eaglesmith tour: Calgary, Lethbridge, Great Falls MT, Idaho Falls ID , [...]

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ARVC- State Associations

November 18th, 2011 · No Comments

Hi folks,
Thanks for taking the time to read this blog.
I wanted to throw my two cents (and Canadian at that) into the ARVC- State Association discussions floating around right now. I know it is a bit of a volatile subject but hey, faint heart never won a fair woman.
In my seventeen years in the business [...]

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ARVC Business Forum

June 26th, 2009 · No Comments

Hi folks,
I was recently in Colorado at the ARVC Business forum meeting. We meet twice a year and make recommendations to the ARVC Board. We, as outside vendors, bring a different view to some of the issues facing ARVC. The ARVC board does not have to take our recommendations or indeed even respond to them however [...]

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ARVC Trade Show

November 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Hi folks,
Just returned from two solid weeks on the road. My longest road trip in 25 years of traveling. First we went to the LSI Jellystone trade show in Cincinnati Ohio. This was our 12th year in a row at this show with the good folks at LSI. We are the recommended software vendor for the [...]

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Yield Optimization for RV parks and Campgrounds

April 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments

Hi folks,I thought I would post my thoughts today on the very popular hot topic in our industry- yield optimization. For those of you who aren’t clear on what I mean by this, I am referring to the automatic adjustment of rates at the park based on the occupancy. So as your park reaches certain occupancy [...]

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