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Great River Road 2012 category.
On Tuesday at the rally I participated in a presentation on the iPad. One of the features one of the other speakers demonstrated was how you can take dictation on iPad and if you're connected to the Internet the dictation gets translated by Apple into text. It does a pretty good job. I wrote this using
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Posted on 07/23/2012 2:44 AM by Bob Duthie
Monday was the first day of the Rally. I spent most of my time in seminars learning about the maintenance I should have been doing every year on the fridge and holding tanks. I bought LED replacement lights and now have replaced all but two lights with LEDs. In total we have 21 LEDs. Monday I explored
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Posted on 07/19/2012 1:19 PM by Bob Duthie
We arrived at the Winnebago Grand National Rally, Thursday around 2:30PM. We will be here for 8 days. It's the only time we ever just sit in one spot along with about 1000 other Winnebago motor homes. We have power so we can run the AC just about full time. Friday was the Lion's Club pork sandwich
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Posted on 07/15/2012 9:43 PM by Bob Duthie
The road today led us to Independence MO, the home of President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess. We visited his winter home in Florida in February so it was only fitting we visit his summer home in Missouri. Just about every street in the area is either named after him, has a building named after
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Posted on 07/12/2012 1:19 AM by Bob Duthie
The high temperatures only rose to 94° so the weather was much more comfortable. US 60 took us to Springfield, MO and then it was a straight shot south to Branson. The road is lined with mammoth signs advertising the various shows. We followed all instructions on the GPS and tourist map
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Posted on 07/11/2012 1:42 AM by Bob Duthie
We are off again in the View on a 2,000 mile, 17 day journey to Branson, MO, Eureka Springs, AR, Bentonville, AR, Independence MO, Forest City, IA and Woodbury, MN.
We traveled most of the way on US 60 which is now a 4 lane divided highway almost all the way to Springfield. Two years ago there
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Posted on 07/08/2012 11:05 PM by Bob Duthie